"Some Broken Hearts Never Mend" is a 1977 single written by Wayland Holyfield

Wayland Holyfield

Wayland D. Holyfield, , is a prominent American songwriter and leader in the songwriting community.-Early life:Wayland Holyfield was born in Mallettown, Arkansas. He was educated in Arkansas public schools and attended Hendrix College at Conway, Arkansas before graduating from the University of...

 and recorded by Don Williams

Don Williams

Don Williams , is an American country singer, songwriter and a 2010 inductee to the Country Music Hall of Fame. He grew up in Portland, Texas, and graduated in 1958 from Gregory-Portland High School. After seven years with the folk-pop group Pozo-Seco Singers, he began his solo career in 1971,...

. "Some Broken Hearts Never Mend" would be Don Williams' sixth number one on the country chart. The single stayed at number one for a single week and spent a total of twelve weeks within the top 40.

The song also became an international hit for Telly Savalas

Telly Savalas

Aristotelis "Telly" Savalas was an American film and television actor and singer, whose career spanned four decades. Best known for playing the title role in the 1970s crime drama Kojak, Savalas was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Birdman of Alcatraz...

. It topped the Swiss charts for two weeks, and peaked at No. 2 in Austria and No. 4 in Netherlands.

The Bellamy Brothers covered the song in 1999 in a reggae

Reggae

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...

style for the album Reggae Cowboy. This version was also a single, but did not chart.

Chart performance

Chart (1977)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles	1
U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100	8
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	6