| Thinkin' of a Rendezvous | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Johnny Duncan |
| Album: | Johnny Duncan |
| B-Side: | Love Should Be Easy |
| Released: | September 1976 |
| Recorded: | July 1976 |
| Genre: | Country |
| Length: | 3:24 |
| Label: | Columbia 10417 |
| Producer: | Billy Sherrill and Larry Gatlin |
| Prev Title: | Stranger |
| Prev Year: | 1976 |
| Next Title: | It Couldn't Have Been Any Better |
| Next Year: | 1977 |
"Thinkin' of a Rendezvous" is a country music song written by Bobby Braddock and Sonny Throckmorton,[1] and recorded by Johnny Duncan.
Featuring harmony vocals, and a solo line at a key point in the song's third verse by session vocalist Janie Fricke, "Thinkin' of a Rendezvous" was Duncan's first number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in December 1976. A two-week run atop the country chart was part of a 13-week stay in the country chart's top 40.[2]
The song — about a family man who meets up with a woman, a long-time friend with whom he had a secret affair a year earlier — was the first of two Duncan-Fricke duets to top the charts. The follow-up song, "It Couldn't Have Been Any Better", went number one in April 1977, and the two enjoyed several other duet hits, most notably "Stranger" (written by Kris Kristofferson, and a hit in July 1976) and "Come a Little Bit Closer" in January 1978 (a cover of the Jay and the Americans).
. The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Joel Whitburn . 2004 . Record Research . 112.