About The Song
“Is Anybody Goin’ to San Antone” is a country song written by Glenn Martin and Dave Kirby. Charley Pride recorded and released it as a single in February 1970 on RCA Victor. It was the first single from his album Charley Pride’s 10th Album. The U.S. B-side was “Things Are Looking Up,” while some international editions used “Wings of a Dove.” The track was recorded at RCA Studio B in Nashville and produced by Jack Clement. It runs 2 minutes and 13 seconds.
The song was first recorded by former football player Bake Turner. Pride’s manager, Jack D. Johnson, obtained a demonstration tape of the composition and made adjustments to the chords, lyrics, and arrangement to better suit Pride. Glenn Martin and Dave Kirby, both affiliated with Tree Music Publishing, wrote the song during a car trip from Nashville to Atlanta. After completing the trip, they recorded a demo. The material remained unrecorded by major artists for a period before reaching Pride’s team.
Pride’s version was released in February 1970. It became his third consecutive number-one single on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. The single reached number one for the weeks of April 18 and April 25, 1970, holding the top position for two weeks. It spent a total of 16 weeks on the country chart. On the Billboard Hot 100, it peaked at number 70 and charted for seven weeks. In Canada, it reached number one on the RPM Country Tracks chart. In Australia, it peaked at number 56 on the Kent Music Report.
The parent album, Charley Pride’s 10th Album, was released in 1970 and continued Pride’s series of commercially successful releases on RCA. By this point in his career, Pride had already achieved multiple top-ten and number-one country singles, including “All I Have to Offer You (Is Me)” and “(I’m So) Afraid of Losing You Again.” “Is Anybody Goin’ to San Antone” formed part of a sequence of consecutive number-one country hits for Pride between 1969 and 1971.
The recording features a countrypolitan production style typical of Pride’s work with Jack Clement during this period. Session details place the tracking at RCA Studio B in Nashville. Background vocals on the track included contributions from The Nashville Edition. Engineer credits list Tom Pick. The arrangement supports Pride’s baritone vocal delivery over a mid-tempo country framework with steel guitar and standard Nashville session instrumentation of the era.
Subsequent cover versions include a 1973 recording by Doug Sahm on the album Doug Sahm and Band. Nancy Sinatra also recorded a version. The original Pride single remains the definitive commercial recording. Chart documentation from Billboard confirms the February 1970 release, the two-week run at number one on the Hot Country Songs chart in April 1970, the 16-week total country chart life, and the number-70 peak on the Hot 100. Canadian and Australian chart positions are verified through RPM and Kent Music Report data.
Songwriting credits are consistently listed as Glenn Martin and Dave Kirby across official releases and discography sources. Production is credited to Jack Clement. The single’s placement as the lead track from Charley Pride’s 10th Album is documented in RCA catalog information. These details align with contemporary trade publications, Billboard chart archives, and standard discography references for Pride’s RCA period in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
The recording contributed to Pride’s status as one of RCA’s top-selling country artists during this timeframe. It followed directly after “(I’m So) Afraid of Losing You Again” and preceded “Wonder Could I Live There Anymore,” both of which also reached number one on the country chart. Session and release information is corroborated by RCA Studio B logs, producer credits, and official single catalog numbers from the period.
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Rain drippin' off the brim of my hat It sure is cold today Here I am walkin' down 66 Wish she hadn't done me that way Sleepin' under a table in a roadside park A man could wake up dead But it sure seems warmer than it did Sleepin' in our king-sized bed Is anybody goin' to San Antone Or Phoenix, Arizona? Any place is alright as long as I Can forget I've ever known her Wind whippin' down the neck of my shirt Like I ain't got nothin' on But I'd rather fight the wind and rain Than what I've been fightin' at home Yonder comes a truck with the U.S. Mail People writin' letters back home Tomorrow she'll probably want me back But I'll still be just as gone Is anybody goin' to San Antone Or Phoenix, Arizona? Any place is alright as long as I Can forget I've ever known her