"Walking the Floor Over You" | |
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Single by Ernest Tubb | |
B-side | "I'm Missing You" |
Released | May 28, 1941 |
Recorded | April 26, 1941 [1] |
Studio | Fort Worth, Texas [1] |
Genre | Honky-tonk |
Length | 2:37 |
Label | Decca 5958 [1] |
Songwriter(s) | Ernest Tubb |
"Walking the Floor Over You" | ||||
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Single by Pat Boone | ||||
from the album Pat Boone's Golden Hits Featuring Speedy Gonzales | ||||
A-side | "Spring Rain" | |||
Released | 1960 | |||
Recorded | 1960 | |||
Genre | Pop | |||
Length | 2:20 | |||
Label | Dot | |||
Songwriter(s) | Ernest Tubb | |||
Pat Boone singles chronology | ||||
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"Walking the Floor Over You" is a country music song written by Ernest Tubb, recorded on April 26, 1941 in Fort Worth, Texas, [1] and released in the United States that year. [2]
The original version included only Tubb's vocals and acoustic guitar accompanied by "Smitty" Smith on electric guitar. Tubb later re-recorded the song with his band, the Texas Troubadours. [2]
The original single became a hit, reaching the number-23 spot [3] in the charts in 1941 but eventually the song sold over a million copies. Critic David Vinopal called "Walking the Floor Over You" the first honky tonk song that launched the musical genre itself. [4] Tubb's version is heard on the soundtrack of the 1980 film Coal Miner's Daughter . [5]
In 2022, the single was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Recording Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". [6]
Ernest Tubb himself re-recorded the song several times during his career, with those versions recorded in 1944, 1959, 1963, and 1977. Additionally, Tubb recorded another version with Merle Haggard in 1979; that version reached number 31 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart that fall.
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