“I’d Rather Love You”
Charley Pride
Written by Johnny Duncan
Billboard
#1 (3 weeks)
March 6 – March 20, 1971
Some of these reviews are going to be repetitive early on in the seventies. It’s the same artists with the same producers spending multiple weeks at number one, churning out new singles and albums at a rapid pace.
So while “I’d Rather Love You” previews a new Charley Pride album, it’s the same restrained sound we’ve heard on previous chart toppers, with a staid arrangement and dated background singers smothering another great pure country vocal performance.
Just get out of the man’s way, y’all. He’s got this.
“I’d Rather Love You” gets a B+.
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