"Sweet Dream Woman"

from the album Good Hearted Woman

"Sure Didn't Take Him Long"

Released

June 10, 1972

Length

3:00

Ronny Light

Waylon Jennings singles chronology

"Sweet Dream Woman"
(1972)

"Pretend I Never Happened"
(1972)

"Sweet Dream Woman" is a song written by Chip Taylor and Al Gorgoni, and recorded by American country music artist Waylon Jennings. Jennings cut the song in September and October 1971 at RCA Studios in Nashville, with Ronny Light producing.^[1] That recording was released in June 1972 as the second single from the album Good Hearted Woman. The song reached number 7 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.^[2]

Personnel

Chart performance

Chart (1972)	Peak position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^[3]	7
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	3

^ ^a ^b Nashville Rebel (liner notes). Waylon Jennings. New York, New York: Sony BMG Music Entertainment/Legacy Recordings. 2006. pp. 132–139. 82876 89640 2.((cite AV media notes)): CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 174.
^ "Waylon Jennings Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.

Studio albums

Live albums

Notable singles

1960s
"Stop the World (And Let Me Off)" "The Chokin' Kind" "Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line" "The Days of Sand and Shovels" "Brown Eyed Handsome Man"
1970s
"Under Your Spell Again" with Jessi Colter "Good Hearted Woman" "Sweet Dream Woman" "You Can Have Her" "We Had It All" "You Ask Me To" "This Time" "I'm a Ramblin' Man" "Rainy Day Woman" "Dreaming My Dreams with You" "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way" "Bob Wills Is Still the King" "Can't You See" "Are You Ready for the Country" "Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)" "I've Always Been Crazy" "Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit's Done Got Out of Hand" "Amanda" "Come With Me" "I Ain't Living Long Like This"
1980s – 1990s
"Clyde" "Good Ol' Boys" "Shine" "Just to Satisfy You" with Willie Nelson "Women Do Know How to Carry On" "Lucille (You Won't Do Your Daddy's Will)" "Hold On, I'm Comin'" with Jerry Reed "The Conversation" with Hank Williams Jr. "I May Be Used (But Baby I Ain't Used Up)" "Never Could Toe the Mark" "America" "Waltz Me to Heaven" "Drinkin' and Dreamin'" "Working Without a Net" "Will the Wolf Survive" "What You'll Do When I'm Gone" "The Broken Promise Land" "Rose in Paradise" "My Rough and Rowdy Days" "If Ole Hank Could Only See Us Now" "How Much Is It Worth to Live in L.A." "Which Way Do I Go (Now That I'm Gone)" "Wrong" "Where Corn Don't Grow" "The Eagle"

Collaborations

Waylon & Willie
Albums: Waylon & Willie WWII Take It to the Limit Clean Shirt Singles:"The Wurlitzer Prize (I Don't Want to Get Over You)" "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" "Take It to the Limit"
Other collaborations
Country-Folk with The Kimberlys Leather and Lace with Jessi Colter Heroes with Johnny Cash Old 97's & Waylon Jennings with Old 97's
Collaboration singles
"MacArthur Park" with The Kimberlys "Suspicious Minds" with Jessi Colter "There Ain't No Good Chain Gang" with Johnny Cash "The Wild Side of Life/It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" with Jessi Colter "Leave Them Boys Alone" with Hank Williams Jr. and Ernest Tubb "Somewhere Between Ragged and Right" with John Anderson

Compilations