Burned Like a Rocket

"Burned Like a Rocket"
Single by Billy Joe Royal
from the album Looking Ahead
B-side	"Lonely Loving You"
Released	October 26, 1985
Format	7" single
Genre	Country
Length	3:38
Label	Atlantic
Writer(s)	Gary Burr
Producer(s)	Nelson Larkin
Billy Joe Royal singles chronology

"Burned Like a Rocket" is a song written by Gary Burr, and recorded by American country music artist Billy Joe Royal. It was released in October 1985 as the first single from the album Looking Ahead. The song reached number 10 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. It was Royal's first Top 10 hit on that chart,^[1] and his first charting single overall since 1978.

Atlantic Records withdrew the single after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in January 1986.^[2]

Chart performance

Chart (1985–1986)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks	10

References

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External links

Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

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v t e Billy Joe Royal
Studio albums	Billy Joe Royal Down in the Boondocks Billy Joe Royal featuring Hush Cherry Hill Park Billy Joe Royal Looking Ahead The Royal Treatment Tell It Like It Is Out of the Shadows
Other albums	Greatest Hits The Very Best Of Billy Joe Royal - The Columbia Years (1965-1972)
Singles	"Down in the Boondocks" "I Knew You When" "I've Got to Be Somebody" "It's a Good Time" "Heart's Desire" "Campfire Girls" "Yo-Yo" "These Are Not My People" "The Greatest Love" "Hush" "Storybook Children" "Cherry Hill Park" "Every Night" "Tulsa" "Poor Little Pearl" "Under the Boardwalk" "Burned Like a Rocket" "Boardwalk Angel" "I Miss You Already" "Old Bridges Burn Slow" "Members Only" (with Donna Fargo) "I'll Pin a Note on Your Pillow" "Out of Sight and on My Mind" "It Keeps Right On Hurtin'" "Tell It Like It Is" "Love Has No Right" "Till I Can't Take It Anymore" "Searchin' for Some Kind of Clue" "A Ring Where a Ring Used to Be" "If the Jukebox Took Teardrops" "I'm Okay (And Gettin' Better)" "Hard Rock to Roll"
B-Sides	"Oh, What a Night" "Steal Away" (A-Side) "You Make Me Feel Like A Man" "Don't Wait Up For Me Mama" (A-Side) "Deep Inside Me" "Should I Come Back" "We Tried" "Bed Of Roses" "Watching From The Bandstand" "Just Between Me And You" "Helping Hand" (A-Side) "The Lady Lives To Love" "Lonely Loving You" "Boardwalk Angel" "Another Endless Night" (A-Side) "A Place For The Heartache" "I Was Losing You" "Cross My Heart And Hope To Cry" (A-Side) "How Could You Leave Me"
Cover Songs	"Amanda" "Bring It On Home to Me" "Child of Mine" "Crying" "Funny How Time Slips Away" "I'm Sorry" "Kiss and Say Goodbye" "Making Believe" "Save the Last Dance for Me" "Solitary Man" "Spanish Harlem" "Stand by Me" "To Love Somebody"
Related articles	Discography Atlantic Records

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