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The first verse set the tone: "Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone/Let's pretend that we're together all alone/I'll tell the man to turn the juke box way down low/And you can tell your friend there with you he'll have to go."
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231:Background
225:Jim Reeves
174:Jim Reeves
138:RCA Victor
32:Jim Reeves
893:August 7,
849:Billboard
790:23 August
541:Joe Pesci
527:Ry Cooder
499:Billboard
495:Billboard
450:Billboard
443:Position
419:Billboard
397:Billboard
385:Billboard
339:position
309:Billboard
295:Billboard
264:on bass,
262:Bob Moore
94:Nashville
61:November
1385:Blue Boy
935:26 April
815:26 April
768:(2004).
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721:26 April
681:26 April
616:(1969).
452:Hot 100
399:Hot 100
76:Recorded
58:Released
1328:Singles
887:Discogs
621:(audio)
531:Norteño
297:Hot 100
217:country
201:(1960)
196:(1959)
187:(1959)
106:Country
1320:(1982)
1312:(1975)
1304:(1971)
1296:(1969)
1288:(1965)
1280:(1965)
1272:(1964)
1264:(1964)
1245:(1968)
1226:(1971)
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1026:(1957)
1018:(1956)
1010:(1955)
889:. 1962
651:
520:Canada
461:
246:B-side
116:Length
85:Studio
48:B-side
28:Single
1343:Bimbo
1023:Bimbo
912:(PDF)
489:" by
417:U.S.
395:U.S.
383:U.S.
369:Italy
133:Label
101:Genre
937:2021
895:2023
856:2018
817:2021
792:2023
723:2021
683:2021
649:ISBN
585:UB40
455:215
373:FIMI
337:Peak
303:'s "
219:and
68:U.S.
63:1959
448:US
424:13
412:12
378:34
307:".
237:Joe
221:pop
30:by
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