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Optimistic (Skeeter Davis song)

"Optimistic"
Single by Skeeter Davis
B-side "Blueberry Hill"
Released September 1961
Format 7" single
Recorded June 29, 1961
Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Genre Country, Nashville Sound
Label RCA Victor
Songwriter(s) Aubrey Freeman
Producer(s) Chet Atkins
Skeeter Davis singles chronology
"The Hands You're Holding Now"
(1961)
"Optimistic"
(1961)
"Where I Ought to Be"
(1962)
"The Hands You're Holding Now"
(1961)
"Optimistic"
(1961)
"Where I Ought to Be"
(1962)

"Optimistic" is a song written by Aubrey Freeman. In 1961, Skeeter Davis recorded and released the song as a single for RCA Victor.

"Optimistic" was recorded on June 29, 1961 at the RCA Victor Studio in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. The song was released as a single in September 1961 also, and it peaked at number ten on the Billboard Magazine Hot C&W Sides chart later that year. The single became Davis' fourth top-ten hit on the country chart at that point. The song was not originally issued onto an official album.



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