I Couldn't Keep from Crying

"I Couldn't Keep from Crying"
"I Couldn't Keep from Crying"
Single by Marty Robbins
B-side	"After You Leave"
Released	February 20, 1953
Genre	Country
Length	2:45
Label	Columbia 21075
Songwriter	Marty Robbins
Marty Robbins singles chronology

"I Couldn't Keep from Crying" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Marty Robbins.^[1] Performers on the song include Slim Harbert on bass, Johnny Gimble on fiddle, Jimmy Rollins and Joe Knight on guitar, and Harold Carmack on piano.^[2]

Chart performance

The song reached number 5 on the US Billboard country chart in 1953.^[3]

Johnny Cash released a version as part of an EP in 1960.^[4] It is featured on his 1960 album, Now, There Was a Song!^[5]

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Albums	The Song of Robbins (1957) Song of the Islands (1958) Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs (1959) More Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs (1960) Return of the Gunfighter (1963) R.F.D. (1964) The Drifter (1966) Tonight Carmen (1967) I Walk Alone (1968) It's a Sin (1969) My Woman, My Woman, My Wife (1970) Today (1972) This Much a Man (1972) El Paso City (1976) Adios Amigo (1977) The Performer (1979)
Notable singles	"Stairway of Love" "I'll Go On Alone" "I Couldn't Keep from Crying" "That's All Right" "Maybellene" "Singing the Blues" "Knee Deep in the Blues" "A White Sport Coat" "Ain't I Right" "The Story of My Life" "Just Married" "She Was Only Seventeen"* "The Hanging Tree" "El Paso" "Big Iron" "Don't Worry" "Devil Woman" "Ruby Ann" "Begging to You" "Ribbon of Darkness" "Tonight Carmen" "I Walk Alone" "It's a Sin" "My Woman, My Woman, My Wife" "Laura (What's He Got That I Ain't Got)" "El Paso City" "Among My Souvenirs" "I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)" "Return to Me" "Some Memories Just Won't Die" "Tie Your Dream to Mine"
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