Released July 1972 Recorded April 1972 Length 2:46 | Format 7" Genre Country | |
B-side How Close You Come (To Being Gone) | ||
"Funny Face' is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Donna Fargo. It was released in July 1972 as the second single from the album The Happiest Girl in the Whole USA. "Funny Face" hit number one on the country chart and was a Gold Record. "Funny Face" remained number one for three weeks and spent a total of fourteen weeks on the chart. "Funny Face" would also cross over to the pop chart, peaking at number five.
Fargo revealed to Tom Roland in The Billboard Book of Number One Country Hits that she originally offered comedian George Lindsey the chance to record the song first, but he turned it down. "It was a natural song for me to write, 'cause my husband used to call me 'funny face' and I used to call him 'fuzzy face' because he always wore a beard," she told Roland. "It was just kind of a little song to him." She wrote 16 verses to it but decided to use only the first two in her record.