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Achy Breaky Heart
Billy Ray Cyrus
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- Album
- Some Gave All
- Released
- 1992
- Genres
- Length
- 3:23
- Tempo
- 122 BPM
- Label
- Mercury Nashville
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About this song
Achy Breaky Heart was written by country songwriter and performer Don Von Tress and was a remake of a 1991 song by the country trio The Marcy Brothers, titled Don't Tell My Heart. The song helped make the Some Gave All album the bestseller of 1992. It was the first million-selling country single since Islands in the Stream by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton in 1983.
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Fun facts
- It's actually a cover of “D”.
- Sampled in 3 other songs, like “He Might by OK Glass”.
- Written by Don Von Tress.
- Produced by Jim Cotton and Joe Scaife.
- Recorded at Music Mill (Nashville.