"Love's Gonna Live Here" is a 1963 single by

Buck Owens Alvis Edgar "Buck" Owens Jr. (August 12, 1929 – March 25, 2006) was an American musician, singer, and songwriter. He was the frontman for The Buckaroos, which had 21 No. 1 hits on the ''Billboard'' country music chart. He pioneered what came ...

, who also wrote the song. The single would be Buck Owens' second number one on the country charts spending sixteen weeks at the top spot and a total of thirty weeks on the chart. After "Love's Gonna Live Here" finished its 16-week stay at No. 1, no other song would spend more than 10 weeks at No. 1 for 49 years; the closest any song came was years later, with David Houston's "

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" spending nine weeks at No. 1 from August to October 1966. On January 12, 2013, "

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" by

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would become the first song since "Love's Gonna Live Here" to spend at least 10 weeks at No. 1. On July 6, 2013, " Cruise" by

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surpassed the 16-weeks-at-No.-1 longevity of "Love's Gonna Live Here" on the ''Billboard''

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chart when that song logged its 17th week at No. 1, something that had not happened in more than 49 years.

Chart performance

Cover versions

* Sten & Stanley on the 1994 album '' Musik, dans & party 10'' as "Nu leker livet igen". *

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- On the album '' Waylon at JD's'' (Sound Limited), released in December 1964 *

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- On the album '' The Happy Side of Wanda Jackson'' (

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), released in 1969 *

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- On the album '' Last Date'', released in 1982. *

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- On the album '' Timeless'' (

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), released on October 10, 2005 *

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- On the album '' Under the Influence of Buck'' ( Palo Duro Records), released on July 31, 2007 *

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- On the album '' Dwight Sings Buck'' (

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), released on October 23, 2007 allmusic ((( Dwight Sings Buck > Overview ))) /ref> *

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– On the album '' My Turn'', released on June 30, 2009

References

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