Rose Colored Glasses (John Conlee song)
{{Infobox song
| name = Rose Colored Glasses
| cover =
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| type = single
| artist = John Conlee
| album = Rose Colored Glasses
| released = April 25, 1978
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| genre = Country
| length = 3:24
| label = ABC #12356
| writer = John Conlee
George Baber
| producer = Bud Logan
| prev_title = The In Crowd
| prev_year = 1977
| next_title = Lady Lay Down
| next_year = 1978
}}
"Rose Colored Glasses" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music singer John Conlee. It was released in April 1978 as the first single and title track from his debut album Rose Colored Glasses. The song peaked at number 5 in the United States and number 6 in Canada. Conlee wrote the song with George Baber.
Content
The songs references the expression "rose-colored glasses," with the male narrator "deluding himself about the woman he loves."{{cite news |title=John Conlee Looks Through 'Rose Colored Glasses' |last=Barbosa |first=Susan |newspaper=Lakeland Ledger |date=25 February 1979 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=i4ssAAAAIBAJ&pg=7023,7367491&dq=john-conlee+rose-colored-glasses&hl=en}}
Critical reception
Kurt Wolff and Orla Duane, in Country Music: The Rough Guide, described the song as "a surprise hit that defined him as a traditionalist[…]and put him more in league with modern-day honky-tonkers Gene Watson and Moe Bandy[.]"{{cite book|last1=Wolff|first1=Kurt|last2=Duane|first2=Orla|title=Country Music: The Rough Guide|year=2000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3Jorozp1yp4C&q=%22john+conlee%22+%22rose+colored+glasses%22&pg=PA430|publisher=Rough Guides|isbn=1-85828-534-8|page=431}} The song was the most commercially successful single for the ABC Records label in 1978.{{cite news |title=Conlee Future Enhanced by Rose Colored Glasses |last= Hurst |first=Jack |newspaper=The Milwaukee Journal |date=3 November 1978 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0R8qAAAAIBAJ&pg=4399,2030923&dq=john-conlee+rose-colored-glasses&hl=en}}
Chart performance
"Rose Colored Glasses" was Conlee's fourth release on the ABC label, but his first to enter a singles chart.{{cite book|last1=Stambler|first1=Irwin|last2=Landon|first2=Grelun|title=Country Music: The Encyclopedia|date=14 July 2000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RjfB6-nVHZIC&q=%22john+conlee%22+%22rose+colored+glasses%22&pg=PA102|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=0-312-26487-9|pages=102–103}} The song spent twenty weeks on the Hot Country Singles (now Hot Country Songs) charts, peaking at number 5 there.{{cite book|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|title=Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008|publisher=Record Research, Inc.|date=August 2008|page=102|isbn=978-0-89820-177-2}} It also peaked at number 6 on the Canadian country music charts published by RPM.
{{cite web |url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.4666a&type=1&interval=20&PHPSESSID=tr64spoecg8t48376vi2eo9tg4 |title=RPM Country 75 Singles for the week ending September 9, 1978 |work=RPM |accessdate=2 August 2010}}
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