A Place to Fall Apart

{{Infobox song

| name = A Place to Fall Apart

| cover =

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Merle Haggard with Janie Fricke

| album = It's All in the Game

| B-side = All I Want to Do Is Singing My Songs

| released = October 27, 1984

| format =

| recorded =

| studio =

| venue =

| genre = Country

| length = 3:36

| label = Epic

| writer = Merle Haggard
Willie Nelson
Freddy Powers

| producer = Ray Baker
Merle Haggard

| chronology = Merle Haggard

| prev_title = Let's Chase Each Other Around the Room

| prev_year = 1984

| next_title = Natural High

| next_year = 1985

| misc = {{Extra chronology

| artist = Janie Fricke

| type = single

| prev_title = Your Heart's Not in It

| prev_year = 1984

| title = A Place to Fall Apart

| year = 1984

| next_title = The First Word in Memory Is Me

| next_year = 1984

}}

}}

"A Place to Fall Apart" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Merle Haggard as a duet with Janie Fricke and backed by The Strangers. It was released in October 1984 as the second single from the album It's All in the Game. The song was the first single where Haggard and Fricke worked together. The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of fourteen weeks on the country chart.{{cite book |title= The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=148}} Haggard wrote the song with Willie Nelson and Freddy Powers.

Personnel

The Strangers:

  • Roy Nichols - lead guitar
  • Norm Hamlet – steel guitar
  • Tiny Moore – fiddle, mandolin
  • Mark Yeary – keyboards
  • Dennis Hromek - bass
  • Biff Adams - drums
  • Jim Belken – fiddle
  • Don Markham – horns

Chart performance

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!align="left"|Chart (1984–1985)

!align="center"|Peak
position

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References