It's Been So Long Darling

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"It's Been So Long Darling" is a 1945 song by Ernest Tubb. "It's Been So Long Darling" was Ernest Tubb's seventh chart entry on the country charts and his second to make it to number one, where it stayed for four weeks and a total of thirteen weeks on the chart. [1]

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References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 354.