My Last Date (with You) explained

My Last Date (with You)
Type:single
Artist:Skeeter Davis
Album:Here's the Answer
B-Side:Someone I'd Like to Forget
Released:December 1960
Recorded:October 10, 1960
Studio:RCA Victor Studio B, Nashville, Tennessee[1]
Genre:Country, Nashville Sound
Label:RCA Victor
Producer:Chet Atkins
Prev Title:(I Can't Help You) I'm Falling Too
Prev Year:1960
Next Title:The Hands You're Holding Now
Next Year:1961

"My Last Date (with You)" is a song written by Boudleaux Bryant, Floyd Cramer, and Skeeter Davis. In 1960, Skeeter Davis recorded and released the song as a single for RCA Victor. The song was an answer song to Floyd Cramer's country pop crossover hit that year titled "Last Date". Skeeter Speaks the first two lines in the Bridge section of the song.

"My Last Date (with You)" was recorded in October 1960 at the RCA Victor Studio in Nashville, Tennessee.[1] The song was released as a single in December 1960, and it peaked at number four on the Billboard Magazine Hot C&W Sides chart later and number 26 on the Billboard Hot 100. The single became Davis' second top-10 hit single in a row on the country chart. It also became her second single to chart on the Hot 100 and her second on to chart among the top 40. In the later months, the song was issued onto Davis' second studio album titled Here's the Answer.[2]

Charts

Chart (1960-1961)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot 10026
U.S. Billboard Hot C&W Sides4

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Skeeter Davis discography. 13 December 2010 . Praguefrank's Country Discographies.
  2. Book: Whitburn, Joel . The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Joel Whitburn . 2004 . Record Research.