Please Talk to My Heart

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"Please Talk to My Heart"
Single by Ray Price
from the album Love Life
B-side "I Don't Know Why (I Keep Loving You)"
ReleasedJuly 1964
Genre Country
Label Columbia
Songwriter(s) Jimmy Lee Fautheree and Johnny Mathis.
Ray Price singles chronology
"Burning Memories"
(1964)
"Please Talk to My Heart"
(1964)
"A Thing Called Sadness"
(1964)

"Please Talk to My Heart" is a single by American country music artist Johnny "Country" Mathis. It was released in 1963, and peaked at number 14 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. The song was written by Jimmy Lee Fautheree and Johnny Mathis. [1]

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The song was covered in 1964 by Ray Price. Price's version peaked at number 7 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. [2] It also reached number 1 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada. [3]

Freddy Fender also released a cover of the song in 1980. Fender's version peaked at number 82 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart.

Chart performance

Johnny "Country" Mathis

Chart (1963)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles14

Ray Price

Chart (1964)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles7
Canadian RPM Country Tracks1

Freddy Fender

Chart (1980)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles82

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References

  1. "Original versions of Please Talk to My Heart by Ray Price | SecondHandSongs". secondhandsongs.com.
  2. "Ray Price singles". Allmusic . Retrieved 31 March 2011.
  3. "RPM Country Singles for October 12, 1964". RPM . Retrieved 31 March 2011.