"If You Ever Have Forever in Mind" is a song co-written 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
Vince Gill
Vincent Grant Gill (born April 12, 1957) is an American country music singer, songwriter and musician. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman of the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s and as a solo artist ...
. It was released in May 1998 as the first single from the album ''
The Key''. The song reached number 5 on the ''
Billboard''
Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart and number 1 in Canada. It also won Gill the
Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance
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*From 1965 to 1967 the award was known as Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Male
*In 1968 it was a ...
.
It was written by Gill and
Troy Seals
Troy Harold Seals (born November 16, 1938, in Bighill, Madison County, Kentucky, United States) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist.
He is a member of the prominent Seals family of musicians that includes Jim Seals (of Seals and C ...
.
Critical reception
Chuck Taylor, of ''
Billboard'' magazine reviewed the song favorably saying that "there's a classy vintage sound to this soft ballad." He goes on to say that the "delicate piano and whispery percussion underscore Gill's silky vocal performance."
['' Billboard'', May 30, 1998]
Music video
The music video was directed by Jim Shea and premiered in early 1998.
Chart performance
"If You Ever Have Forever in Mind" debuted at number 61 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of May 30, 1998.
Year-end charts
References
1998 singles
1998 songs
Vince Gill songs
Songs written by Troy Seals
Songs written by Vince Gill
Song recordings produced by Tony Brown (record producer)
MCA Nashville Records singles
Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance winners
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