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Elvis Presley covered the song on his 1970 album Elvis Country (I'm 10,000 Years Old.) The song was re-released as a B-side to Guitar Man, in 1981 with new music under the direction of Felton Jarvis. Jerry Reed, the composer of the original Guitar Man song, and the guitarist on the 1967 Elvis
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Hot 100. It was originally intended to be the title cut for a planned album, and was made at what turned out to be the last recording session before her death in an airplane crash. Instead, it was belatedly released on
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chart in October 1980. The song, which came out at a time when Nelson was country music's biggest superstar, gave Price his first top 10 hit in more than five years and biggest hit in seven years.
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had two Top 40 hits with "Faded Love", both reaching number 22 (Cimarron 4057, 1962, and MGM 14249, 1971). The former was an instrumental version, and the latter rendition was a collaboration with
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covered it in 1963. Her single became a hit, reaching number seven on the U.S. Country charts and number 96 on the
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was the biggest hit version from a chart standpoint. Their duet version — which featured
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Michael Corcoran's Texas Top 50", Lonestar Music Magazine, 29 July 2016
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singing harmony on the chorus — reached number three on the
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session, recorded new guitar parts for both tracks.
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Index

Faded Love (disambiguation)
Single
Bob Wills
B-side
Genre
Western swing
Label
MGM
Songwriter(s)
Western swing
Bob Wills
Western swing fiddle
American fiddle
Darling Nelly Gray
the Texas Playboys

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