The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me by Dominic Peloso

In the early- to mid-1970s, Gladys Knight & the Pips recorded several of Weatherly's songs, and in 1974, they dipped into his catalog once again with their rendition of the song. Gladys Knight & the Pips pop/R&B version Although it fell short of the top 40 in his native United States, the song was an easy listening hit in Canada, his third such hit there. 1 single on the debut program of American Country Countdown, which used the Billboard chart in its programming. 1 single, in a string dating back to his 1956 hit ' Crazy Arms.' The 'first': It was the No. The 'last' was Price's seventh and most recent No.

The song's first run of popularity, as 'You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me,' came in 1973, when country music singer Ray Price took the song to number 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart on October 6, 1973.įor that version, it represented a last and a first. I basically wrote it in a very short period of time, probably 30 minutes or an hour.' The versions Ray Price country version 'I thought it was really strange that nobody'd written a song with that title - possibly somebody had, but I'd never heard it - so I just sat down and let this stream of consciousness happen. Weatherly told Tom Roland in The Billboard Book of Number One Country Hits that he wrote the song in 1971 and let his father-in-law first record it as a Christmas present for the latter's wife. The song enjoyed two runs of popularity, each by an artist in a different genre. It was first recorded in 1973 by Ray Price from his album You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me. ' You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me' - also known simply as ' Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me' - is a song written by Jim Weatherly, and produced by Don Law. Gladys Knight & the Pips singles chronology Kenny Kerner and Richie Wise Gladys Knight and the Pips were co-producers

The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me by Dominic Peloso