As Soon as I Hang Up the Phone

"As Soon as I Hang Up the Phone"
Single by Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn
from the album Country Partners
Released	1974
Genre	Country
Label	MCA
Writer(s)	Conway Twitty
Producer	Owen Bradley
Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn singles chronology
"Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man" (1973) "As Soon as I Hang Up the Phone" (1974) "Feelins'" (1975)

"As Soon as I Hang Up the Phone" is a 1974 single by Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn from the album Country Partners. It was the fourth number one on the U.S. country singles chart for the pair as a duo. The single went to number one for a single week and spent 11 weeks on the chart.^[1]

Content

The song - depicting a man trying to resurrect a crumbling relationship, but who knows things have ended - is a rare spoken word/sung duet. Lynn provides the sung vocals while Twitty performs the spoken part, with his voice treated to sound as if coming over a telephone.

Chart performance

Chart (1974)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles	1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	1

References

1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 361. 

Preceded by "Rub It In" by Billy "Crash" Craddock	Billboard Hot Country Singles number-one single August 17, 1974	Succeeded by "Old Man from the Mountain" by Merle Haggard
Preceded by "Marie Laveau" by Bobby Bare	RPM Country Tracks number-one single August 10, 1974	Succeeded by "Rub It In" by Billy "Crash" Craddock