"Clean Up Your Own Backyard" is a 1969 song recorded by

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and released as a single. The song was featured in the

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film ''

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Background

Written by

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and Billy Strange and published by Gladys Music, Inc., it was released as a 7" single in 1969 with "The Fair Is Moving On" on the B-side, but not featured on any studio album. The single was also released in the UK, Canada, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, and India. It reached #35 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and #21 on the UK Singles Chart. The single reached #18 on the ''Record World'' chart and #29 on the Australian ''

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'' chart. The

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certified the single Gold in March 1992. The song was from the soundtrack of the

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film '' The Trouble with Girls'', and was later included on the budget RCA Camden album ''

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''. Although ''The Trouble with Girls'' is set in the 1920s, several lyrics within this song are anachronistic for the era, such as a reference to "armchair quarterbacks", a term not coined until the advent of television sports broadcasting decades later. The film version of the song does not include the female backing vocals of the single.

Chart history

Other recordings

The song has been recorded by

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, O.C. Smith, Tom Green, Jennifer Scott, Sue Moreno, Darrel Higham and The Enforcers, and Lee Birchfield in 2012.Clean Up Your Own Backyard. Second Hand Songs.
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References

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