"Holding Her and Loving You" is a song written by

Walt Aldridge James Walton Aldridge Jr. (born November 12, 1955 in Florence, Alabama) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, engineer and record producer. Aldridge is known primarily as a Nashville songwriter. He has written dozens of hit country son ...

and Tom Brasfield and recorded by American

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artist

Earl Thomas Conley Earl Thomas Conley (October 17, 1941 – April 10, 2019)Wood, Gerry. (1998). "Earl Thomas Conley". In ''The Encyclopedia of Country Music''. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 108. was an American country music singer-songwriter. Between ...

. It was released in August 1983 as the second single from the album ''

Don't Make It Easy for Me "Don't Make It Easy for Me" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Earl Thomas Conley. It was released in January 1984 as the third single and title track from the album '' Don't Make It Easy for Me''. The song was Con ...

''. The song was Conley's fourth number one country single.

Commercial performance

The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of fourteen weeks on the country chart. Since it became available for download, the song has sold 156,000 copies as of April 2019.

Music video

A music video for the song was released and has been seen on

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Covers

In 1998,

Clay Walker Ernest Clayton Walker Jr. (born August 19, 1969) is an American country music artist. He made his debut in 1993 with the single " What's It to You", which reached Number One on the '' Billboard'' Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Son ...

charted a live recording of this song, reaching number 68 on the same chart.

Chart performance

References

1983 singles 1983 songs Earl Thomas Conley songs Clay Walker songs Songs written by Walt Aldridge RCA Records singles Songs written by Tom Brasfield {{1983-country-song-stub