The Door Is Always Open
{{Infobox song
| name = The Door is Always Open
| cover =
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Dave & Sugar
| album = Dave & Sugar
| B-side = "Late Nite Country Lovin' Music"
| released = April 1976
| recorded = January 22, 1976
| studio = RCA Victor Studio, Nashville, Tennessee
| venue =
| genre = Country
| length = 2:41
| label = RCA
| writer = Dickey Lee, Bob McDill
| producer = Jerry Bradley, Charley Pride
| prev_title = Queen of the Silver Dollar
| prev_year = 1975
| next_title = I'm Gonna Love You
| next_year = 1976
}}
"The Door is Always Open" is a country song written by Dickey Lee and Bob McDill. First recorded by Tennessee Pulleybone for JMI Records, it went to number 75 on the Hot Country Songs chart in 1973.{{cite book|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|title=Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008|publisher=Record Research, Inc|date=2008|page=416|isbn=978-0-89820-177-2}} A version by Lois Johnson, also in 1975, went to number 70 on the country music chart.Whitburn, pp. 211-212
It was the Dave & Sugar version, released in 1976, that was released to radio and became known to audiences. That July, the song was the group's first number one hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart.Whitburn, p. 115
Chart performance
=Tennessee Pulleybone=
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!align="left"|Chart (1973) !align="center"|Peak |
| {{singlechart|Billboardcountrysongs|75|artist=Tennessee Pulleybone}} |
=Lois Johnson=
| class="wikitable"
!align="left"|Chart (1975) !align="center"|Peak |
| {{singlechart|Billboardcountrysongs|70|artist=Lois Johnson}} |
=Dave & Sugar=
| class="wikitable sortable"
!align="left"|Chart (1976) !align="center"|Peak |
| {{singlechart|Billboardcountrysongs|1|artist=Dave & Sugar}} |
| align="left"|Australia (Kent Music Report){{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|authorlink=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=82}}
|align="center"|84 |
| align="left"|Canadian RPM Country Tracks
|align="center"|1 |
Other versions
- Waylon Jennings later cut it as an album track for his 1975 album Dreaming My Dreams.
- Dolly Parton performed the song in a November 1976 episode of her variety show Dolly!.
- A Dutch translation "De deur staat altijd open" by duo Frank & Mirella was a minor Dutch hit during the summer of 1976.
- Jamey Johnson covered his own version of the song on his 2008 album That Lonesome Song.
References
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{{Dave & Sugar}}
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Category:Waylon Jennings songs
Category:Songs written by Dickey Lee
Category:Songs written by Bob McDill
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