Baby Ain't That Fine

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"Baby Ain't That Fine"
Single by Melba Montgomery and Gene Pitney
from the album Being Together
B-side "Everybody Knows But You" [1]
ReleasedNovember 1965
RecordedOctober 1965
Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. [1]
Genre Country
Label Musicor
Songwriter(s) Dallas Frazier
Producer(s) Pappy Daily
Melba Montgomery and Gene Pitney singles chronology
"Baby Ain't That Fine"
(1965)
"Being Together"
(1965)

"Baby Ain't That Fine" is a song written by Dallas Frazier that was recorded as a duet between American country artists Melba Montgomery and Gene Pitney. The song was also released as a single in 1965.

"Baby Ain't That Fine" was recorded in October 1965 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. The session was produced by Pappy Daily. It was the first recording session to take place between Montgomery and Pitney. The session included The Nashville A-Team of musicians. [1]

The song was issued as the duo's first single together in November 1965 via Musicor Records. The single peaked at number fifteen on the Billboard Magazine Hot Country Singles chart in early 1966. It was the pair's first and only major hit duet recording together and was issued onto the studio album Being Together (1966). [2]

Chart performance

Chart (1965-1966)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles15 [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Melba Montgomery Discography". Praguefrank's Country Discographies. Retrieved 24 December 2014.
  2. 1 2 Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research.