This Time I’ve Hurt Her More Than She Love Me - Conway Twitty
According to Earl Thomas Conley, Conway Twitty’s 1976 number one, “This Time I’ve Hurt Her More Than She Love Me,” took two years to write.
Conley had already scored with his self-written tune, Mel Street’s “Smokey Mountain Memories.”
Conley got the idea for the song from Mary Larkin, the wife of the guy who would become his record producer. Conley commented, “Mary had the idea for the song and I wrote on that song for over two years. And it kept coming out all wrong. Then one day after I had moved to Nashville, I started working on it again and it just happened. All of a sudden it just came out right. We recorded a demo on the song and carried it to Conway Twitty’s office. He recorded it right away and it was a number one record for him.”
Conway was still living in Oklahoma at the time and listened to the song on the way to Nashville, Tennessee. L. E. White had listened to the tape and put it aside for Conway to hear.
According to Conway, “I loved that song the first time I heard it. I kept playing it over and over.” “This Time I’ve Hurt Her More Than She Loves Me” entered the country music charts December 6th, 1975 and became Conway’s 35th charted country song. It featured L. E. White and Carol Lee Cooper on harmonies.
The Decca Records single was country music’s top song the week of January 31st, 1976 and was on the country charts for 14 weeks.
