How's My Ex Treating You

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"How's My Ex Treating You"
Single by Jerry Lee Lewis
A-side "How's My Ex Treating You"
"Sweet Little Sixteen" [1]
ReleasedJuly 21, 1962 (1962-07-21) [2]
Genre Country
Length2:35
Label Sun
Songwriter(s) Vic McAlpin
Producer(s) Jerry Kennedy
Jerry Lee Lewis singles chronology
"I've Been Twistin'" / "Ramblin' Rose"
(1962)
"How's My Ex Treating You" / "Sweet Little Sixteen "
(1962)
"Good Golly Miss Molly" / "I Can't Trust Me (in Your Arms Anymore)"
(1962)
Audio
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"How's My Ex Treating You" is a song written by Vic McAlpin and originally recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis, who released it as a single, with "Sweet Little Sixteen" on the other side, in 1962 on Sun Records.

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Hank Williams, Jr. released his version, sounding "very much like Lewis's without a flashy piano", [3] in 1977 or early 1978. [4]

Background

The circumstances of writing this song as recalled by Vic McAlpin are described in the Roger M. Williams's book Sing a Sad Song: The Life of Hank Williams:

[McAlpin] was sitting in Linebaugh's restaurant, a country music hangout in Nashville, when singer-composer Roger Miller walked in. After exchanging hellos, McAlpin asked jokingly, "How's my ex-girl friend treatin' you?" "About like she's treatin' you," Miller replied.

"That really hit me," recalls McAlpin. "I jumped up, got a pencil, and wrote eight lines of a song based on that on a napkin. Then I turned the napkin over and over and wrote eight more. Jerry Lee Lewis recorded it, and it sold over a hundred thousand." [5]

Track listing

7" single (Sun 379, 1962) [2]
No.TitleLength
1."Sweet Little Sixteen"2:52
2."How's My Ex Treating You"2:35

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  5. Roger M. Williams (1981). Sing a Sad Song: The Life of Hank Williams. University of Illinois Press. pp. 108–. ISBN   978-0-252-00861-0.