She Needs Someone to Hold Her (When She Cries)

"She Needs Someone to Hold Her (When She Cries)"
Single by Conway Twitty
from the album She Needs Someone to Hold Her
B-side "This Road That I Walk"
Released November 1972
Genre Country
Label Decca
Writer(s) Raymond Smith
Producer(s) Owen Bradley
Conway Twitty singles chronology
"I Can't Stop Loving You"
(1972)
"She Needs Someone to Hold Her (When She Cries)"
(1972)
"Baby's Gone"
(1973)

"She Needs Someone to Hold Her (When She Cries)" is a song written by Raymond Smith, and recorded by American country music artist Conway Twitty. It was released in November 1972 as the first single from the album She Needs Someone to Hold Her. The song was Twitty's ninth number one in the U.S. country chart as a solo artist. It stayed at number one for two weeks and spent a total of 14 weeks in the chart.[1]

Chart performance

Chart (1972–1973) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles 1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 8

References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 361.
Preceded by
"(Old Dogs, Children And) Watermelon Wine"
by Tom T. Hall
Billboard Hot Country Singles
number-one single

February 3-February 10, 1973
Succeeded by
"I Wonder If They Ever Think of Me"
by Merle Haggard