| "I Don't Wanna Play House" | ||||
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| Single by Tammy Wynette | ||||
| from the album Take Me to Your World / I Don't Wanna Play House | ||||
| B-side | "Soakin' Wet" | |||
| Released | July 1967 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 2:38 | |||
| Label | Epic | |||
| Writer(s) | Billy Sherrill Glenn Sutton |
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| Producer | Billy Sherrill | |||
| Tammy Wynette singles chronology | ||||
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| "I Don't Wanna Play House" | ||||
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| Single by Connie Francis | ||||
| B-side | Am I Blue | |||
| Released | August 1968 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 3:05 | |||
| Label | MGM Records | |||
| Writer(s) | Billy Sherrill Glenn Sutton |
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| Producer | Bobby Russel Buzz Cason |
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"I Don't Wanna Play House" is a song written by Billy Sherrill and Glenn Sutton. In 1967, the song became Tammy Wynette's first number one country song as a solo artist. "I Don't Wanna Play House" spent three weeks at the top spot and a total of eighteen weeks on the chart.[1]
In the song, the narrator, a young mother whose husband has left her, overhears her daughter describing to a neighbor boy their broken home, and informing him that she doesn't want to play house since, after observing her parents' troubles, she knows that it cannot be fun.
| Chart (1967) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles | 1 |
| U.K. Singles Chart | 37 |
Connie Francis released a cover version of the song in August 1968. It peaked at # 40 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Charts
| Preceded by "Turn the World Around" by Eddy Arnold |
Billboard Hot Country Singles number-one single October 14-October 28, 1967 |
Succeeded by "You Mean the World to Me" by David Houston |