It's Been So Long
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| "It's Been So Long" | ||||
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| Single by Webb Pierce | ||||
| B-side | "Don't Throw Your Life Away" | |||
| Released | 1953 | |||
| Recorded | 1953 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 2:33 | |||
| Label | Decca | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Autry Grisham | |||
| Webb Pierce singles chronology | ||||
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"It's Been So Long" is a 1953 single written by Autry Grisham and performed by Webb Pierce. The single was Pierce's fourth number one on the country charts, topping all three country music charts then under publication of Billboard
Jeffrey J. Lange, in the book Smile when You Call Me a Hillbilly: Country Music's Struggle for Respectability, 1939-1954, describes the song as an example of Pierce's lyrical focus on "failed relationships" contrasted with "up-tempo musical background".[1] The editors of The Encyclopedia of Country Music stated that the song was integral in Pierce's success with honky-tonk material following the death of Hank Williams.[2]
