Tune Tuesday: I Can Tell By The Way You Dance 1984
Thirty-five years ago, today, the #1 song on the Billboard Hot Country chart was I Can Tell By The Way You Dance (You’re Gonna Love Me Tonight) by Vern Gosdin from the album There Is A Season. Released on March 26 as the lead single, it was written by Sandy Pinkard (of Pinkard & Bowden) and Robb Strandlund.
The song, later on, also made it to #1 on Canada’s RPM Country chart.
Additional Reading:
“The Voice” Passes Away (CMT Website)
2017 Inductee (Nashville Songwriters Foundation Website)
Vern Gosdin Music (Official Website)
July 3, 2019 at 5:33 AM
One of those country singers whose name I had heard dozens of times but can’t actually say i ‘heard”- until now. Pretty good singer and in reading up on him- interesting career- retired in the early 70s for a period and moved to Georgia to operate a glass factory.
July 4, 2019 at 12:38 AM
Until I looked this up, I’d never heard of him. He did have a nice voice.
I went to Billboard and I was like “WHO?” LOL!
July 12, 2019 at 11:57 AM
I remember the song. I didn’t listen to modern country then…or now but I worked at a place where I had no other choice in 85 and 86…I remember the song because I was forced to listen to it.
I agree…he did have a nice voice.
July 13, 2019 at 12:28 AM
I had no clue who he was nor had I heard the song. I was into Rock & Hair Bands in the 80s.
July 13, 2019 at 12:29 AM
Yea I was still into the Beatles and Stones but was forced to listen to the drivel of modern country.
July 13, 2019 at 12:37 AM
LOL!