I Don't Wanna Play House
"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 | |||
Songwriter(s) | Billy Sherrill Glenn Sutton | |||
Producer(s) | 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 | |||
Songwriter(s) | Billy Sherrill Glenn Sutton | |||
Producer(s) | Bobby Russel Buzz Cason | |||
Connie Francis singles chronology | ||||
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"I Don't Wanna Play House" is a song written by Billy Sherrill and Glenn Sutton. In 1967, the song was 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] The recording earned Wynette the 1968 Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance.
Contents
1 Content
2 Chart performance
3 Cover versions
4 References
5 External links
Content
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 performance
Chart (1967) | Peak position |
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U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles | 1 |
Canadian RPM Country Tracks | 3 |
U.K. Singles Chart | 37 |
Cover versions
Connie Francis released a cover version of the song in August 1968. It peaked at # 40 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Charts.[2]
Skeeter Davis covered the song on her 1968 album Why So Lonely.
Lynn Anderson (then the wife of the song's co-writer, Sutton) covered the song in 1970 on her album Rose Garden.
Loretta Lynn covered the song on her 1968 album, Fist City.
In 1973, South African singer Barbara Ray recorded a version that was a number-one hit in her home country[3] as well as a top 10 hit in Australia, reaching No. 3 later in the year.[4] Her version was South Africa's highest-selling single of 1973.[5]
Mona Gustafsson recorded the song on her 2010 album Countrypärlor.[6]
References
^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 399..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 97.
^ "SA Number 1s 1965 - 1989". South African Rock Lists. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
^ "Australian Weekly Single Ccharts (David Kent) for 1973". Retrieved June 7, 2018.
^ "Top 20 Hit Singles of 1973". South African Rock Lists. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
^ "Countrypärlor" (in Swedish). Svensk mediedatabas. 2010. Retrieved 6 May 2011.
External links
Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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