"I Can Tell By the Way You Dance (You're Gonna Love Me Tonight)" is the title of a song written by Sandy Pinkard and Rob Strandlund and recorded by American country music artist Vern Gosdin

Vern Gosdin

Vern Gosdin was an American country music singer. He idolized The Louvin Brothers and The Blue Sky Boys as a young man and sang in a gospel quartet called The Gosdin Brothers. An inheritor of the soulful honky tonk style of Lefty Frizzell and Merle Haggard, Gosdin was nicknamed "The Voice" by his...

. It was released in March 1984 as the lead single from the album, There is a Season. The song was Vern Gosdin's eighteenth country hit and the first of three number ones on the country chart. The single spent one week at number one and a total of fourteen weeks on the country chart.

Background

Gosdin originally felt it was too rock and roll for him and didn't record it for two years after it was presented to him.

Chart performance

Chart (1984)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles	1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	1