We Believe in Happy Endings

"We Believe in Happy Endings"
Song
B-side	"The Immigrant"

"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
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles	7
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	12

Earl Thomas Conley with Emmylou Harris version

"We Believe in Happy Endings"
Song
B-side	"No Chance No Dance"

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 the album, The Heart of It All. The song was the only collaboration of Earl Thomas Conley and Emmylou 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.^[2]

Chart performance

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

Chart (1988)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles	1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	1

Preceded by "Addicted" by Dan Seals	Billboard Hot Country Singles number-one single October 1, 1988	Succeeded by "Honky Tonk Moon" by Randy Travis
Preceded by "I Should Be with You" by Steve Wariner	RPM Country Tracks number-one single October 15, 1988	Succeeded by Unknown

References

^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 297.
^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 153.

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
Albums Singles Awards and Nominations
Studio albums as a solo artist	Gliding Bird (1970) Pieces of the Sky (1975) Elite Hotel (1975) Luxury Liner (1976) Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town (1978) Blue Kentucky Girl (1979) Light of the Stable (1979) Roses in the Snow (1980) Evangeline (1981) Cimarron (1981) White Shoes (1983) The Ballad of Sally Rose (1985) Thirteen (1986) Angel Band (1987) Bluebird (1989) Brand New Dance (1990) Cowgirl's Prayer (1993) Wrecking Ball (1995) Red Dirt Girl (2000) Stumble into Grace (2003) All I Intended to Be (2008) Hard Bargain (2011)
Studio albums as a collaboration	Trio (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) (1987) Trio II (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) (1999) Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions (with Linda Ronstadt) (1999) All the Roadrunning (with Mark Knopfler) (2006) Old Yellow Moon (with Rodney Crowell) (2013) The Traveling Kind (with Rodney Crowell) (2015)
Compilation albums	Profile: Best of Emmylou Harris (1978) Profile II: The Best of Emmylou Harris (1984) Duets (1990) Songs of the West (1994) The Very Best of Emmylou Harris: Heartaches & Highways (2005) The Complete Trio Collection (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) (2016)
Live albums	Last Date (1982) At the Ryman (1992) Spyboy (1998) Ramble in Music City: The Lost Concert (with The Nash Ramblers) (2021)
Soundtrack albums	Honeysuckle Rose (1980)
Video albums	Real Live Roadrunning (with Mark Knopfler) (2006)
Box sets	Songbird: Rare Tracks and Forgotten Gems (2007)
Contributions and appearances	Solo contributions Collaborations A–F Collaborations G–K Collaborations L–Q Collaborations R–Z

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