Walking the Floor Over You

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"Walking the Floor Over You"
Single by Ernest Tubb
B-side "I'm Missing You"
ReleasedMay 28, 1941
RecordedApril 26, 1941 [1]
Studio Fort Worth, Texas [1]
Genre Honky-tonk
Length2:37
Label Decca 5958 [1]
Songwriter(s) Ernest Tubb
"Walking the Floor Over You"
Single by Pat Boone
from the album Pat Boone's Golden Hits Featuring Speedy Gonzales
A-side "Spring Rain"
Released1960
Recorded1960
Genre Pop
Length2:20
Label Dot
Songwriter(s) Ernest Tubb
Pat Boone singles chronology
"Words"
(1960)
"Walking the Floor Over You" / "Spring Rain"
(1960)
"Candy Sweet" / "Delia Gone"
(1960)

"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]

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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 1998, the 1941 recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. [6]

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". [7]

Other recordings

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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