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Clean Up Your Own Backyard
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Wikipedia article
"'Clean Up Your Own Backyard'" is a 1969 song recorded by Elvis Presley and released as a single. The song was featured in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film 'The Trouble with Girls (and How to Get into It)'.
Background
Written by Mac Davis and Billy Strange 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.[https://www.discogs.com/Elvis-Clean-Up-Your-Own-Back-Yard-The-Fair-Is-Moving-On/release/2769859 Clean Up Your Own Backyard. Discogs.][http://www.45cat.com/record/479747us Clean Up Your Own Backyard.45cat.] 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 UK Singles Chart.[https://tsort.info/music/mfeu1b.htm Song artist 2 --- Elvis Presley.tsort.] The single reached #18 on the 'Record World' chart and #29 on the Australian 'Go-Set' chart. The RIAA certified the single Gold in March 1992.
The song was from the soundtrack of the MGM film 'The Trouble with Girls', and was later included on the budget RCA Camden album 'Almost In Love'.
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, O.C. Smith, Tom Green, Jennifer Scott, Sue Moreno, Darrel Higham and The Enforcers, and Lee Birchfield in 2012.[https://secondhandsongs.com/work/105478/versions Clean Up Your Own Backyard. Second Hand Songs.]
References
Category:Elvis Presley songs
Category:1969 singles
Category:Songs written by Mac Davis
Category:Songs written by Billy Strange
Category:1969 songs
Category:Songs written for films
Category:Anti-war songs
Category:RCA Records singles
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