Set Him Free

{{Infobox song

| name = Set Him Free

| cover =

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Skeeter Davis

| album = I'll Sing You a Song and Harmonize Too

| B-side = "The Devil's Doll"{{cite web|title=Skeeter Davis discography|url=http://countrydiscography.blogspot.com/2010/12/skeeter-davis.html|publisher=Praguefrank's Country Discographies|accessdate=6 January 2014}}

| released = February 1959

| recorded = January 1959
Nashville, Tennessee, U.S

| studio =

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| genre = Country, Nashville Sound

| length =

| label = RCA Victor

| writer = Skeeter Davis, Helen Moyers, Marie Wilson

| producer = Chet Atkins

| prev_title = The Slave

| prev_year = 1958

| next_title = Homebreaker

| next_year = 1959

}}

"Set Him Free" is a song written by Skeeter Davis, Helen Moyer, and Marie Wilson. In 1959, Skeeter Davis recorded and released the song as a single for RCA Victor.

"Set Him Free" was recorded in January 1959 at the RCA Victor Studio in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. The song was released as a single in February 1959, and it peaked at number five on the Billboard Magazine Hot C&W Sides chart later that year. The single became Davis' highest-charting single to that point and her third solo hit. In November 1959, "Set Him Free" was issued onto Davis' debut studio album entitled, I'll Sing You a Song and Harmonize Too.{{cite book |title= The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |authorlink=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research}}

In 1959, "Set Him Free" became the first song by a female country artist nominated by the Grammy Awards.{{cite web|title=2013 Hall of Fame Inductees|url=http://www.kentuckymusicmuseum.com/pdf/2013_Hall_of_Fame_Inductee_Press_Release.pdf|publisher=Kentucky Music Museum|accessdate=6 January 2014}}

In 1967, Davis re-recorded an updated version of "Set Him Free" and released it as a single in late 1967. The new version peaked at number fifty-two on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart and was issued onto her studio album entitled, What Does It Take (To Keep a Man Like You Satisfied).