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"Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow"
Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow by Tom Jones UK single side-A.png
One of side-A labels of the UK single
Single by Tom Jones
from the album Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow
B-side "Lady Lay"
ReleasedJanuary 1977 [1]
Genre Country, Pop, Adult Contemporary
Length3:32
Label EMI
Epic (North America)
Songwriter(s) Roger Greenaway, Barry Mason
Producer(s) Gordon Mills [2]
Tom Jones singles chronology
"Memories Don't Leave, But People Do"
(1976)
"Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow"
(1977)
"Papa"
(1977)

"Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow" is a 1977 single written by Roger Greenaway & Barry Mason [3] and performed by Tom Jones.

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Charts

The song was Jones's first and highest-charting country music hit. Spending ten weeks within the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot Country Singles (now Hot Country Songs) chart, "Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow" went to number one for one week on 26 February 1977. [4] The song also peaked at number fifteen on the Billboard Hot 100, and was Jones's last single to reach the top 40 until 1988. [5] It was also a Number One hit in Canada, reaching the top of the RPM country and easy-listening charts. In Tom Jones's native United Kingdom, it reached number 40, and would be his last to reach the top 40 there until 1987.

Weekly charts

Chart (1977)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)15
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary [6] 1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks1
Canadian RPM Top Singles12
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ) [7] 1
UK Singles (OCC) [8] 40
US Cashbox [9] 15
US Billboard Hot 100 [10] 15
US Adult Contemporary ( Billboard ) [11] 3
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [12] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (1977)Rank
Australia (Kent Music Report) [13] 73
Canada RPM Top Singles [14] 115
New Zealand [15] 11
US Billboard Hot 100 [16] 109
US Adult Contemporary (Billboard) [17] 17
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard) [18] 35

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