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Can I Count On You

1991 single by McBride & the Ride

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 1, 2024
Entity authorityQ5029051 ↗
Source-derived summary

"Can I Count On You" is a song written by Terry McBride, Bill Carter and Ruth Ellsworth, and recorded by American country music group McBride & the Ride. It was released in March 1991 as the third single from the album Burnin' Up the Road. The song reached number 15 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart and peaked at number 9 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada.

Music video

The music video was directed by Bill Young and premiered in early 1991.

Editorial summary

“Can I Count On You” enters the record as 1991 single by McBride & the Ride. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Count, single and McBride can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1991-03-16. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Count, single and McBride.
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“Can I Count On You” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Count, single and McBride provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 1, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q5029051. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1991.

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This entry incorporates text from “Can I Count On You” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.