I Don't Wanna Play House

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"I Don't Wanna Play House"
I Don't Wanna Play House Tammy Single.png
Single by Tammy Wynette
from the album Take Me to Your World / I Don't Wanna Play House
B-side "Soakin' Wet"
ReleasedJuly 1967
Studio Columbia (Nashville, Tennessee)
Genre Country
Length2:38
Label Epic
5-10211
Songwriters
Producer Billy Sherrill
Tammy Wynette singles chronology
"Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad"
(1967)		"I Don't Wanna Play House"
(1967)		"Take Me to Your World"
(1967)
"I Don't Wanna Play House"
Single by Connie Francis
B-side "Am I Blue"
ReleasedAugust 1968
Genre Country
Length3:05
Label MGM Records
Songwriters Billy Sherrill
Glenn Sutton
Producers Bobby Russel
Buzz Cason
Connie Francis singles chronology
"Somebody Else Is Taking My Place"
(1968)		"I Don't Wanna Play House"
(1968)		"The Wedding Cake"
(1969)

"I Don't Wanna Play House" is a song written by Billy Sherrill and Glenn Sutton. In 1967, the song was Tammy Wynette's first number one country song as a solo artist.

Contents

Tammy Wynette version

Release

"I Don't Wanna Play House" by Tammy Wynette was released as a seven-inch single in July 1967 by Epic Records. [1] The recording earned Wynette the 1968 Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance. It was backed by another country song, "Soakin' Wet" on the B-side, [1] which didn't see an immediate album inclusion.

Charts

"I Don't Wanna Play House" by Tammy Wynette spent three weeks at the top spot and a total of eighteen weeks on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. [2] The song was also later released in the UK in 1976 and made the Top 40. [3]

Content

In the song, the narrator, a young mother whose husband has left her, overhears her daughter describing to a neighborhood boy their broken home, and informing him that she doesn't want to play house since, after observing her parents' troubles, she knows that it cannot be fun.

Chart performance

Chart (1967)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles 1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks3
Chart (1976)Peak
position
U.K. Singles Chart [3] 37

Barbara Ray versions

In 1973, South African singer Barbara Ray recorded a version that was a number-one hit in her home country [4] as well as a top 10 hit in Australia, reaching No. 3 later in the year. [5] Her version was South Africa's highest-selling single of 1973. [6]

Charts

Chart (1973)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report) [7] 3

Other versions

References

  1. 1 2 "I Don't Wanna Play House"/"Soakin' Wet" (7" vinyl single) (Media notes). Tammy Wynette. Epic Records. July 1967. 5-10211.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  2. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 399.
  3. 1 2 "TAMMY WYNETTE | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". Official Charts .
  4. ↑ "SA Number 1s 1965 - 1989". South African Rock Lists. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
  5. ↑ "Australian Weekly Single Ccharts (David Kent) for 1973" . Retrieved June 7, 2018.
  6. ↑ "Top 20 Hit Singles of 1973". South African Rock Lists. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
  7. ↑ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 247. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.
  8. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 97.
  9. ↑ "Countrypärlor" (in Swedish). Svensk mediedatabas. 2010. Retrieved 6 May 2011.
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