| "Don't Let Me Cross Over" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by Carl Butler and Pearl | ||||
| from the album Don't Let Me Cross Over | ||||
| B-side | "Wonder Drug" | |||
| Released | November 1962 (U.S.) | |||
| Recorded | February 26, 1962 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 2:57 | |||
| Label | Columbia 42953 | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Penny Jay | |||
| Carl Butler and Pearl singles chronology | ||||
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"Don't Let Me Cross Over" is a song made famous as a duet by Carl Butler and Pearl, a husband-and-wife country music duo. Originally released in November 1962, the song needed just four weeks to reach the #1 spot on the Billboard Country Singles chart, and spent 11 (non-consecutive) weeks at #1.[1] "Don't Let Me Cross Over" has become a country-music standard.
Honky-tonk singer Carl Butler is best remembered for "Don't Let Me Cross Over," which Allmusic writer Jim Worbois described as a "country heartbreak song." The song was one of several in which Butler's wife, Pearl, joins him on harmony.[2]
With its 11-week reign, "Don't Let Me Cross Over" was the longest-running No. 1 song for a performer's debut single on the Hot Country Singles (and its successor-names) chart until being matched in May 2013 by Florida Georgia Line's "Cruise."