"The Greatest Man I Never Knew"
Single by Reba McEntire
from the album For My Broken Heart
B-side"If I Had Only Known"
ReleasedJuly 1992
GenreCountry
Length3:14
LabelMCA 54441
Songwriter(s)Richard Leigh
Layng Martine Jr.
Producer(s)Tony Brown
Reba McEntire
Reba McEntire singles chronology
"The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia"
(1992) 		"The Greatest Man I Never Knew"
(1992) 		"Take It Back"
(1992)

"The Greatest Man I Never Knew" is a song written by Richard Leigh and Layng Martine Jr., and recorded by American country music artist Reba McEntire. It released in July 1992 as the fourth and final single from her album For My Broken Heart. The song reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in October 1992.[1]

Content

Richard Leigh has described the song as being about his own father and that several other of his hit songs were also from his own life ("I'll Get Over You" and "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue").

Chart performance

Chart (1992) Peak
position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[2] 1
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[3] 3

Year-end charts

Chart (1992) Position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[4] 22
US Country Songs (Billboard)[5] 70

References

  1. ^ Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks
  2. ^ "Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 1856." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. November 21, 1992. Retrieved August 15, 2013.
  3. ^ "Reba McEntire Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
  4. ^ "RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1992". RPM. December 19, 1992. Retrieved August 15, 2013.
  5. ^ "Best of 1992: Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 1992. Retrieved August 15, 2013.


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