"Thinkin' of a Rendezvous" is a country music song written by Bobby Braddock

Bobby Braddock

Robert Valentine Braddock is an American country music songwriter and record producer. A member of the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, Braddock has contributed numerous hit songs during more than 40 years in the industry, including 13 number-one hit...

 and Sonny Throckmorton

Sonny Throckmorton

James Fron "Sonny" Throckmorton is an American country music singer and songwriter. Known primarily for his songwriting, Throckmorton has had more than 1,000 of his songs recorded by various country singers...

, and recorded by Johnny Duncan.

Featuring harmony vocals, and a solo line at a key point in the song's third verse by session vocalist Janie Fricke

Janie Fricke

Janie Fricke is an American country music singer, best remembered for a series of country music hits in the early to mid 1980s....

, "Thinkin' of a Rendezvous" became Duncan's first No. 1 song 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 in December 1976. A two-week run atop the country chart was part of a 13-week stay in the country chart's top 40.

The song — about a family man who meets up with a woman, a long-time friend with whom he had a secret affair a year earlier — was the first of two Duncan-Fricke duet to top the charts. The follow-up song, "It Couldn't Have Been Any Better

It Couldn't Have Been Any Better

"It Couldn't Have Been Any Better" is a country music song written by Ray Griff, and made famous by Johnny Duncan.One of several Duncan singles to feature session vocalist Janie Fricke on harmony vocals, "It Couldn't Have Been Any Better" became his second No. 1 song to top the Billboard Hot...

," went No. 1 in April 1977, and the two enjoyed several other duet hits, most notably "Stranger" (written by Kris Kristofferson

Kris Kristofferson

Kristoffer "Kris" Kristofferson is an American musician, actor, and writer. He is known for hits such as "Me and Bobby McGee", "For the Good Times", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", and "Help Me Make It Through the Night"...

, and a hit in July 1976) and "Come a Little Bit Closer" in January 1978 (a cover of the Jay and the Americans

Jay and the Americans

Jay and the Americans was a pop music group popular in the 1960s. Their initial lineup consisted of John "Jay" Traynor, Howard Kane , Kenny Vance and Sandy Deanne , though their greatest success on the charts came after Traynor had been replaced as lead singer by Jay Black.-Early years:They were...

).

Chart performance

Chart (1976)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles	1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	1