Am I That Easy to Forget explained

Am I That Easy to Forget
Type:single
Artist:Carl Belew
B-Side:Such Is Life
Released:1959
Recorded:1959
Genre:Country
Length:2:25
Label:Decca
Producer:Peter Sullivan
Prev Title:My Baby's Not Here (In Town Tonight)
Prev Year:1958
Next Title:Cool Gator Shoes
Next Year:1959
Am I That Easy to Forget
Type:single
Artist:Debbie Reynolds
B-Side:Ask Me to Go Steady
Released:December 1959
Recorded:1959
Genre:Pop
Length:2:18
Label:Dot
Producer:Peter Sullivan
Prev Title:It Started With a Kiss
Prev Year:1959
Next Title:City Lights
Next Year:1960
Am I That Easy to Forget
Type:single
Artist:Engelbert Humperdinck
Album:The Last Waltz
B-Side:Pretty Ribbon
Released:1967
Genre:Pop
Length:3:05
Label:Parrot
Producer:Peter Sullivan
Prev Title:The Last Waltz
Prev Year:1967
Next Title:A Man Without Love
Next Year:1968

"Am I That Easy to Forget" is a popular song written by country music singer Country Johnny Mathis who later sold the publishing rights (not the copyright) to W.S. Stevenson and published in 1958. Carl Belew recorded his song in Nashville on December 17, 1958, and released the single in March 1959, when it reached number nine on the U.S. country music chart. Other country music artists who have recorded cover versions of the song include Skeeter Davis (#11 country, 1960), Ernest Tubb (1960), Jerry Wallace (1962), Gene Vincent (1966), George Jones (1967), Patti Page (1968), Ann-Margret & Lee Hazlewood (1969),Jim Reeves (#12 country, 1973) and Prairie Oyster (1991).

In 1960, the singer and actress Debbie Reynolds recorded a version that reached number 25 on the U.S. pop chart. The highest charting version of the song on the U.S. pop chart was recorded by the singer Engelbert Humperdinck on August 11, 1967. Released as a single in late 1967[1] from his album The Last Waltz,[2] it reached number 18 on the Hot 100 and number one on the Easy Listening chart in early 1968.[3] Humperdinck's version was also a big hit in the United Kingdom, where it spent two weeks at number three on the UK Singles Chart,[4] as well as in Ireland, where it spent three weeks at number one on the Irish Singles Chart. Humperdinck himself recorded a special version for Italy, in Italian, entitled "Dimenticarti non potrei" ("I couldn't forget you"). Petula Clark recorded the song in French as "Tu Reviendras Vers Ta Maison" ("You Will Come Back to Your Home") and Leon Russell recorded the song as "Hank Wilson" in 1973.

Chart performance

Jim Reeves

Chart (1973)Peak
position
US Billboard Hot Country Singles12
Canadian RPM Country Tracks9
South Africa (Springbok Radio)15

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See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: KGB, San Diego, CA - Survey for week of Wednesday December 20, 1967 . June 7, 2012.
  2. Web site: (Humperdinck) . Discogs . 1968 . June 7, 2012.
  3. Book: Whitburn, Joel. 1996. The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits. 6th . Billboard Publications.
  4. Web site: (Humperdinck) . . June 7, 2012.
  5. Web site: SA Charts 1965 - 1989, Songs A-B . 17 January 2018.
  6. Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 224.