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It's Too Late (To Love Me Now)

"It's Too Late to Love Me Now"
Single by Charly McClain
from the album Here's Charly McClain
B-side "You Can Love It Away"
Released April 1977
Recorded November 1976
Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.,
Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Genre Country
Label Epic
Songwriter(s) Gene Dobbins, Rory Michael Bourke, Johnny Wilson
Charly McClain singles chronology
"Lay Something on My Bed, Besides a Blanket"
(1977)
"It's Too Late to Love Me Now"
(1977)
"Make the World Go Away"
(1977)
"Lay Something on My Bed, Besides a Blanket"
(1977)
"It's Too Late to Love Me Now"
(1977)
"Make the World Go Away"
(1977)
"It's Too Late (to Love Me Now)"
Single by Cher
from the album Take Me Home
B-side "Shoppin'"
Released 1979
Genre Pop, Country
Length 3:39
Label Casablanca
Songwriter(s) Gene Dobbins, Rory Michael Bourke, Johnny Wilson
Producer(s) Bob Esty, Ron Dante
Cher singles chronology
"Wasn't It Good"
(1979)
"It's Too Late (to Love Me Now)"
(1979)
"Hell on Wheels"
(1979)
"Wasn't It Good"
(1979)
"It's Too Late (to Love Me Now)"
(1979)
"Hell on Wheels"
(1979)
"It's Too Late"
Single by Jeanne Pruett
from the album Music Row
B-side "I Can't Feel at Home"
Released June 1980
Recorded May 1980
Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Genre Country
Label IBC
Songwriter(s) Gene Dobbins, Rory Michael Bourke, Johnny Wilson
Producer(s) Walter Haynes
Jeanne Pruett singles chronology
"Temporarily Yours"
(1980)
"It's Too Late"
(1980)
"Sad Old Shade of Glory"
(1981)
"Temporarily Yours"
(1980)
"It's Too Late"
(1980)
"Sad Old Shade of Glory"
(1981)

"It's Too Late to Love Me Now" is a song written by Gene Dobbins, Rory Michael Bourke, and Johnny Wilson. Since its composition, the song as been covered as a single by various artists from the country and pop musical genres. It was first released as a single by country artist, Charly McClain in 1977.

"It's Too Late to Love Me Now" has also been featured on albums by various country recording artists, beginning with Dolly Parton on her 1978 release, Heartbreaker. "It's Too Late" has also been featured on albums by Lorrie Morgan, Loretta Lynn, and Dottie West.

"It's Too Late" was first released as a single by American country artist, Charly McClain. Released in April 1977, the song peaked at number eighty seven on the Billboard Magazine Hot Country Singles chart. It was the third and final single from McClain's debut album, Here's Charly McClain.

The song was the first of many singles McClain would release. It would also be the first of a series of recordings McClain would make for the Epic record label in Nashville, Tennessee. She would go on to have a series of major country hits in the 1980s, including "Who's Cheatin' Who" and "Radio Heart".

In 1979, American pop artist Cher released a cover version of the song and retitled it as "It's too Late (to Love Me Now)". It was issued as the third single from her fifteenth album Take Me Home in 1979. The song was originally released as a seven- and twelve-inch single respectfully in an LP format. To date, the song is Cher's only major release to country radio.


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