"The Most Beautiful Girl"
#1 weeks: 2
weeks: 1973-12-15, 1973-12-22
genre: country, adult contemporary
artist: Charlie Rich
album: Behind Closed Doors
writers: Rory Michael Bourke, Billy Sherrill, Norro Wilson
producers: Billy Sherrill
label:
lengths: 2:43
"The Most Beautiful Girl" is a song recorded by Charlie Rich
and written by Bill Sherrill, Noris Wilson, and Rory Michael
Bourke. It reached #1 in the United States in 1973 on three
Billboardmusic charts: the pop chart (for two weeks);
the country chart (for three weeks); and the adult contemporary
chart (also for three weeks).
Country music boy band South 65 recorded an updated version
of the song, titled "The Most Beautiful Girl (2001 Version)",
on their 2001 album
Dream Large.
It also receives a - very brief - airing by Brenda Fricker
in the film
So I Married an Axe Murderer.