How's My Ex Treating You
"How's My Ex Treating You" | ||||
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Single by Jerry Lee Lewis | ||||
A-side | "How's My Ex Treating You" "Sweet Little Sixteen"[2] | |||
Released | July 21, 1962 (1962-07-21)[1] | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 2:35 | |||
Label | Sun | |||
Songwriter(s) | Vic McAlpin | |||
Producer(s) | Jerry Kennedy | |||
Jerry Lee Lewis singles chronology | ||||
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"How's My Ex Treating You" on YouTube | ||||
"How's My Ex Treating You" is a song written by Vic McAlpin and originally recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis, who released it as a single, with "Sweet Little Sixteen" on the other side, in 1962 on Sun Records.
Hank Williams, Jr. released his version, sounding "very much like Lewis's without a flashy piano",[3] in 1977 or early 1978.[4]
Background
The circumstances of writing this song as recalled by Vic McAlpin are described in the Roger M. Williams's book Sing a Sad Song: The Life of Hank Williams:
[McAlpin] was sitting in Linebaugh's restaurant, a country music hangout in Nashville, when singer-composer Roger Miller walked in. After exchanging hellos, McAlpin asked jokingly, "How's my ex-girl friend treatin' you?" "About like she's treatin' you," Miller replied.
"That really hit me," recalls McAlpin. "I jumped up, got a pencil, and wrote eight lines of a song based on that on a napkin. Then I turned the napkin over and over and wrote eight more. Jerry Lee Lewis recorded it, and it sold over a hundred thousand."[5]
Track listing
(Sun 379, 1962)[1]References
- ^ a b "ultratop.be - Jerry Lee Lewis - Sweet Little Sixteen". Ultratop. Retrieved 2020-04-23.
- ^ Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (18 August 1962). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. pp. 37–. ISSN 0006-2510.
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has generic name (help) - ^ Barbara Ching (19 July 2001). Wrong's What I Do Best: Hard Country Music and Contemporary Culture. Oxford University Press. pp. 85–. ISBN 978-0-19-028309-4.
The first, Jerry Lee Lewis's "How's My Ex Treating You" sounds very much like Lewis without a flashy piano.
- ^ "How's My Ex Treating You by Hank Williams, Jr. - Samples, Covers and Remixes". WhoSampled. Retrieved 2020-04-23.
"Cover versions of How's My Ex Treating You by Jerry Lee Lewis". SecondHandSongs. Retrieved 2020-04-23. - ^ Roger M. Williams (1981). Sing a Sad Song: The Life of Hank Williams. University of Illinois Press. pp. 108–. ISBN 978-0-252-00861-0.
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