"You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often" written in 1945 by Jenny Lou Carson and performed by Tex Ritter, was the first number one country music hit written by a woman.
| "You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by Tex Ritter and His Texans | ||||
| B-side | "Green Grow the Lilacs" | |||
| Published | July 17, 1945 by Acuff-Rose Publications, Inc., Nashville[1] | |||
| Released | July 25, 1945 | |||
| Recorded | May 1, 1945[2] | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 2:40 | |||
| Label | Capitol 206 | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Jenny Lou Carson | |||
| Tex Ritter and His Texans singles chronology | ||||
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Chart performance edit
It was Ritter's second number one on the Juke Box Folk chart, spending eleven weeks at the top and a total of twenty weeks on the chart.[3]
Cover Versions edit
It was subsequently recorded by: the
- Hoosier Hot Shots
- Walt Shrum
- Doc Denning
- Helen O'Connell
- Sue Thompson
- Jimmie Dale
- Wesley Tuttle
- Doc Watson
- Harley Huggins
- Red Foley
- Durwood Haddock
- Johnny Carroll.
References edit
- ^ Library of Congress. Copyright Office. (1944). Catalog of Copyright Entries 1944 Music New Series Vol 39 Pt 3 No 1. United States Copyright Office. U.S. Govt. Print. Off.
- ^ "Capitol 100 - 499, 78rpm numerical listing discography". www.78discography.com. Retrieved 2022-04-14.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 292.
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