"Optimistic" | ||||
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Single by Skeeter Davis | ||||
B-side | "Blueberry Hill" | |||
Released | September 1961 | |||
Format | 7" single | |||
Recorded | June 29, 1961 Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
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Genre | Country, Nashville Sound | |||
Label | RCA Victor | |||
Songwriter(s) | Aubrey Freeman | |||
Producer(s) | Chet Atkins | |||
Skeeter Davis singles chronology | ||||
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"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.