Skeeter Davis - "Set Him Free" (1959)
Sept 16, 2019 23:16:23 GMT -5
Post by 🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲 on Sept 16, 2019 23:16:23 GMT -5
I don't usually listen to country music, but I remember my dad playing this song during my childhood. My mom loves country music, though.
It was recorded in January 1959 at the RCA Victor Studio in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. The song was released as a single in February 1959, and it peaked at number five on the Billboard Magazine Hot C&W Sides chart later that year. The single became Davis' highest-charting single to that point and her third solo hit. In November 1959, "Set Him Free" was issued onto Davis' debut studio album entitled, I'll Sing You a Song and Harmonize Too.
In 1959, "Set Him Free" became the first song by a female country artist nominated by the Grammy Awards.
In 1967, an updated version of "Set Him Free" was re-recorded and released as a single in late 1967. The new version peaked at number fifty-two on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart and was issued onto her studio album entitled, What Does It Take (To Keep a Man Like You Satisfied).
