| "Thinkin' of a Rendezvous" | ||||
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| Single by Johnny Duncan | ||||
| from the album Johnny Duncan | ||||
| B-side | "Love Should Be Easy" | |||
| Released | September 1976 | |||
| Recorded | July 1976 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 3:24 | |||
| Label | Columbia 10417 | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Bobby Braddock and Sonny Throckmorton | |||
| Producer(s) | Billy Sherrill and Larry Gatlin | |||
| Johnny Duncan singles chronology | ||||
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"Thinkin' of a Rendezvous" is a country music song written by Bobby Braddock and Sonny Throckmorton,[1] and recorded by Johnny Duncan.
Featuring harmony vocals, and a solo line at a key point in the song's third verse by session vocalist Janie Fricke, "Thinkin' of a Rendezvous" was Duncan's first number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in December 1976. A two-week run atop the country chart was part of a 13-week stay in the country chart's top 40.[2]
The song — about a family man who meets up with a woman, a long-time friend with whom he had a secret affair a year earlier — was the first of two Duncan-Fricke duets to top the charts. The follow-up song, "It Couldn't Have Been Any Better", went number one in April 1977, and the two enjoyed several other duet hits, most notably "Stranger" (written by Kris Kristofferson, and a hit in July 1976) and "Come a Little Bit Closer" in January 1978 (a cover of the Jay and the Americans).