If My Heart Had Windows (song)

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"If My Heart Had Windows"
Single by George Jones
from the album If My Heart Had Windows
B-side "The Honky Tonk Downstairs"
ReleasedOctober 7, 1967
Genre Country
Length2:45
Label Musicor
Songwriter(s) Dallas Frazier
Producer(s) Pappy Daily
George Jones singles chronology
"Party Pickin'"
(1967)
"If My Heart Had Windows"
(1967)
"Say It's Not You"
(1968)
"If My Heart Had Windows"
If My Heart Had Windows - Opry - 11 June 1988.jpg
From Grand Ole' Opry induction performance, 11 June 1988
Single by Patty Loveless
from the album If My Heart Had Windows
B-side "So Good to Be in Love"
ReleasedFebruary 6, 1988
Recorded1987
Genre Country
Length3:02
Label MCA
Songwriter(s) Dallas Frazier
Producer(s) Emory Gordy Jr.
Tony Brown
Patty Loveless singles chronology
"You Saved Me"
(1987)
"If My Heart Had Windows"
(1988)
"A Little Bit in Love"
(1988)
Music video
"If My Heart Had Windows" on YouTube

"If My Heart Had Windows" is a country song written by Dallas Frazier and recorded by George Jones in 1967 on his album of the same name. Released as a single that year, Jones's version peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot Country Singles charts. [1]

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In 1968, crooner Andy Russell performed a cover version (Capitol #2072) that peaked at number 29 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary Singles Chart. [2]

Ernest Tubb also recorded a version on his 1968 Decca release Country Hit Time .

Connie Smith also recorded a version on her 1970 RCA release I Never Once Stopped Loving You.

Twenty-one years after the original version, Patty Loveless recorded a cover of the song on her 1987 album, also entitled If My Heart Had Windows . Loveless's version was also a top-10 country hit — the first of her career — peaking at number 10 on the country music charts. [3] It was also the song that she performed the evening that she was inducted into the membership of the Grand Ole Opry.

Chart positions

George Jones

Chart (1967)Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [4] 7

Andy Russell

Chart (1968)Peak
position
US Adult Contemporary ( Billboard ) [5] 29

Patty Loveless

Chart (1988)Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [6] 10
Canadian RPM Country Tracks9

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