"(I'd Be) A Legend in My Time"
Single by Ronnie Milsap
from the album A Legend in My Time
B-side	"The Biggest Lie"
Released	November 30, 1974
Genre	Country
Length	2:55
Label	RCA Victor
Songwriter(s)	Don Gibson
Producer(s)	Tom Collins, Jack D. Johnson
Ronnie Milsap singles chronology
"Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends" (1974) "(I'd Be) A Legend in My Time" (1974) "Too Late to Worry, Too Blue to Cry" (1975)

"(I'd Be) A Legend in My Time" is a song written and recorded by Don Gibson in 1960. It appeared as the B-side of his hit "Far Far Away", from the album Sweet Dreams. Gibson re-recorded the song on the 1972 album Country Green.

The song was recorded by Ronnie Milsap and released in November 1974 as the lead single from his album A Legend in My Time. This was Milsap's sixth country hit and his third number one. The single stayed at number one for a single week and spent a total of ten weeks within the top 40.^[1] Milsap's recording altered the song from its original 3/4 time signature to a 4/4 time signature.^[2]

Frequently covered, the song is usually titled without the parenthetical lead. Versions have been recorded by

• Connie Francis
• Roy Orbison covered the track for his 1961 album Lonely and Blue, and recorded a second later version which was featured on his 1967 tribute album to Gibson, Roy Orbison Sings Don Gibson.
• Frank Ifield 1963^[4]
• Dottie West on her 1967 LP, I'll Help You Forget Her.
• Johnny Cash (on the album American V: A Hundred Highways)
• Waylon Jennings
• B. B. King
• A live version by Tammy Wynette and the Good Guys on Navy Hoedown NH-21, among others.^{[citation needed]}
• A 1973 rendition by Sammy Davis Jr. became an Adult Contemporary chart hit, reaching #33 in Canada^[5] and #29 U.S.^[6]

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