I Love You Because

"I Love You Because" is a 1949 song written and originally recorded by Leon Payne. The single went to number four on the Billboard Country & Western Best Seller lists and spent two weeks at number one on the Country & Western Disk Jockey List, spending a total of thirty-two weeks on the chart.[1]  "I Love You Because" was Payne's only song to make the country charts.



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[hide]  *1 Cover versions  ==Cover versions[ edit] == "I Love You Because" has been covered by several artists throughout the years. In 1950, Ernest Tubb and Clyde Moody each recorded their own version, both making the Top 10 on the Country & Western charts. A version by Johnny Cash reached number 20 in 1960 and Carl Smith's version reached number 14 in 1969. In 1963, Al Martino recorded the most successful version of the song peaking at number three on the Hot 100 and number one on the Middle-Road (or Easy Listening) chart for two weeks in May that year.[2]
 * 2 Chart performance
 * 2.1 Jim Reeves
 * 3 See also
 * 4 References
 * 5 External links

In 1964, Jim Reeves took the song to number five in the UK. In 1976, the song was the title track of a posthumous Jim Reeves album, which peaked at number 24 on the US Country chart. The single version reached number 54 in the US that year.

In 1983, Roger Whittaker got the song "into the lower reaches of the country chart." [3]

Other artists to record the song include Elvis Presley, Hank Locklin, Matt Monro, Slim Whitman, Jerry Lee Lewis, George Jones, Willie Nelson, Jean Shepard and Ray Price. ==Chart performance[ edit] == ===Jim Reeves<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===