Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow
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{{Infobox song
| name = Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow
| image = Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow by Tom Jones UK single side-A.png
| alt = side-A label by EMI Records
| caption = One of side-A labels of the UK single
| type = single
| artist = Tom Jones
| album = Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow
| B-side = Lady Lay
| released = January 1977{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/music/sites/tom-jones/pages/discography.shtml |title=BBC Wales - Music - Tom Jones - Tom Jones discography |publisher=Bbc.co.uk |accessdate=2014-03-25}}
| recorded =
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = Country{{cite book|title= Night Moves - Pop Music in the Late 70s|first1=Don|last1=Breithaupt|first2= Jeff|last2= Breithaupt|date= July 17, 2000|chapter= Platinum Bland: MOR|page= 95|publisher=St. Martin's Griffin|isbn=978-0-312-19821-3|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kh04AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT95}}
| length = 3:32
| label = EMI
Epic (North America)
| writer = Roger Greenaway, Barry Mason
| producer = Gordon Mills{{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/release/2808548 |title=Tom Jones - Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow (Vinyl) at Discogs |year=1977 |publisher=Discogs.com |accessdate=2013-03-05}}
| prev_title = Memories Don't Leave, But People Do
| prev_year = 1976
| next_title = Papa
| next_year = 1977
}}
"Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow" is a 1977 single written by Roger Greenaway & Barry Mason{{Cite web|url=https://www.classic-country-song-lyrics.com/sayyoullstatuntiltomorrowlyricschords.html|title = Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow lyrics chords | Slim Whitman}} and performed by Tom Jones.
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.{{cite book |title= The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944–2006, Second edition|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=183}} 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.{{cite book |title= The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits: Eighth Edition |last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=333}} 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=
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| Chart (1977)
!Peak |
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| Australia (Kent Music Report)
| style="text-align:center;"|15 |
| Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary{{cite web|url=http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.5270&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.5270.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.5270 |title=Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada |website=Bac-lac.gc.ca |date= 17 July 2013|accessdate=2016-10-12}}
| style="text-align:center;"|1 |
| Canadian RPM Country Tracks
| style="text-align:center;"|1 |
| Canadian RPM Top Singles
| style="text-align:center;"|12 |
| {{single chart|New Zealand|1|artist=Tom Jones|song=Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow|accessdate=21 July 2021}} |
| {{single chart|UKsinglesbyname|40|artist=Tom Jones|accessdate=21 July 2021}} |
| US Cashbox{{cite book|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|title= Cash Box Pop Hits 1952-1996|publisher=Sheridan Books, Inc.|year=2014|isbn=978-0-89820-209-0}}
| style="text-align:center;"|15 |
| {{single chart|Billboardhot100|15|artist=Tom Jones|accessdate=21 July 2021}} |
| {{single chart|Billboardadultcontemporary|3|artist=Tom Jones|accessdate=21 July 2021}} |
| {{single chart|Billboardcountrysongs|1|artist=Tom Jones|accessdate=21 July 2021}} |
=Year-end charts=
Cover Versions
- The song was recorded the same year by Slim Whitman, and was included on his album Home on the Range.
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{YouTube|pDEfi9rExYI|Tom Jones - Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow}}
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Category:Tom Jones (singer) songs
Category:Songs written by Roger Greenaway
Category:Songs written by Barry Mason
Category:Number-one singles in New Zealand
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