"Dancing Your Memory Away" is a single by American country music artist Charly McClain

Charly McClain

Charlotte Denise McClain is an American country music singer, best-known for series of Country hits during the 1980s....

. Released in 1982, it was the first single from the album Too Good to Hurry. The song reached #3 on the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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Hot Country Singles & Tracks

Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

 chart.

The song was written by Eddie Burton and Thomas Alan Grant for Barnwood Music which is now owned by HoriPro Entertainment. "Dancing Your Memory Away" also won 2 BMI awards, one at the Country awards in Nashville and the other at the Pop awards in Beverly Hills, CA. The song was first recorded by Tammy Wynette

Tammy Wynette

Virginia Wynette Pugh, known professionally as Tammy Wynette , was an American country music singer-songwriter and one of the genre's best-known artists and biggest-selling female vocalists....

 for her Soft Touch album. The Charly McClain version was produced by Norro Wilson

Norro Wilson

Norris "Norro" Wilson is an American country music singer, songwriter and producer, and member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame....

. It has since been recorded by over 30 different artists around the world.

Chart performance

Chart (1982)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks	3
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	6