"The Girl Most Likely" is a single by American country music artist Jeannie C. Riley

Jeannie C. Riley

Jeannie C. Riley is an American country music and gospel singer. She is best known for her 1968 country and pop hit "Harper Valley PTA" , which missed becoming the Billboard Country and Pop number one hit at the same time...

. Released in November 1968, it was the first single from her album Yearbooks and Yesterdays. The song peaked at number 6 on the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

Hot Country Singles

Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

 chart. It also reached number 1 on the RPM

RPM (magazine)

RPM was a Canadian music industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada. The publication was founded by Walt Grealis in February 1964, supported through its existence by record label owner Stan Klees. RPM ceased publication in November 2000.RPM stood for "Records, Promotion,...

Country Tracks chart in Canada.

The song was written by the songwriting team of Margaret Lewis

Margaret Lewis (music)

Margaret Lewis Warwick, known for much of her career as Margaret Lewis is a country music/rockabilly singer/songwriter and music entrepreneur....

and Mira Smith, who also wrote the hits "The Rib", "Country Girl", and "Oh Singer" for Riley.

Chart performance

Chart (1968–1969)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles	6
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	55
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	1
Canadian RPM Top Singles	34