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It's Sad to Belong

The lead single from Dowdy Ferry Road, number one on the adult contemporary chart for five weeks in 1977.
England Dan & John Ford Coley, from Dowdy Ferry Road (1977)

Randy Goodrum wrote it, and Kyle Lehning produced it in 1976 in Hendersonville. The single, with "The Time Has Come" on the B-side, came out in April or May 1977, and our upload is titled "It's Sad to Belong (Single Version)". Songfacts describes a bittersweet story of a man who meets the woman of his dreams but is already married, so they cannot be together. It reached 21 on the Hot 100 and 13 on Cash Box, and spent five weeks at number 1 on the adult contemporary chart from June 25 to July 23, 1977; in Canada it was 9 on the main chart and number 1 on adult contemporary.

Sources

  1. It's Sad to Belong, Wikipedia
  2. It's Sad to Belong, Songfacts
  3. England Dan & John Ford Coley, Wikipedia