If You Wanna Get to Heaven explained

If You Wanna Get to Heaven
Type:	single
Artist:	Ozark Mountain Daredevils
Album:	The Ozark Mountain Daredevils
B-Side:	Spaceship Orion
Released:	1973
Genre:	Southern rock^[1]
Length:	3:04
Label:	A&M
Producer:	David Anderle, Glyn Johns
Next Title:	Look Away
Next Year:	1973

"If You Wanna Get To Heaven" is a single by the Ozark Mountain Daredevils from their 1973 album The Ozark Mountain Daredevils. This was the band's debut single and also the first of their two Top 40 hits reaching #25 on the Billboard Hot 100.^[2] The song sold about 500,000 copies.^[3]

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Hank Williams, Jr. covered the song on his 1982 album, High Notes.
The song was covered by Jeff Carson on his 1997 album Butterfly Kisses.
In 2007, the song was covered by Saliva lead singer Josey Scott for the movie . It is heard in the background when The General Lee is being pulled out of the water and being restored.

Included in Grand Theft Auto V on the radio station Rebel Radio, the song also served as the opening music to the 1991 PBS documentary "Dancing Outlaw", which profiled the life of legendary West Virginia "Mountain Dancer" Jesco White.

Book: Granda, Michael Supe . It Shined: The Saga of the Ozark Mountain Daredevils . 2008 . AuthorHouse . 978-1-4343-9166-7 .

Book: Precious and Few - Pop Music in the Early '70s. Don. Breithaupt. Jeff. Breithaupt. October 15, 1996. Planet of the Apes: Hard Rock. 106. St. Martin's Griffin. 031214704X.
Book: Whitburn, Joel . Joel Whitburn
. Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles, 14th Edition: 1955-2012 . Joel Whitburn . 2013 . Record Research . 638.
The Robesian 30 April 1975 "Group Sticks to Missouri Roots" by Mary Campbell p.17