So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)

"So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)" is a song written by Don Everly, which was released in 1960 by The Everly Brothers. The song spent 12 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at No. 7,^[2] while reaching No. 4 on the United Kingdom's Record Retailer and New Musical Express charts,^[3]^[4] No. 7 on New Zealand's "Lever Hit Parade",^[5] No. 15 in Flemish Belgium,^[6] No. 16 on Billboard's Hot R&B Sides,^[7] No. 18 on Canada's "CHUM Hit Parade",^[8] and No. 19 in Australia.^[9]

In 1970, a cover of "So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)" was released by Hank Williams, Jr. and Lois Johnson, which reached No. 12 on the Billboard "Hot Country Singles" chart^[10] and No. 10 on Canada's "Top 50 RPM Country" chart.^[11]

Connie Smith released a cover of the song in 1976, which reached No. 31 on the Billboard "Hot Country Singles" chart.^[12] A cover was released by Steve Wariner in 1978, which reached No. 76 on the Billboard "Hot Country Singles" chart.^[13]

Emmylou Harris released a cover of the song in 1983, which reached No. 28 on the Billboard "Hot Country Singles" chart^[14] and No. 14 on Canada's RPM "Country 50 Singles" chart.^[15]

Chart performance

Chart (1960)	Peak position
US Billboard Hot 100	7
UK - Record Retailer	4
UK - New Musical Express	4
New Zealand - Lever Hit Parade	7
Flemish Belgium	15
Billboard - Hot R&B Sides	16
Canada - CHUM Hit Parade	18
Australia	19

References

↑ So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad) - By: The Everly Brothers, MusicVF.com. Accessed August 9, 2015
↑ The Everly Brothers - Chart History - The Hot 100, Billboard.com. Accessed August 9, 2015
↑ Everly Brothers - Full Official Chart History, Official Charts Company. Accessed October 15, 2015
↑ "British Newsnotes", Billboard, October 17, 1960. p. 6
↑ "Lever Hit Parade" 03-Nov-1960, Flavour of New Zealand. Accessed August 9, 2015
↑ The Everly Brothers - So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad), Ultratop. Accessed August 9, 2015
↑ "The Billboard Hot R&B Sides", Billboard, October 24, 1960. p. 51
↑ CHUM Hit Parade – Week of October 3, 1960 at the Wayback Machine (archived November 7, 2006). Chart No. 179. CHUM. Accessed November 29, 2015.
↑ David Kent, Australian Top 20 Singles - Week Ending October 22, 1960
↑ "Hot Country Singles", Billboard, November 28, 1970. p. 46
↑ "Top 50 RPM Country", RPM, Volume 14, No. 18, December 19, 1970. Accessed August 9, 2015
↑ So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad) - By: Connie Smith, MusicVF.com. Accessed August 9, 2015
↑ So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad) - By: Steve Wariner, MusicVF.com. Accessed August 9, 2015
↑ So Sad to Watch Good Love Go Bad - By: Emmylou Harris, MusicVF.com. Accessed August 9, 2015
↑ "Country 50 Singles", RPM, Volume 38, No. 26, August 27, 1983. Accessed August 9, 2015

The Everly Brothers

Studio albums	The Everly Brothers Songs Our Daddy Taught Us It's Everly Time A Date with the Everly Brothers Both Sides of an Evening Instant Party! Christmas with the Everly Brothers The Everly Brothers Sing Great Country Hits Gone Gone Gone Rock & Soul Beat & Soul In Our Image Two Yanks in England The Hit Sound of the Everly Brothers The Everly Brothers Sing Roots Stories We Could Tell Pass the Chicken & Listen EB 84 Born Yesterday Some Hearts

Live albums	Everly Brothers Show

Compilation albums	The Best of The Everly Brothers Greatest Hits Vol. III The New Album All They Had to Do Was Dream Heartaches and Harmonies Stories We Could Tell:The RCA Years Too Good to Be True Give Me a Future

Singles	"Bye Bye Love" "Wake Up Little Susie" "This Little Girl of Mine" "Should We Tell Him" "All I Have to Do Is Dream" "Bird Dog" "Devoted to You" "Problems" "Take a Message to Mary" "Poor Jenny" "(Till) I Kissed You" "Let It Be Me" "Cathy's Clown" "When Will I Be Loved" "So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)" "Like Strangers" "Be-Bop-A-Lula" "Lucille" "Walk Right Back" "Ebony Eyes" "Temptation" "Don't Blame Me" "Crying in the Rain" "That's Old Fashioned (That's the Way Love Should Be)" "Don't Ask Me to Be Friends" "Love Her" "Ain't That Lovin' You, Baby" "That'll Be the Day" "The Price of Love" "Love Is Strange" "(You Got) The Power of Love" "Somebody Help Me" "Bowling Green" "Love of the Common People" "Carolina in My Mind" "Not Fade Away" "The Air That I Breathe" (Phil Everly solo) "Brother Jukebox" (Don Everly solo) "Dare to Dream Again" (Phil Everly solo) "On the Wings of a Nightingale" "Don't Worry Baby" "Ballad of a Teenage Queen"

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Book Category

Hank Williams, Jr.

