If You Wanna Get to Heaven

"If You Wanna Get To Heaven" is a single by the Ozark Mountain Daredevils from their 1973 album The Ozark Mountain Daredevils. This was the band's debut single and also the first of their two Top 40 hits reaching #25 on the Billboard Hot 100, selling about 500,000 copies.[1]

"If You Wanna Get to Heaven"
Single by Ozark Mountain Daredevils
from the album The Ozark Mountain Daredevils
B-side"Spaceship Orion"
Released1973
GenreSouthern rock
Length3:04
LabelA&M
Songwriter(s)Steve Cash/John Dillon
Producer(s)David Anderle, Glyn Johns
Ozark Mountain Daredevils singles chronology
"If You Wanna Get to Heaven" "Look Away"

The song was covered by Jeff Carson on his 1997 album Butterfly Kisses. Included in Grand Theft Auto V on the radio station Rebel Radio, the song also served as the opening music to the 1991 PBS documentary "Dancing Outlaw", which profiled the life of legendary West Virginia "Mountain Dancer" Jesco White.

Track listing

  1. "If You Wanna Get to Heaven" 3:04
  2. "Spaceship Orion" 3:11

Cover versions

References

  • Granda, Michael Supe (2008). It Shined: The Saga of the Ozark Mountain Daredevils. AuthorHouse. ISBN 978-1-4343-9166-7.
  1. The Robesian 30 April 1975 "Group Sticks to Missouri Roots" by Mary Campbell p.17


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