60-Year-Old Songs: I Don’t Love You Anymore

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As a recorded genre of music, country music is now “officially” 102 years old. So you see how far I’d have to go back to have a countdown with NO country music on it. Here’s country song #2 on the list, and this one isn’t nearly as well-known as the Roger Miller song. So Linda? NO!!!!!!!!!! and here we go. I Don’t Love You Anymore - Charlie Louvin Bill Anderson, as a young, relatively unknown singer (whisperer ), was on tour with Ray Price. One of Ray’s band members, believe it or not, was Roger Miller. (On that tour they wrote “When Two Worlds Collide” together.) Price had a joke about one of his band members (not Miller, although he later fit the bill ): “He’s not drinking anymore. Of course, he’s not drinking an less, either.” It doesn’t take much to set a songwriter’s mind into overdrive. Anderson took that joke and wrote this terrific song. It was the first solo hit for Charlie Louvin after he and brother Ira quit performing together. It’s still one of my favorite songs by Charlie. Oh, the other “title” song from the album, “Less and Less”? Roger Miller wrote that. I Don’t Love You Anymore Written by Bill Anderson Recorded by Charlie Louvin From Less and Less and I Don’t Love You Anymore, 1964 I keep saying o’er and o’er: