Endlessly (song)

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"Endlessly"
Single by Brook Benton
from the album Endlessly
B-side "So Close"
ReleasedApril 1959
Genre Soul
Length2:19
Label Mercury
Songwriters Brook Benton, Clyde Otis
Brook Benton singles chronology
"It's Just a Matter of Time"
(1958)
"Endlessly"
(1959)
"Hurtin' Inside"
(1959)
"Endlessly"
Single by Sonny James
from the album Empty Arms
B-side "Happy Memories"
ReleasedSeptember 1970
Genre Country
Length2:40
Label Capitol
Songwriters Brook Benton, Clyde Otis
Producer George Richey
Sonny James singles chronology
"Don't Keep Me Hangin' On"
(1970)
"Endlessly"
(1970)
"Empty Arms"
(1971)

"Endlessly" is a 1959 single by Brook Benton. The follow-up to his breakthrough hit "It's Just a Matter of Time", it reached number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100. Its B-side, "So Close", also reached the chart, peaking at number 38. [1] "Endlessly" also was Benton's first chart success in the UK, where it reached #28. [2]

Contents

In 1970, country singer Sonny James, who had topped the country charts with a remake of "It's Just a Matter of Time" earlier in the year, released his version of "Endlessly" as a single. It was James' sixteenth number-one song on the U.S. country singles chart. The single spent three weeks at number one and a total of fourteen weeks on the chart. [3]

British singer Tom Jones also recorded a version, released on his 1965 debut album Along Came Jones .

Chart performance

Brook Benton

Chart (1959)Peak
position
Canada CHUM Chart [4] 11
US Billboard Hot R&B Singles3
US Billboard Hot 10012
UK Singles Chart28

Sonny James

Chart (1970)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles1
U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 1008
Canadian RPM Country Tracks [5] 10

References

  1. Joel Whitburn, Top Pop Singles 1955-1999 (Menomonee Falls, WI: Record Research, 2000), 48.
  2. Rees, Dafydd; Luke Crampton (1999). Rock Stars Encyclopedia . New York: DK Publishing. pp.  192–194. ISBN   0-7894-4613-8.
  3. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 172.
  4. "CHUM Hit Parade - June 1, 1959".
  5. "RPM Top 50 Country - December 19, 1970" (PDF).