"She's Got You" is a famous pop

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

 song written by Hank Cochran

Hank Cochran

Garland Perry "Hank" Cochran was an American country music singer and songwriter. Starting during the 1960s, Cochran was a prolific songwriter in the genre, including major hits by Patsy Cline, Ray Price, Eddy Arnold and others...

 and was first recorded and released as a single by Patsy Cline

Patsy Cline

Patsy Cline , born Virginia Patterson Hensley in Gore, Virginia, was an American country music singer who enjoyed pop music crossover success during the era of the Nashville sound in the early 1960s...

 in 1962. Musically the song is an upbeat jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

-pop song with country overtones to support it.

History

According to the Ellis Nassour Biography, Honky Tonk Angel: The Intimate Story of Patsy Cline, writer Hank Cochran remembers calling Cline up telling her that he'd just written her next number 1 hit. She told him to come over to her house with a bottle of liquor and play it on the guitar for her and friend Dottie West

Dottie West

Dottie West was an American country music singer and songwriter. Along with her friends and co-recording artists Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn, she is considered one of the genre's most influential and groundbreaking female artists...

 who was visiting that afternoon. Cline was emotionally moved by its lyrics and loved the song so much that she learned it that night, calling up her manager and producer to sing it to them over the phone. At her next session, she recorded it. This was a rare instance, as Cline and her producer, Owen Bradley, often disagreed with each other's choice of material. This time, they both agreed they had a hit.

"She's Got You" was written as Cline's follow-up single to her two previous big hits of the previous year, "I Fall to Pieces

I Fall to Pieces

"I Fall to Pieces" is a single released by Patsy Cline in 1961, and was featured on her 1961 studio album, Patsy Cline Showcase. "I Fall to Pieces" was Cline's first #1 hit on the Country charts, and her second hit single to cross over onto the Pop charts...

" and "Crazy

Crazy (Willie Nelson song)

"Crazy" is a ballad composed by Willie Nelson. It has been recorded by several artists, most notably by Patsy Cline, whose version was a #2 country hit in 1962....

." "She's Got You" was released on January 30, 1962 and immediately went to No. 1 on the Hot C&W Sides

Hot Country Songs

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 country chart. and to No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song also went to number three on the Easy Listening chart. "She's Got You" was very important to Cline's career as it marked her first hit single in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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, where it reached No. 43. "She's Got You" later became classic and was one of the songs to help jump-start Cline's career. The hit became so successful, it led to an appearance on American Bandstand

American Bandstand

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with Dick Clark that February and led to Cline having her own show in Las Vegas in the following November. "She's Got You" was followed by a couple of other minor hits that year, including "Imagine That," "When I Get Thru' With You

When I Get Thru' with You

"When I Get Thru with You " is a song written by Harlan Howard which became a hit for Patsy Cline in 1962. The song went to #10 on the country chart and #53 on the pop chart. Howard had previously co-written Cline's #1 hit "I Fall to Pieces"....

," "So Wrong

So Wrong

So Wrong is a song written by Carl Perkins, Danny Dill and Mel Tillis and popularized by country music artist Patsy Cline.Patsy Cline was best known for her string of Country and Pop ballads like "I Fall to Pieces", "Crazy" and "She's Got You". By 1962, Cline was already successful on both the...

," and "Strange." On August 6, 1962, Cline's third album Sentimentally Yours was released, featuring "She's Got You".

Legacy

"She's Got You" has been covered by numerous artists, such as Rosanne Cash, LeAnn Rimes

LeAnn Rimes

LeAnn Rimes is an American country/pop singer. She is known for her rich vocals and her rise to fame as an eight-year-old champion on the original Ed McMahon version of Star Search, followed by the release of the Patsy Cline-intended single "Blue" when Rimes was only age 13, resulting in her...

, Timi Yuro

Timi Yuro

Timi Yuro was an American soul and R&B singer. She is considered to be one of the first blue-eyed soul stylists of the rock era.-Early years:...

, Jimmy Buffett

Jimmy Buffett

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, Lee Ann Womack

Lee Ann Womack

Lee Ann Womack is an American country music singer and songwriter, who is best known for her old fashioned-styled country music songs that often discuss subjects such as cheating and lost love....

, Cat Power

Cat Power

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, Elvis Costello ["He's Got You"], and Loretta Lynn

Loretta Lynn

Loretta Lynn is an American country music singer-songwriter, author and philanthropist. Born in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky to a coal miner father, Lynn married at 13 years old, was a mother soon after, and moved to Washington with her husband, Oliver Lynn. Their marriage was sometimes tumultuous; he...

. In 1977, the song also became a No. 1 country hit for Lynn, when her tribute album to Cline called I Remember Patsy was released.

This song appeared in two episodes of the TV show Lost

Lost (TV series)

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, first in the season 4

Lost (season 4)

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 episode "Eggtown

Eggtown

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", and again in the season 5

Lost (season 5)

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 episode "Whatever Happened, Happened

Whatever Happened, Happened

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". It also appeared in the third episode of Alias

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, entitled "Reunion". It was also featured in the motion picture Country Strong.

The song was also used in The White Stripes

The White Stripes

The White Stripes was an American rock band, formed in 1997 in Detroit, Michigan. The group consisted of the songwriter Jack White and drummer Meg White . Jack and Meg White were previously married to each other, but are now divorced...

' DVD Under Great Northern Lights. Jack White

Jack White (musician)

Jack White , often credited as Jack White III, is an American musician, songwriter, record producer and occasional actor...

sits and listens to the song and relaxes while on tour in Canada.

Patsy Cline

Chart (1962)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot C&W Sides	1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	14
U.S. Billboard Easy Listening	3

Loretta Lynn

Chart (1977)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles	1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	1