You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often

"You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often"
Single by Tex Ritter and His Texans
B-side	"Green Grow the Lilacs"
Published	July 17, 1945 (1945-07-17) by Acuff-Rose Publications, Inc., Nashville[1]
Released	July 25, 1945 (1945-07-25)
Recorded	May 1, 1945 (1945-05-01)[2]
Genre	Country
Length	2:40
Label	Capitol 206
Songwriter(s)	Jenny Lou Carson
Tex Ritter and His Texans singles chronology
"Jealous Heart" (1945) "You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often" (1945) "You Will Have to Pay" (1945)

"You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often" written in 1945 by Jenny Lou Carson and performed by Tex Ritter, was the first number one country music hit written by a woman.

Chart performance

It was Ritter's second number one on the Juke Box Folk chart, spending eleven weeks at the top and a total of twenty weeks on the chart.^[3]

Cover Versions

It was subsequently recorded by: the

• Hoosier Hot Shots
• Walt Shrum
• Doc Denning
• Helen O'Connell
• Sue Thompson
• Jimmie Dale
• Wesley Tuttle
• Doc Watson
• Harley Huggins
• Red Foley
• Durwood Haddock
• Johnny Carroll.

References

1. Library of Congress. Copyright Office. (1944). Catalog of Copyright Entries 1944 Music New Series Vol 39 Pt 3 No 1. United States Copyright Office. U.S. Govt. Print. Off.
2. "Capitol 100 - 499, 78rpm numerical listing discography". www.78discography.com. Retrieved 2022-04-14.
3. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 292.