HE'LL HAVE TO GO
Created on 27/02/2002Latest update on 20/12/2023
Artist: Billy Brown
Author: Joe Allison/Audrey Allison
Label: Columbia
Year: 1959
Song lyrics inspired by a bad telephone line between man and wife Joe & Audrey Allison: "Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone".
Covers:
- 1959:
Jim Reeves [n°1 C&W & n°2 US]
- 1960:
Grady Martin [instrumental; country guitar player from Nashville]
- 1960:
Jeanne Black [answer song He'll Have To Stay; top 5 US]
- 1960:
Caterina Valente [as Caro Mio (Blijf Nog Een Beetje Aan De Lijn)]
- 1960:
Johnny Kraaykamp [as Laat Hem Maar Gaan]
- 1961:
Skeeter Davis [also as He'll Have To Stay]
- 1962:
- 1963:
- 1964:
- 1965:
- 1967:
- 1969:
- 1970:
- 1972:
- 1972:
- 1973:
Anita Kerr Singers [as She'll Have To Go; they also backed Jim Reeves]
- 1976:
- 1976:
- 1977:
- 1977:
- 1979:
Elvis Costello [bonus track on cd version Almost Blue]
- 1980:
- 1980:
- 1985:
- 1986:
- 1988:
- 1989:
Hans Habils [as Hij Moet Gaan]
- 1991:
- 1996:
- 1996:
Petty Booka [as He'll Have To Stay; covered an answer song while using the Cooder cover arrangement]
- 1997:
- 1998:
- 2004:
- 2006:
- 2006:
Jools Holland & Lulu [as She'll Have To Go]
- 2014:
- 2015:
Answer song He'll Have To Stay (see: Jeanne Black) was originally released on Corina Minette (ABC Paramount - 1960).
