Only Lonely Sometimes
1980 studio album by Tammy Wynette
Only Lonely Sometimes | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Studio album by Tammy Wynette | ||||
Released | June 9, 1980 | |||
Recorded | Jan. 1980 | |||
Studio |
| |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 32:38 | |||
Label | Epic | |||
Producer | Billy Sherrill | |||
Tammy Wynette chronology | ||||
| ||||
Singles from Only Lonely Sometimes | ||||
| ||||
Review scores | |
---|---|
Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [1] |
Only Lonely Sometimes is the twenty-first studio album by American country music singer-songwriter Tammy Wynette. It was released on June 9, 1980, by Epic Records.[2]
Commercial performance
The album peaked at No. 37 on the Billboard Country Albums chart. The album's first single, "He Was There (When I Needed You)", peaked at No. 17 on the Billboard Country Singles chart, and the album's second single, "Starting Over", also peaked at No. 17.
Track listing
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
---|---|---|---|
1. | "He Was There (When I Needed You)" | Sue Richards | 3:15 |
2. | "I'll Be Thinking of You" | Richards | 3:58 |
3. | "You Never Knew" | Jerry Taylor, Robert J. Jones | 2:59 |
4. | "Come with Me" | Chuck Howard | 2:56 |
5. | "You Needed Me" | Randy Goodrum | 3:22 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
---|---|---|---|
1. | "Starting Over" | Bob McDill | 3:07 |
2. | "Out of the Spotlight" | Taylor, Jones | 3:22 |
3. | "Only the Names Have Been Changed" | Tammy Wynette, Jan Howard | 3:11 |
4. | "When You Love Me" | Taylor, Paul Richey | 3:16 |
5. | "Ozark Mountain Lullaby" | Jones | 3:12 |
Personnel
Adapted from the album liner notes.
- Phil Baugh - lead guitar
- Ken Bell - rhythm guitar
- Lou Bradley - engineer
- Tom Brannon - background vocals
- Jimmy Capps - rhythm guitar
- Jerry Carrigan - drums
- Boomer Castleman - rhythm guitar
- C.C. Couch - background vocals
- Mike Daniel - engineer
- Chalmers Davis - keyboard
- Diane Davidson - background vocals
- Pete Drake - steel guitar
- Jimmy English - lead guitar
- Ralph Ezell - bass
- Johnny Gimble - fiddle
- Owen Hale - drums
- Kenny Malone - drums
- Bill McElhiney - string arrangements
- Steve Nathan - keyboard
- Nightstreets - background vocals
- June Page - background vocals
- Ron Reynolds - engineer
- George Richey - keyboard
- Hargus "Pig" Robbins - keyboard
- Norman Seeff - photography
- The Shelly Kurland Strings - strings
- Billy Sherrill - producer
- Henry Strzelecki - bass
- Virginia Team - art direction
- Pete Wade - rhythm guitar
- Tammy Wynette - lead vocals
- Reggie Young - lead guitar
Chart positions
Album
Year | Chart | Peak position |
---|---|---|
1980 | Country Albums (Billboard)[3] | 37 |
Singles
Year | Single | Chart | Peak position |
---|---|---|---|
1980 | "He Was There (When I Needed You)" | Country Singles (Billboard)[4] | 17 |
1980 | "Starting Over" | Country Singles (Billboard)[5] | 17 |
References
- ^ "Only Lonely Sometimes - Tammy Wynette | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
- ^ "Only Lonely Sometimes - Tammy Wynette". Tammy Wynette. 28 April 2017. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
- ^ "Billboard Magazine - July 12, 1980" (PDF). American Radio History. Billboard Magazine. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
- ^ "Billboard Magazine - June 7, 1980" (PDF). American Radio History. Billboard Magazine. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
- ^ "Billboard Magazine - October 4, 1980" (PDF). American Radio History. Billboard Magazine. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
- v
- t
- e
- Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad (1967)
- My Elusive Dreams (with David Houston) (1967)
- Take Me to Your World / I Don't Wanna Play House (1968)
- D-I-V-O-R-C-E (1968)
- Stand by Your Man (1969)
- Inspiration (1969)
- The Ways to Love a Man (1970)
- Tammy's Touch (1970)
- The First Lady (1970)
- Christmas with Tammy (1970)
- We Sure Can Love Each Other (1971)
- Bedtime Story (1972)
- My Man (1972)
- Another Lonely Song (1974)
- Woman to Woman (1974)
- I Still Believe in Fairy Tales (1975)
- 'Til I Can Make It on My Own (1976)
- You and Me (1976)
- Let's Get Together (1977)
- One of a Kind (1977)
- Womanhood (1978)
- Just Tammy (1979)
- Only Lonely Sometimes (1980)
- You Brought Me Back (1981)
- Soft Touch (1982)
- Good Love & Heartbreak (1982)
- Even the Strong Get Lonely (1983)
- Sometimes When We Touch (1985)
- Higher Ground (1987)
- Next to You (1989)
- Heart over Mind (1990)
- Without Walls (1994)
- Tammy's Greatest Hits (1969)
- The World of Tammy Wynette (1970)
- Straight from the Heart (with David Houston) (1971)
- Tammy's Greatest Hits, Volume II (1971)
- Kids Say the Darndest Things (1973)
- George & Tammy
- Stand by Your Man
- Tammy Wynette Remembered