You're the Reason

"You're the Reason"
"You're the Reason"
Single by Bobby Edwards
B-side	"I'm a Fool for Loving You"
Released	1961
Genre	Country
Length	2:35
Label	Crest
Songwriter(s)	Bobby Edwards, Terry Imes-Fell and Fred Henley
Bobby Edwards singles chronology

"You're the Reason" is a song by Bobby Edwards, released as a single in the United States in 1961. The song reached number four on the Hot C&W Sides chart and number 11 on the Hot 100 chart.

Chart performance

Bobby Edwards

Chart (1961)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot C&W Sides^[2]	4
U.S. Billboard Hot 100^[3]	11

Joe South

Chart (1961)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot C&W Sides^[4]	16
U.S. Billboard Hot 100^[5]	87

Hank Locklin

Chart (1961)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot C&W Sides^[6]	14
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	107

Johnny Tillotson

Chart (1967)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles	48
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	24

Cover versions

The tune was later covered by Arthur Alexander, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Joe South, Johnny Tillotson, Hank Locklin, Hank III and John Fogerty on his album The Blue Ridge Rangers.^[7]

References

^ Allmusic song info
^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 114.
^ Whitburn, Joel (2013). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles, 14th Edition: 1955-2012. Record Research. p. 268.
^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 325.
^ Whitburn, Joel (2013). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles, 14th Edition: 1955-2012. Record Research. p. 788.
^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 203.
^ Allmusic chart history

This 1960s single-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[1] Allmusic song info

[2] Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 114.

[3] Whitburn, Joel (2013). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles, 14th Edition: 1955-2012. Record Research. p. 268.

[4] Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 325.

[5] Whitburn, Joel (2013). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles, 14th Edition: 1955-2012. Record Research. p. 788.

[6] Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 203.

[7] Allmusic chart history

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]

[7]

v t e Hank Locklin
Discography
Studio albums	Foreign Love (1958) Please Help Me, I'm Falling (1960) Happy Journey (1962) A Tribute to Roy Acuff: The King of Country Music (1962) Hank Locklin (1962) This Song Is Just for You (1963) The Ways of Life (1963) Irish Songs, Country Style (1964) Hank Locklin Sings Hank Williams (1964) Hank Locklin Sings Eddy Arnold (1965) My Kind of Country Music (1965) Once Over Lightly (1965) The Girls Get Prettier (1966) The Gloryland Way (1966) Send Me the Pillow You Dream On and Other Great Country Hits (1967) Nashville Women (1967) Country Hall of Fame (1968) My Love Song for You (1968) Softly (1968) Lookin' Back (1969) Hank Locklin & Danny Davis & the Nashville Brass (1970) Bless Her Heart...I Love Her (1970) The Mayor of McLellan, Florida (1972) Hank Locklin (1975) There Never Was a Time (1977) Country Hall of Fame (1978) All Kinds of Everything (1979) Generations in Song (2001) By the Grace of God: The Gospel Album (2006)
Compilation albums	The Best of Hank Locklin (1966)
Songs	"The Same Sweet Girl" "Send Me the Pillow You Dream On" "Let Me Be the One" "Why Baby Why" "Geisha Girl" "It's a Little More Like Heaven" "Please Help Me, I'm Falling" "One Step Ahead of My Past" "From Here to There to You" "You're the Reason" "Happy Birthday to Me" "Happy Journey" "We're Gonna Go Fishin'" "Followed Closely by My Teardrops" "The Country Hall of Fame" "Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day"
Related people and articles	Danny Davis Grand Ole Opry McLellan, Florida