Once in a Blue Moon (song)

"Once in a Blue Moon" is a song written by Robert Byrne and Tom Brasfield, and recorded by American country music artist Earl Thomas Conley. It was released in January 1986 as the second and final single from his Greatest Hits album. The song was Earl Thomas Conley's eleventh number one on the country chart. The single went to number one for one week and spent fourteen weeks on the country chart.^[1]

Music video

A music video for the song was released and has been seen on GAC. During the video's prologue, "Silent Treatment" (Conley's first top 10 hit) can be heard in the background.

Chart performance

Chart (1986)	Peak position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^[2]	1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	1

References

↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 88.
↑ "Earl Thomas Conley – Chart history" Billboard Hot Country Songs for Earl Thomas Conley.

External links

Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

Preceded by "Now and Forever (You and Me)" by Anne Murray	Billboard Hot Country Singles number-one single May 3, 1986	Succeeded by "Grandpa (Tell Me 'Bout the Good Ol' Days)" by The Judds
	RPM Country Tracks number-one single May 17, 1986

Earl Thomas Conley

Studio albums	Blue Pearl Fire and Smoke Somewhere Between Right and Wrong Don't Make It Easy for Me Treadin' Water Too Many Times The Heart of It All Yours Truly Perpetual Emotion Should've Been Over by Now

Compilation albums	Greatest Hits The Best 1 Greatest Hits 2 Essential Love Out Loud Super Hits Live at Billy Bob's Texas

Notable singles	"Silent Treatment" "Fire and Smoke" "Tell Me Why" "After the Love Slips Away" "Heavenly Bodies" "Somewhere Between Right and Wrong" "I Have Loved You Girl (But Not Like This Before)" "Your Love's on the Line" "Holding Her and Loving You" "Don't Make It Easy for Me" "Angel in Disguise" "Chance of Lovin' You" "Honor Bound" "Love Don't Care (Whose Heart It Breaks)" "Nobody Falls Like a Fool" "Once in a Blue Moon" "Too Many Times" (with Anita Pointer) "I Can't Win for Losin' You" "That Was a Close One" "Right from the Start" "What She Is (Is a Woman in Love)" "We Believe in Happy Endings" (with Emmylou Harris) "What I'd Say" "Love Out Loud" "You Must Not Be Drinking Enough" "Bring Back Your Love to Me "Shadow of a Doubt" "Hard Days and Honky Tonk Nights"

Guest singles	"All Tangled Up in Love" (with Gus Hardin) "Brotherly Love" (with Keith Whitley)

Related articles	Discography RCA Records "This Time I've Hurt Her More Than She Loves Me" "All Over Me"

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