The Originals © by Arnold Rypens - PLEASE HELP ME, I'M FALLING

Artist: Hank Locklin
Author: Hal Blair/Don Robertson
Label: RCA
Year: 1960

Rejected by Jim Reeves. N°1 C&W. With a dominant Floyd Cramer on piano, long before his Last Date. (see there)

Covers:

1960:: Skeeter Davis [answer song as (I Can't Help You) I'm Falling Too]
1960:: Rose Maddox [first cover, three weeks after Locklin's]
1960:: Rusty Draper
1960:: Gale Storm
1960s:: Floyd Cramer
1963:: Everly Brothers
1963:: Duane Eddy
1963:: Bobby Darin
1964:: Connie Francis
1964:: Wanda Jackson
1966:: Brook Benton
1966:: Peter & Gordon
1968:: Janie Fricke
1969:: Kees van Kooten & Wim de Bie [as Voorbij, B-side of Lonely Street]
1973:: Blue Ridge Rangers [with John Fogerty]
1976:: Rosy & Andres
1978:: Billy Swan
1988:: Conway Twitty
1989:: Kirsty MacColl
1993:: Dolly Parton
1998:: Don Walser
2000:: Gladys Knight
2008:: Patty Loveless
2011:: Marianne Weber [as Laat Mij Hier Niet Wachten]

PLEASE HELP ME, I'M FALLING