It's Been So Long Darling Explained

"It's Been So Long, Darling" is a 1945 song by Ernest Tubb. "It's Been So Long, Darling" was Ernest Tubb's seventh chart entry on the country charts and his second to make it to number one, where it stayed for four weeks and a total of thirteen weeks on the chart.^[1]

Covers

• 1952 – Don Cherry, single
• 1957 – Hank Snow on the album Country and Western Jamboree
• 1961 – Eddy Arnold on the album Let's Make Memories Tonight
• 1961 – George Jones on Sings Country and Western Hits
• 1963 – Bill Anderson on the album Still
• 1963 – Glen Campbell on Too Late to Worry – Too Blue to Cry
• 1965 – George Hamilton IV on Mister Sincerity... A Tribute to Ernest Tubb
• 1966 – Loretta Lynn on I Like 'Em Country, which charted at #2 on the country charts
• 1969 – Carl Smith on Faded Love and Winter Roses
• 1980 – Merle Haggard on The Way I Am

Notes and References

1. Book: Whitburn, Joel . The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Joel Whitburn . 2004 . Record Research . 354.