If You're Gonna Do Me Wrong (Do It Right) Explained

If You're Gonna Do Me Wrong (Do It Right)
Type:single
Artist:Vern Gosdin
Album:If You're Gonna Do Me Wrong (Do It Right)
B-Side:Favorite Fool of All
Released:February 12, 1983
Genre:Country
Length:3:18
Label:Compleat
Producer:Blake Mevis
Prev Title:Friday Night Feelin'
Prev Year:1983
Next Title:Way Down Deep
Next Year:1983

"If You're Gonna Do Me Wrong (Do It Right)" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Vern Gosdin. It was released in February 1983 as the first single and title track from the album If Gonna Do Me Wrong (Do It Right). The song reached #5 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.[1] Gosdin wrote the song with Max D. Barnes.

The song entered the charts at the same week as Gosdin's last single for AMI Records, "Friday Night Feelin'". That song charted at number 49 and was never included on an album. Kelly Lang covered the song; her version was released as a single to country radio on March 10, 2014.[2]

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. Web site: Future Releases for Country Radio Stations . All Access Music Group . https://web.archive.org/web/20140730034235/http://www.allaccess.com/country/future-releases . July 30, 2014 . dead .