If My Heart Had Windows (song)

"If My Heart Had Windows"
"If My Heart Had Windows"
	From Grand Ole' Opry induction performance, 11 June 1988
Single by Patty Loveless
from the album If My Heart Had Windows
B-side	"So Good to Be in Love"
Released	February 6, 1988
Recorded	1987
Genre	Country
Length	3:02
Label	MCA
Songwriter(s)	Dallas Frazier
Producer(s)	Emory Gordy Jr.; Tony Brown
Patty Loveless singles chronology
Music video
	"If My Heart Had Windows" on YouTube

"If My Heart Had Windows"
"If My Heart Had Windows"
Single by George Jones
from the album If My Heart Had Windows
B-side	"The Honky Tonk Downstairs"
Released	October 7, 1967
Genre	Country
Length	2:45
Label	Musicor
Songwriter(s)	Dallas Frazier
Producer(s)	Pappy Daily
George Jones singles chronology

"If My Heart Had Windows" is a country song written by Dallas Frazier and recorded by George Jones in 1967 on his album of the same name. Released as a single that year, Jones's version peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot Country Singles charts.^[1]

In 1968, crooner Andy Russell performed a cover version (Capitol #2072) that peaked at number 29 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary Singles Chart.^[2]

Ernest Tubb also recorded a version on his 1968 Decca release Country Hit Time.

Connie Smith also recorded a version on her 1970 RCA release I Never Once Stopped Loving You.

Twenty-one years after the original version, Patty Loveless recorded a cover of the song on her 1987 album, also entitled If My Heart Had Windows. Loveless's version was also a top-10 country hit — the first of her career — peaking at number 10 on the country music charts.^[3] It was also the song that she performed the evening that she was inducted into the membership of the Grand Ole Opry.

Chart positions

George Jones

Chart (1967)	Peak position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^[4]	7

Andy Russell

Chart (1968)	Peak position
US Adult Contemporary (Billboard)^[5]	29

Patty Loveless

Chart (1988)	Peak position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^[6]	10
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	9

References

^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 181.
^ "Andy Russell Top Songs". Music VF.com. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 206.
^ "George Jones Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
^ "Andy Russell Chart History (Adult Contemporary)". Billboard.
^ "Patty Loveless Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.

[1] Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 181.

[2] "Andy Russell Top Songs". Music VF.com. Retrieved 28 March 2015.

[3] Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 206.

[sc_Billboardcountrysongs_George_Jones-4] "George Jones Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.

[sc_Billboardadultcontemporary_Andy_Russell-5] "Andy Russell Chart History (Adult Contemporary)". Billboard.

[sc_Billboardcountrysongs_Patty_Loveless-6] "Patty Loveless Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.

