{{Infobox song | name = Set Him Free | cover = | alt = | type = single | artist = Skeeter Davis | album = I'll Sing You a Song and Harmonize Too | B-side = "The Devil's Doll"<ref name="Praguefrank">{{cite web|title=Skeeter Davis discography|url=http://countrydiscography.blogspot.com/2010/12/skeeter-davis.html|publisher=Praguefrank's Country Discographies|accessdate=6 January 2014}}</ref> | released = February 1959 | recorded = January 1959<br/>Nashville, Tennessee, U.S | studio = | venue = | genre = Country, Nashville Sound | length = | label = RCA Victor | writer = Skeeter Davis, Helen Moyers, Marie Wilson | producer = Chet Atkins | prev_title = The Slave | prev_year = 1958 | next_title = Homebreaker | next_year = 1959 }} "'''Set Him Free'''" is a song written by Skeeter Davis, Helen Moyer, and Marie Wilson. In 1959, Skeeter Davis recorded and released the song as a single for RCA Victor.
"Set Him Free" was recorded in January 1959 at the RCA Victor Studio in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.<ref name="Praguefrank"/> The song was released as a single in February 1959, and it peaked at number five on the ''Billboard Magazine'' Hot C&W Sides chart later that year. The single became Davis' highest-charting single to that point and her third solo hit. In November 1959, "Set Him Free" was issued onto Davis' debut studio album entitled, ''I'll Sing You a Song and Harmonize Too''.<ref name="Whitburn 2004">{{cite book |title= The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |authorlink=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research}}</ref>
In 1959, "Set Him Free" became the first song by a female country artist nominated by the Grammy Awards.<ref>{{cite web|title=2013 Hall of Fame Inductees|url=http://www.kentuckymusicmuseum.com/pdf/2013_Hall_of_Fame_Inductee_Press_Release.pdf|publisher=Kentucky Music Museum|accessdate=6 January 2014}}</ref>
In 1967, Davis re-recorded an updated version of "Set Him Free" and released it as a single in late 1967. The new version peaked at number fifty-two on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles chart and was issued onto her studio album entitled, ''What Does It Take (To Keep a Man Like You Satisfied)''.<ref name="Whitburn 2004"/>
== Chart performance == ;Original recording {|class="wikitable sortable" !align="left"|Chart (1959) !align="center"|Peak<br />position |- |align="left"|U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot C&W Sides |align="center"|5 |- |}
;Re-recording {|class="wikitable sortable" !align="left"|Chart (1967) !align="center"|Peak<br />position |- |align="left"|U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles |align="center"|52 |- |}
== References == {{reflist}} {{Skeeter Davis}}
Category:1959 songs Category:Skeeter Davis songs Category:Songs written by Skeeter Davis Category:Song recordings produced by Chet Atkins Category:RCA Victor singles
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