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Artist: Keith Whitley
Author: Don Schlitz/Paul Overstreet
Label: RCA
Year: 1988
His second consecutive n°1 C&W. Author Don Schlitz also wrote The Gambler (see there).
Covers:
Alison Krauss [n°3 C&W and crossover hit US]
Ronan Keating [from Boyzone; n°1 UK & IRE, also in film Notting Hill]
Paul Overstreet [author on cd Songwriter's Project]
Vanessa [as Now You Say Nothing At All as a memorial to murdered politician Pim Fortuyn]
Alison Krauss & Union Station made their crossover to the pop charts with this song and their Atlantic crossing as well. Reason we know her version better than the country chart topping original: Keith Whitley must have had a problem dealing with that success since one year later the bottle drove a fatal nail in his coffin.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)