Only Lonely Sometimes
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{{Infobox album
| name = Only Lonely Sometimes
| type = Album
| artist = Tammy Wynette
| cover = TammyWynetteOnlyLonelySometimes.png
| released = June 9, 1980
| recorded = Jan. 1980
| studio =
- Columbia, Nashville
- FAME, Muscle Shoals
| genre = Country
| length = 32:38
| label = Epic
| producer = Billy Sherrill
| prev_title = Just Tammy
| prev_year = 1979
| next_title = Together Again
| next_year = 1980
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Only Lonely Sometimes
| type = studio
| single1 = He Was There (When I Needed You)
| single1date = Mar. 1980
| single2 = Starting Over
| single2date = Aug. 1980
}}}}
{{Music ratings
|rev1 = AllMusic
|rev1score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}{{cite web|title=Only Lonely Sometimes - Tammy Wynette {{!}} Songs, Reviews, Credits {{!}} AllMusic|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/only-lonely-sometimes-mw0001484306|website=AllMusic|access-date=21 January 2018}}}}
Only Lonely Sometimes is the twenty-first studio album by American country music singer-songwriter Tammy Wynette. It was released on June 9, 1980, by Epic Records.{{cite web|title=Only Lonely Sometimes - Tammy Wynette|url=http://www.tammywynette.com/only-lonely-sometimes/|website=Tammy Wynette|access-date=21 January 2018|date=28 April 2017}}
Chart performance
The album peaked at No. 37 on the Billboard Country Albums chart. The album's first single, "He Was There (When I Needed You)", peaked at No. 17 on the Billboard Country Singles chart, and the album's second single, "Starting Over", also peaked at No. 17.
Track listing
{{track listing
| headline = Side one
| title1 = He Was There (When I Needed You)
| writer1 = Sue Richards
| length1 = 3:15
| title2 = I'll Be Thinking of You
| writer2 = Richards
| length2 = 3:58
| title3 = You Never Knew
| writer3 = Jerry Taylor, Robert J. Jones
| length3 = 2:59
| title4 = Come with Me
| writer4 = Chuck Howard
| length4 = 2:56
| title5 = You Needed Me
| writer5 = Randy Goodrum
| length5 = 3:22
}}
{{track listing
| headline = Side two
| title1 = Starting Over
| writer1 = Bob McDill
| length1 = 3:07
| title2 = Out of the Spotlight
| writer2 = Taylor, Jones
| length2 = 3:22
| title3 = Only the Names Have Been Changed
| writer3 = Tammy Wynette, Jan Howard
| length3 = 3:11
| title4 = When You Love Me
| writer4 = Taylor, Paul Richey
| length4 = 3:16
| title5 = Ozark Mountain Lullaby
| writer5 = Jones
| length5 = 3:12
}}
Personnel
Adapted from the album liner notes.
- Phil Baugh - lead guitar
- Ken Bell - rhythm guitar
- Lou Bradley - engineer
- Tom Brannon - background vocals
- Jimmy Capps - rhythm guitar
- Jerry Carrigan - drums
- Boomer Castleman - rhythm guitar
- C.C. Couch - background vocals
- Mike Daniel - engineer
- Chalmers Davis - keyboard
- Diane Davidson - background vocals
- Pete Drake - steel guitar
- Jimmy English - lead guitar
- Ralph Ezell - bass
- Johnny Gimble - fiddle
- Owen Hale - drums
- Kenny Malone - drums
- Bill McElhiney - string arrangements
- Steve Nathan - keyboard
- Nightstreets - background vocals
- June Page - background vocals
- Ron Reynolds - engineer
- George Richey - keyboard
- Hargus "Pig" Robbins - keyboard
- Norman Seeff - photography
- The Shelly Kurland Strings - strings
- Billy Sherrill - producer
- Henry Strzelecki - bass
- Virginia Team - art direction
- Pete Wade - rhythm guitar
- Tammy Wynette - lead vocals
- Reggie Young - lead guitar
Charts
= Album =
| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
!Year !Chart !Peak |
| 1980
|US Country Albums (Billboard){{cite web|title=Billboard Magazine - July 12, 1980|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/80s/1980/BB-1980-07-12.pdf|website=American Radio History|publisher=Billboard Magazine|access-date=21 January 2018}} |37 |
= Singles =
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align: center;"
!Year !Single !Chart !Peak |
| 1980
!scope="row"|"He Was There (When I Needed You)" |Country Singles (Billboard){{cite web|title=Billboard Magazine - June 7, 1980|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/80s/1980/BB-1980-06-07.pdf|website=American Radio History|publisher=Billboard Magazine|access-date=21 January 2018}} |17 |
| 1980
!scope="row"|"Starting Over" |Country Singles (Billboard){{cite web|title=Billboard Magazine - October 4, 1980|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/80s/1980/BB-1980-10-04.pdf|website=American Radio History|publisher=Billboard Magazine|access-date=22 January 2018}} |17 |