Talk Back Trembling Lips

{{Short description|1963 song}}

{{Infobox song

| name = Talk Back Trembling Lips

| cover =

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Ernest Ashworth

| album = Hits of Today and Tomorrow

| B-side = That's How Much I Care

| released = June 1963

| recorded = May 1963

| studio =

| venue =

| genre = Country

| length = 2:37

| label = Hickory

| writer = John D. Loudermilk

| producer = Wesley Rose

| prev_title = I Take the Chance

| prev_year = 1962

| next_title = A Week in the Country

| next_year = 1964

}}

{{Infobox song

| name = Talk Back Trembling Lips

| cover =

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Johnny Tillotson

| album = Talk Back Trembling Lips

| B-side = Another You

| released = {{Start date|1963|10}}

| recorded = September 26, 1963Praguefrank

| studio =

| venue =

| genre = Country

| length = 2:36

| label = MGM

| writer = John D. Loudermilk

| producer = Tanridge Productions Inc.{{cite web|url=https://www.45cat.com/record/k13181|title=45cat - Johnny Tillotson -Talk Back Trembling Lips|accessdate=2020-09-21}}

| prev_title = You Can Never Stop Me Loving You

| prev_year = 1963

| next_title = Funny How Time Slips Away

| next_year = 1963

}}

"Talk Back Trembling Lips" is a 1963 song first recorded by Ernest Ashworth. The song became the most successful of Ernest Ashworth's career and was his only No. 1 song on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart that October. The song spent 35 weeks on the country chart.{{cite book |title= The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=33}} The song also bubbled under the Billboard Hot 100, just missing the chart's main listing as it peaked at No. 101. Johnny Tillotson recorded a successful cover version in 1963 that peaked in early 1964.