Button Off My Shirt

"Button Off My Shirt"
"Button Off My Shirt"
Single by Ronnie Milsap
from the album Heart & Soul
B-side	"One Night"
Released	July 23, 1988
Genre	Country, pop
Length	3:54
Label	RCA
Songwriter(s)	Billy Livsey, Graham Lyle
Producer(s)	Rob Galbraith
Ronnie Milsap singles chronology

"Button Off My Shirt" is a song written by Billy Livsey and Graham Lyle, and recorded by American country music singer Ronnie Milsap. It released in July 1988 as the fifth single from the album Heart & Soul. It peaked at number four on the Hot Country Songs charts.

Content

The song talks of an ended relationship, where the narrator compares his former lover to a missing button from his shirt – "just an everyday distraction" which "some day he will replace".

Cover versions

Another version was released in 1988 by British singer Paul Carrack, from the album One Good Reason. This version peaked at number 91 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Charts

Ronnie Milsap

Weekly charts

Chart (1988)	Peak position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)^[2]	4
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^[3]	4

Year-end charts

Chart (1988)	Position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^[4]	56

Paul Carrack

Chart (1988)	Peak position
US Billboard Hot 100^[5]	91

References

^ Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 280. ISBN 978-0-89820-177-2.
^ "RPM 100 Country Singles" (PDF). RPM. October 22, 1988.
^ "Ronnie Milsap Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved January 28, 2011.
^ "Hot Country Songs – Year-End 1988". Billboard. Retrieved July 5, 2021.
^ "Paul Carrack Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved January 28, 2011.

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[whitburn-1] Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 280. ISBN 978-0-89820-177-2.

[2] "RPM 100 Country Singles" (PDF). RPM. October 22, 1988.

[sc_Billboardcountrysongs_Ronnie_Milsap-3] "Ronnie Milsap Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved January 28, 2011.

[4] "Hot Country Songs – Year-End 1988". Billboard. Retrieved July 5, 2021.

[sc_Billboardhot100_Paul_Carrack-5] "Paul Carrack Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved January 28, 2011.

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v t e Ronnie Milsap
Studio albums	Ronnie Milsap Where My Heart Is Pure Love Legend in My Time A Rose By Any Other Name Night Things 20/20 Vision It Was Almost Like a Song Only One Love in My Life Images Milsap Magic Out Where the Bright Lights Are Glowing There's No Gettin' Over Me Inside Keyed Up One More Try for Love Lost in the Fifties Tonight Christmas with Ronnie Milsap Heart & Soul Stranger Things Have Happened Back to the Grindstone True Believer Sings His Best for Capitol Records Just for a Thrill My Life Then Sings My Soul
Compilation albums	Greatest Hits Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 Greatest Hits, Vol. 3 40 #1 Hits 16 Biggest Hits
#1 singles	"Pure Love" "Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends" "(I'd Be) A Legend in My Time" "Daydreams About Night Things" "What Goes On When the Sun Goes Down" "(I'm A) Stand by My Woman Man" "Let My Love Be Your Pillow" "It Was Almost Like a Song" "What a Difference You've Made in My Life" "Only One Love in My Life" "Let's Take the Long Way Around the World" "Back on My Mind Again" "Nobody Likes Sad Songs" "Why Don't You Spend the Night" "My Heart" "Cowboys and Clowns" "Smoky Mountain Rain" "Am I Losing You" "(There's) No Gettin' Over Me" "I Wouldn't Have Missed It for the World" "Any Day Now" "He Got You" "Inside" "Stranger in My House" "Don't You Know How Much I Love You" "Show Her" "Still Losing You" "She Keeps the Home Fires Burning" "Lost in the Fifties Tonight (In the Still of the Night)" "Happy, Happy Birthday Baby" "In Love" "How Do I Turn You On" "Snap Your Fingers" "Make No Mistake, She's Mine" (with Kenny Rogers) "Where Do the Nights Go" "Don't You Ever Get Tired (Of Hurting Me)" "A Woman in Love" "Stranger Things Have Happened"
Other songs	"Too Late to Worry, Too Blue to Cry" "Just in Case" "In No Time at All" "Prisoner of the Highway" "Old Folks" (with Mike Reid) "Button Off My Shirt" "Houston Solution" "Are You Lovin' Me Like I'm Lovin' You" "Since I Don't Have You" "Turn That Radio On" "All Is Fair in Love and War" "True Believer"
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v t e Paul Carrack
Studio albums	Nightbird (1980) Suburban Voodoo (1982) One Good Reason (1987) Groove Approved (1989) Blue Views (1996) Beautiful World (1997) Satisfy My Soul (2000) Groovin' (2001) It Ain't Over (2003) Winter Wonderland (a.k.a. A Soulful Christmas) (2005) Old, New, Borrowed and Blue (2007) I Know That Name (2008) A Different Hat (2010) Good Feeling (2012) Rain or Shine (2013) Soul Shadows (2016) These Days (2018)
Songs	"When You Walk in the Room" "Don't Shed a Tear" "Button Off My Shirt" "Love Will Keep Us Alive"
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