Night Games (song)

"Night Games"
Single by Charley Pride
from the album Night Games
B-side "I Could Let Her Get Close to Me"
Released May 1983
Genre Country
Length 2:44
Label RCA
Writer(s) Blake Mevis
Norro Wilson
Producer(s) Norro Wilson
Charley Pride singles chronology
"More and More"
(1983)
"Night Games"
(1983)
"Ev'ry Heart Should Have One"
(1983)

"Night Games" is a song written by Blake Mevis and Norro Wilson, and recorded by American country music artist Charley Pride. It was released in May 1983 as the first single and title track from the album Night Games. Pride's 29th and final number one hit on the Billboard country music charts, the single peaked at number one for one week and spent a total of thirteen weeks on the country chart.[1] It was the last country song by an African-American artist to reach number 1 on the country charts until Don't Think I Don't Think About It by Darius Rucker achieved the feat in 2008.

Chart performance

Chart (1983) Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[2] 1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 1

References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 277.
  2. "Charley Pride – Chart history" Billboard Hot Country Songs for Charley Pride.
Preceded by
"I'm Only in It for the Love"
by John Conlee
Billboard Hot Country Singles
number-one single

September 17, 1983
Succeeded by
"Baby, What About You"
by Crystal Gayle
Preceded by
"Why Do I Have to Choose"
by Willie Nelson
RPM Country Tracks
number-one single

September 24, 1983
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