Thing About You

"Thing About You" is a song written by Tom Petty, and recorded by American country music group Southern Pacific, featuring Emmylou Harris. It was released in 1985 as the second single from the album Southern Pacific. The song reached number 14 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.^[1]

Chart performance

Chart (1985)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks	14
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	14

References

↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 326.

External links

Full lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

Southern Pacific

Stu Cook Tim Goodman Glen Hardin Kurt Howell David Jenkins Keith Knudsen John McFee Jerry Scheff

Notable singles	"Thing About You" (with Emmylou Harris) "Perfect Stranger" "Reno Bound" "A Girl Like Emmylou" "Killbilly Hill" "Midnight Highway" "New Shade of Blue" "Honey I Dare You" "Any Way the Wind Blows" "Time's Up" (with Carlene Carter) "I Go to Pieces"

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Emmylou Harris

Studio albums	Gliding Bird Pieces of the Sky Elite Hotel Luxury Liner Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town Blue Kentucky Girl Light of the Stable Roses in the Snow Evangeline Cimarron White Shoes The Ballad of Sally Rose Thirteen Angel Band Bluebird Brand New Dance Cowgirl's Prayer Wrecking Ball Red Dirt Girl Stumble into Grace All I Intended to Be Hard Bargain

Collaboration albums	Trio (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) Trio II (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions (with Linda Ronstadt) All the Roadrunning (with Mark Knopfler) Old Yellow Moon (with Rodney Crowell)

Live albums	Last Date At the Ryman (with The Nash Ramblers) Spyboy

Compilation albums	Profile: Best of Emmylou Harris Her Best Songs Profile II: The Best of Emmylou Harris Duets Songs of the West Portraits Singin' with Emmylou, Vol. 1 Anthology: The Warner/Reprise Records The Very Best of Emmylou Harris: Heartaches & Highways Songbird: Rare Tracks and Forgotten Gems

Video albums	Live at the Ryman Spyboy: Live from the Legendary Exit/In Real Live Roadrunning (with Mark Knopfler)

Notable singles	"If I Could Only Win Your Love" "Together Again" "One of These Days" "Sweet Dreams" "(You Never Can Tell) C'est La Vie" "Making Believe" "To Daddy" "Two More Bottles of Wine" "Save the Last Dance for Me" "Blue Kentucky Girl" "Beneath Still Waters" "Wayfaring Stranger" "The Boxer" "Mister Sandman" "If I Needed You" (with Don Williams) "Tennessee Rose" "Born to Run" "(Lost His Love) On Our Last Date" "I'm Movin' On" "In My Dreams" "Pledging My Love" "Heartbreak Hill" "Heaven Only Knows" "I Still Miss Someone"

Collaboration singles	"To Know Him Is to Love Him" (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) "Telling Me Lies" (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) "Those Memories of You" (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) "Wildflowers" (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt)

Guest singles	"Thing About You" (with Southern Pacific) "We Believe in Happy Endings" (with Earl Thomas Conley)

Discographies	Discography Solo contributions Collaborations A–F Collaborations G–K Collaborations L–Q Collaborations R–Z

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