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{{Infobox album
| name       = This Song Is Just for You
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[Hank Locklin]]
| cover      = Hank Locklin--This Song Is Just for You.jpg
| released   = {{start date|1963|05}}
| recorded   = 1955–1960
| studio     = RCA Victor Studio
| genre      = {{hlist|[[Country music|Country]]|[[Nashville Sound]]<ref name="Allmusic">{{cite web |title=''This Song Is Just for You'': Hank Locklin: Songs, Reviews, Credits |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/this-song-is-just-for-you-mw0000888653 |website=[[Allmusic]] |access-date=December 12, 2020}}</ref>}}
| label      = [[RCA Camden]]
| producer   = {{hlist|[[Chet Atkins]]|[[Steve Sholes]]}}
| prev_title = [[Hank Locklin (1962 album)|Hank Locklin]]
| prev_year  = 1962
| next_title = [[The Ways of Life]]
| next_year  = 1963
| misc       = {{Singles
| name        = This Song Is Just for You
| type        = studio
| single1     = I Gotta Talk to Your Heart
| single1date = October 1958
| single2     = Border of the Blues
| single2date = July 1959
| single3     = [[One Step Ahead of My Past]]
| single3date = November 1960
}}
}}
'''''This Song Is Just for You''''' is a studio album by American [[Country music|country]] singer–songwriter [[Hank Locklin]]. It was released in May 1963 via [[RCA Camden|RCA Camden records]]. The project was co-produced by [[Chet Atkins]] and [[Steve Sholes]]. ''This Song Is Just for You'' was Locklin's sixth studio album release and included songs recorded over the span of several years. It was also his second album to be released on the RCA Camden subsidiary label. The record featured four original singles, including the hits "[[One Step Ahead of My Past]]" and "[[Why Baby Why]]."
==Background and content==
Hank Locklin signed to [[RCA Records]] in 1955 and recorded for three years before his first studio album was issued. Despite a debut album, many of his recordings were left not released or not issued. However, in 1960, he had a major crossover hit single with "[[Please Help Me, I'm Falling]]." Its success elevated his career and facilitated the release of a series of albums on RCA and its budget label, RCA Camden.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Erlewine |first1=Michael |title=Hank Locklin: Biography & History |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/hank-locklin-mn0000666540/biography |website=[[Allmusic]] |access-date=December 11, 2020}}</ref> ''This Song Is Just for You'' was Locklin's second studio release for the RCA Camden subsidiary.<ref name="Liner Notes">{{cite journal |last1=Locklin |first1=Hank |title=''This Song Is Just for You'' (LP Liner Notes and Album Information) |journal=[[RCA Camden]] |date=May 1963}}</ref>
A total of twelve tracks were included on the album.<ref name="Allmusic"/> These tracks were compiled from music recorded between 1955 and 1960 at the RCA Victor Studio in [[Nashville, Tennessee]]. The earliest sessions were produced by [[Steve Sholes]]. Later sessions were produced by [[Chet Atkins]]. The songs included on the album had not been released yet on album, but some appeared as singles. This included "Why Baby Why" and "One Step Ahead of My Past." Also included was a song co-written by Locklin and [[Lawton Williams]] called "Paper Face." Another track, "I Gotta Talk to My Heart," was written by [[George Jones]] while "You Only Want Me When You're Lonely" was composed by [[Gene Autry]].<ref name="Liner Notes"/>
==Release and reception==
{{Album ratings
| rev1      = ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]''
| rev1Score = Favorable
}}
''This Song Is Just for You'' was released in May 1963 via RCA Camden records. It was Locklin's sixth studio release in his career.<ref name="Liner Notes"/> It was issued as a [[Gramophone record|vinyl LP]], containing six songs on each side of the record.<ref name="Discogs US">{{cite web |title=Hank Locklin – ''This Song Is Just for You'' (1963, LP) (U.S.) |url=https://www.discogs.com/Hank-Locklin-This-Song-Is-Just-For-You/release/5573440 |website=[[Discogs]] |access-date=December 12, 2020}}</ref> ''This Song Is Just for You'' included four songs that had been originally released as singles. Among them was "Why Baby Why," which was first issued in December 1955. It eventually peaked at number nine on the ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' [[Hot Country Songs]] chart in 1956. The last single included was "One Step Ahead of My Past." It was released in November 1960.<ref name="Billboard Singles">{{cite book|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|title=Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008|publisher=Record Research, Inc.