We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds

Infobox Single
Name = We Must Have Been Out Of Our Minds


Artist = George Jones and Melba Montgomery
from Album =
A-side =
B-side =
Released = April 1963 (U.S.)
Format = 7"
Recorded = 1962
Nashville, Tennessee
Genre = Country
Length = 2:38
Label = United Artists Records 575
Writer = Earl Montgomery
Producer =
Misc = Extra chronology
Artist = George Jones
Type = singles
Last single = "I Saw Me"
(1963)
This single = "We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds"
(1963)
Next single = "You Comb Her Hair"
(1963)Extra chronology
Artist = Melba Montgomery
Type = singles
Last single =
This single = "We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds"
(1963)
Next single = "Hall of Shame"
(1963)

"We Must Have Been Out Of Our Minds" is a song made famous as a duet by country music singers George Jones and Melba Montgomery. Originally released in 1963, the song became a Top 5 hit on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles chart and a country music standard.

About the song

Duets, featuring the voices of two top stars that usually perform as solo acts, have been a staple of country music since its beginnings, the pairings meeting with varying levels of success. The song "We Must Have Been Out Of Our Minds" paired, in the opinion of genre historian Bill Malone, "two top-flight, hard country singers." It also was "made distinctive by the interplay between the dobro and pedal steel guitar," and became" a modern classic of honky tonk music," continued Malone. [Malone, Bill, "Classic Country Music: A Smithsonian Collection" ((booklet included with "" 4-disc set). Smithsonian Institution, 1990).]

Chart success

"We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds" was Montogmery's first national hit, and the most successful recording from the Jones-Montgomery duet pairing. The song reached No. 3 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles chart in July 1963, and spent 23 weeks in the chart's top 40, one of the longer runs of any country single released during the 1960s.

The futures of Jones and Montgomery

The future fortunes of Jones and Montgomery would be markedly different:

* Jones — already a successful performer in country music with three No. 1 songs and 13 additional Top 10 hits in his nearly three dozen singles charted on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles chart — went on to enjoy greater success during the next 40-plus years. Jones' career included several duet pairings, the most successful being with Tammy Wynette (to whom he was married from 1969 to 1975).

* Montgomery would continue charting through the late 1970s, including several duets with Jones, Gene Pitney and Charlie Louvin. However, just one song — 1974's "No Charge," an ode to motherhood — would be a major success; that song reached No. 1 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles chart that May.

References

ources

*Whitburn, Joel, "Top Country Songs: 1944-2005," 2006.