With Tears in My Eyes explained

With Tears in My Eyes
Type:single
Artist:Hank Williams
A-Side:Leave Me Alone with the Blues
Released:1957
Recorded:1948 or 1949 (Unconfirmed)
Genre:Country
Label:MGM

"With Tears in My Eyes" is a 1945 song by Wesley Tuttle and His Texas Stars. The song was Wesley Tuttle's first and most successful entry on the Juke Box Folk Chart. "With Tears in My Eyes" went number one for four weeks with a total of fourteen weeks on the chart.[1] The Paul Howard composition was also released as a posthumous Hank Williams single on MGM Records in 1957. The late singer had recorded it in Shreveport in 1948 or 1949 as a demo or as part of a radio show at KWKH studio[2]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Whitburn, Joel . Joel Whitburn

    . The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Joel Whitburn . 2004 . Record Research . 359.

  2. Book: Escott, Colin . Colin Escott . Hank Williams: The Biography . Back Bay . 2004 . 0-316-73497-7 . 330.