<P> Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young was Faron Young's first number one song and his fifth consecutive top ten hit . It spent three weeks at the top of the Billboard country music charts in 1955 . "This was a tune I detested," Faron said . "Ken Nelson made me record this song . I put it out and it was a big, big hit . Then I got to liking it ." The song mentions a Wampus cat . </P> <P> The song idea came to Joe Allison while watching a gangster movie starring a young John Derek . Allison explained, "All through this picture he said,' I want to die young and leave a good - looking corpse .' It struck me as a good idea for a song, so I wrote' Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young .' I didn't write it for anybody, but when Ken Nelson heard it, he said,' We'll do that with Faron Young ."' </P>

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