Don't You Ever Get Tired (Of Hurting Me) Explained

Don't You Ever Get Tired (Of Hurting Me)
Type:single
Artist:Ronnie Milsap
Album:Stranger Things Have Happened
B-Side:I Never Expected to See You
Released:October 1988
Genre:Country
Label:RCA
Producer:Ronnie Milsap, Rob Galbraith, Tom Collins
Prev Title:Button Off My Shirt
Prev Year:1988
Next Title:Houston Solution
Next Year:1989

"Don't You Ever Get Tired (Of Hurting Me)" is a country song written by Hank Cochran that was a hit single for Ray Price in 1965, reaching No. 11 on the Billboard chart. A later version by Ronnie Milsap in 1989 was Milsap's thirty-third number one single as a solo artist. The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of thirteen weeks on the chart.[1] Other notable recordings of the song were done by Jack Greene and George Jones and by Price and Willie Nelson as a duet.

Chart performance

Willie Nelson & Ray Price

Chart (1980–1981)Peak
position
Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[3] 11
Canadian RPM Country Tracks8

Ronnie Milsap

Year-end charts

Chart (1989)Position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[5] 63
US Country Songs (Billboard)[6] 40

Notes and References

  1. Book: Whitburn, Joel . The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Joel Whitburn . 2004 . Record Research . 233.
  2. . Hot Country Singles . Billboard . 5 Mar 1977 . 14 May 2017 . 48.
  3. Hot Country Songs. Billboard. 14 May 2017. 14 February 1981.
  4. Web site: RPM 100 Country Singles. RPM. March 13, 1989.
  5. Web site: RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1989. RPM. December 23, 1989. August 28, 2013.
  6. Best of 1989: Country Songs . . . 1989. August 28, 2013.