Clean Up Your Own Backyard

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"Clean Up Your Own Backyard"
RCA Victor
Songwriter(s)Mac Davis, Billy Strange
Elvis Presley singles chronology
"In the Ghetto"
(1969)
"Clean Up Your Own Backyard"
(1969)
"Suspicious Minds" / "You'll Think of Me"
(1969)

"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.[1][2] The single was also released in the UK, Canada, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, and India.

It reached #35 on the

RIAA
certified the single Gold in March 1992.

The song was from the soundtrack of the

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. The film version of the song does not include the female backing vocals of the single.

Chart history

Chart (1969) Peak
position
Australia (Go-Set)[4] 29
Canada RPM Top Singles[5] 23
New Zealand (Listener)[6] 15
UK[7] 21
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[8] 35
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary 37
U.S.
Cash Box Top 100[9]
25
U.S. Record World 18

Other recordings

The song has been recorded by

O.C. Smith, Tom Green, Jennifer Scott, Sue Moreno, Darrel Higham and The Enforcers, and Lee Birchfield in 2012.[10]

References

  1. ^ Clean Up Your Own Backyard. Discogs.
  2. ^ Clean Up Your Own Backyard.45cat.
  3. ^ Song artist 2 --- Elvis Presley.tsort.
  4. ^ Go-Set National Top 40, 25 October 1969
  5. ^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 1969-08-16. Retrieved 2019-12-03.
  6. ^ Flavour of New Zealand, 24 October 1969
  7. ^ Song artist 2 --- Elvis Presley.tsort.
  8. ^ Cash Box Top 100 Singles, August 9, 1969
  9. ^ Clean Up Your Own Backyard. Second Hand Songs.