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Can't Get Used to Losing You

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"Can't Get Used to Losing You"
Song

"Can't Get Used to Losing You" is a song written by Jerome "Doc" Pomus and Mort Shuman,[1] first made popular by Andy Williams in a 1963 record release.

Covers

"Can't Get Used to Losing You" was the title of both a hit album and a single from the album, recorded by Andy Williams and released in 1963. The single spent four weeks at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and topped the Easy Listening chart for four weeks in April 1963, peaking on both in April 1963.[2] Williams' recording peaked at #1 on the Cashbox charts.[3]

This song has been covered by Madeline Bell, Julie London, Skeeter Davis, Bobby Darin, Chad & Jeremy, Bobby Rydell, The Beat (or The English Beat in the USA)[4] and Renegade Soundwave.

In one of Kermit Schafer's blooper books, it says that an announcer introduced the song as "Can't Get Used to Using You".

References

  1. ^ "1963, "Can't Get Used to Losing You"".
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 6th Edition (Billboard Publications)
  3. ^ "PopularSong.org, "Meet the Boxes, Juke and Cash"".
  4. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Album Cuts 1955-2001, (Billboard Publications)