Clean Up Your Own Backyard

"Clean Up Your Own Backyard" is a 1969 song recorded by Elvis Presley and released as a single. The song was featured in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film The Trouble with Girls (and How to Get into It).

"Clean Up Your Own Backyard"
Single by Elvis Presley
B-side"The Fair is Moving On"
ReleasedJune 17, 1969
Genre
Length3:06
LabelRCA Records
Songwriter(s)Mac Davis, Billy Strange
Elvis Presley singles chronology
"In the Ghetto"
(1969)		 "Clean Up Your Own Backyard"
(1969)		 "Suspicious Minds" / "You'll Think of Me"
(1969)

Background

Written by Mac Davis and Billy 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 the Billboard Hot 100 and #21 on the UK Singles Chart.[3] The single reached #18 on the Record World chart and #29 on the Australian Go-Set chart. The RIAA certified the single Gold in March 1992.

The song was from the soundtrack of the MGM film The Trouble with Girls, and was later included on the budget RCA Camden album Almost In Love.

Although The 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.

Chart history
Chart (1969) Peak
position
Australia (Go-Set)[4] 29
Canada RPM Top Singles[5] 23
New Zealand (Listener)[6] 15
UK [7] 21
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[8] 35
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary 37
U.S. Cash Box Top 100[9] 25
U.S. Record World 18

Other recordings

The song has been recorded by Nat Stuckey, O.C. Smith, Tom Green, Jennifer Scott, Sue Moreno, Darrel Higham and The Enforcers, and Lee Birchfield in 2012.[10]

References
  1. Clean Up Your Own Backyard. Discogs.
  2. Clean Up Your Own Backyard.45cat.
  3. Song artist 2 --- Elvis Presley.tsort.
  4. Go-Set National Top 40, 25 October 1969
  5. "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 1969-08-16. Retrieved 2019-12-03.
  6. Flavour of New Zealand, 24 October 1969
  7. Song artist 2 --- Elvis Presley.tsort.
  8. Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
  9. Cash Box Top 100 Singles, August 9, 1969
  10. Clean Up Your Own Backyard. Second Hand Songs.
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