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Slippin' Around

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"Slippin' Around" is a song written and recorded by Floyd Tillman in 1949. The most popular recording was a cover version by Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely which reached number one on the Retail Folk (Country) Best Sellers chart in the United States.[1] It is a song about a person cheating on his or her spouse.[2]

Tillman wrote a follow-up song, the same year, with essentially the same melody, called "I'll Never Slip Around Again" in which the cheater has married the one with whom he or she cheated, and is in turn worried that he or she is being cheated on. Doris Day recorded this song as well as Tillman and Whiting and Wakely.

Recorded versions of "Slippin' Around"

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Recorded versions of "I'll Never Slip Around Again"

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References

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  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006 (Second ed.). Record Research. p. 54.
  2. ^ Gilliland, John (197X). "Pop Chronicles 1940s Program #23 - All Tracks". UNT Digital Library. Retrieved March 1, 2021.


Preceded by Best Selling Retail Folk (Country & Western) Records
number one single by Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely

October 8, 1949 - January 14, 1950
(17 weeks)
Succeeded by