Don't Let the Good Times Fool You (song)

"Don't Let the Good Times Fool You"
Single by Melba Montgomery
from the album Don't Let the Good Times Fool You
B-side "It Sure Get's Lonely"[1]
Released January 1975
Format 7" single
Recorded May 1974
Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.[1]
Genre Country
Label Elektra
Writer(s)
  • Ronald Hellard
  • Gary S. Paxton
Producer(s) Pete Drake
Melba Montgomery singles chronology
"If You Want the Rainbow"
(1974)
"Don't Let the Good Times Fool You"
(1975)
"Searchin' (For Someone Like You)"
(1975)

"Don't Let the Good Times Fool You" is a song written by Ronald Hellard and Gary S. Paxton. It was recorded and released as a single by American country artist Melba Montgomery in 1975.

"Don't Let the Good Times Fool You" was recorded at "Pete's Place", a recording studio located in Nashville, Tennessee, United States in May of 1974. The session included The Nashville A-Team of musicians, such as Harold Bradley and Buddy Harman. The session was produced by Pete Drake.[1]

"Don't Let the Good Times Fool You" was released as a single via Elektra Records in January of 1975. The song reached number fifteen on the Billboard Magazine Hot Country Singles chart[2] and number fourteen on the Canadian RPM Country Songs chart.[3] The song became Montgomery's second major hit as a solo artist and her seventh top-twenty hit on the country songs chart. The song was issued onto Montgomery's 1975 album of the same name, also on Elektra Records.[2]

Chart performance

Chart (1975) Peak
position
Canada Country Songs (RPM)[3] 14
US Hot Country Singles (Billboard)[2] 15

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Melba Montgomery Discography". Praguefrank's Country Music Discographies. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research.
  3. 1 2 "Search results for "Melba Montgomery" under Country Singles". RPM. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
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