There Goes My Everything (song)
"There Goes My Everything" | ||||
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Single by Jack Greene | ||||
from the album There Goes My Everything | ||||
B-side | "The Hardest Easy Thing" | |||
Published | November 24, 1965Acuff-Rose Publications Blue Crest Music, Inc., Husky Music, Inc.[1] | |||
Released | October 1966 | |||
Recorded | August 6, 1966 | |||
Studio | RCA Victor Studio, Nashville | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Label | Decca | |||
Songwriter(s) | Dallas Frazier | |||
Producer(s) | Owen Bradley | |||
Jack Greene singles chronology | ||||
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"There Goes My Everything" is a popular song written by Dallas Frazier and published in 1965.[2] "There Goes My Everything" is now considered a country music standard, covered by many artists.
Jack Greene recording[]
The song is best known in a 1966 version by Jack Greene whose version spent seven weeks at the top of the US country music chart, with a total of twenty-one weeks on the chart.[3] It peaked at 65 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song also won several awards, including "Single of the Year" and "Song of the Year" at the first CMA Awards presentation. In addition, the accompanying album of the same title won "Album of the Year", and Greene won "Male Vocalist of the Year".
Content[]
The song is about a couple who are splitting up, but why is a mystery. The singer says that he can hear a voice refer to him as "darling", which seems an unlikely address when a couple are bitterly splitting up. The song describes the narrator's feelings as his lover is leaving him. He comes to realize how much she meant to him now that he is losing her — "There goes my reason for living/There goes the one of my dreams/There goes my only possession/There goes my everything".
Chart performance[]
Chart (1966) | Peak position |
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US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[4] | 1 |
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 65 |
Cover versions[]
- In 1967, Engelbert Humperdinck hit #20 on the Billboard Hot 100 with his version of the song, #2 on the UK Singles Chart[5] and #2 in Ireland.[6]
- In 1971, Elvis Presley hit the top ten on the country charts with his version which is also featured on the album Elvis Country (I'm 10,000 Years Old).
References[]
- ^ "U.S. Copyright Office Virtual Card Catalog 1955-1970". vcc.copyright.gov. Retrieved 2021-09-09.
- ^ "classic-country-song-lyrics.com". classic-country-song-lyrics.com. Retrieved February 4, 2021.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 143.
- ^ "Jack Greene Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits: Eighth Edition. Record Research. p. 296.
- ^ "The Irish Charts - All there is to know".
- 1966 singles
- 1967 singles
- Don Cherry songs
- Jack Greene songs
- Elvis Presley songs
- Ferlin Husky songs
- Engelbert Humperdinck songs
- Songs written by Dallas Frazier
- Song recordings produced by Owen Bradley
- 1965 songs
- Decca Records singles
- 1960s country song stubs