She's Got to Be a Saint (song)

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"She's Got to Be a Saint"
Single by Ray Price
from the album She's Got to Be a Saint
B-side "Oh Lonesome Me"
ReleasedNovember 1972
Genre Country
Length3:49
Label Columbia
Songwriter(s) Joe Paulini
Mike DiNapoli
Producer(s) Don Law
Ray Price singles chronology
"The Lonesomest Lonesome"
(1972)
"She's Got to Be a Saint"
(1972)
"You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me"
(1973)

"She's Got to Be a Saint" is a 1972 single by Ray Price. "She's Got to Be a Saint" was Ray Price's seventh number one on the country chart. The single stayed a number one for three weeks and spent a total of fourteen weeks on the country chart. [1]

Chart performance

Chart (1972)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles 1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 [2] 93
Canadian RPM Country Tracks2

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References

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  2. Whitburn, Joel (2013). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles, 14th Edition: 1955-2012. Record Research. p. 676.