billy ray cyrus sang the song he stopped loving her today.
billy ray cyrus sang the song he stopped loving her today.
who sang the song he stopped loving her today?
billy ray cyrus
producer billy sherrill introduced jones to the song in 1978 but, according to sherrill and jones himself, the singer hated the song when he first heard it. in bob allen's biography of the singer, sherrill states, "he thought it was too long, too sad, too depressing and that nobody would ever play it...he hated the melody and wouldn't learn it." sherrill also claims that jones frustrated him by continually singing the song to the melody of the kris kristofferson hit "help me make it through the night". in the "same ole me" retrospective, sherrill recalls a heated exchange during one recording session: "i said 'that's not the melody!' and he said 'yeah, but it's a better melody.' i said 'it might be—kristofferson would think so too, it's his melody!'" in the same documentary, sherrill claims that jones was in such bad physical shape during this period that "the recitation was recorded 18 months after the first verse was" and added that the last words jones said about "he stopped loving her today" was "nobody'll buy that morbid son of a bitch". although he had disliked "he stopped loving her today" when it was first offered to him, jones ultimately gave the song credit for reviving his flagging career, stating that "a four-decade career had been salvaged by a three-minute song." it was as much a "tour de force" for the producer was for the singer, featuring all the hallmarks of sherrill's symphonic approach to country production, featuring cresting strings and dramatic flourishes. had it not been for sherrill, it is unlikely the song would have ever been recorded, such was his belief in the song, although he did share some of jones' misgivings initially; in his 1995 memoir, jones recalled, "putman and braddock killed the song's main character too soon in their early versions. billy kept telling them to kill the guy at a different time and then have the woman come to his funeral...he gave the song to me, and i carried it for more than a year, also convinced that it needed rewriting. billy had a notebook about an inch thick that was nothing but rewrites for 'he stopped loving her today.'"
he stopped loving her today
i never once stopped loving you (song)









































"i never once stopped loving you" is a single by american country music artist connie smith. released in march 1970, the song reached #5 on the "billboard" hot country singles chart. an album of the same name was released in september 1970 that included the song. in addition, "i never once stopped loving you" also peaked at #17 on the canadian "rpm" country tracks chart.
i never once stopped loving you (song)