"Clean Up Your Own Backyard" is a 1969 song recorded by

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and released as a single. The song was featured in the

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film '' The Trouble with Girls (and How to Get into It)''.

Background

Written by

Mac Davis Morris Mac Davis (January 21, 1942 – September 29, 2020) was an American country music singer, songwriter, and actor. A native of Lubbock, Texas, he enjoyed success as a crossover artist, and during his early career he wrote for Elvis Presley, ...

and

Billy Strange William Everett Strange (September 29, 1930 – February 22, 2012) was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and an actor. He was a session musician with the famed Wrecking Crew, and was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Mus ...

and published by Gladys Music, Inc., it was released as a 7" single in 1969 with "The Fair Is Moving On" on the B-side, but not featured on any studio album. The single was also released in the UK, Canada, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, and India. It reached #35 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and #21 on the

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. The single reached #18 on the ''Record World'' chart and #27 on the Australian ''

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'' chart. The

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certified the single Gold in March 1992. The song was from the soundtrack of the

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film '' The Trouble with Girls'', and was later included on the budget RCA Camden album ''

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''. Although ''The Trouble with Girls'' is set in the 1920s, several lyrics within this song are anachronistic for the era, such as a reference to "armchair quarterbacks", a term not coined until the advent of television sports broadcasting decades later.

Chart history

Other recordings

The song has been recorded by

Nat Stuckey Nathan Wright Stuckey (December 17, 1933 – August 24, 1988) was an American country singer. He recorded for various labels between 1966 and 1978, charting in the top 10 of Hot Country Songs with " Sweet Thang", "Plastic Saddle", "Sweet Than ...

O.C. Smith Ocie Lee Smith (June 21, 1932 – November 23, 2001), known professionally as O. C. Smith, was an American singer. His recording of "Little Green Apples" went to number 2 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in 1968 and sold over one million recor ...

, Tom Green, Jennifer Scott, Sue Moreno, Darrel Higham and The Enforcers, and Lee Birchfield in 2012.Clean Up Your Own Backyard. Second Hand Songs.
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References

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