We Believe in Happy Endings

"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
Label	RCA
Producer(s)	Emory Gordy, Jr., Randy Scruggs
Earl Thomas Conley chronology
Emmylou Harris chronology

"We Believe in Happy Endings"
Single by Johnny Rodriguez
from the album Just for You
B-side	"The Immigrant"
Released	February 25, 1978
Genre	Country
Label	Mercury
Writer(s)	Bob McDill
Johnny Rodriguez singles chronology

"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

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

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v t e Johnny Rodriguez
Notable singles	"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"
Related articles	Mercury Records Epic Records Capitol Records

v t e Earl Thomas Conley
Studio albums	Blue Pearl Fire and 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 Perpetual Emotion Should've Been Over by Now
Compilation albums	Greatest Hits The Best 1 Greatest Hits 2 Essential Love Out Loud Super Hits Live at Billy Bob's Texas
Notable singles	"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" "Bring Back Your Love to Me "Shadow of a Doubt"
Guest singles	"All Tangled Up in Love" (with Gus Hardin) "Brotherly Love" (with Keith Whitley)
Related articles	Discography RCA Records "This Time I've Hurt Her More Than She Loves Me" "All Over Me"

v t e Emmylou Harris
Studio albums	Gliding Bird Pieces of the Sky Elite Hotel Luxury Liner Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town Blue Kentucky Girl Light of the Stable Roses in the Snow Evangeline Cimarron White Shoes The Ballad of Sally Rose Thirteen Angel Band Bluebird Brand New Dance Cowgirl's Prayer Wrecking Ball Red Dirt Girl Stumble into Grace All I Intended to Be Hard Bargain
Collaboration albums	Trio (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) Trio II (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions (with Linda Ronstadt) All the Roadrunning (with Mark Knopfler) Old Yellow Moon (with Rodney Crowell) The Traveling Kind (with Rodney Crowell)
Live albums	Last Date At the Ryman (with The Nash Ramblers) Spyboy
Compilation albums	Profile: Best of Emmylou Harris Profile II: The Best of Emmylou Harris Duets Songs of the West The Very Best of Emmylou Harris: Heartaches & Highways Songbird: Rare Tracks and Forgotten Gems
Video albums	Real Live Roadrunning (with Mark Knopfler)
Notable singles	"If I Could Only Win Your Love" "Together Again" "One of These Days" "Sweet Dreams" "(You Never Can Tell) C'est La Vie" "Making Believe" "To Daddy" "Two More Bottles of Wine" "Save the Last Dance for Me" "Blue Kentucky Girl" "Beneath Still Waters" "Wayfaring Stranger" "The Boxer" "Mister Sandman" "If I Needed You" (with Don Williams) "Tennessee Rose" "Born to Run" "(Lost His Love) On Our Last Date" "I'm Movin' On" "So Sad to Watch Good Love Go Bad" "In My Dreams" "Pledging My Love" "Heartbreak Hill" "Heaven Only Knows" "I Still Miss Someone"
Collaboration singles	"To Know Him Is to Love Him" (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) "Telling Me Lies" (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) "Those Memories of You" (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) "Wildflowers" (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt)
Guest singles	"Thing About You" (with Southern Pacific) "We Believe in Happy Endings" (with Earl Thomas Conley)
Discographies	Discography Solo contributions Collaborations A–F Collaborations G–K Collaborations L–Q Collaborations R–Z
Related articles	Roy Orbison John Denver Gram Parsons Daniel Lanois Rodney Crowell Desire The Last Waltz

We Believe in Happy Endings

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Johnny Rodriguez version

Chart performance

Earl Thomas Conley with Emmylou Harris version

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