- Don't Let Me Cross Over
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"Don't Let Me Cross Over" Single by Carl Butler and Pearl from the album Don't Let Me Cross Over B-side "Wonder Drug" Released November 1962 (U.S.) Format 7" Recorded February 26, 1962 Genre Country Length 2:51 Label Columbia 42953 Writer(s) Penny Jay Carl Butler and Pearl singles chronology "Don't Let Me Cross Over"
(1962)"Loving Arms"
(1963)"Don't Let Me Cross Over" is a song made famous as a duet by Carl Butler and Pearl, a husband-and-wife country music duo. Originally released in November 1962, the song needed just four weeks to reach the number-one spot on the Billboard Country Singles chart. The song eventually spent 11 (non-consecutive) weeks at number one, and has become a country-music standard.
Honky-tonk singer Carl Butler is best remembered for "Don't Let Me Cross Over," which Allmusic writer Jim Worbois described as a "country heartbreak song." The song was one of several in which Butler's wife, Pearl, joins him on harmony.[1]
Deborah Allen and Jim Reeves recorded a cover in 1979, reaching number ten on the country chart. In 1996, Dolly Parton, who'd worked with the Butlers early in her career, covered "Don't Let Me Cross Over".
It was later covered in December 1969 By Irish Country singer Larry Cunningham, and peaked #4 at the Irish charts.
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Chart performance
Carl Butler and Pearl
Chart (1962–1963) Peak
positionU.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles 1 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 88 Preceded by
"Mama Sang a Song" by Bill Anderson
"Ruby Ann" by Marty Robbins
"The Ballad of Jed Clampett" by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs
"The Ballad of Jed Clampett" by Lester Flatt and Earl ScruggsBillboard Hot Country Singles number-one single
December 29, 1962
January 12, 1963
January 26, 1963
February 16–April 6, 1963Succeeded by
"Ruby Ann" by Marty Robbins
"The Ballad of Jed Clampett" by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs
"The Ballad of Jed Clampett" by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs
"Still" by Bill AndersonJerry Lee Lewis and Linda Gail Lewis
Chart (1969) Peak
positionU.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles 9 Deborah Allen and Jim Reeves
Chart (1979) Peak
positionU.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles 10 Sources
Other references
- Whitburn, Joel, Top Country Songs: 1944-2005, 2006.
Categories:- 1962 singles
- 1979 singles
- Carl Butler and Pearl songs
- Jerry Lee Lewis songs
- Linda Gail Lewis songs
- Jim Reeves songs
- Deborah Allen songs
- Billboard Hot Country Songs number-one singles
- Vocal duets
- 1960s country song stubs
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