I Just Came Home to Count the Memories (song)

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"I Just Came Home to Count the Memories"

Single by John Anderson

from the album I Just Came Home to Count the Memories

B-side

"Girl, for You"

Released

November 21, 1981

Genre

Country

Length

3:29

Label

Warner Bros. Nashville

Songwriter(s)

Glenn Ray

Producer(s)

Frank Jones
John Anderson

John Anderson singles chronology

"Chicken Truck"
(1981)

"I Just Came Home to Count the Memories"
(1981)

"Would You Catch a Falling Star"
(1982)

"I Just Came Home to Count the Memories" is a country music song written by Glenn Ray.

Three versions of the song have charted. The first, released in 1975 by Bobby Wright on ABC Records.^[1] Cal Smith's version from 1977, reached number 15 on the same chart.^[2] John Anderson had the highest-charting rendition, releasing his version in late 1981 and taking it to number 7 on the country charts in early 1982.^[3] The song was covered by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings on the 2022 John Anderson tribute album Something Borrowed, Something New.

Chart performance

Bobby Wright

Chart (1975)	Peak position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^[4]	75

Cal Smith

Chart (1977)	Peak position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^[5]	15
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	10

John Anderson

Chart (1981–1982)	Peak position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^[6]	7
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	5

References

^ Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 476. ISBN 978-0-89820-177-2.
^ Whitburn, p. 385
^ Whitburn, p. 26
^ "Bobby Wright Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
^ "Cal Smith Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
^ "John Anderson Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.

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Notable singles	"Drinking Champagne" "I've Found Someone of My Own" "The Lord Knows I'm Drinking" "Country Bumpkin" "It's Time to Pay the Fiddler" "I Just Came Home to Count the Memories"

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Studio albums	John Anderson John Anderson 2 I Just Came Home to Count the Memories Wild & Blue All the People Are Talkin' Eye of a Hurricane Tokyo, Oklahoma Countrified Blue Skies Again 10 Too Tough to Tame Seminole Wind Solid Ground Country 'til I Die Paradise Takin' the Country Back Nobody's Got It All Easy Money Bigger Hands Goldmine Years
Compilation albums	Greatest Hits (1984) Greatest Hits Volume II Greatest Hits (1996)
Notable singles	"Your Lying Blue Eyes" "She Just Started Liking Cheatin' Songs" "1959" "I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday)" "Chicken Truck" "I Just Came Home to Count the Memories" "Would You Catch a Falling Star" "Wild and Blue" "Swingin'" "Goin' Down Hill" "Black Sheep" "Let Somebody Else Drive" "She Sure Got Away with My Heart" "Eye of a Hurricane" "It's All Over Now" "Down in Tennessee" "Honky Tonk Crowd" "Somewhere Between Ragged and Right" (with Waylon Jennings) "Straight Tequila Night" "When It Comes to You" "Seminole Wind" "Let Go of the Stone" "Money in the Bank" "I Fell in the Water" "I've Got It Made" "I Wish I Could Have Been There" "Bend It Until It Breaks" "Mississippi Moon" "Paradise" "Somebody Slap Me" "If Her Lovin' Don't Kill Me" "Years" "Tuesday I'll Be Gone"
Related articles	Discography "Shuttin' Detroit Down"

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