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Albums Singles Discography with Tammy Wynette Awards
1950s	"No Money in This Deal" "Play It Cool, Man" "You All Goodnight" "Why Baby Why" "What Am I Worth" "I'm Ragged But I'm Right" "Rock It" "You Gotta Be My Baby" "Just One More" "Don't Stop the Music" "Too Much Water" "Tall, Tall Trees" "Seasons of My Heart" "Too Much Water" "Treasure of Love" "White Lightning" "Who Shot Sam" "Big Harlan Taylor"
1960s	"Accidentally on Purpose" "Out of Control" "The Window Up Above" "Family Bible" "Tender Years" "Aching, Breaking Heart" "She Thinks I Still Care" "Open Pit Mine" "A Girl I Used to Know" "Your Heart Turned Left (And I Was on the Right)" "I'll Share My World with You "The Race Is On" "Love Bug" "Take Me" "I'm a People" "Walk Through This World with Me" "I Can't Get There from Here" "If My Heart Had Windows" "Say It's Not You" "Small Time Laboring Man" "As Long as I Live" "Milwaukee, Here I Come" (with Brenda Carter) "When the Grass Grows Over Me" "I'll Share My World with You" "If Not for You" "She's Mine"
1970s	"Where Grass Won't Grow" "Tell Me My Lying Eyes Are Wrong" "A Good Year for the Roses" "Sometimes You Just Can't Win" "Right Won't Touch a Hand" "I'll Follow You (Up to Our Cloud)" "We Can Make It" "Loving You Could Never Be Better" "A Picture of Me (Without You)" "What My Woman Can't Do" "Nothing Ever Hurt Me (Half as Bad as Losing You)" "Once You've Had the Best" "The Grand Tour" "The Door" "These Days (I Barely Get By)" "Memories of Us" "The Battle" "You Always Look Your Best (Here in My Arms)" "Her Name Is" "Old King Kong" "If I Could Put Them All Together (I'd Have You)" "Bartender's Blues" "I'll Just Take It Out in Love" "Someday My Day Will Come"
1980s	"He Stopped Loving Her Today" "I'm Not Ready Yet" "If Drinkin' Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will)" "Still Doin' Time" "Same Ole Me" "Shine On (Shine All Your Sweet Love on Me)" "I Always Get Lucky with You" "Tennessee Whiskey" "You've Still Got a Place in My Heart" "She's My Rock" "Hallelujah, I Love You So" (with Brenda Lee) "Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes" (with Lacy J. Dalton) "The One I Loved Back Then (The Corvette Song)" "Somebody Wants Me Out of the Way" "Wine Colored Roses" "The Right Left Hand" "I Turn to You" "The Bird" "I'm a Survivor" "The Old Man No One Loves" "If I Could Bottle This Up" (with Shelby Lynne) "I'm a One Woman Man" "The King Is Gone (So Are You)" "Writing on the Wall" "Radio Lover"
1990s	"You Couldn't Get the Picture" "I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair" "Honky Tonk Song" "Choices"
As a collaborative artist	"Yearning" (with Jeanette Hicks) "Did I Ever Tell You" (with Margie Singleton) "Waltz of the Angels" (with Margie Singleton) "We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds" (with Melba Montgomery) "Let's Invite Them Over" (with Melba Montgomery) "Please Be My Love" (with Melba Montgomery) "What's in Our Heart" (with Melba Montgomery) "Things Have Gone to Pieces" (with Gene Pitney) "I've Got Five Dollars and It's Saturday Night" (with Gene Pitney) "Blue Moon of Kentucky" (with Melba Montgomery) "That's All It Took (with Gene Pitney) "Maybellene" (with Johnny Paycheck) "You Can Have Her" (with Johnny Paycheck) "When You're Ugly Like Us (You Just Naturally Got to Be Cool)" (with Johnny Paycheck) "You Better Move On" (with Johnny Paycheck) "Yesterday's Wine" (with Merle Haggard) "C.C. Waterback" (with Merle Haggard)
As a featured artist	"We Didn't See a Thing" (Ray Charles with Chet Atkins and George Jones) "A Few Ole Country Boys" (Randy Travis featuring George Jones) "You Don't Seem to Miss Me" (Patty Loveless with George Jones) "A Country Boy Can Survive (Y2K version)" (Chad Brock featuring George Jones and Hank Williams, Jr.) "Country Boy" (Aaron Lewis featuring Charlie Daniels and George Jones)
Promotional singles	"Wrong Number"
Other charted songs	"Money to Burn" "Big Fool of the Year" "I Saw Me" "What's in Our Heart" (with Melba Montgomery) "My Tears Are Overdue" "I Just Don't Give a Damn" "He Stopped Loving Her Today"

v t e Patty Loveless
Discography Awards and nominations
Studio albums	Patty Loveless If My Heart Had Windows Honky Tonk Angel On Down the Line Up Against My Heart Only What I Feel When Fallen Angels Fly The Trouble with the Truth Long Stretch of Lonesome Strong Heart Mountain Soul Bluegrass & White Snow: A Mountain Christmas On Your Way Home Dreamin' My Dreams Mountain Soul II
Compilation albums	Greatest Hits Classics
Notable singles	"If My Heart Had Windows" "A Little Bit in Love" "Blue Side of Town" "Don't Toss Us Away" "Timber, I'm Falling in Love" "The Lonely Side of Love" "Chains" "On Down the Line" "The Night's Too Long" "I'm That Kind of Girl" "Blue Memories" "Hurt Me Bad (In a Real Good Way)" "Jealous Bone" "Can't Stop Myself from Loving You" "Blame It on Your Heart" "Nothin' but the Wheel" "You Will" "How Can I Help You Say Goodbye" "I Try to Think About Elvis" "Here I Am" "You Don't Even Know Who I Am" "Halfway Down" "You Can Feel Bad" "A Thousand Times a Day" "Lonely Too Long" "She Drew a Broken Heart" "The Trouble with the Truth" "You Don't Seem to Miss Me" "To Have You Back Again" "High on Love" "Can't Get Enough" "My Kind of Woman/My Kind of Man" "That's the Kind of Mood I'm In" "The Last Thing on My Mind" "Lovin' All Night" "Why Baby Why" "Busted"
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