Don't You Ever Get Tired (Of Hurting Me)

"Don't You Ever Get Tired (Of Hurting Me)" is a country song written by Hank Cochran that was a hit single for Ray Price in 1965, reaching No. 11 on the Billboard chart. A later version by Ronnie Milsap in 1989 was Milsap's thirty-third number one single as a solo artist. The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of thirteen weeks on the chart.[1] Other notable recordings of the song were done by Jack Greene and George Jones and by Price and Willie Nelson as a duet.

"Don't You Ever Get Tired (Of Hurting Me)"
Single by Ronnie Milsap
from the album Stranger Things Have Happened
B-side"I Never Expected to See You"
ReleasedOctober 1988
GenreCountry
LabelRCA
Songwriter(s)Hank Cochran
Producer(s)Ronnie Milsap, Rob Galbraith, Tom Collins
Ronnie Milsap singles chronology
"Button Off My Shirt"
(1988)
"Don't You Ever Get Tired (Of Hurting Me)"
(1988)
"Houston Solution"
(1989)

Chart performance

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Ray Price

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Chart (1965–1966) Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[2] 11

Connie Cato

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Chart (1977) Peak
position
Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[3] 92

Willie Nelson & Ray Price

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Chart (1980–1981) Peak
position
Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[4] 11
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 8

Ronnie Milsap

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Chart (1988–1989) Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[5] 1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks[6] 2

Year-end charts

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Chart (1989) Position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[7] 63
US Country Songs (Billboard)[8] 40

References

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  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 233.
  2. ^ "Ray Price Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
  3. ^ "Hot Country Singles". Billboard. 5 Mar 1977. p. 48. Retrieved 14 May 2017.
  4. ^ "Hot Country Songs". Billboard. 14 February 1981. Retrieved 14 May 2017.
  5. ^ "Ronnie Milsap Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
  6. ^ "RPM 100 Country Singles" (PDF). RPM. March 13, 1989.
  7. ^ "RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1989". RPM. December 23, 1989. Retrieved August 28, 2013.
  8. ^ "Best of 1989: Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 1989. Retrieved August 28, 2013.