For the Good Times (song)

Later that year, Ray Price recorded a version of the song which topped the U.S. country music charts and was awarded "Song of the Year" by the Academy of Country Music. "For the Good Times" was Price's fifth number one single and spent a total of nineteen weeks on the country chart.^[1] "For the Good Times" crossed over onto the pop chart peaking at number eleven, becoming Ray Price's only release to hit the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100.^[2]

Chart performance

Chart (1970)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles	1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	11
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks	10
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	2
Canadian RPM Top Singles	13
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks	10
Australian Go-Set Charts	39

Cover versions

The song has been recorded by many artists, including:

Chet Atkins
Johnny Cash recorded a version released posthumously on "American VI: Ain't No Grave"
Dolly Parton
Perry Como, whose version reached #7 on the UK Singles Chart in 1973
Al Green
Isaac Hayes
Willie Nelson
Tennessee Ernie Ford and Glen Campbell (on the album Ernie Sings & Glen Picks)
Crystal Gayle
Elvis Presley on the album Elvis: As Recorded at Madison Square Garden
Kenny Rogers
Joe Diffie
Jamey Johnson
Michael Jackson on his mother's birthday in 1984
Lloyd Cole with Jill Sobule
Black Judah
Engelbert Humperdinck

References

^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 275.
^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits: Eighth Edition. Record Research. p. 505.

Preceded by "All for the Love of Sunshine" by Hank Williams, Jr.	Billboard Hot Country Singles number-one single September 19, 1970	Succeeded by "There Must Be More to Love Than This" by Jerry Lee Lewis