How's My Ex Treating You
| "How's My Ex Treating You" | |
|---|---|
| Single by Jerry Lee Lewis | |
| A-side | "How's My Ex Treating You" "Sweet Little Sixteen"[2] |
| Released | July 21, 1962 (1962年07月21日)[1] |
| Genre | Country |
| Length | 2:35 |
| Label | Sun |
| Songwriter(s) | Vic McAlpin |
| Producer(s) | Jerry Kennedy |
| Jerry Lee Lewis singles chronology | |
|
"I've Been Twistin'" / "Ramblin' Rose"
(1962) "How's My Ex Treating You" / "Sweet Little Sixteen " (1962) "Good Golly Miss Molly" / "I Can't Trust Me (in Your Arms Anymore)" (1962) | |
| Audio | |
| "How's My Ex Treating You" on YouTube | |
"How's My Ex Treating You" is a song written by Vic McAlpin and originally recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis, who released it as a single, with "Sweet Little Sixteen" on the other side, in 1962 on Sun Records.
Hank Williams, Jr. released his version, sounding "very much like Lewis's without a flashy piano",[3] in 1977 or early 1978.[4]
Background
[edit ]The circumstances of writing this song as recalled by Vic McAlpin are described in the Roger M. Williams's book Sing a Sad Song: The Life of Hank Williams:
[McAlpin] was sitting in Linebaugh's restaurant, a country music hangout in Nashville, when singer-composer Roger Miller walked in. After exchanging hellos, McAlpin asked jokingly, "How's my ex-girl friend treatin' you?" "About like she's treatin' you," Miller replied.
"That really hit me," recalls McAlpin. "I jumped up, got a pencil, and wrote eight lines of a song based on that on a napkin. Then I turned the napkin over and over and wrote eight more. Jerry Lee Lewis recorded it, and it sold over a hundred thousand."[5]
Track listing
[edit ]| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Sweet Little Sixteen" | 2:52 |
| 2. | "How's My Ex Treating You" | 2:35 |
References
[edit ]- ^ a b "ultratop.be - Jerry Lee Lewis - Sweet Little Sixteen". Ultratop . Retrieved 2020年04月23日.
- ^ Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 18 August 1962. pp. 37–. ISSN 0006-2510.
- ^ Barbara Ching (19 July 2001). Wrong's What I Do Best: Hard Country Music and Contemporary Culture . Oxford University Press. pp. 85–. ISBN 978-0-19-028309-4.
The first, Jerry Lee Lewis's "How's My Ex Treating You" sounds very much like Lewis without a flashy piano.
- ^ "How's My Ex Treating You by Hank Williams, Jr. - Samples, Covers and Remixes". WhoSampled. Retrieved 2020年04月23日.
"Cover versions of How's My Ex Treating You by Jerry Lee Lewis". SecondHandSongs. Retrieved 2020年04月23日. - ^ Roger M. Williams (1981). Sing a Sad Song: The Life of Hank Williams. University of Illinois Press. pp. 108–. ISBN 978-0-252-00861-0.