You Can't Have My Love

"You Can't Have My Love"
Single by Wanda Jackson with Billy Gray
B-side "Lovin' Country Style"
Released May 1954
Format 7" single
Recorded March 24, 1954
Hollywood[1]
Genre Country
Label Decca
Writer(s) Billy Gray, Chuck Harding, Marty Roberts, Mark Thompson
Producer(s) Tom Mack
Wanda Jackson singles chronology
"You Can't Have My Love"
(1954)		 "The Right to Love"
(1954)
Billy Gray singles chronology
"You Can't Have My Love"
(1954)

"You Can't Have My Love" is a song written by Billy Gray, Chuck Hardin, Marty Roberts, and Mark Thompson. It was recorded by American country artist, Wanda Jackson, and American country musician, Billy Gray.

The song was Jackson's first single released for Decca Records and it was released when she was only a teenager.[2] Released as a single in May 1954, "You Can't Have My Love" became a national top-ten hit on the Billboard Magazine Most Played C&W in Juke Boxes chart, peaking at number eight. It would be the first of a string of charting country and pop hits for Jackson. In addition, it would be Gray's only charting single.[3]

Chart performance

Chart (1954) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Most Played C&W in Juke Boxes 8

References

  1. ↑ "Country Music Discographies: Wanda Jackson, Part One". Praguefrank's Country Music Discographies. Retrieved December 17, 2013.
  2. ↑ "Wanda Jackson Biography". The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Retrieved December 17, 2013.
  3. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944–2006, Second edition. Record Research.


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