Cool to Be a Fool

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"Cool to Be a Fool"
Single by Joe Nichols
from the album Man with a Memory
B-side "She Only Smokes When She Drinks"
ReleasedSeptember 8, 2003
Recorded2002
Genre Country
Label Universal South
Songwriter(s) Joe Nichols, Steve Dean, Wil Nance
Producer(s) Brent Rowan
Joe Nichols singles chronology
"She Only Smokes When She Drinks"
(2003)
"Cool to Be a Fool"
(2003)
"If Nobody Believed in You"
(2004)

"Cool to Be a Fool" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Joe Nichols. It was released in September 2003 as the fourth and final single from his 2002 album Man with a Memory . The song reached number 18 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. [1] Nichols wrote this song with Steve Dean and Wil Nance.

Chart performance

Chart (2003–04)Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [2] 18
US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles ( Billboard ) [3] 6

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References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 249.
  2. "Joe Nichols Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
  3. "Joe Nichols Chart History (Bubbling Under Hot 100)". Billboard.