"Cry, Cry, Cry" is a song written by
John Scott Sherrill
John Scott Sherrill is an American songwriter whose work is primarily in the field of country music. His brother, Donn Sherrill, was a Vanderbilt student. He introduced John Scott to his fraternity brother, Scott Siman who recorded demos of his ...
and Don Devaney, and recorded by American
country music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...
group
Highway 101. It was released in January 1988 as the fourth single from the album ''
Highway 101''. The song was Highway 101's second number-one single on the country chart. The single went to number one on the
Hot Country Singles
Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine in the United States.
This 50-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly by collecting airplay data from Nielsen BDS along with digital sa ...
chart, holding the position for one week.
In Canada, the song went to number one on the ''
RPM
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Standards
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'' country singles chart.
Music video
The music video was directed by Claude Borenzweig and premiered in early 1988.
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
References
1988 singles
1987 songs
Highway 101 songs
Songs written by John Scott Sherrill
Song recordings produced by Paul Worley
Warner Records singles
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