Blue Kentucky Girl (song)

"Blue Kentucky Girl" is a song written by Johnny Mullins, and originally recorded by American country music artist Loretta Lynn. It was released in May 1965 as the first single and title track from the album Blue Kentucky Girl. The song reached number 7 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.^[1]

Loretta Lynn version

Chart performance

Chart (1965)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks	7

Emmylou Harris version

"Blue Kentucky Girl"

Single by Emmylou Harris

from the album Blue Kentucky Girl

B-side

"Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight"

Released

September 22, 1979

Johnny Mullins

Emmylou Harris singles chronology

"Save the Last Dance for Me"
(1979)

"Blue Kentucky Girl"
(1979)

"Beneath Still Waters"
(1980)

"Blue Kentucky Girl" was also a single for American country music artist Emmylou Harris. Harris' version released in September 1979 as the second single and title track from her album Blue Kentucky Girl. The song reached number 6 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.^[2] Based on this version, the song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Country Song in 1980.

Chart performance

Chart (1979)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks	6
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	7

Other versions

Skeeter Davis recorded the song for her 1982 album Live Wire.

References

↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 209.
↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 152.

Loretta Lynn singles

1960s

1960	"I'm a Honky Tonk Girl"

1962	"Success"

1963	"The Other Woman" "Before I'm Over You"

1964	"Wine, Women and Song" "Mr. and Mrs. Used to Be" (with Ernest Tubb) "Happy Birthday"

1965	"Blue Kentucky Girl" "The Home You're Tearing Down"

1966	"Dear Uncle Sam" "You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man)" "Don't Come Home A'Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)]"

1967	"If You're Not Gone Too Long" "What Kind of a Girl (Do You Think I Am)"

1968	"Fist City" "You've Just Stepped In (From Stepping Out on Me)" "Your Squaw Is on the Warpath"

1969	"Woman of the World (Leave My World Alone)" "Who's Gonna Take the Garbage Out" (with Ernest Tubb) "To Make a Man (Feel Like a Man)" "Wings Upon Your Horns"

1970s

1970	"I Know How" "You Wanna Give Me a Lift" "Coal Miner's Daughter"

1971	"I Wanna Be Free" "You're Lookin' at Country" "One's on the Way"

1972	"Here I Am Again" "Rated "X""

1973	"Love Is the Foundation" "Hey Loretta"

1974	"They Don't Make 'em Like My Daddy" "Trouble in Paradise"

1975	"The Pill" "Home" "When the Tingle Becomes a Chill"

1976	"Red, White and Blue" "Somebody Somewhere (Don't Know What He's Missin' Tonight)"

1977	"She's Got You" "Why Can't He Be You" "Out of My Head and Back in My Bed"

1978	"Spring Fever" "We've Come a Long Way Baby"

1979	"I Can't Feel You Anymore" "I've Got a Picture of Us on My Mind"

1980s

1980	"Pregnant Again" "Naked in the Rain" "Cheatin' on a Cheater"

1981	"Somebody Led Me Away"

1982	"I Lie" "Making Love from Memory"

1985	"Heart Don't Do This to Me"

1990s

1993	"Silver Threads and Golden Needles" (with Dolly Parton and Tammy Wynette)

Emmylou Harris

Studio albums	Gliding Bird Pieces of the Sky Elite Hotel Luxury Liner Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town Blue Kentucky Girl Light of the Stable Roses in the Snow Evangeline Cimarron White Shoes The Ballad of Sally Rose Thirteen Angel Band Bluebird Brand New Dance Cowgirl's Prayer Wrecking Ball Red Dirt Girl Stumble into Grace All I Intended to Be Hard Bargain

Collaboration albums	Trio (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) Trio II (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions (with Linda Ronstadt) All the Roadrunning (with Mark Knopfler) Old Yellow Moon (with Rodney Crowell) The Traveling Kind (with Rodney Crowell)

Live albums	Last Date At the Ryman (with The Nash Ramblers) Spyboy

Compilation albums	Profile: Best of Emmylou Harris Profile II: The Best of Emmylou Harris Duets Songs of the West The Very Best of Emmylou Harris: Heartaches & Highways Songbird: Rare Tracks and Forgotten Gems

Video albums	Real Live Roadrunning (with Mark Knopfler)

Notable singles	"If I Could Only Win Your Love" "Together Again" "One of These Days" "Sweet Dreams" "(You Never Can Tell) C'est La Vie" "Making Believe" "To Daddy" "Two More Bottles of Wine" "Save the Last Dance for Me" "Blue Kentucky Girl" "Beneath Still Waters" "Wayfaring Stranger" "The Boxer" "Mister Sandman" "If I Needed You" (with Don Williams) "Tennessee Rose" "Born to Run" "(Lost His Love) On Our Last Date" "I'm Movin' On" "So Sad to Watch Good Love Go Bad" "In My Dreams" "Pledging My Love" "Heartbreak Hill" "Heaven Only Knows" "I Still Miss Someone"

Collaboration singles	"To Know Him Is to Love Him" (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) "Telling Me Lies" (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) "Those Memories of You" (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt) "Wildflowers" (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt)

Guest singles	"Thing About You" (with Southern Pacific) "We Believe in Happy Endings" (with Earl Thomas Conley)

Discographies	Discography Solo contributions Collaborations A–F Collaborations G–K Collaborations L–Q Collaborations R–Z

Related articles	Roy Orbison John Denver Gram Parsons Daniel Lanois Rodney Crowell Desire The Last Waltz

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