Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow

"Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow"
Single by Tom Jones
from the album Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow
B-side "Lady Lay"
Released January 1977[1]
Format 7" single
Genre Country, Pop, Adult Contemporary
Length 3:32
Label EMI
Epic (North America)
Writer(s) Roger Greenaway, Barry Mason
Producer(s) Gordon Mills[2]
Tom Jones singles chronology
"Memories Don't Leave, But People Do"
(1976)
"Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow"
(1977)
"Papa"
(1977)

"Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow" is a 1977 single by Tom Jones. The song was Jones's first and highest-charting country music hit. Spending ten weeks within the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot Country Singles (now Hot Country Songs) chart, "Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow" went to number one for one week on 26 February 1977.[3] The song also peaked at number fifteen on the Billboard Hot 100, and was Jones's last single to reach the top 40 until 1988.[4] It was also a Number One hit in Canada, reaching the top of the RPM country and easy-listening charts.

The song was recorded the same year by Slim Whitman, and was included on his album Home on the Range.

Chart performance

Weekly singles charts

Chart (1977) Peak
position
Australian Singles Chart 15
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary 1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 1
Canadian RPM Top Singles 12
New Zealand [5] 1
UK 40
U.S. Billboard Easy Listening 3
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[4] 15
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles[3] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (1977) Rank
Canada RPM Top Singles [6] 115
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 [7] 109
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary [8]
17

References

Preceded by
"Moody Blue" by Elvis Presley
Billboard Hot Country Singles number-one single
26 February 1977
Succeeded by
"Heart Healer" by Mel Tillis
Preceded by
"Near You" by George Jones and Tammy Wynette
RPM Country Tracks number-one single
12 March 1977
Succeeded by
"She's Just an Old Love Turned Memory" by Charley Pride


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