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Background

That song turned out to be “Sometimes.” The song was written by Bill Anderson while riding on a bus during his tour of England. He picked up a magazine and was reading a review of the new movie,

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. The columnist had written about a part in the film where one of the actors asks another if the person is married and the response was “sometimes.” Great songwriters always look for a line like that to trigger an idea. Anderson instantly took the ball and ran with it. His immediate thought was that the comment could be transformed into a duet between a man and a woman. Since there was no paper to write on in the bus, he tore a page out of the magazine he was reading and jotted down the lyrics on it. He finished the song before he got to his destination.

Charts

"Sometimes" went to number one on the country chart, where it stayed for a single week and spent a total of eleven weeks on the chart.

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Cover versions

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References

1975 singles 1975 songs Bill Anderson (singer) songs Mary Lou Turner songs Songs written by Bill Anderson (singer) Song recordings produced by Owen Bradley Male–female vocal duets MCA Records singles {{1970s-country-song-stub