You're a Hard Dog (To Keep Under the Porch)
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| "You're a Hard Dog (To Keep Under the Porch)" | ||||
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| Single by Gail Davies | ||||
| from the album What Can I Say | ||||
| B-side | "The Boy in You Is Showing"[1] | |||
| Released | September 1983 | |||
| Recorded | June 1983[1] | |||
| Studio | Woodland (Nashville, Tennessee) | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. Nashville | |||
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| Producer | Gail Davies | |||
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"You're a Hard Dog (To Keep Under the Porch)" is a song written by Susanna Clark and Harlan Howard. It was originally recorded by American country artist Gail Davies for her fifth studio album entitled What Can I Say.
The song was recorded in June 1983 at the Woodland Studios, located in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. The session was produced entirely by Davies, who had been self-producing her recording sessions for several years.[1] Released as a single in September 1983, "You're a Hard Dog (To Keep Under the Porch)" reached the eighteenth position on the Billboard Magazine Hot Country Singles chart. The single became Davies' ninth top-twenty hit on the Billboard country chart.[2] In addition, the single peaked within the top-twenty on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart.[3]
