"Lying Time Again" | ||||
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Single by Mel Tillis | ||||
from the album Me and Pepper | ||||
B-side | "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" | |||
Released | January 19, 1980 | |||
Recorded | July 1979 | |||
Studio | Glaser Sound (Nashville, Tennessee) | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 3:10 | |||
Label | Elektra | |||
Songwriter(s) | Chance Walker | |||
Producer(s) | Jimmy Bowen | |||
Mel Tillis singles chronology | ||||
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"Lying Time Again" is a song written by Chance Walker, and recorded by American country music artist Mel Tillis. It was released in January 1980 as the second single from his 1979 album Me and Pepper. The song reached No. 6 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. [1]
Chart (1980) | Peak position |
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US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [2] | 6 |
Canadian RPM Country Tracks | 12 |
Pamela Yvonne Tillis is an American country music singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. She is the oldest child of country singer Mel Tillis. After recording unsuccessful pop material for Elektra and Warner Records in the early 1980s, Tillis shifted to country music. In 1989, she signed with Arista Nashville, entering top-40 on Hot Country Songs for the first time with "Don't Tell Me What to Do" in 1990. This was the first of five singles from her breakthrough album Put Yourself in My Place.
Lonnie Melvin Tillis was an American country music singer and songwriter. Although he recorded songs since the late 1950s, his biggest success occurred in the 1970s as part of the outlaw country movement, with a long list of Top 10 hits.
"Detroit City" is a song written by Danny Dill and Mel Tillis, made famous by Billy Grammer, country music singer Bobby Bare and Tom Jones. Bare's version was released in 1963. The song — sometimes known as "I Wanna Go Home" — was Bare's first Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart that summer, and became a country music standard.
"I Ain't Never" is a song co-written by American country music artists Webb Pierce and Mel Tillis. Each co-writer recorded the song separately, with both Pierce's (1959), and years later Tillis's (1972), versions resulting in major hits.
This is a detailed discography for American country music singer Mel Tillis.
Roger Alan Murrah is a songwriter and independent music publisher who has written hits for artists including Waylon Jennings, Alan Jackson, Al Jarreau, and Alabama.
"Life Turned Her That Way" is a song written by Harlan Howard and first recorded by American country music artist Little Jimmy Dickens in 1965. Mel Tillis recorded it in 1967 and released it as a single in February and was his seventh chart entry. Ricky Van Shelton would also later record it and release it as a single. It was the fourth single released from his debut album, Wild-Eyed Dream. Released in late 1987, it was his second number-one hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in early 1988.
"Coca-Cola Cowboy" is a song written by Steve Dorff, Sandy Pinkard, Sam Atchley and Bud Dain, and recorded by American country music artist Mel Tillis. It was released in June 1979 as the first single from the album Mr. Entertainer. The song was featured in the film, Every Which Way but Loose, starring Clint Eastwood and the TV movie Bandit Goes Country starring Brian Bloom. It was Tillis' fifth number one on the U.S. country singles chart, where it spent one week at the top and a total of eleven weeks on the chart.
"Daddy Sang Bass" is a song written by Carl Perkins, with lines from the chorus of "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?", and recorded by American country music singer Johnny Cash. It was released in November 1968 as the first single from the album The Holy Land. The song was Cash's sixty-first release on the country chart, going on to No. 1 on the Billboard country chart for 6 weeks and spending a total of 19 weeks there. The single reached No. 56 on the Cashbox pop singles chart in 1969. "Daddy Sang Bass" was also released on the Columbia Records Hall of Fame Series as a 45, #13-33153, b/w "Folsom Prison Blues". The record was nominated in the CMA awards category of Single of the Year by the Country Music Association (CMA) in 1969.
"Heart Healer" is a song written by John Greenebaum and Tomas Gmeiner, and recorded by American country music artist Mel Tillis. It was released in December 1976 as the first single and title track from the album Heart Healer. The song was Tillis' third number one on the country chart. The single stayed at number one for one week and spent a total of nine weeks on the country chart.
"Good Woman Blues" is a song written by Ken McDuffie and recorded by American country music artist Mel Tillis. It was released in September 1976 as the second single from the album Love Revival. The song was Tillis' second number one on the country chart. The single stayed at number one for two weeks and spent a total of twelve weeks on the country chart.
Honey (Open That Door)" is a song written by Mel Tillis and recorded by American country music artist Webb Pierce and by Ricky Skaggs. Pierce recorded it for his 1962 album Hideaway Heart. It was also a non-charted single by Pierce released in 1974.
"I Believe in You" is a song written by Gene Dunlap and Buddy Cannon, and recorded by American country music artist Mel Tillis. It was released in April 1978 as the first single and title track from the album I Believe in You. The song was Tillis' fourth number one on the country chart. "I Believe in You" stayed at number one for one week and spent a total of fourteen weeks on the country chart. It was also recorded by Engelbert Humperdinck on his 1979 album "This Moment In Time".
"Southern Rains" is a song written by Roger Murrah, and recorded by American country music artist Mel Tillis. It was released in December 1980 as first single and title track from the album Southern Rains. The song was Tillis' sixth number one on the country chart. The single stayed at number one for one week and spent a total of eleven weeks on the country chart.
"I Got the Hoss" is a song written by Gerald House, and recorded by American country music artist Mel Tillis. It was released in August 1977 as the first single from the album Love's Troubled Waters. The song reached #3 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
"Send Me Down to Tucson" is a song recorded by American country music artist Mel Tillis. It was released in January 1979 as the first single from the album Are You Sincere. The song reached #2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. The song was written by Snuff Garrett and Cliff Crofford.
"Blind in Love" is a song written by Bob Corbin, and recorded by American country music artist Mel Tillis. It was released in September 1979 as the first single from the album Me and Pepper. The song reached #6 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
"What Did I Promise Her Last Night" is a song recorded by American country music artist Mel Tillis. It was released in November 1977 as the second and final single from the album Love's Troubled Waters. The song was written by Ronald McCown and Wayne Walker.
"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".