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All the Time (Kitty Wells song)

1967 single by Jack Greene

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 4, 2025
Entity authorityQ4730192 ↗
Source-derived summary

"All the Time" is a song that has been recorded by many country music artists. The first version, by Kitty Wells, peaked at #18 on the country music charts in 1959. It was the b-side to her single "Mommy for a Day," which peaked at #5.

Cover versions

Eight years later, Jack Greene covered the song, taking his version to Number One on the same chart. The song "bubbled under" the Hot 100, peaking at No. 3. The song's B-side, "Wanting You but Never Having You," peaked at No. 63.

Patti Page released the song as single with the B-side "Pretty Bluebird". It peaked at No.

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“All the Time (Kitty Wells song)” enters the record as 1967 single by Jack Greene. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Time, Kitty and Wells can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1959—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1967-04. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Time, Kitty and Wells.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 4, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4730192. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1959.

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This entry incorporates text from “All the Time (Kitty Wells song)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.