How's My Ex Treating You
| "How's My Ex Treating You" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by Jerry Lee Lewis | ||||
| A-side | "How's My Ex Treating You" "Sweet Little Sixteen"[2] | |||
| Released | July 21, 1962[1] | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 2:35 | |||
| Label | Sun | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Vic McAlpin | |||
| Producer(s) | Jerry Kennedy | |||
| Jerry Lee Lewis singles chronology | ||||
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| Audio | ||||
| "How's My Ex Treating You" on YouTube | ||||
"How's My Ex Treating You" is a song written by Vic McAlpin and originally recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis, who released it as a single, with "Sweet Little Sixteen" on the other side, in 1962 on Sun Records.
Background
The circumstances of writing this song as recalled by Vic McAlpin are described in the Roger M. Williams's book Sing a Sad Song: The Life of Hank Williams:
[McAlpin] was sitting in Linebaugh's restaurant, a country music hangout in Nashville, when singer-composer Roger Miller walked in. After exchanging hellos, McAlpin asked jokingly, "How's my ex-girl friend treatin' you?" "About like she's treatin' you," Miller replied.
"That really hit me," recalls McAlpin. "I jumped up, got a pencil, and wrote eight lines of a song based on that on a napkin. Then I turned the napkin over and over and wrote eight more. Jerry Lee Lewis recorded it, and it sold over a hundred thousand."[5]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Sweet Little Sixteen" | 2:52 |
| 2. | "How's My Ex Treating You" | 2:35 |
References
- ^ a b "ultratop.be - Jerry Lee Lewis - Sweet Little Sixteen". Ultratop. Retrieved 2020-04-23.
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The first, Jerry Lee Lewis's "How's My Ex Treating You" sounds very much like Lewis without a flashy piano.
- ^ "How's My Ex Treating You by Hank Williams, Jr. - Samples, Covers and Remixes". WhoSampled. Retrieved 2020-04-23.
"Cover versions of How's My Ex Treating You by Jerry Lee Lewis". SecondHandSongs. Retrieved 2020-04-23. - ISBN 978-0-252-00861-0.