For the Good Times (song)

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"For the Good Times"
Single by Ray Price
from the album For the Good Times
B-side "Grazin' in Greener Pastures"
Released June 1970
Genre Country
Label Columbia
Writer(s) Kris Kristofferson
Producer(s) Don Laws
Frank Jones
Ray Price singles chronology
"You Wouldn't Know Love"
(1970)		 "For the Good Times"
(1970)		 "I Won't Mention It Again"
(1971)

"For the Good Times" is a 1970 song penned by Kris Kristofferson that appeared on his debut album Kristofferson. He wrote the first verse and chorus in 1968 while driving from Nashville to the Gulf of Mexico, but he did not complete the tune and release it until 1970.[1]

Later that year, Ray Price recorded a version of the song which topped the U.S. country music charts[2] and was awarded "Song of the Year" by the Academy of Country Music. "For the Good Times" was Price's fifth #1 single and spent a total of nineteen weeks on the country chart.[3] "For the Good Times" crossed over onto the pop chart peaking at number eleven, becoming Ray Price's only release to hit the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100.[4] Originally Price's label, Columbia Records, released the song as the "B" side of the single, but switched to promoting "For the Good Times" after Wayne Newton recorded his own version of the tune. The flip side, "Grazin' in Greener Pastures," did receive credit on the country music chart.[1]

Chart performance

Chart (1970) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles 1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 11
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks 10
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 2
Canadian RPM Top Singles 13
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks 10
Australian Go-Set Charts 39

Cover versions

The song has been recorded by many artists, including:

References

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Preceded by Billboard Hot Country Singles
number-one single
September 19, 1970		 Succeeded by
"There Must Be More to Love Than This"
by Jerry Lee Lewis


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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland, Tom, "The Billboard Book of Number One Country Hits" (Billboard Books, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, 1991 (ISBN 0-82-307553-2), p. 43.
  2. ↑ Ray Price's "For the Good Times" Retrieved June 19, 2012.
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  5. ↑ Jerry Lee Lewis, Would You Take Another Chance on Me Retrieved June 19, 2012.
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