I Can't Win for Losin' You

"I Can't Win for Losin' You"
Single by Earl Thomas Conley
from the album Too Many Times
B-side "Love's on the Move"
Released November 24, 1986
Genre Country
Length 4:06
Label RCA
Writer(s) Robert Byrne
Rick Bowles
Producer(s) Earl Thomas Conley
Nelson Larkin
Mark Wright
Earl Thomas Conley singles chronology
"Too Many Times"
(1986)
"I Can't Win for Losin' You"
(1986)
"That Was a Close One"
(1987)

"I Can't Win for Losin' You' is a song written by Robert Byrne and Rick Bowles and recorded by Earl Thomas Conley. It was released in November 1986 as the second single from the album Too Many Times. The song was Earl Thomas Conley's twelfth number one country single. The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of thirteen weeks on the country chart.[1]

Critical reception

Kip Kirby of Billboard magazine reviewed the song favorably, saying that Conley "slips into a breathy, soulful voice in this R&B-flavored lament; underneath a devil-may-care exterior, he's paying dues for a love that got away."[2]

Chart performance

Chart (1986–1987) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles 1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 3

References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 88.
  2. Billboard, November 22, 1986

External links

Preceded by
"Straight to the Heart"
by Crystal Gayle
Billboard Hot Country Singles
number-one single

February 28, 1987
Succeeded by
"Mornin' Ride"
by Lee Greenwood