Slippin' Around

"Slippin' Around" is a song written and recorded by Floyd Tillman in 1949. The most popular recording was a cover version by Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely which reached number one on the Retail Folk (Country) Best Sellers chart.[1] It is a song about a person cheating on his/her spouse.[2]

Tillman wrote a follow-up song, the same year, with essentially the same melody, called "I'll Never Slip Around Again" in which the cheater has married the one that he/she cheated with, and is in turn worried that he/she is being cheated on. Doris Day recorded this song as well as Tillman and Whiting and Wakely.

Recorded versions (Slippin' Around)

  • Dave Dudley
  • Jerry Lee Lewis
  • Benny Martin
  • Sammy Masters
  • George Morgan and Marion Worth (1964)
  • Ray Price
  • Floyd Tillman
  • Ernest Tubb
  • Jimmy Wakely and Margaret Whiting (recorded July 20, 1949)
  • Kai Winding
  • Perry Como (as "Bumming Around")
  • Betty Johnson
  • Joe South
  • Mack Abernathy (1988)

Recorded versions (I'll Never Slip Around Again)

References

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 54.
  2. ^ Gilliland, John. (197X). "Pop Chronicles 1940s Program #23 - All Tracks UNT Digital Library". Digital.library.unt.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-01.

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Preceded by Best Selling Retail Folk (Country & Western) Records
number one single by Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely

October 8, 1949 - January 14, 1950
(seventeen weeks)
Succeeded by
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