You Look So Good in Love
{{Infobox song
| name = You Look So Good in Love
| cover =
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = George Strait
| album = Right or Wrong
| B-side = A Little Heaven's Rubbing off on Me
| released = September 22, 1983
| recorded = July 20, 1983
| studio = Woodland (Nashville, Tennessee)
| venue =
| genre = Country
| length = {{unbulleted list|{{duration|m=3|s=13}} (album version)|{{duration|m=2|s=57}} (single edit)}}
| label = MCA 52279
| writer = Glen Ballard
Rory Bourke
Kerry Chater
| producer = Ray Baker
| prev_title = A Fire I Can't Put Out
| prev_year = 1983
| next_title = Right or Wrong
| next_year = 1984
}}
"You Look So Good in Love" is a song written by Glen Ballard, Rory Bourke and Kerry Chater, and recorded by American country music artist George Strait. It was released in September 1983 as the lead single from his album Right or Wrong. It was also recorded by Mickey Gilley in 1983, appearing on his album You've Really Got a Hold on Me.
Content
The narrator is a guy looking at his ex-lover fall in love with another guy. He realizes just how happy his former girlfriend looks now that she's fallen in true love. He feels sorry for himself that he wasn't the one to make her happy, but part of him realizes it wasn't meant to be.
Cover versions
Actor Jamie Foxx covered the song from the television special George Strait: ACM Artist of the Decade All Star Concert.
In 1984, American country music artist Mickey Gilley released a version on his album "You Really Got A Hold on Me."
Music video
A video — Strait's first — was issued for the song. Strait disliked the "slow-paced and romantic themed" video so he asked for it to be taken off the air, and refused to do music videos for several years afterward.{{cite book|last=Bego|first=Mark|title=George Strait: The Story of Country's Living Legend|date=July 2001|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k3ze2mnY6icC&q=video&pg=PA166|page=46|isbn=9780806522586}}
Chart performance
The song debuted at number 31 on the Hot Country Songs charts, Strait's highest debut for many years.{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kxEEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22george+strait%22+%22you+look+so+good+in+love%22+%22video%22&pg=PA35|title=Country Corner|last=Jessen|first=Wade|date=July 29, 2000|work=Billboard|access-date=December 11, 2014}} In January 1984, "You Look So Good in Love" was George Strait's third No. 1 song on the chart.{{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=336}}
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=Weekly charts=
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!align="left"|Chart (1983–1984) !align="center"|Peak |
| {{single chart|Billboardcountrysongs|1|artist=George Strait}} |
| align="left"|Canadian RPM Country Tracks
|align="center"|1 |
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=Year-end charts=
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!Chart (1984) !Position |
| US Hot Country Songs (Billboard){{cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/1984/hot-country-songs|title=Hot Country Songs – Year-End 1984|work=Billboard|access-date=June 13, 2021}}
|align="center"|40 |
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Certifications
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References
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{{George Strait 1980s singles}}
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Category:Songs written by Glen Ballard
Category:Songs written by Rory Bourke
Category:Song recordings produced by Ray Baker (music producer)
Category:Songs written by Kerry Chater
Category:MCA Nashville Records singles
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