"Till I Can't Take It Anymore" is a song written by Clyde Otis

Clyde Otis

Clyde Otis, born in Prentiss, Mississippi, , was an American songwriter and producer best known for his collaboration with singer Brook Benton, and for being one of the first African American A&R executive for a major label.According to the music licensing organization Broadcast Music Inc., Otis is...

 and Ulysses Burton. It was first recorded as a duet between Dottie West

Dottie West

Dottie West was an American country music singer and songwriter. Along with her friends and co-recording artists Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn, she is considered one of the genre's most influential and groundbreaking female artists...

 and Don Gibson

Don Gibson

Donald Eugene "Don" Gibson was an American songwriter and country musician. A Country Music Hall of Fame inductee, Gibson penned such country standards as "Sweet Dreams" and "I Can't Stop Loving You", and enjoyed a string of country hits from 1957 into the early 1970s.-Biography:Don Gibson was...

, whose version went to number 46 on the Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

 charts in 1970. Since then, it has also charted as a single by Andra Willis

Andra Willis

Andra Willis is an American singer best known from television's The Lawrence Welk Show from 1967 to 1969.Born and raised in Danville, Virginia. Andra began singing professionally with her sisters Toneda and Sheryl...

, whose version went to number 85 on the same chart in 1973.Whitburn, p. 469 Pal Rakes

Pal Rakes

Palmer Crawford "Pal" Rakes is an American country music singer. He recorded for Warner Bros. Records between 1977 and 1979, and for Atlantic Records between 1988 and 1989. During his tenure on Warner, he charted in the Top 40 of Hot Country Songs with "That's When the Lyin' Stops " and "Till I...

's version went to number 31 in 1977.Whitburn, p. 338

The highest-charting rendition of the song was by Billy Joe Royal

Billy Joe Royal

Billy Joe Royal is an American singer.-Biography:Born in Valdosta and raised in Marietta in 1942, Royal became a local star at Savannah, Georgia's Bamboo Ranch in the 1950s and 1960s...

, released in 1989 from the album Tell It Like It Is. His version of the song peaked at number two on the country charts in early 1990, making for his second single to reach that position.

Chart performance

Chart (1989-1990)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks	2
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	3