For other uses, see Tell Me a Lie (disambiguation).
"Tell Me a Lie"
Single by Sami Jo
from the album It Could Have Been Me
B-side
"Stay Where You Are"
Released
February 1974
Recorded
1973
Genre
Pop
Label
MGM South
Songwriter(s)
Mickey Buckins, Barbara Wyrick
Producer(s)
Sonny Limbo
Sami Jo singles chronology
"Tell Me a Lie" (1974)
"It Could Have Been Me" (1974)
"Tell Me a Lie"
Single by Janie Fricke
from the album Love Lies
B-side
"Love Have Mercy"
Released
September 17, 1983
Genre
Country
Length
3:35
Label
Columbia
Songwriter(s)
Mickey Buckins, Barbara Wyrick
Producer(s)
Bob Montgomery
Janie Fricke singles chronology
"He's a Heartache (Looking for a Place to Happen)" (1983)
"Tell Me a Lie" (1983)
"Let's Stop Talkin' About It" (1984)
"Tell Me a Lie" is a song composed by Mickey Buckins and Barbara Wyrick. Originally recorded by Lynn Anderson for her 1974 What a Man My Man Is album, it was released later that same year as a single by Sami Jo Cole, who took it to number 21 on both of the major U.S. pop charts. It also charted in Canada (#17).[1] Cole's version was also an Adult Contemporary hit, reaching number 14 in the U.S.[2] and number 27 in Canada.[3]
Janie Fricke covered the song in 1983 and topped the U.S. country singles charts with it.
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