Studio albums	Your Cheatin' Heart Connie Francis and Hank Williams, Jr. Sing Great Country Favorites Ballads of the Hills and Plains Blues My Name A Time to Sing Songs My Father Left Me Luke the Drifter, Jr. Vol. 2 Live at Cobo Hall After You, Pride's Not Hard to Swallow Hank Williams, Jr. and Friends Family Tradition Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound Habits Old and New Rowdy The Pressure Is On High Notes Strong Stuff Man of Steel Major Moves Five-O Montana Cafe Hank Live Born to Boogie Wild Streak Lone Wolf Pure Hank Maverick Out of Left Field Hog Wild A.K.A. Wham Bam Sam Three Hanks: Men with Broken Hearts Stormy The Almeria Club Recordings I'm One of You 127 Rose Avenue It's About Time

Compilation albums	Greatest Hits Hank Williams, Jr.'s Greatest Hits Vol. II Fourteen Greatest Hits Hank Williams, Jr.'s Greatest Hits Hank Williams, Jr.'s Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 Hank Williams, Jr.'s Greatest Hits, Vol. 3 America (The Way I See It) The Best of Hank Williams, Jr. Volume One: Roots and Branches Tribute to My Father 20 Hits Special Collection, Vol. 1 Early Years, Vol. 1 Early Years, Vol. 2 The Bocephus Box That's How They Do It in Dixie: The Essential Collection

Notable singles	"Long Gone Lonesome Blues" "Nobody's Child" "All for the Love of Sunshine" "So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)" (with Lois Johnson) "Eleven Roses" "Rainy Night in Georgia" "I'll Think of Something" "I Fought the Law" "To Love Somebody" "Family Tradition" "Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound" "Women I've Never Had" "Kaw-Liga" "Old Habits" "Texas Women" "Dixie on My Mind" "All My Rowdy Friends (Have Settled Down)" "A Country Boy Can Survive" "Honky Tonkin'" "The American Dream" "Gonna Go Huntin' Tonight" "Leave Them Boys Alone" (with Ernest Tubb and Waylon Jennings) "Queen of My Heart" "Man of Steel" "Attitude Adjustment" "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight" "Major Moves" "I'm for Love" "This Ain't Dallas" "Ain't Misbehavin'" "Country State of Mind" "Mind Your Own Business" (with Reba McEntire, Tom Petty, Reverend Ike and Willie Nelson) "Born to Boogie" "Heaven Can't Be Found" "Young Country" "If the South Woulda Won" "Early in the Morning and Late at Night" "There's a Tear in My Beer" (with Hank Williams Sr.) "Finders Are Keepers" "Ain't Nobody's Business" "Good Friends, Good Whiskey, Good Lovin'" "Devil in the Bottle" "Are You Ready for the Country?" (with Eric Church)

Guest singles	"The Conversation" (with Waylon Jennings) "Bartender Song (Sittin' at a Bar)" (with Rehab)

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Connie Smith singles

1960s

1964	"Once a Day"

1965	"Then and Only Then" "I Can't Remember" "If I Talk to Him"

1966	"Nobody But a Fool (Would Love You)" "Ain't Had No Lovin'" "The Hurtin's All Over"

1967	"I'll Come Runnin'" "Cincinnati, Ohio" "Burning a Hole in My Mind" "Baby's Back Again"

1968	"Run Away Little Tears" "Cry, Cry, Cry"

1969	"Ribbon of Darkness" "Young Love" (with Nat Stuckey) "You and Your Sweet Love"

1970s

1970	"I Never Once Stopped Loving You" "Louisiana Man" "Where Is My Castle"

1971	"Just One Time" "I'm Sorry If My Love Got in Your Way"

1972	"Just for What I Am" "If It Ain't Love (Let's Leave It Alone)" "Love Is the Look You're Looking For"

1973	"Ain't Love a Good Thing"

1974	"I Never Knew (What That Song Meant Before)" "I've Got My Baby on My Mind"

