Next to You, Next to Me
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| "Next to You, Next to Me" | ||||
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 Cassette single cover art | ||||
| Single by Shenandoah | ||||
| from the album Extra Mile | ||||
| B-side | "Daddy's Little Man" | |||
| Released | June 1990 | |||
| Recorded | 1990 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 3:38 | |||
| Label | Columbia Nashville | |||
| Songwriters | Robert Ellis Orrall Curtis Wright | |||
| Producers | Robert Byrne Rick Hall | |||
| Shenandoah singles chronology | ||||
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"Next to You, Next to Me" is a song written by Robert Ellis Orrall and Curtis Wright, and recorded by American country music group Shenandoah. It was released in June 1990 as the lead-off single from their album Extra Mile. It was a Number One hit in both the United States[1] and Canada. It is also the band's longest-lasting number 1, at three weeks.[2] As of 2006, no other single from Columbia had spent three weeks atop the country charts.[3]
The song received a nomination for Single of the Year by the Academy of Country Music.[4]
The song is an up-tempo, in which the narrator exclaims that he would rather be sitting next to his lover than be anywhere else.
Other versions
It was covered by Rascal Flatts as a bonus track on the deluxe version of their 2012 album Changed.