(I Can't Help You) I'm Falling Too

"(I Can't Help You) I'm Falling Too" is a song written by Hal Blair, Skeeter Davis, and Don Robertson. In 1960, Skeeter Davis recorded and released the song as a single for RCA Victor. It was an answer song to Hank Locklin's major country pop crossover hit entitled, "Please Help Me, I'm Falling". It was Davis' second answer song in response to a Locklin tune.

"(I Can't Help You) I'm Falling Too"
Single by Skeeter Davis
from the album Here's the Answer
B-side"No Never"
ReleasedJuly 1960
RecordedMay 13, 1960
StudioRCA Victor Studio B, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.[1]
GenreCountry, Nashville Sound
LabelRCA Victor
Songwriter(s)Hal Blair, Skeeter Davis, Don Robertson
Producer(s)Chet Atkins
Skeeter Davis singles chronology
"Am I That Easy to Forget"
(1960)
"(I Can't Help You) I'm Falling Too"
(1960)
"My Last Date (With You)"
(1960)

"(I Can't Help You) I'm Falling Too" was recorded on May 13, 1960, at the RCA Victor Studio in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.[1] The song was released as a single in July 1960, and it peaked at number two on the Billboard Magazine Hot C&W Sides chart later and number thirty nine on the Billboard Hot 100. The single became Davis' highest-charting single to that point and her fourth solo hit. It also became her first single to chart on the Hot 100. In the later months, the song was issued onto Davis' second studio album entitled, Here's the Answer.[2]

Chart performance edit

Chart (1960) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot C&W Sides 2
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 39

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Skeeter Davis discography". Praguefrank's Country Discographies. 13 December 2010.
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research.