One Day at a Time

(song)

"One Day at a Time" is a popular Country

and Western-style Christian song written
by Marijohn Wilkin and Kris Kristofferson.
It has been recorded by over 200 artists
and has reached No.1 in several territories.
Scottish singer Lena Martell had a UK
Singles Chart number one with her version
in 1979.
Marilyn "One Day at a
Sellars Time"
version Single by Marilyn
Sellars
The song was first
from the album One
recorded by
Day at a Time
American Country
singer Marilyn B-side "California"

Sellars in 1974.[1] Released 1974

This version Genre Country

became a US top 40 Length 3:32
hit and top 20 hit on
Label Mega
the Country Charts.
Songwriter(s) Marijo
Following this, it
Wilkin,
won the 1975
Kristof
Gospel Music Producer(s) Steven C
Association (GMA) Anderso
Dove Awards for Marilyn Sellars
best song.[2] singles chronology

"One "He's
Chart positions Day at Everywhere"
a (1974)
Peak
Time"
Chart (1974)
position

U.S. Billboard Hot Country

Singles
19 (1974)
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 37

Gloria version
"One Day at a Time" was recorded by
Gloria who released it as a single in
August 1977. The song originally peaked
at No.5 in the Irish singles charts, before
being re-released a
"One Day at a
year later. From here
Time"
it peaked at No.1
(over a year after it Single by Gloria

had entered the from the album

chart) and remained When I Sing for Him

on the charts B-side "The Old

throughout the Rugged
whole of 1979 and Cross"

into 1980, eventually Released August

spending a total of 1977

90 weeks in the Irish Genre Country

top 30 - the longest Length 3:01
run by any song in
Label Release
Irish Chart history.[3]
 Songwriter(s) Marijo
Chart history
Wilkin,
Peak
Chart (1977)
position
Kristof
Ireland (IRMA) 1
Producer(s) Tony

Cristy Lane Dirizzian

version Gloria singles

chronology
"One Day at a Time"
became best known ""I'll "One ""Liffey
among country fans Get Day at Tinker""
Over a (1978)
when recorded by
You"" Time"
American country (1977) (1977)
gospel singer Cristy
Lane. Lane had
started enjoying mainstream success in
the late 1970s through the release of
several secular hits,
"One Day at a
including "Let Me
Time"
Down Easy" and
"Simple Little
Words." In 1979,
Lane recorded the
song after it
became a No. 1 hit Single by Cristy
Lane
in the United
Kingdom by Lena from the album Ask
Me to Dance
Martell. At first,
United Artists B-side "I Knew

Records balked at the

Mason"
releasing the song,
despite its previous Released February

track record of 1980

success, but Lane's Recorded November
husband-manager, 19, 1979
Lee Stoller, Genre Country
predicted the song Length 3:12
would be
Label United
successful, and UA
Artists
relented. The song X1342-Y
was released in the
Songwriter(s) Marijo
late winter of 1980, Wilkin
and by the end of Kris
the spring, the song Kristof
was No. 1 on the Producer(s) Jerry
Billboard Hot Gillespie
Country Singles Cristy Lane singles
chart.[4] chronology
"One Day at a Time"
"Come "One "Sweet
was Lane's only No.
to My Day at Sexy
1 hit. For Love" a Eyes"
Kristofferson, the (1979) Time" (1980)
(1980)
song was his sixth
No. 1 as a
songwriter and first in six years (his last
being 1974's "Please Don't Tell Me How
the Story Ends" by Ronnie Milsap).

Chart positions

Peak
Chart (1980)
position

U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles 1

Australia (Kent Music Report)[5] 91

Canadian RPM Country Tracks 10

New Zealand Singles Chart 5

Year-end charts

Chart (1980) Position

US Country Songs (Billboard)[6] 2

Other versions
The song went on to be recorded by many
artists. Scottish singer Lena Martell
recorded the song for the UK market in
1979. The song again became a big
success and reached No. 1 in the UK
Singles Chart in October 1979 for three
weeks.[7] The song was also recorded by
the following; Paulino Bernal & Ricardo
Mejia, in the album Misioneros De Cristo,
they were the first to record the song in
Spanish "Un Dia A La Vez". Javier Galvan
[Tejano Gospel Singer] also recorded the
Spanish version "Un Dia a La Vez";[Los
Tigres Del Norte], though Paulino and
Ricardo recorded it first; The Alexander
Brothers; Judy Collins; Phil Coulter; Floyd
Cramer; Carlene Davis; Florida Boys; Roger
Whittaker; Tennessee Ernie Ford; Foster
and Allen; Bill Gaither; Lynda Randle; Ivan
Parker; Don Gibson; Arthur Greenslade;
Lee Greenwood; Roy Drusky; George
Hamilton IV; Lulu Roman, Brotherhood of
Man and the Quebec country singer André
Breton recorded the French version "Un
jour à la fois".[8]
See also
Dove Award for Song of the Year

References
1. "Marilyn Sellars | One Day At a Time |
Midwest Entertainer for Hire" (http://www.
marilynsellars.com/) . marilynsellars.com.
Retrieved 2016-11-09.

2. "GMA Dove Awards - Song of the Year

History" (http://christianmusic.about.com/o
d/doves/tp/GMAsongofyearhistory.03.ht
m) . Christianmusic.about.com. 2014-03-
12. Retrieved 2014-03-28.

3. Jaclyn Ward. "The Irish Charts - All there is

to know" (http://www.irishcharts.ie/facts/lo
 ngest_in_chart.htm) . Irishcharts.ie.
Retrieved 2014-03-28.

4. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book

Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second
edition. Record Research. p. 194.

5. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book

1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.:
Australian Chart Book. p. 172. ISBN 0-646-
11917-6.

6. "Best of 1980: Country Songs" (http://www.

billboard.com/charts/year-end/1980/hot-co
untry-songs) . Billboard. Prometheus
Global Media. 1980.

7. "Official Charts Company" (https://www.offi

cialcharts.com/search/singles/Don%27t%2
0Stop%20The%20Feeling) . Official Charts
Company. Retrieved 2014-03-28.
 8. "Gary Talley'sYouTube" (https://www.youtub
e.com/watch?v=QNc6WI636XU) . YouTube.
Archived (https://ghostarchive.org/varchiv
e/youtube/20211221/QNc6WI636XU)
from the original on 2021-12-21.

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