BRENDA LEE - LOSING YOU

 LOSING YOU

BRENDA LEE

SONGWRITER: JEAN RENARD & CARL SIGMAN

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: LET ME SING…

LABEL: DECCA RECORDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 1963

 

       Brenda Mae Tarpley (born December 11, 1944), known professionally as Brenda Lee, is an American singer. Performing rockabilly, pop and country music, she had 47 US chart hits during the 1960s and is ranked fourth in that decade, surpassed only by Elvis Presley, the Beatles and Ray Charles. She is known for her 1960 hit "I'm Sorry", and 1958's "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree", which has become a Christmas standard.

         At 4 ft 9 inches tall (approximately 145 cm), she received the nickname "Little Miss Dynamite" in 1957, after recording the song "Dynamite" when she was 12 and was one of the earliest pop stars to have a major contemporary international following.

      In 1969, Lee returned to the charts with her recording "Johnny One Time" penned by A.L. "Doodle" Owens and Dallas Frazier. The song reached #3 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Chart and #41 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song also earned Lee her second Grammy nomination for Best Pop Female Vocal. Later success came with a return to her roots as a country singer, with a string of hits through the 1970s and 1980s. She is a member of the Rock and Roll, Country Music and Rockabilly Halls of Fame. She is also a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient. Lee is the only woman to be inducted into both the Rock and Roll and Country Music Halls of Fame. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

         "Losing You" is a song written by Jean Renard and Carl Sigman and performed by Brenda Lee. The song reached #2 on the adult contemporary chart, #6 on the Billboard Hot 100, #10 in the UK, and #13 on the R&B chart in 1963. The song is featured on her 1963 album, ..."Let Me Sing".

     The song was produced by Owen Bradley. The single's B-side, "He's So Heavenly", reached #93 on the Billboard Hot 100.

         The song was ranked #62 on Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1963.

Don't sigh a sigh for me
Don't ever cry for me
This is goodbye for me
I know we're through
I'm Losing you
 
Love sang it's song for me
Then things went wrong for me
Nights are too long for me
Because I'm losing you
 
Our love and our devotion
Were deep as any ocean
Then one day like the tide you began to change
And you became a perfect stranger
Someone is holding you
 
Sharing the lips I knew
I can't believe it's true
That I am losing you
 
I can't believe it's true
That I am losing you.