Highway Robbery (song)

This article is about the song by Tanya Tucker. For the song by The Dillinger Escape Plan, see Miss Machine. For other uses, see Highway Robbery (disambiguation).

1988 single by Tanya Tucker

"Highway Robbery"

Cassette single cover art

Single by Tanya Tucker
from the album  Strong Enough to Bend
B-side| "Lonesome Town"
Released| December 3, 1988
Genre| Country
Length| 3:30
Label| Capitol Nashville
Songwriter(s)| Tom Shapiro, Michael Garvin, Bucky Jones
Producer(s)| Jerry Crutchfield
Tanya Tucker singles chronology
| "Strong Enough to Bend"
(1988)  | "Highway Robbery"
(1988)  | "Call on Me"
(1989)

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"Highway Robbery" is a song written by Tom Shapiro, Michael Garvin and Bucky Jones, and recorded by American country music artist Tanya Tucker. It was released in December 1988 as the second single from the album Strong Enough to Bend. The song reached #2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.[1]

## Chart performance

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Chart (1988–1989)  | Peak
position

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US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[2] | 2
Canadian RPM Country Tracks  | 1

### Year-end charts

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Chart (1989)  | Position

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Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[3] | 19
US Country Songs (Billboard)[4] | 21

## References

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1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 358.
2. ^ "Tanya Tucker Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
3. ^ "RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1989". RPM. December 23, 1989. Retrieved August 28, 2013.
4. ^ "Best of 1989: Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 1989. Retrieved August 28, 2013.

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Tanya Tucker singles

* Albums
* Singles
* Songs

1970s|

* "Delta Dawn"
* "Love's the Answer"/"The Jamestown Ferry"
* "What's Your Mama's Name"
* "Blood Red and Goin' Down"
* "Would You Lay with Me (In a Field of Stone)"
* "The Man That Turned My Mama On"
* "I Believe the South Is Gonna Rise Again"
* "Lizzie and the Rainman"
* "Spring"
* "San Antonio Stroll"
* "Greener Than the Grass (We Laid On)"
* "Don't Believe My Heart Can Stand Another You"
* "You've Got Me to Hold On To"
* "Here's Some Love"
* "Ridin' Rainbows"
* "It's a Cowboy Lovin' Night"
* "You Are So Beautiful"
* "Dancing the Night Away"
* "Not Fade Away"/"Texas (When I Die)"
* "I'm the Singer, You're the Song"
* "Lay Back in the Arms of Someone"

1980s|

* "Pecos Promenade"
* "Dream Lover" (with Glen Campbell)
* "Can I See You Tonight"
* "Love Knows We Tried"
* "Should I Do It"
* "Feel Right"
* "Baby I'm Yours"
* "One Love at a Time"
* "Just Another Love"
* "I'll Come Back as Another Woman"
* "It's Only Over for You"
* "Love Me Like You Used To"
* "I Won't Take Less Than Your Love" (with Paul Davis and Paul Overstreet)
* "If It Don't Come Easy"
* "Strong Enough to Bend"
* "Highway Robbery"
* "Call on Me"
* "Daddy and Home"
* "My Arms Stay Open All Night"

1990s|

* "Walking Shoes"
* "Don't Go Out" (with T. Graham Brown)
* "It Won't Be Me"
* "Oh What It Did to Me"
* "Down to My Last Teardrop"
* "(Without You) What Do I Do with Me"
* "Some Kind of Trouble"
* "If Your Heart Ain't Busy Tonight"
* "Two Sparrows in a Hurricane"
* "It's a Little Too Late"
* "Tell Me About It" (with Delbert McClinton)
* "Soon"
* "We Don't Have to Do This"
* "Hangin' In"
* "You Just Watch Me"
* "Between the Two of Them"
* "Find Out What's Happenin'"
* "Little Things"

2000s-2020s|

* "A Memory Like I'm Gonna Be"
* "Love's Gonna Live Here" (with Jim Lauderdale)
* "Bring My Flowers Now"
* "The House That Built Me"
* "Ready as I'll Never Be"

Featured singles|

* "Romeo" (credited as Dolly Parton and Friends)
* "You Ain't Woman Enough" (with Loretta Lynn)

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