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

I Can Tell by the Way You Dance (You're Gonna Love Me Tonight)
Type:single
Artist:Vern Gosdin
Album:There is a Season
Released:March 26, 1984
Recorded:1983
Genre:Country
Length:2:40
Label:Compleat
Producer:Blake Mevis
Prev Title:I Wonder Where We'd Be Tonight
Prev Year:1983
Next Title:What Would Your Memories Do
Next Year: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

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

Year-end charts

Notes and References

  1. Book: Whitburn, Joel . The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Joel Whitburn . 2004 . Record Research . 140.
  2. 1985 Talent Almanat. Billboard. 96. 51. TA-23. December 22, 1984. June 16, 2021.