Charlie Rich The Most Beautiful Girl In The World 1973

The Most Beautiful Girl is a song recorded by Charlie Rich and written by Billy Sherrill, Norro Wilson, and Rory Bourke. The countrypolitan ballad reached number 1 in the United States in 1973 on three Billboard music charts: the pop chart (two weeks), the country chart (three weeks), and the adult contemporary chart (three weeks), 2 as well as in Canada on three RPM charts: the RPM 100 Top Singles chart, the Country Tracks chart, and the Adult Contemporary chart. Billboard ranked it as the No. 23 song for 1974. The song is actually a merging of two songs previously recorded by cowriter Wilson, Hey Mister (from 1968, which forms a major part of the song), and Mama McCluskie, used in part in the songs chorus. The Bside, his own I Feel Like Going Home, was later covered by Rita Coolidge and was released on her 1974 album Fall into Spring. British pop singer Engelbert Humperdinck covered The Most Beautiful Girl on his 1973 album Engelbert: King