# Before My Time

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{{Infobox song
| name       = Before My Time
| cover      =
| alt        =
| type       = single
| artist     = [John Conlee](/source/John_Conlee)
| album      = [Forever](/source/Forever_(John_Conlee_album))
| B-side     = Forever
| released   = August 11, 1979
| format     =
| recorded   =
| studio     =
| venue      =
| genre      = [Country](/source/Country_music)
| length     = 2:40
| label      = [MCA](/source/MCA_Records)
| writer     = [Ben Peters](/source/Ben_Peters)
| producer   = Bud Logan
| prev_title = [Backside of Thirty](/source/Backside_of_Thirty)
| prev_year  = 1979
| next_title = [Baby, You're Something](/source/Baby%2C_You're_Something)
| next_year  = 1979
}}
"'''Before My Time'''" is a song written by [Ben Peters](/source/Ben_Peters), and recorded by American [country music](/source/country_music) artist [John Conlee](/source/John_Conlee).  It was released in August 1979 as the first single from the album ''[Forever](/source/Forever_(John_Conlee_album))''.  The song reached #2 on the ''[Billboard](/source/Billboard_(magazine))'' [Hot Country Singles & Tracks](/source/Hot_Country_Songs) chart.<ref>{{cite book |title= The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=87}}</ref>

==Chart performance==
{|class="wikitable sortable"
!align="left"|Chart (1979)
!align="center"|Peak<br />position
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{{singlechart|Billboardcountrysongs|2|artist=John Conlee}}
|-
|align="left"|Canadian ''RPM'' Country Tracks
|align="center"|1
|}

==References==
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{{John Conlee}}

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Category:1979 singles
Category:John Conlee songs
Category:Songs written by Ben Peters
Category:MCA Records singles
Category:1979 songs

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