I Wish I Could Fall in Love Today

"I Wish That I Could Fall in Love Today"
"I Wish That I Could Fall in Love Today"
Single by Barbara Mandrell
from the album I'll Be Your Jukebox Tonight
B-side	"I'll Be Your Jukebox Tonight"
Released	August 20, 1988
Genre	Country
Length	2:51
Label	Capitol
Songwriter(s)	Harlan Howard
Producer(s)	Tom Collins, Fred Foster
Barbara Mandrell singles chronology

"I Wish I Could Fall in Love Today"
"I Wish I Could Fall in Love Today"
Single by Ray Price
B-side	"I Can't Run Away from Myself"
Released	October 3, 1960
Genre	Country
Label	Columbia
Songwriter(s)	Harlan Howard
Ray Price singles chronology

Last updated August 06, 2025

"I Wish I Could I Fall in Love Today" is a song written by Harlan Howard, and recorded by American country music artist Ray Price. It was released in 1960 as a single only. The song reached #5 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.^[1]

Ray Price version

Chart performance

Chart (1960)	Peak position
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard )^[2]	5

Barbara Mandrell version

The song was also recorded by American country music artist Barbara Mandrell, under the title "I Wish That I Could Fall in Love Today". It was released in August 1988 as the first single from the album I'll Be Your Jukebox Tonight . The song reached #5 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, becoming Mandrell's final Top 10 single.^[3]

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1988)	Peak position
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard )^[4]	5
Canadian RPM Country Tracks^[5]	2

Year-end charts

Chart (1988)	Position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^[6]	96

References

↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 274.
↑ "Ray Price Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 214.
↑ "Barbara Mandrell Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
↑ "RPM 100 Country Singles" (PDF). RPM. December 10, 1988.
↑ "Hot Country Songs – Year-End 1988". Billboard. Retrieved July 1, 2021.

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[1] Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 274.

[sc_Billboardcountrysongs_Ray_Price-2] "Ray Price Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.

[3] Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 214.

[sc_Billboardcountrysongs_Barbara_Mandrell-4] "Barbara Mandrell Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.

[5] "RPM 100 Country Singles" (PDF). RPM. December 10, 1988.

[6] "Hot Country Songs – Year-End 1988". Billboard. Retrieved July 1, 2021.

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v t e Ray Price
Studio albums	Ray Price Sings Heart Songs (1957) Talk to Your Heart (1958) Ray Price Sings San Antonio Rose (1962) Night Life (1963) Love Life (1964) Burning Memories (1965) The Other Woman (1965) Another Bridge to Burn (1966) Touch My Heart (1967) Danny Boy (1968) Take Me as I Am (1968) She Wears My Ring (1969) For the Good Times (1970) I Won't Mention It Again (1971) The Lonesomest Lonesome (1972) She's Got to Be a Saint (1973) You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me (1974) Like Old Times Again (1974) San Antonio Rose (1980) Last of the Breed (2007)
Songs	"I Can't Escape from You" "Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes" "I'll Be There (If You Ever Want Me)" "Release Me" "Crazy Arms" "I've Got a New Heartache" "Curtain in the Window" "Invitation to the Blues" "City Lights" "Heartaches by the Number" "The Same Old Me" "Under Your Spell Again" "I Wish I Could Fall in Love Today" "Pride" "Make the World Go Away" "Night Life" "Please Talk to My Heart" "Don't You Ever Get Tired (Of Hurting Me)" "Danny Boy" "Crazy" "She Wears My Ring" "For the Good Times" "I Won't Mention It Again" "She's Got to Be a Saint" "You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me" "Faded Love" "San Antonio Rose" "You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You" "All the Way" "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone" "Looking Back"
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v t e Barbara Mandrell songs
Albums Singles
Treat Him Right	"I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)" "Playin' Around with Love" "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man" "Treat Him Right"
The Midnight Oil	"Tonight My Baby's Coming Home" "Show Me" "Holdin' On (To the Love I Got)" "Give a Little, Take a Little" "The Midnight Oil"
This Time I Almost Made It	"This Time I Almost Made It" "Wonder When My Baby's Coming Home"
This Is Barbara Mandrell	"Standing Room Only" "That's What Friends Are For" "Love Is Thin Ice"
Midnight Angel	"Midnight Angel"
Lovers, Friends and Strangers	"Married, But Not to Each Other" "Hold Me"
Love's Ups and Downs	"Woman to Woman" "Tonight"
Moods	"Sleeping Single in a Double Bed" "(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right"
Just for the Record	"Fooled by a Feeling" "Years"
Love Is Fair	"Crackers" "The Best of Strangers" "Love Is Fair"
Barbara Mandrell Live	"I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool" "Wish You Were Here"
...In Black and White	"Till You're Gone" "Operator, Long Distance Please"
Spun Gold	"In Times Like These" "One of a Kind Pair of Fools"
Clean Cut	"Happy Birthday Dear Heartache" "Only a Lonely Heart Knows" "Crossword Puzzle"
Meant for Each Other (with Lee Greenwood)	"To Me" (with Lee Greenwood) "It Should Have Been Love by Now" (with Lee Greenwood)
Greatest Hits	"There's No Love in Tennessee"
Get to the Heart	"Angel in Your Arms" "Fast Lanes and Country Roads" "When You Get to the Heart" (with The Oak Ridge Boys)
Moments	"No One Mends a Broken Heart Like You"
Sure Feels Good	"Child Support"
I'll Be Your Jukebox Tonight	"I Wish I Could Fall in Love Today" "My Train of Thought"