"It Sure Is Monday" is a song written by

Dennis Linde Dennis Linde (pronounced LIN-dy, March 18, 1943December 22, 2006) was an American music songwriter based in Nashville who has had over 250 of his songs recorded. He is best known for writing the 1972 Elvis Presley hit, "Burning Love". Rarely w ...

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, ...

artist

Mark Chesnutt Mark Nelson Chesnutt (born September 6, 1963) is an American country music singer and songwriter. Between 1990 and 1999, he had his greatest chart success recording for Universal Music Group Nashville's MCA and Decca branches, with a total of ei ...

. It was released in May 1993 as the first single from his 1993 album '' Almost Goodbye''. The song reached number-one on the U.S. '' Billboard'' Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart and on the Canadian ''RPM'' Country Tracks chart. It also peaked at number 19 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart.

Content

The song is an uptempo, the narrator is a young man who is complaining that he has to get busy again seeing that the weekend has passed and that "it sure is Monday".

Music video

The music video was directed by

John Lloyd Miller John Lloyd Miller is an American filmmaker who has directed, produced and/or written music videos, short films, features, documentaries, commercials and television programming. Career Miller has worked in virtually every aspect of the film an ...

and premiered in mid-1993.

Chart performance

"It Sure Is Monday" debuted at number 65 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of May 22, 1993.

Year-end charts

References

1993 singles 1993 songs Mark Chesnutt songs Songs written by Dennis Linde MCA Records singles Song recordings produced by Mark Wright (record producer) Music videos directed by John Lloyd Miller {{1993-country-song-stub