| She Thinks I Still Care | |
| Cover: | George Jones She Thinks I Still Care Single.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | George Jones |
| Album: | Hits by George |
| B-Side: | Sometimes You Just Can't Win |
| Released: | April 14, 1962 |
| Recorded: | January 4, 1962 |
| Studio: | Bradley Studios, Nashville, Tennessee |
| Genre: | Country |
| Label: | United Artists |
| Producer: | Pappy Daily |
| Chronology: | George Jones singles discography |
| Prev Title: | Achin', Breakin' Heart |
| Prev Year: | 1962 |
| Next Title: | Beacon In the Night |
| Next Year: | 1962 |
| He Thinks I Still Care | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Connie Francis |
| A-Side: | I Was Such a Fool (To Fall in Love with You) |
| Released: | September 1962 |
| Recorded: | June 18, 1962 |
| Studio: | Columbia, Nashville, Tennessee |
| Genre: | Country |
| Label: | MGM |
| Producer: | Danny Davis, Jim Vienneau |
| Chronology: | Connie Francis US |
| Prev Title: | Vacation |
| Prev Title2: | The Biggest Sin of All |
| Prev Year: | 1962 |
| I Was Such a Fool (To Fall in Love with You) | |
| Title2: | He Thinks I Still Care |
| Next Title: | I'm Gonna Be Warm This Winter/ Al di là |
| Next Year: | 1962 |
"She Thinks I Still Care" is a country song written by Dickey Lee and Steve Duffy. First popularized by George Jones, the song has been recorded by multiple artists, including Connie Francis, Anne Murray, Elvis Presley and Patty Loveless.
| He Thinks I Still Care | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Anne Murray |
| Album: | Danny's Song |
| A-Side: | You Won't See Me |
| Released: | April 1974 |
| Recorded: | September 1972 |
| Genre: | Country, pop |
| Label: | Capitol 3867 |
| Producer: | Brian Ahern |
| Prev Title: | A Love Song |
| Prev Year: | 1974 |
| Title2: | You Won't See Me |
| Next Title: | Son of a Rotten Gambler |
| Next Year: | 1974 |
Jones first heard the song when Jack Clement played it for him at Gulf Coast Studio in Beaumont, which Clement owned with Bill Hall. The song had been written by Dickey Lee Lipscomb and Steve Duffy, two professional songwriters under contract to Clement's publishing company, so Clement was eager for Jones to record it.[1] According to Allen, Jones had little interest, responding, "I don't like it too much. It's got too many damn 'just becauses' in it. I don't think nobody really wants to hear that shit, do you?"[2] Undeterred, both Clement and Hall continued to pitch the song to Jones. Raymond Nalley, brother of Gulf Coast session musician Luther Nalley, later recalled:
"They had this ole, wornout, rinky-dink tape recorder layin' around the studio...Everytime they'd try to lay that song on George, he'd just look at that damn tape recorder and ask 'em, 'How much you sell me that thing for?' One day, Bill Hall finally told him, 'Hell, George, if you'll record the song, I'll give ya the damn tape recorder!'"[2]
In his essay for 1994 Sony retrospective The Essential George Jones: The Spirit of Country, Rich Kienzle also states that Jones was underwhelmed by the song after Clement had "decided not to play George the tape but to sing him the song, altering the melody as he sang it to give it a stronger country feel." Jones himself always insisted he had no doubts about the song. Recalling his first impression of the tune, he insisted in the 1989 documentary Same Ole Me, "Boy, I just flipped! I said, Golly, lemme have this thing.'" In the 1994 video retrospective Golden Hits, he added, "It knocked me out. I couldn't wait to get into the studio." The song was released in April 1962, his first single release on United Artists after leaving Mercury, and it remained on the Billboard survey for twenty-three weeks, six of them at #1. In his autobiography I Lived to Tell It All, the singer wrote, "For years after I recorded it, the song was my most requested, and it became what people in my business call a 'career record,' the song that firmly establishes your identity with the public."[3] [1] The B-side, "Sometimes You Just Can't Win", reached No. 17 on the C&W chart.[4] "She Thinks I Still Care" was one of seven records George would chart in 1962, and in the fall of 1963 he would travel to New York City and perform the song on Jimmy Dean's ABC network show.
In 1999, this version of the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.[5]