"She's Got You" | ||||
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Single by Patsy Cline | ||||
from the album Sentimentally Yours | ||||
B-side | "Strange" | |||
Released | January 10, 1962 | |||
Recorded | 1961–1962 | |||
Genre | Country, traditional pop | |||
Label | Decca Records | |||
Writer(s) | Hank Cochran | |||
Producer(s) | Owen Bradley | |||
Patsy Cline singles chronology | ||||
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"She's Got You" | ||||
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Single by Loretta Lynn | ||||
from the album I Remember Patsy | ||||
B-side | "Lady That Lived Here Before" | |||
Released | February 7, 1977 | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Label | MCA | |||
Producer(s) | Owen Bradley | |||
Loretta Lynn singles chronology | ||||
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"She's Got You" is a pop song written by Hank Cochran and was first recorded and released as a single by Patsy Cline in 1962. Musically the song is an upbeat jazz-pop song with country overtones to support it.
According to the Ellis Nassour biography Honky Tonk Angel: The Intimate Story of Patsy Cline, writer Hank Cochran remembers calling Cline and telling her that he'd just written her next number 1 hit. She told him to come over to her house with a bottle of liquor and play it on the guitar for her and friend Dottie West who was visiting that afternoon. Cline was emotionally moved by its lyrics and loved the song so much that she learned it that night, calling up her manager and producer to sing it to them over the phone. At her next session, she recorded it. This was a rare instance, as Cline and her producer, Owen Bradley, often disagreed with each other's choice of material. This time, they both agreed they had a hit.
"She's Got You" was written as Cline's follow-up single to her two previous big hits of the previous year, "I Fall to Pieces" and "Crazy". "She's Got You" was released on January 30, 1962, and immediately went to No. 1 on the Hot C&W Sides country chart. and to No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song also went to number three on the Easy Listening chart. "She's Got You" marked her first hit single in the United Kingdom, where it reached No. 43. "She's Got You" later became classic and was one of the songs to help jump-start Cline's career. The hit led to an appearance on American Bandstand with Dick Clark that February and led to Cline having her own show in Las Vegas in the following November. "She's Got You" was followed by a few other minor hits that year, including "Imagine That", "When I Get Thru' With You", "So Wrong", and "Strange". On August 6, 1962, Cline's third album Sentimentally Yours was released, featuring "She's Got You".