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Humpty Dumpty Heart

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"Humpty Dumpty Heart"
Single by Hank Thompson
B-side"Today"
Released1948
Recorded1948
GenreCountry
Length2:05
LabelCapitol
Songwriter(s)Hank Thompson
Hank Thompson singles chronology
"Humpty Dumpty Heart"
(1948)
"Yesterday's Mail"
(1948)

"Humpty Dumpty Heart", also known as "(I've Got A) Humpty Dumpty Heart", is a country music song written and sung by Hank Thompson (with backing from His Brazos Valley Boys) and released on the Capitol label. In January 1948, it reached No. 3 on the Billboard folk juke box charts.[1] It was also ranked as the No. 6 record on Billboard's 1948 year-end folk record sellers chart.[2] Thompson's recording was "estimated to have sold a million".[3]

There are at least two other popular songs titled "Humpty Dumpty Heart"

References

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  1. ^ Joel Whitburn (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits. Billboard Books. p. 319. ISBN 0823076326.
  2. ^ "The Year's Top Folk Records". The Billboard. January 1, 1949. p. 17.
  3. ^ Murrells, Joseph (1978). The Book of Golden Discs (2nd ed.). London: Barrie and Jenkins Ltd. p. 46. ISBN 0-214-20512-6.