Chart performance

Cover versions

• In 1960, Skeeter Davis
  Skeeter Davis
  Mary Frances Penick , better known as Skeeter Davis, was an American country music singer best known for crossover pop music songs of the early 1960s. She started out as part of The Davis Sisters as a teenager in the late 1940s, eventually landing on RCA Records. In the late '50s, she became a solo...
  
   recorded the song with lyrics written by her and Boudleaux Bryant titled "My Last Date (With You)". The song was a top-30 pop and top-five country hit.
• Also in 1960, the Davis lyric version was successfully released as a single by Joni James
  Joni James
  Joni James is an American singer of traditional pop music and jazz standards.-Biography:...
  
   and an album by track by several artists including Ann-Margret
  Ann-Margret
  Ann-Margret Olsson is a Swedish-American actress, singer and dancer whose professional name is Ann-Margret. She became famous for her starring roles in Bye Bye Birdie, Viva Las Vegas, The Cincinnati Kid, Carnal Knowledge, and Tommy...
  
   and Pat Boone
  Pat Boone
  Charles Eugene "Pat" Boone is an American singer, actor and writer who has been a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s. He covered black artists' songs and sold more copies than his black counterparts...
  
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• In the mid-1960s, Lawrence Welk
  Lawrence Welk
  Lawrence Welk was an American musician, accordionist, bandleader, and television impresario, who hosted The Lawrence Welk Show from 1955 to 1982...
  
  's orchestra recorded an instrumental version of the song; the piano-dominated arrangement stuck very closely to Cramer's original version.
• In 1972, Conway Twitty
  Conway Twitty
  Conway Twitty , born Harold Lloyd Jenkins, was an American country music artist. He also had success in early rock and roll, R&B, and pop music. He held the record for the most number one singles of any act with 55 No. 1 Billboard country hits until George Strait broke the record in 2006...
  
   recorded the song with new lyrics written by him and was known as "(Lost Her Love) On Our Last Date" and was his seventh solo number one on the U.S. country chart. It spent one week at number one and a total of 13 weeks on the chart..
• In 1982, Emmylou Harris
  Emmylou Harris
  Emmylou Harris is an American singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other artists including...
  
   recorded the Conway Twitty version as "(Lost His Love) On Our Last Date" which became her fifth number one on the country chart as a solo artist .
• In 1987, R.E.M.
  R.E.M.
  R.E.M. was an American rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1980 by singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry. One of the first popular alternative rock bands, R.E.M. gained early attention due to Buck's ringing, arpeggiated guitar style and Stipe's...
  
   recorded the Skeeter Davis version for the B-side of their single It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
  It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
  "It's the End of the World as We Know It " is a song by the rock band R.E.M., which appeared on their 1987 album Document, the 1988 compilation Eponymous, and the 2006 compilation And I Feel Fine... The Best of the I.R.S Years 1982–1987...
  
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