Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad (song)

"Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad"
"Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad"
Single by Tammy Wynette
from the album Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad
B-side	"Send Me No Roses"
Released	February 1967
Recorded	January 1967
Studio	Columbia Recording Studio; Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Genre	Country
Length	2:36
Label	Epic
Songwriter(s)	Billy Sherrill; Glenn Sutton;
Producer(s)	Billy Sherrill
Tammy Wynette singles chronology

"Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad" is a song written by Billy Sherrill and Glenn Sutton, and recorded by American country music artist Tammy Wynette. It was released in February 1967 as the first single and title track from the album Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad.

Background and reception[]

"Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad" was first recorded in January 1967 in the Columbia Recording Studio in Nashville, Tennessee. Seven additional tracks were recorded during this session, which would ultimately become part of Wynette's debut studio album. The session was produced by Billy Sherrill and the song was issued as Wynette's second single in February.

The song has been identified as one of Wynette's signature hit singles. Taste of Country named it one of their "Top 10 Tammy Wynette Songs" on their 2018 list, calling the song "strong feminine lyrics".^[1]

The song reached number 3 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in 1967. It became Wynette's breakthrough hit as a recording artist and was released on her debut studio of the same name.^[2]

A cover version by Billie Jo Spears, from her 1981 studio album Only the Hits, reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in 1981.^[2]

Track listings[]

7" vinyl single^[3]

"Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad"
"Send Me No Roses"

Charts[]

Weekly charts[]

Tammy Wynette[]

Chart (1967)	Peak position
US Hot Country Singles (Billboard)^[2]	3

Billie Jo Spears[]

Chart (1981)	Peak position
US Hot Country Singles (Billboard)^[2]	13

References[]

^ "Top 10 Tammy Wynette Songs". Taste of Country. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research.
^ "Tammy Wynette -- "Send Me No Roses" / "Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad" (1967, Vinyl)". Discogs. Retrieved 15 December 2019.

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[1] "Top 10 Tammy Wynette Songs". Taste of Country. Retrieved 15 December 2019.

[Whitburn-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research.

[3] "Tammy Wynette -- "Send Me No Roses" / "Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad" (1967, Vinyl)". Discogs. Retrieved 15 December 2019.

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Albums discography Singles discography
1960s	"Apartment No. 9" "Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad" "My Elusive Dreams" (with David Houston "I Don't Wanna Play House" "Take Me to Your World" "It's All Over" (with David Houston) "D-I-V-O-R-C-E" "Stand by Your Man" "Singing My Song" "The Ways to Love a Man" "I'll See Him Through"
1970s	"He Loves Me All the Way" "Run, Woman, Run" "The Wonders You Perform" "We Sure Can Love Each Other" "Good Lovin' (Makes It Right)" "Bedtime Story" "Take Me" (with George Jones) "Reach Out Your Hand (And Touch Somebody)" "My Man (Understands)" "'Til I Get It Right" "The Ceremony" (with George Jones) "Kids Say the Darndest Things" "Another Lonely Song" "We're Gonna Hold On" (with George Jones) "(We're Not) The Jet Set" (with George Jones) "We Loved It Away" (with George Jones) "Woman to Woman" "(You Make Me Want to Be a) Mother" "I Still Believe in Fairy Tales" "'Til I Can Make It on My Own" "Golden Ring" (with George Jones) "You and Me" "Near You" (with George Jones) "(Let's Get Together) One Last Time" "One of a Kind" "Southern California" (with George Jones) "Womanhood" "They Call It Makin' Love" "No One Else in the World"
1980s	"He Was There (When I Needed You)" "Starting Over" "Two Story House" (with George Jones) "A Pair of Old Sneakers" (with George Jones) "Crying in the Rain" "Another Chance" "You Still Get to Me in My Dreams" "A Good Night's Love" "Sometimes When We Touch" (with Mark Gray) "Your Love" "Talkin' to Myself Again"
1990s	"Justified and Ancient (Stand by the JAMS)" (The KLF featuring Tammy Wynette) "Silver Threads and Golden Needles" (with Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton) "Every Breath You Take" (with Sting)