1963-64......#7 U.S. Billboard Hot 100, #5 U.S. Cash Box Top 100
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“Talk Back Trembling Lips“ is a 1963 song first recorded by Ernest Ashworth. The song became the most successful of Ernest Ashworth’s career and was his only No. 1 song on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart that October. The song spent 35 weeks on the country chart. The song also bubbled under the Billboard Hot 100, just missing the chart’s main listing as it peaked at No. 101. Johnny Tillotson recorded a successful cover version in 1963 that peaked in early 1964.
Bowing at #91 on 9 November 1963, Johnny Tillotson took his version of the song to number seven on the Hot 100 on 4 January 1964. It was his last top-10 single.