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If I Didn't Have You (Randy Travis song)

"If I Didn't Have You"
Single by Randy Travis
from the album Greatest Hits, Volume 1
B-side "I'd Surrender All"/"I Told You So"
Released August 3, 1992
Format CD Single, 7" 45 RPM
Genre Country
Length 3:07
Label Warner Bros. Nashville
Songwriter(s) Skip Ewing, Max D. Barnes
Producer(s) Kyle Lehning
Randy Travis singles chronology
"I'd Surrender All"
(1992)
"If I Didn't Have You"
(1992)
"Look Heart, No Hands"
(1992)
"I'd Surrender All"
(1992)
"If I Didn't Have You"
(1992)
"Look Heart, No Hands"
(1992)

"If I Didn't Have You" is a song written by Skip Ewing and Max D. Barnes, and recorded by American country music singer Randy Travis. It was released in August 1992 as the lead-off single from his Greatest Hits, Volume 1 compilation album. The song became Travis' thirteenth Number One single on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) chart.

Deborah Evans Price, of Billboard magazine reviewed the song favorably, saying that Travis "showcases his George Jones influence on a frolicking copyright, but he seems to strain in places." She goes on to call the song "hip musicianship."

The music video was directed by Jim Shea and premiered in mid-1992.

"If I Didn't Have You" debuted at number 65 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of August 15, 1992.


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