Leavin' On Your Mind

Album: The Patsy Cline Story (1963)
Charted: 83
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Songfacts®:

  • Written by Wayne Walker and Webb Pierce, this was one of Cline's three posthumous Top 10 Country hits. The other two were "Sweet Dreams" and "Faded Love."
  • This song was first recorded by the Canadian singer Joyce Smith in 1961.
  • Country singer Jamie O'Neal covered this song for her 2014 covers album Eternal. She said in a Songfacts interview: "You don't hear a lot of songs like that these days that are just that really raw emotion. It's almost like desperation in a way. I feel like back then people used to sing and lay it all out on the table when they loved somebody."
  • This song was featured in the season one Lost episode "Tabula Rasa."

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