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"How Can I Help You Say Goodbye"
Song
"How Can I Help You Say Goodbye"
Song

"How Can I Help You Say Goodbye" is a single release by Patty Loveless, recorded at Sony/Epic in the early spring of 1993. It was included on her first album with Epic Records, Only What I Feel, her sixth career album. The single was released in March 1994. It was the fourth single released from the album.

Background

Loveless' album, "Only What I Feel" had sold over 650,000 copies and had been certified as an RIAA Gold Album. Sony/Epic was receiving requests from radio stations that this song be released as a single, and in March 1994 it was released. This song climbed up the charts, reaching #3 in June. It was also nominated for the 1995 Grammy Awards for Best Female Country Vocal Performance and Best Country Song. The accompanying video was also nominated by both the CMA and the ACM as 1995 Video Of The Year.

How Can I Help You Say Goodbye was nominated for the following awards:[citation needed]

  • 1995 Academy of Country Music (ACM) Song Of The Year
  • 1995 Academy of Country Music (ACM) Video Of The Year
  • 1995 Grammy Awards Song Of The Year
  • 1994 Country Music Association (CMA) Video Of The Year
  • 1994 Country Music Association (CMA) Song Of The Year

The song charted for 20 weeks on the Billboard Hot Country Singles and Tracks chart, reaching #3 during the week of June 4, 1994.

The Song itself speaks of a woman, who relied on her mother after her mother divorced, and left with her to start over elsewhere, after her own marriage crumbles, and ends in divorce, and as her mother lay dying, the mother, each time tells her "How can I help you to say goodbye?" Eventually easing the woman's troubles.

Track listing

U.S. 7" vinyl single

  1. "How Can I Help You Say Goodbye" – 5:00
  2. "How About You" – 2:41

Chart positions

Chart (1994) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks[1] 3
Canadian RPM Country Tracks[2] 19

Laura Branigan version

Laura Branigan also recorded the song in 1993 and it was included on her last studio album Over My Heart. It was released in 1994 as the third and final single from the album. The song was later included on Branigan's 1995 greatest hits album The Best of Branigan.

Track listing

U.S. CD single

  1. "How Can I Help You to Say Goodbye" – 4:29

References

  1. ^ "Patty Loveless - How Can I Help You Say Goodbye (Billboard chart history)". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. Retrieved August 20, 2010.
  2. ^ "Country Singles - Volume 59, No. 22 June 20 1994". RPM. Retrieved 20 August 2010.


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