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"Missing You" is a song written by Red Sovine and Dale Noe, which was originally released by Red Sovine in 1955, and was later a hit single for Webb Pierce in 1957, Ray Peterson in 1961, and was posthumously a hit for Jim Reeves in 1972. Sovine's version was the B-side of Red Sovine and Webb Pierce's hit single "Why Baby Why".
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- ↑ Gene Pitney - Chart History - The Hot 100, Billboard.com. Accessed October 14, 2016.
- ↑ "CHUM Hit Parade – Week of March 6, 1961, chart No. 201". CHUM. Archived from the original on November 7, 2006. Retrieved June 13, 2017.
- ↑ Gene Pitney - Full Official Chart History, Official Charts Company . Retrieved October 14, 2016.
- ↑ "Billboard Hot Country Singles", Billboard , August 12, 1978. p. 44. Retrieved October 14, 2016.
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