You Look So Good in Love
| "You Look So Good in Love" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by George Strait | ||||
| from the album Right or Wrong | ||||
| B-side | "A Little Heaven's Rubbing off on Me" | |||
| Released | September 22, 1983 | |||
| Format | 7" single | |||
| Recorded | July 20, 1983 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 3:13 | |||
| Label | MCA 52279 | |||
| Writer(s) |
Glen Ballard Rory Michael Bourke Kerry Chater | |||
| Producer(s) | Ray Baker | |||
| George Strait singles chronology | ||||
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"You Look So Good in Love" is a song written by Glen Ballard, Rory Michael Bourke and Kerry Chater, and recorded by American country singer George Strait. It was released in September 1983 as the lead single from his album Right or Wrong.
Content
The narrator is a guy looking at his ex-lover fall in love with another guy. He realizes just how happy his former girlfriend looks now that she’s fallen in true love. He feels sorry for himself that he wasn’t the one to make her happy, but part of him realizes it wasn’t meant to be.
Music video
A video — Strait's first — was issued for the song. Strait disliked the "slow-paced and romantic themed" video so he asked for it to be taken off the air, and refused to do music videos for several years afterward.[1]
Chart performance
The song debuted at number 31 on the Hot Country Songs charts, Strait's highest debut for many years.[2] In January 1984, "You Look So Good in Love" was George Strait's third No. 1 song on the chart.[3]
| Chart (1983–1984) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles | 1 |
| Canadian RPM Country Tracks | 1 |
References
- ↑ Bego, Mark. George Strait: The Story of Country's Living Legend. p. 46.
- ↑ Jessen, Wade (29 July 2000). "Country Corner". Billboard. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
- ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 336.
External links
| Preceded by "Houston (Means I'm One Day Closer to You)" by Larry Gatlin & the Gatlin Brothers Band |
Billboard Hot Country Singles number-one single January 7, 1984 |
Succeeded by "Slow Burn" by T. G. Sheppard |
| Preceded by "Take It to the Limit" by Waylon Jennings with Willie Nelson |
RPM Country Tracks number-one single January 21, 1984 |
Succeeded by "Ozark Mountain Jubilee" by The Oak Ridge Boys |