Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow Explained

Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow
Type:single
Artist:Tom Jones
Album:Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow
B-Side:Lady Lay
Released:January 1977[1]
Genre:Country[2]
Length:3:32
Label:EMI
Epic (North America)
Producer:Gordon Mills[3]
Prev Title:Memories Don't Leave, But People Do
Prev Year:1976
Next Title:Papa
Next Year:1977

"Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow" is a 1977 single written by Roger Greenaway & Barry Mason[4] and performed by Tom Jones.

Charts

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.[5] 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.[6] It was also a Number One hit in Canada, reaching the top of the RPM country and easy-listening charts. In Tom Jones's native United Kingdom, it reached number 40, and would be his last to reach the top 40 there until 1987.

Weekly charts

Chart (1977)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)15
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary[7] 1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks1
Canadian RPM Top Singles12
US Cashbox[8] 15

Year-end charts

Chart (1977)Rank
Australia (Kent Music Report)[9] 73
Canada RPM Top Singles[10] 115
New Zealand[11] 11
US Billboard Hot 100[12] 109
US Adult Contemporary (Billboard)[13] 17
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[14] 35

Cover Versions

Notes and References

  1. Web site: BBC Wales - Music - Tom Jones - Tom Jones discography . Bbc.co.uk . 2014-03-25.
  2. Book: Night Moves - Pop Music in the Late 70s. Don. Breithaupt. Jeff. Breithaupt. July 17, 2000. Platinum Bland: MOR. 95. St. Martin's Griffin. 978-0-312-19821-3.
  3. Web site: Tom Jones - Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow (Vinyl) at Discogs . 1977 . Discogs.com . 2013-03-05.
  4. Web site: Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow lyrics chords | Slim Whitman.
  5. Book: Whitburn, Joel . The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944–2006, Second edition. Joel Whitburn . 2004 . Record Research . 183.
  6. Book: Whitburn, Joel . The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits: Eighth Edition . Joel Whitburn . 2004 . Record Research . 333.
  7. Web site: Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada . Bac-lac.gc.ca . 17 July 2013. 2016-10-12.
  8. Book: Whitburn, Joel. Cash Box Pop Hits 1952-1996. Sheridan Books, Inc.. 2014. 978-0-89820-209-0.
  9. Web site: Kent Music Report No 183 – 26 December 1977 > National Top 100 Singles for 1977 . . Imgur.com. 8 January 2022.
  10. Web site: Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada . Collectionscanada.gc.ca . 2016-10-12.
  11. Web site: End of Year Charts 1977 . . 17 July 2017 .
  12. Web site: 1977 Year End . Bullfrogspond.com . 2016-10-12.
  13. MBAJ&printsec=frontcover Billboard, 24 December 1977.
  14. Hot Country Songs – Year-End 1977. Billboard. 21 July 2021.