"Clean Up Your Own Backyard" is a 1969 song recorded by Elvis Presley and released as a single. The song was featured in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film The Trouble with Girls (and How to Get into It).
Background Written by Mac Davis 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.Clean Up Your Own Backyard. Discogs.Clean Up Your Own Backyard.45cat. The single was also released in the UK, Canada, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, and India.
It reached No. 35 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 21 on the UK Singles Chart.Song artist 2 --- Elvis Presley.tsort. The single reached No. 18 on the Record World chart and No. 29 on the Australian Go-Set chart. The RIAA certified the single Gold in March 1992.
The song was from the soundtrack of the MGM film The Trouble with Girls, and was later included on the budget RCA Camden album Almost In Love.
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 Chart (1969)PeakpositionAustralia (Go-Set)Go-Set National Top 40, 25 October 196929Canada RPM Top Singles23New Zealand (Listener)Flavour of New Zealand, 24 October 196915UKSong artist 2 --- Elvis Presley.tsort.21U.S. Billboard Hot 100Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990 - 35U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary37U.S. Cash Box Top 10025U.S. Record World 18
Other recordings The song has been recorded by Nat Stuckey, 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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