One Love At A Time

Album: Girls Like Me (1986)
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Songfacts®:

  • In this song, Tanya Tucker is dating two guys at the same time, and it's wearing her out. It's exciting having multiple lovers until you have to remember their birthdays and give them all your free time. No, one love at a time is quite enough. Now she just has to decide which one to keep.
  • A pair of songwriting Pauls - Paul Davis and Paul Overstreet - wrote this song. A year later, she teamed up with them for the #1 Country hit "I Won't Take Less Than Your Love," where each of them take a verse.
  • This was Tanya Tucker's comeback single. After shining bright in the early '70s, her star had fallen by the '80s, and by the middle of the decade she was on hiatus. She developed a drug problem and lost her record deal. Her father helped pull her out of her downward spiral, moving her from Los Angeles to Nashville and helping her get sober. Tucker landed a deal with Capitol Nashville and issued her first album on the label, Girls Like Me, in 1986. "One Love At A Time" got her back on the Country chart, climbing to #3. Her next single, "Just Another Love," went to #1.

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