| When You're Ugly Like Us (You Just Naturally Got to Be Cool) | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | George Jones & Johnny Paycheck |
| Album: | Double Trouble |
| B-Side: | Kansas City |
| Released: | 1980 |
| Recorded: | 1980 |
| Genre: | Country |
| Length: | 2:20 |
| Label: | Epic |
| Producer: | Billy Sherrill |
| Prev Title: | You Can Have Her |
| Prev Year: | 1979 |
| Next Title: | You Better Move On |
| Next Year: | 1980 |
"When You're Ugly Like Us (You Just Naturally Got to Be Cool)" is song composed by Don Goodman and Rick Schulman and recorded as a duet by American country singers George Jones and Johnny Paycheck. It was released as a single in 1980 on Epic and was chosen as the opening track to their only duet album together, Double Trouble, also released that year, which contained two previous hit singles, "Maybellene" and "You Can Have Her." The song set the tone for what would follow on the LP: a deranged, booze and drug-fueled blowout, with the singers hooting and yelping at each other as if unaware they are being recorded. Profiling the song in the July 2013 issue of Uncut, Andrew Mueller asserted, "It is easy to believe that the slurred, stuttering vocals were no theatrical contrivance." The single bombed, peaking at #31 on the Billboard country singles chart.
| Chart (1980) | Peak position | |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles[1] | 31 | |
| Canadian RPM Country Tracks | 29 |
. The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Joel Whitburn . 2004 . Record Research.