"Searchin for Some Kind of Clue" is a song written by

Nelson Larkin Sunbird Records was an independent record label in the United States during the late 1970s and 1980s. Freddie Hart had a few hits with Sunbird after he left Capitol Records in 1979. Earl Thomas Conley also recorded some hits with Sunbird while wor ...

Donny Kees Donny Kees is an American songwriter and musician. Kees has written songs for numerous artists and charted several singles on the ''Billboard'' country charts. Since 1984, Kees has continued to write hit songs for other artists, most notably Ge ...

and

Pal Rakes Palmer Crawford "Pal" Rakes (born in Tampa, Florida) is an American country music singer. He recorded for Warner Bros. Records between 1977 and 1979, and for Atlantic Records between 1988 and 1989. During his tenure on Warner, he charted in the To ...

, and recorded by American country music artist Billy Joe Royal. It was released in May 1990 as the first single from the album ''

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''. The song reached number 17 on the ''

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Hot Country Singles & Tracks 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 sal ...

chart.

Chart performance

References

1990 singles Billy Joe Royal songs Atlantic Records singles Songs written by Nelson Larkin 1990 songs Songs written by Donny Kees {{1990-country-song-stub