"Loved 'Em Every One" is a song written by Phil Sampson, and recorded by American
country music
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artist
T. G. Sheppard
William Neal Browder (born July 20, 1944) is an American country music singer-songwriter, known professionally as T. G. Sheppard. He had 14 number-one hits on the US country charts between 1974 and 1986, including eight consecutive number ones ...
. It was released in March 1981 as the first single from the album ''
I Love 'Em All''. The song was Sheppard's seventh number one on the country chart. The single stayed at number one for one week and spent ten weeks on the country chart. "I Loved' Em Every One" was also Sheppard's only
Top 40
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single on Billboard's
Hot 100
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, reaching #37.
Content
The song is a man's tribute to all the women he had encountered through the years. The women apparently come from a variety of backgrounds and sizes ("''big or little, or short or tall''"), and have had as few as one meeting with him. The man then says he wishes he could have "kept them all."
Charts
References
1981 singles
1981 songs
T. G. Sheppard songs
Song recordings produced by Buddy Killen
Warner Records singles
Curb Records singles
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