|year=2008|isbn=978-0-89820-177-2}}</ref> The song spent 12 weeks on the ''Billboard'' country songs chart before peaking at number 12 in February 1961.<ref>{{cite magazine |title="One Step Ahead of My Past" chart history |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/hank-locklin/chart-history/csi/ |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |access-date=December 12, 2020}}</ref> Following its release, ''This Song Is Just for You'' was reviewed favorably by ''Billboard'' magazine in their June 1963 issue. Writers called the album's material to be "all winners," highlighting the fact that its "budget price" would please Locklin's fans. "Hank Locklin can always be counted to a goodly share of business, be it single, full-price or low-price album.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Album Reviews: Country Spotlight |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |date=June 29, 1963 |volume=75 |issue=26 |page=10 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XgsEAAAAMBAJ&dq=hank+locklin+this+song+is+just+for+you+billboard+1963&pg=PA10}}</ref>
==Track listing==
{{tracklist
| headline        = Side one<ref name="Liner Notes"/>
| title1          = This Song Is Just for You
| writer1         = {{hlist|Cecil Harris|Perk Williams}}
| length1         = 2:40
| title2          = [[One Step Ahead of My Past]]
| writer2         = {{hlist|Hal Blair|[[Don Robertson (songwriter)|Don Robertson]]}}
| length2         = 2:28
| title3          = You Only Want Me When You're Lonely
| writer3         = {{hlist|[[Gene Autry]]|[[Steve Nelson (songwriter)|Steve Nelson]]}}
| length3         = 2:33
| title4          = Second Fiddle
| writer4         = [[Roy Drusky]]
| length4         = 2:26
| title5          = Simple Things
| writer5         = Ruby Harl
| length5         = 2:03
| title6          = Border of the Blues
| writer6         = {{hlist|[[Frankie Miller (country musician)|Frankie Miller]]|[[Lawton Williams]]}}
| length6         = 1:52
}}
{{tracklist
| headline        = Side two<ref name="Liner Notes"/>
| title1          = Welcome Home Mr. Blues
| writer1         = Charles Phipps
| length1         = 2:26
| title2          = Paper Face
| writer2         = {{hlist|Hank Locklin|Slim Williams}}
| length2         = 2:17
| title3          = [[Why Baby Why]]
| writer3         = {{hlist|[[George Jones]]|Darrell Edwards}}
| length3         = 2:22
| title4          = I Gotta Talk to Your Heart
| writer4         = Jones
| length4         = 2:17
| title5          = Time Nor Tide
| writer5         = {{hlist|Glenn Spencer|Charlie Wilkins}}
| length5         = 2:12
| title6          = The Other Side of the Door
| writer6         = {{hlist|[[Leon Carr]]|[[Fred Tobias]]}}
| length6         = 2:00
}}
==Personnel==
All credits are adapted from the [[liner notes]] of ''This Song Is Just for You''.<ref name="Liner Notes"/>
'''Musical personnel'''
* [[Chet Atkins]] – guitar
* [[Floyd Cramer]] – piano
* Jimmy Day – [[steel guitar]]
* [[Ray Edenton]] – rhythm guitar
* [[Buddy Harman]] – drums
* [[Hank Garland]] – guitar
* [[Tommy Jackson (musician)|Tommy Jackson]] – [[fiddle]]
* [[The Jordanaires]] – background vocals
* [[Jerry Kennedy]] – guitar
* [[The Anita Kerr Singers]] – background vocals
* Douglas Kirkham – drums
* [[Grady Martin]] – guitar
* [[Bob Moore (musician)|Bob Moore]] – [[bass (instrument)|bass]]
* Dale Potter – fiddle
* [[Jack Shook]] – rhythm guitar
* Velma Smith – rhythm guitar
* [[Henry Strzelecki]] – bass
'''Technical personnel'''
* Chet Atkins – producer
* [[Ethel Gabriel]] – A&R coordinator
* [[Steve Sholes]] – producer
==Release history==
{|class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|-
!scope="col"| Region
!scope="col"| Date
!scope="col"| Format
!scope="col"| Label
!scope="col"| Ref.
|-
! scope="row"| Canada
| rowspan="3"| May 1963
| rowspan="3"| Vinyl
| rowspan="3"| RCA Camden
|<ref>{{cite web |title=Hank Locklin – ''This Song Is Just for You'' (1963, LP) (Canada) |url=https://www.discogs.com/Hank-Locklin-This-Song-Is-Just-For-You/release/6970703 |website=[[Discogs]] |access-date=December 12, 2020}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row"| United Kingdom
|<ref>{{cite web |title=Hank Locklin – ''This Song Is Just for You'' (1963, LP) (U.K.) |url=https://www.discogs.com/Hank-Locklin-This-Song-Is-Just-For-You/release/6930650 |website=[[Discogs]] |access-date=December 12, 2020}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row"| United States
|<ref name="Liner Notes"/><ref name="Discogs US"/>
|-
|}
==References==
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