Blame It on Your Heart

"Blame It On Your Heart" is a song written by Harlan Howard and Kostas, and recorded by American country music artist Patty Loveless. It was released in April 1993 as the first single from her album Only What I Feel. A cover version by Deborah Allen was featured prominently in the 1993 film The Thing Called Love.

"Blame It On Your Heart"
Cassettes Single Cover
Single by Patty Loveless
from the album Only What I Feel
B-side"What's a Broken Heart"
ReleasedApril 3, 1993
Recorded1993
GenreCountry
Length3:34
LabelEpic
Songwriter(s)Harlan Howard & Kostas
Producer(s)Emory Gordy Jr.
Patty Loveless singles chronology
"Send a Message to My Heart"
(1992)		 "Blame It On Your Heart"
(1993)		 "Nothin' but the Wheel"
(1993)

David Keith played the ex-boyfriend in the video.

'Blame It On Your Heart' was also recorded by Heidi Raye and released on Harlan Howard Records.

Content

The song and its video describes an ex-boyfriend who has "a lying, cheating, cold dead-beating, two-timing, double-dealing, mean-mistreating, loving" heart that he should blame for whatever backstabbing he gets from any other woman he does to what he did to its narrator.

Chart performance

The song charted for 20 weeks on the Billboard Hot Country Singles and Tracks chart, reaching No. 1 during the week of June 19, 1993.[1]

Chart (1993) Peak
position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[2] 2
US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles (Billboard)[3] 12
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[4] 1

Year-end charts
Chart (1993) Position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[5] 18
US Country Songs (Billboard)[6] 12

Music video

The music video for "Blame It on Your Heart" was directed by Sherman Halsey, and premiered in early 1993.

Covers

References
  1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 207.
  2. "Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 1005." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. July 10, 1993. Retrieved August 5, 2013.
  3. "Patty Loveless Chart History (Bubbling Under Hot 100)". Billboard.
  4. "Patty Loveless Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
  5. "RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1993". RPM. December 18, 1993. Retrieved August 5, 2013.
  6. "Best of 1993: Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 1993. Retrieved August 5, 2013.
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