The Most Beautiful Girl

"The Most Beautiful Girl" is a song recorded by Charlie Rich and written by Bill Sherrill, Norris Wilson, and Rory Michael Bourke. The country & western ballad reached #1 in the United States in 1973 on three Billboard music charts: the pop chart (for two weeks); the country chart (for three weeks); and the adult contemporary chart (also for three weeks) ^[1] as well as in Canada on three RPM charts: the RPM 100 Top Singles chart, the Country Tracks chart and the Adult Contemporary chart. The single stayed in a country chart for 18 weeks. Its B-side, Rich's own I Feel Like Going Home, was later covered by Rita Coolidge and was released on her 1974 album Fall into Spring.

"The Most Beautiful Girl" was also recorded by Slim Whitman in the 1970s. In 1975 ABBA singer Anni-Frid Lyngstad recorded a Swedish-language version called "Vill du låna en man?" (with Swedish lyrics by Stig Anderson) on her solo album "Frida ensam". Sergio Franchi covered the song in his 1976 DynaHouse album 20 Magnificent Songs.^[2] Country music boy band South 65 recorded an updated version of the song, titled "The Most Beautiful Girl (2001 Version)", on their 2001 album Dream Large.

The song receives a – very brief – airing by Brenda Fricker in the film So I Married an Axe Murderer.

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