About The Song
“Linda on My Mind” is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Conway Twitty. It was released as a single in January 1975 by MCA Records (catalog number 40339). The B-side was “She’s Just Not Over You Yet.” The track was recorded on June 19, 1973, at Bradley’s Barn in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, and produced by Owen Bradley. It runs 2 minutes and 41 seconds and serves as the title track and lead single from Twitty’s thirty-second studio album, Linda on My Mind, released in 1975.
Twitty wrote the song himself. It became his twelfth number-one single on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. The single reached number one for the week of March 8, 1975, holding the top position for one week. It spent a total of eight weeks on the Billboard country chart according to primary sources, with some chart run data indicating a longer overall presence. On the Billboard Hot 100 it peaked at number 61. In Canada the song reached number one on the RPM Country Tracks chart and number 51 on the RPM Top Singles chart.
The parent album Linda on My Mind was released by MCA Records in 1975 and produced by Owen Bradley. It topped the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and ranked number nine on the year-end Billboard Top Country Albums survey for 1975. The album track listing includes the title song along with covers and additional Twitty originals such as “I’ll Get Over Losing You” and “I’m Getting Tired of Losing You.”
Session personnel for the recording included Conway Twitty on lead vocals, Carol Lee Cooper and L.E. White on background vocals, Harold Bradley on six-string electric bass guitar, Ray Edenton on acoustic guitar, Johnny Gimble on fiddle, John Hughey on steel guitar, Tommy Markham on drums, Grady Martin on electric guitar, Bob Moore on bass, and Hargus “Pig” Robbins on piano. The production followed the established Nashville sound approach associated with Owen Bradley’s work with Twitty during this period.
The song was covered the same year by Ronnie Milsap on his album Night Things. Chart documentation from Billboard confirms the January 1975 single release, the number-one peak on the Hot Country Singles chart for one week in March 1975, the number-61 peak on the Hot 100, and the album’s number-one position on the Top Country Albums chart. Canadian RPM data verify the number-one country peak and number-51 pop peak. Recording date, studio location, and producer credits are documented in session records from Bradley’s Barn.
Songwriting is credited solely to Conway Twitty across official releases and discography sources. The single formed part of Twitty’s sequence of consecutive country number-one hits in the mid-1970s, following “I See the Want To in Your Eyes” and preceding “Touch the Hand.” These release, chart, personnel, and production details align with MCA Records catalog information, Billboard archives, and standard reference sources covering Twitty’s mid-1970s recordings.
The track remains one of Twitty’s self-penned number-one country singles and a documented entry in his extensive string of chart-topping releases during the decade. Album and single certifications and further international chart data are consistent with contemporaneous trade publications and official discography listings.
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Now I'm lying here with Linda on my mind And next to me, my soon-to-be, the one I left behind And Lord it's killing me to see her cry She knows I'm lying here beside her with Linda on my mind Yes I know that I once loved her And I placed no one above her And I never thought I'd ever set her free But it just wasn't in my plans The way that Linda squeezed my hand The first time that I held her close As she danced with me She said, "I've loved you for a long time But you're married to a friend of mine And I've tried hard to never let it show But my love for you is stronger I can't hide it any longer And so I thought I'd better let you know" Now I'm lying here with Linda on my mind And next to me, my soon-to-be, the one I left behind And Lord it's killing me to see her cry She knows I'm lying here beside her with Linda on my mind