ROOTS of Country Music

 Cover Songs: Songs That Charted (Top-20) Twice

These are cover songs. Songs that charted two or more times on Billboard.

• Always Late

Lefty Frizzell (#1, 1951), Dwight Yoakum (#9, 1988) 

• Am I That Easy to Forget

Carl Belew (#9, 1959), Skeeter Davis (#11, 1960), Jim Reeves (#12, 1973) 

• Bouquet of Roses

 Eddy Arnold (#1, 1948), Mickey Gilley (#1, 1975)

•  Buming Around

 Jimmy Dean (#5, 1952), T. Texas Tyler (#5, 1953) 

• Candy Kisses

George Morgan (#1, 1949), Elton Britt (#4, 1949), Red Foley (#4, 1949), Cowboy Copas (#5, 1949), Eddy Kirk (#9, 1949), Bud Hobbs (#12, 1949) 

• City Lights

Ray Price (# 1, 1958), Mickey Gilley (#1, 1974) 

• Deck of Cards

T.Texas Tyler (#2, 1948), Tex Ritter (#10, 1948) 

• Divorce Me C.O.D

 Merle Travis (#), King Sisters (#), Johnny Bond (#) 

• Don’t Let the Stars Get In Your Eyes

Skeets McDonald (#1, 1952), Slim Willet (#1, 1952), Ray Price (#4, 1952), Red Foley (#8, 1953) 

• Faded Love

Bob Wills (#8, 1950), Patsy Cline (#7, 1963) 

• Filipino Baby

 Ernest Tubb (#2, 1946), Cowboy Copas (#4, 1946), T. Texas Tyler (#5, 1946), TexasJim Robertson (#5, 1946) 

• Have I Told You lately That I Love You

 Gene Autry (#3, 1946), Tex Ritter (#3, 1946), Foy Willing (#4, 1946), Red Foley w/ Ray Ross (#5, 1946) 

• Hey Joe

 Carl Smith (#1, 1953), Kitty Wells (#8, 1953) 

• Honky Tonk Man

Johnny Horton (#9, 1956, #11, 1962), Dwight Yoakam (# 3, 1986) 

• I Can’t Stop Loving You

Conway Twitty (#1, 1972), Kitty Wells (#3, 1958),  Don Gibson (#7, 1958) 

• I Love You Because

Leon Payne (#1, 1950), Ernest Tubb (#2, 1950), Clyde Moody (#8, 1950), Carl Smith (#14, 1969), Johnny Cash (#20, 1960) 

• I Will Always Love You

Dolly Parton (#1, 1974, #1, 1982) 

•  I’m a One Woman Man

Johnny Horton (#7, 1956), George Jones (#5, 1989) 

• Make the World Go Away

 Eddy Arnold (#1, 1965), Ray Price (#2, 1963) 

• No Help Wanted

Carlisles (#1, 1953), Hank Thompson (#9, 1953) 

• Oh Lonesome Me

Don Gibson (#1, 1958), Johnny Cash (#13, 1961) 

• Rainbow at Midnight

Carlisle Brothers (#5, 1946), Ernest Tubb (#1, 1947),TexasJim Robertson (#5, 1947) 

• Room Full of Roses

 George Morgan (#4, 1949), Sons of the Pioneers (#10, 1949), Mickey Gilley (#1, 1974) 

• She’s Got You

 Patsy Cline (#, 1962), Loretta Lynn (#1, 1977) 

• Slipping Around

Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely (#1, 1949), Ernest Tubb (#1, 1949), Floyd Tillman (#5, 1949) 

• That’s the Way Love Goes

Johnny Rodriguez (#1, 1974), Merle haggard (#1, 1984) 

• That’s What makes the Jukebox Play

Jimmy Work (#6, 1955), Moe Bandy (#11, 1978) 

• Too Late to Worry, Too Blue to Cry

 Al Dexter (#1, 1944), Texas Jim Lewis (#3, 1944,  Ronnie Millsap (#6, 1975) 

• Too Old to Cut the Mustard

Carlisles (#6, 1952),  Ernest Tubb (#5, 1952) 

• You’re the Reason

Bobby Edwards (#4, 1961),  Hank Locklin (#14, 1961)

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Researched and compiled by Richard Bell, Roots of Country Music, Apr. 12, 2009.