You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often

"You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often" written in 1945 by Jenny Lou Carson and performed by Tex Ritter, was the first number one country music hit written by a woman.

"You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often"
Single by Tex Ritter and His Texans
B-side	"Green Grow the Lilacs"
Published	July 17, 1945 (1945-07-17) by Acuff-Rose Publications, Inc., Nashville[1]
Released	July 25, 1945 (1945-07-25)
Recorded	May 1, 1945 (1945-05-01)[2]
Genre	Country
Length	2:40
Label	Capitol 206
Songwriter(s)	Jenny Lou Carson
Tex Ritter and His Texans singles chronology
"Jealous Heart" (1945) "You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often" (1945) "You Will Have to Pay" (1945)

Chart performance

It was Ritter's second number one on the Juke Box Folk chart, spending eleven weeks at the top and a total of twenty weeks on the chart.^[3]

Cover Versions

It was subsequently recorded by: the

• Hoosier Hot Shots
• Walt Shrum
• Doc Denning
• Helen O'Connell
• Sue Thompson
• Jimmie Dale
• Wesley Tuttle
• Doc Watson
• Harley Huggins
• Red Foley
• Durwood Haddock
• Johnny Carroll.