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I Can Tell by the Way You Dance (You're Gonna Love Me Tonight)

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"I Can Tell by the Way You Dance (You're Gonna Love Me Tonight)"
Single by Vern Gosdin
from the album There is a Season
ReleasedMarch 26, 1984
Recorded1983
GenreCountry
Length2:40
LabelCompleat
Songwriter(s)Sandy Pinkard, Robb Strandlund
Producer(s)Blake Mevis
Vern Gosdin singles chronology
"I Wonder Where We'd Be Tonight"
(1983)
"I Can Tell by the Way You Dance (You're Gonna Love Me Tonight)"
(1984)
"What Would Your Memories Do"
(1984)

"I Can Tell by the Way You Dance (You're Gonna Love Me Tonight)" is a song written by Sandy Pinkard and Rob Strandlund, and originally recorded by Gary Morris on his 1982 self-titled album. The song was later recorded by American country music artist Vern Gosdin and released in March 1984 as the lead single from his album There is a Season. The song was Gosdin's eighteenth country hit and the first of three number ones on the country chart. The single spent one week at number one and a total of fourteen weeks on the country chart.[1]

Background

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Gosdin, originally, felt the song was too rock 'n' roll for him and didn't record it for two years after it was presented to him.

Charts

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Weekly charts

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Chart (1984) Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[2] 1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 1

Year-end charts

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Chart (1984) Position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[3] 2

References

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  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 140.
  2. ^ "Vern Gosdin Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
  3. ^ "1985 Talent Almanat" (PDF). Billboard. Vol. 96, no. 51. December 22, 1984. p. TA-23. Retrieved June 16, 2021.