You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me
- You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me
Infobox Single
Name = You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me
Artist = Ray Price
from Album = You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me
A-side =
B-side =
Released = July 1973 (U.S.)
Format = 7"
Recorded = 1973
Genre = Country
Length = 3:50
Label = Columbia Records 45889
Writer = Jim Weatherly
Producer =
Certification =
Last single =
This single =
Next single = Infobox Single
Name = Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me
Artist = Gladys Knight & the Pips
from Album = Imagination
A-side =
B-side =
Released = February 1974 (U.S.)
Format = 7"
Recorded = 1973
Genre = pop, rhythm and blues
Length = 3:44
Label = Buddah Records 403
Writer = Jim Weatherly
Producer =
Certification =
Last single = I've Got to Use My Imagination
(1973)
This single = Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me
(1974)
Next single = On and On
(1974)
"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 enjoyed two runs of popularity, each by an artist in a different genre.
The versions
Ray Price country version
The song's first run of popularity, as "You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me," came in 1973. That's when country music singer Ray Price took the song to No. 1 on the "Billboard magazine" Hot Country Singles chart on October 6, 1973.
For that version, it represented a last and a first. The "last" was Price's seventh and most recent No. 1 single, in a string dating back to his 1956 hit "Crazy Arms." The "first": It was the No. 1 single on the debut program of "American Country Countdown," which used the "Billboard" chart in its programming.
Gladys Knight & the Pips pop/R&B version
In the early- to mid-1970s, Gladys Knight & the Pips had covered several of Weatherly-penned tunes, and in 1974, they dipped into his catalog once again with their rendition of the song. Their version, titled "Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me," reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 that spring and topped the Hot Soul Singles for two weeks. The single was certified gold by the RIAA for sales of one million copies.
uccession
Ray Price version
Gladys Knight & the Pips version
References
*Whitburn, Joel, "Top Country Songs 1944-2005 - 6th Edition." 2006.
*Whitburn, Joel, "Top Pop Singles: 1955-2006," 2007.
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