We Believe in Happy Endings

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"We Believe in Happy Endings"

Single by Johnny Rodriguez

from the album Just for You

B-side

"The Immigrant"

Released

February 25, 1978

Johnny Rodriguez singles chronology

"Savin' This Love Song for You"
(1977)

"We Believe in Happy Endings"
(1978)

"Cuando Caliente El Sol (Love Me with All Your Heart)"
(1978)

"We Believe in Happy Endings" is a song written by Bob McDill and recorded by American country music artist Johnny Rodriguez. It was released in September 1978 as the second single from the album Just for You. The single went to number seven on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.^[1]

Johnny Rodriguez version

Chart performance

Chart (1978)	Peak position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^[2]	7
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	12

Earl Thomas Conley with Emmylou Harris version

"We Believe in Happy Endings"

Single by Earl Thomas Conley with Emmylou Harris

from the album The Heart of It All

B-side

"No Chance No Dance"

Released

June 27, 1988

Genre

Country

Length

3:36

Emory Gordy Jr., Randy Scruggs

Earl Thomas Conley singles chronology

"What She Is (Is a Woman in Love)"
(1988)

"We Believe in Happy Endings"
(1988)

"What I'd Say"
(1988)

Emmylou Harris singles chronology

"Wildflowers"
(1988)

"We Believe in Happy Endings"
(1988)

"Heartbreak Hill"
(1988)

The song was also recorded by American country music artist Earl Thomas Conley with Emmylou Harris as a duet. It was released in June 1988 as the second single from Conley's album The Heart of It All. The song was the only collaboration of Conley and Harris to make the country chart. The single went to number one for one week on the country chart and spent a total of fifteen weeks on the chart.^[3] Their performance earned Harris and Conley a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals. It was also Harris's final country number one.

Chart performance

"We Believe in Happy Endings" debuted on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles for the week of July 2, 1988.

Weekly charts

Chart (1988)	Peak position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^[4]	1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	1

Year-end charts

Chart (1988)	Position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^[5]	13

References

^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 297.
^ "Johnny Rodriguez Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 153.
^ "Earl Thomas Conley Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
^ "Hot Country Songs – Year-End 1988". Billboard. Retrieved July 10, 2021.

v t e Johnny Rodriguez
Discography
Singles	"Pass Me By (If You're Only Passing Through)" "You Always Come Back (To Hurting Me)" "Ridin' My Thumb to Mexico" "That's the Way Love Goes" "Something" "Dance with Me (Just One More Time)" "We're Over" "I Just Can't Get Her Out of My Mind" "Just Get Up and Close the Door" "Love Put a Song in My Heart" "Desperado" "Eres tú" "We Believe in Happy Endings" "I Wanta Wake Up with You"

v t e Earl Thomas Conley
Studio albums	Fire & Smoke Somewhere Between Right and Wrong Don't Make It Easy for Me Treadin' Water Too Many Times The Heart of It All Yours Truly
Compilation albums	Greatest Hits Greatest Hits, Volume II
Notable singles	"The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" "Silent Treatment" "Fire and Smoke" "Tell Me Why" "After the Love Slips Away" "Heavenly Bodies" "Somewhere Between Right and Wrong" "I Have Loved You Girl (But Not Like This Before)" "Your Love's on the Line" "Holding Her and Loving You" "Don't Make It Easy for Me" "Angel in Disguise" "Chance of Lovin' You" "Honor Bound" "Love Don't Care (Whose Heart It Breaks)" "Nobody Falls Like a Fool" "Once in a Blue Moon" "Too Many Times" (with Anita Pointer) "I Can't Win for Losin' You" "That Was a Close One" "Right from the Start" "What She Is (Is a Woman in Love)" "We Believe in Happy Endings" (with Emmylou Harris) "What I'd Say" "Love Out Loud" "You Must Not Be Drinking Enough" "Bring Back Your Love to Me "Shadow of a Doubt" "Hard Days and Honky Tonk Nights"
Guest singles	"All Tangled Up in Love" (with Gus Hardin) "Brotherly Love" (with Keith Whitley)
Related articles	Discography "This Time I've Hurt Her More Than She Loves Me" "All Over Me"

v t e Emmylou Harris singles
Albums Singles
Pieces of the Sky	"If I Could Only Win Your Love"
Elite Hotel	"Together Again" "One of These Days" "Sweet Dreams"
Luxury Liner	"You Never Can Tell (C'est La Vie)" "Making Believe"
Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town	"To Daddy" "Two More Bottles of Wine" "Easy From Now On"
Blue Kentucky Girl	"Save the Last Dance for Me" "Blue Kentucky Girl" "Beneath Still Waters"
Roses in the Snow	"Wayfaring Stranger" "The Boxer"
Evangeline	"Mister Sandman" "I Don't Have to Crawl"
Cimarron	"If I Needed You" (with Don Williams) "Tennessee Rose" "Born to Run"
Last Date	"(Lost His Love) On Our Last Date" "I'm Movin' On" "So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)"
White Shoes	"Drivin' Wheel" "In My Dreams" "Pledging My Love"
Profile II: The Best of Emmylou Harris	"Someone Like You"
The Ballad of Sally Rose	"White Line"
Thirteen	"Today I Started Loving You Again"
Trio (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt)	"To Know Him Is to Love Him" "Telling Me Lies" "Those Memories of You" "Wildflowers"
Bluebird	"Heartbreak Hill" "Heaven Only Knows" "I Still Miss Someone"
Brand New Dance	"Never Be Anyone Else But You"
Trio II (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt)	"After the Gold Rush"
All the Roadrunning (with Mark Knopfler)	"All the Roadrunning"
Singles as a featured artist	"Wild Montana Skies" (featured with John Denver) "Thing About You" (featured with Southern Pacific) "We Believe in Happy Endings" (featured with Earl Thomas Conley)
Other songs	"Boulder to Birmingham" "A Love That Will Never Grow Old"

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