| "Clean Up Your Own Backyard" | ||||
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| Single byElvis Presley | ||||
| B-side | "The Fair's Moving On" | |||
| Released | June 17, 1969 | |||
| Recorded | October 23, 1968 | |||
| Studio | United Recorders, Hollywood | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 3:06 | |||
| Label | RCA Victor | |||
| Songwriters | Mac Davis,Billy Strange | |||
| Elvis Presley singles chronology | ||||
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"Clean Up Your Own Backyard" is a 1969 song recorded byElvis Presley and released as a single. The song was featured in theMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer filmThe Trouble with Girls (and How to Get into It).
Written byMac Davis andBilly 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 theBillboard Hot 100 and #21 on theUK Singles Chart.[3] The single reached #18 on theRecord World chart and #29 on the AustralianGo-Set chart. TheRIAA certified the single Gold in March 1992.
The song was from the soundtrack of theMGM filmThe Trouble with Girls, and was later included on the budget RCA Camden albumAlmost In Love.
AlthoughThe 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 (1969) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australia (Go-Set)[4] | 29 |
| CanadaRPM Top Singles[5] | 23 |
| New Zealand (Listener)[6] | 15 |
| UK[7] | 21 |
| U.S.BillboardHot 100[8] | 35 |
| U.S.BillboardAdult Contemporary | 37 |
| U.S.Cash Box Top 100[9] | 25 |
| U.S.Record World | 18 |
The song has been recorded byNat Stuckey,O.C. Smith, Tom Green, Jennifer Scott, Sue Moreno, Darrel Higham and The Enforcers, and Lee Birchfield in 2012.[10]
