You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often

1945 song by Jenny Lou Carson

"You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often"

Single by Tex Ritter and His Texans

B-side

"Green Grow the Lilacs"

Published

July 17, 1945 (1945-07-17) by Acuff-Rose Publications, Inc., Nashville^[1]

Released

July 25, 1945 (1945-07-25)

Recorded

May 1, 1945 (1945-05-01)^[2]

Genre

Country

Length

2:40

Label

Capitol 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

Hoosier Hot Shots
Walt Shrum
Doc Denning
Helen O'Connell
Sue Thompson
Jimmie Dale
Wesley Tuttle
Doc Watson
Harley Huggins
Red Foley
Durwood Haddock
Johnny Carroll.

References

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