"You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often"
Single by Tex Ritter and His Texans
B-side"Green Grow the Lilacs"
PublishedJuly 17, 1945 (1945-07-17) by Acuff-Rose Publications, Inc., Nashville[1]
ReleasedJuly 25, 1945 (1945-07-25)
RecordedMay 1, 1945 (1945-05-01)[2]
GenreCountry
Length2:40
LabelCapitol 206
Songwriter(s)Jenny Lou Carson
Tex Ritter and His Texans singles chronology
"Jealous Heart"
(1945)
"You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often"
(1945)
"You Will Have to Pay"
(1945)

"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.

Chart performance

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

It was subsequently recorded by: the

References

  1. โ†‘ 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.
  2. โ†‘ "Capitol 100 - 499, 78rpm numerical listing discography". www.78discography.com. Retrieved 2022-04-14.
  3. โ†‘ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 292.


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