Sometimes a Memory Ain't Enough (song)
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| name = Sometimes a Memory Ain't Enough
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| type = single
| artist = Jerry Lee Lewis
| album = Sometimes a Memory Ain't Enough
| A-side = "Sometimes a Memory Ain't Enough"
"I Think I Need to Pray"
| released = 1973
| recorded = 1973
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| genre = Country
| length = 2:51
| label = Mercury
| writer = {{hlist|Stan Kesler}}
| producer = Stan Kesler
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| artist = Jerry Lee Lewis
| type = single
| prev_title = Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee" / "Rock and Roll Medley
| prev_year = 1970
| title = Sometimes a Memory Ain't Enough" / "I Think I Need to Pray
| year = 1973
| next_title = I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone" / "I've Fallen to the Bottom
| next_year = 1974
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"Sometimes a Memory Ain't Enough" is a song written by Stan Kesler and originally recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis for his Kesler-produced Mercury Records' album of the same name (1973). It was also released as a single (with "I Think I Need to Pray" on the flip side), reaching number 3 on the Cash Box Country Singles chart and number 6 on the Billboard country chart.
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| headline = 7" single {{nobold|(Mercury 73423, 1973)}}
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Notes: "From Mercury's album Sometimes a Memory Ain't Enough SRM-1-677"{{cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Jerry-Lee-Lewis-Sometimes-A-Memory-Aint-Enough/release/12083987|title=Jerry Lee Lewis - Sometimes A Memory Ain't Enough (1973, Vinyl)|website=Discogs|year=1973 |accessdate=2020-04-26}}
Charts
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!align="center"|Chart (1973) !align="center"|Peak |
align="left"| U.S. Cash Box Country Singles{{cite book|author=George Albert|title=The Cash Box Country Singles Charts, 1958-1982|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t5BHAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Sometimes+A+Memory+Ain't+Enough%22|date=1 January 1984|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-1685-5|page=203}}
| align="center"| 3 |
{{singlechart|Billboardcountrysongs|6|artist=Jerry Lee Lewis|rowheader=true}} |