What's Your Mama's Name (song)

"What's Your Mama's Name"
Single by Tanya Tucker
from the album What's Your Mama's Name
B-side"Rainy Girl"
ReleasedFebruary 16, 1973
RecordedJanuary 5, 1973
GenreCountry
Length3:03
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)Dallas Frazier and Earl Montgomery
Producer(s)Billy Sherrill
Tanya Tucker singles chronology
"Love's the Answer/The Jamestown Ferry"
(1972)
"What's Your Mama's Name"
(1973)
"Blood Red and Goin' Down"
(1973)

"What's Your Mama's Name" is a song written by Dallas Frazier and Earl Montgomery, and recorded by American country music artist Tanya Tucker. It was released in February 1973 as the first single and title track from the album What's Your Mama's Name. The song was Tucker's fourth hit on the country chart and her first number one. The single stayed at number one for a single week and spent a total of fourteen weeks on the chart.[1] On the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart, it reached number eighty-six. Tammy Wynette also recorded an unreleased version of the song in the early 1970s. Her version was never officially released till after her death in 1998.

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 357.