If My Heart Had Windows (song)

"If My Heart Had Windows"
Single by George Jones
from the album If My Heart Had Windows
B-side "The Honky Tonk Downstairs"
Released October 7, 1967
Genre Country
Length 2:45
Label Musicor
Writer(s) Dallas Frazier
George Jones singles chronology
"Party Pickin'"
(1967)
"If My Heart Had Windows"
(1967)
"Say It's Not You"
(1968)
"If My Heart Had Windows"

From Grand Ole' Opry induction performance, 11 June 1988
Single by Patty Loveless
from the album If My Heart Had Windows
B-side "So Good to Be in Love"
Released February 6, 1988
Format 7in vinyl single
Recorded 1987
Genre Country
Length 3:02
Label MCA
Writer(s) Dallas Frazier
Producer(s) Emory Gordy, Jr.
Tony Brown
Patty Loveless singles chronology
"You Saved Me"
(1987)
"If My Heart Had Windows"
(1988)
"A Little Bit in Love"
(1988)
Music video
"If My Heart Had Windows" on YouTube

"If My Heart Had Windows" is the title of a country song written by Dallas Frazier and recorded by George Jones in 1967 on his album of the same name. Released as a single that year, Jones's version peaked at #7 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles charts.[1]

In 1968, crooner Andy Russell performed a cover version (Capitol #2072) that peaked at number 29 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary Singles Chart.[2]

Twenty-one years after the original version, Patty Loveless recorded a cover of the song on her 1987 album, also entitled If My Heart Had Windows. Loveless's version was also a Top Ten country hit — the first of her career — peaking at #10 on the country music charts.[3] It was also the song she sang the night she was inducted into the membership of the Grand Ole Opry.

Chart positions

George Jones

Chart (1967) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles 7

Andy Russell

Chart (1968) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary Singles 29

Patty Loveless

Chart (1988) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles 10
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 9

References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 181.
  2. "Andy Russell Top Songs". Music VF.com. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
  3. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 206.
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