A White Sport Coat

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"A White Sport Coat (And A Pink Carnation)"
Single by Marty Robbins
from the album Marty's Greatest Hits
B-side	"Grown-Up Tears"
Released	March 1957
Recorded	January 25, 1957
Studio	Bradley Studios, Nashville, Tennessee[1]
Genre	Country
Length	2:31
Label	Columbia 40864
Songwriter(s)	Marty Robbins
Producer(s)	Mitch Miller
Marty Robbins singles chronology
"Knee Deep in the Blues" (1957) "A White Sport Coat (And A Pink Carnation)" (1957) "Please Don't Blame Me" (1957)

"A White Sport Coat (And A Pink Carnation)" is a 1957 country and western song with words and music both written by Marty Robbins. It was recorded at the Bradley Studios in Nashville, Tennessee on January 25, 1957, and released on the Columbia Records label on March 4.^[2] The arranger and recording session conductor was Ray Conniff, an in-house conductor/arranger at Columbia. Robbins had demanded to have Conniff oversee the recording after his earlier hit, "Singing the Blues", had been quickly eclipsed on the charts by Guy Mitchell's cover version, which was scored and conducted by Conniff in October 1956.

The song reached no. 1 on the US country chart, becoming Marty Robbins' third No. 1 record.^[3] It reached no. 2 on the Billboard pop chart,^[4] and no. 1 in the Australian music charts. In Canada it was ranked No. 7 for 2 weeks on the first 2 CHUM Charts.^[5] Billboard ranked it as the No. 17 song for 1957.^[6]