Buck Owens – Your Tender Loving Care, is the title track from Buck Owens’ 1967 album. The single was number one country hit spending one week at the top and a total of fourteen weeks on the chart.
When “Your Tender Loving Care” reached No. 1, it established a new record for most No. 1 songs in as many single releases with 15. Owens’ streak had started in June 1963 with “Act Naturally,” and the next 13 singles he released all had their A-sides reach the No. 1 position on the Hot Country Singles chart; included in that streak was one B-side, “Together Again,” the flip side of “My Heart Skips a Beat.
” Owens’ chart-topping streak was snapped in January 1968 when Owens’ next single, “It Takes People Like You (To Make People Like Me),” peaked at No. 2, held out by “For Loving You” by Bill Anderson and Jan Howard, and “Sing Me Back Home” by Merle Haggard. He went on to score another No. 1 with the next song, “How Long Will My Baby Be Gone,” and have five more No. 1 hits in his career.
Owens kept the record for lengthiest No. 1 hit streak until November 1971, when Capitol Records labelmate Sonny James scored his 16th straight No. 1 hit with “Here Comes Honey Again.” In the years since, only Earl Thomas Conley and Alabama have had lengthier No. 1 streaks, with 16 and 21 straight No. 1 songs in a row, respectively.
Buck Owens – Your Tender Loving Care
From the album Your Tender Loving Care
B-side “What A Liar I Am”
Released June 26, 1967
Genre Country
Length 2:45
Label Capitol
Songwriter(s) Buck Owens
Producer(s) Ken Nelson
COUNTRYPEDIA
Your Tender Loving Care lyrics
I don’t need the ship that sail to ocean
I don’t need fancy clothes to wear
I just need your sweet sweet lips to kiss me
I just need your tender loving care
Winter needs the north wind and the snowflakes
Springtime needs the flowers soft and rare
I just need to feel your arms around me
I just need your tender loving care
— Instrumental —
Day goes by so slow when you’re not with me
Nights are long and oh so, hard to bare
Everything is nothing dear without you
And I’m nothing without your tender loving care
I just need your tender loving care…
GENIUS