1975	"Why Don't You Love Me"

1976	"(Till) I Kissed You" "So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)" "I Don't Wanna Talk It Over Anymore"

1977	"I Just Want to Be Your Everything"

1980s

1985	"A Far Cry from You"

Steve Wariner

Studio albums	Down in Tennessee Steve Wariner Midnight Fire One Good Night Deserves Another Life's Highway It's a Crazy World I Should Be with You I Got Dreams Laredo I Am Ready Drive No More Mr. Nice Guy Burnin' the Roadhouse Down Two Teardrops Faith in You Steal Another Day This Real Life My Tribute to Chet Atkins Guitar Laboratory It Ain't All Bad

Christmas albums	Christmas Memories Guitar Christmas

Compilation albums	Greatest Hits (RCA) Greatest Hits (MCA) Greatest Hits Vol. 2 Super Hits The Hits Ultimate Collection The Hits Collection

Notable singles	"So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)" "Your Memory" "By Now" "All Roads Lead to You" "Kansas City Lights" "Midnight Fire" "Lonely Women Make Good Lovers" "Why Goodbye" "What I Didn't Do" "Heart Trouble" "Some Fools Never Learn" "You Can Dream of Me" "Life's Highway" "Starting Over Again" "Small Town Girl" "The Weekend" "Lynda" "Baby I'm Yours" "I Should Be with You" "Hold On (A Little Longer)" "Where Did I Go Wrong" "I Got Dreams" "When I Could Come Home to You" "The Domino Theory" "Precious Thing" "There for Awhile" "Leave Him Out of This" "The Tip of My Fingers" "A Woman Loves" "Like a River to the Sea" "If I Didn't Love You" "Drivin' and Cryin'" "It Won't Be Over You" "Holes in the Floor of Heaven" "Burnin' the Roadhouse Down" (with Garth Brooks) "Two Teardrops" "I'm Already Taken" "Katie Wants a Fast One" (with Garth Brooks)

Guest singles	"That's How You Know When Love's Right" (with Nicolette Larson) "That Hand That Rocks the Cradle" (with Glen Campbell) "What If I Said" (with Anita Cochran) "Been There" (with Clint Black)

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Emmylou Harris

Studio albums	Gliding Bird Pieces of the Sky Elite Hotel Luxury Liner Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town Blue Kentucky Girl Light of the Stable Roses in the Snow Evangeline Cimarron White Shoes The Ballad of Sally Rose Thirteen Angel Band Bluebird Brand New Dance Cowgirl's Prayer Wrecking Ball Red Dirt Girl Stumble into Grace All I Intended to Be Hard Bargain

Collaboration albums	Trio (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) Trio II (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions (with Linda Ronstadt) All the Roadrunning (with Mark Knopfler) Old Yellow Moon (with Rodney Crowell) The Traveling Kind (with Rodney Crowell)

Live albums	Last Date At the Ryman (with The Nash Ramblers) Spyboy

Compilation albums	Profile: Best of Emmylou Harris Her Best Songs Profile II: The Best of Emmylou Harris Duets Songs of the West Portraits Singin' with Emmylou, Vol. 1 Anthology: The Warner/Reprise Records The Very Best of Emmylou Harris: Heartaches & Highways Songbird: Rare Tracks and Forgotten Gems

Video albums	Live at the Ryman Spyboy: Live from the Legendary Exit/In Real Live Roadrunning (with Mark Knopfler)

Notable singles	"If I Could Only Win Your Love" "Together Again" "One of These Days" "Sweet Dreams" "(You Never Can Tell) C'est La Vie" "Making Believe" "To Daddy" "Two More Bottles of Wine" "Save the Last Dance for Me" "Blue Kentucky Girl" "Beneath Still Waters" "Wayfaring Stranger" "The Boxer" "Mister Sandman" "If I Needed You" (with Don Williams) "Tennessee Rose" "Born to Run" "(Lost His Love) On Our Last Date" "I'm Movin' On" "So Sad to Watch Good Love Go Bad" "In My Dreams" "Pledging My Love" "Heartbreak Hill" "Heaven Only Knows" "I Still Miss Someone"

Collaboration singles	"To Know Him Is to Love Him" (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) "Telling Me Lies" (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) "Those Memories of You" (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) "Wildflowers" (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt)

Guest singles	"Thing About You" (with Southern Pacific) "We Believe in Happy Endings" (with Earl Thomas Conley)

Discographies	Discography Solo contributions Collaborations A–F Collaborations G–K Collaborations L–Q Collaborations R–Z

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