I FORGOT MORE THAN YOU'LL EVER KNOW

Created on 11/07/2001
Latest update on 30/01/2024

Artist: Sonny James
Author: Cecil Null
Label: Capitol
Year: 1953

First version recorded but prior to its release RCA producer Steve Sholes heard a test copy and rush-released it on The Davis Sisters.

Covers:

1953:

Davis Sisters [n°1 C&W; no real sisters, like the Righteous Brothers are no real brothers; only one of them was a real Davis, Betty Davis; the others' real name was Mary Perick; their version came out two weeks after Betty Davis died in a car crash]

1953:

Betty Cody [answer song as I Found Out More Than You Ever Knew]

1958:

Skeeter Davis

1961:

Johnny Cash

1961:

Dean Reed

1961:

Tennessee Ernie Ford

1962:

Slim Whitman

1962:

Patti Page

1963:

Esther Phillips

1964:

Jimmie Rodgers

1966:

Bonnie Guitar

1966:

Peter & Gordon

1967:

Andrews Sisters

1968:

Kitty Wells

1970:

Bob Dylan [on Self Portrait; probably knew it from Johnny Cash, why not even from the eight year older original]

1971:

Jerry Lee Lewis

1972:

Jeanne Pruett

1982:

She Sherriff

1990:

Jann Browne

1993:

Dolly Parton-Loretta Lynn-Tammy Wynette

2002:

Bryan Ferry

2008:

Patty Loveless

2012:

Holly Golightly

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