Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Origin [ ] Overstreet and Schlitz came up with 'When You Say Nothing at All' at the end of an otherwise unproductive day. Strumming a guitar, trying to write their next song, they were coming up empty. 'As we tried to find another way to say nothing, we came up with the song', Overstreet later told author Ace Collins.

They thought the song was OK, but nothing special. When Keith Whitley heard it, he loved it, and was not going to let it get away. Earlier, he had recorded another Overstreet-Schlitz composition that became a No. 1 hit for another artist - ' '.'

Whitley did not plan to let 'When You Say Nothing at All' meet the same fate. Keith Whitley [ ] RCA released 'When You Say Nothing at All' as the follow-up single to the title song of Whitley's album. The former song already had hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart, his first chart-topper after three prior singles made the top 10. 'When You Say Nothing at All' entered the Hot Country Singles chart on September 17, 1988, at No. 61, and gradually rose to the top, where it stayed for two weeks at the end of the year.

It was the second of five consecutive chart-topping singles for Whitley, who did not live to see the last two, as he died on May 9, 1989 of alcohol poisoning. 'Keith did a great job singin' that song,' co-composer Schlitz told author Tom Roland.

'He truly sang it from the heart.' In 2004, Whitley's original was ranked 12th among 's 100 Greatest Love Songs. It was sung by on the show.

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As of February 2015, the song has sold 599,000 digital copies in the US after it became available for download. Chart performance [ ] Chart (1988) Peak position US ( ) 1 Canadian RPM Country Tracks 1 Alison Krauss version [ ] 'When You Say Nothing at All' by & from the album & 'Charlotte's in North Carolina' by Keith Whitley Released 1995 Format Length 4: 20. Lego boost.

• • & singles chronology ' (1995) ' When You Say Nothing at All' (1995) ' (1995) In 1995, covered the song with the group for a tribute album to Whitley titled. After Krauss's cover began to receive unsolicited airplay,, the label that had released the album, issued Krauss' version to radio in January 1995. That version, also featured on Krauss' compilation, peaked at No.

3 on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, and a commercial single reached No. 2 on the same magazine's Hot Country Singles Sales chart. The B-side of the single was Keith Whitley's 'Charlotte's in North Carolina', which was another previously unreleased track featured on the Tribute album. Its success, as well as that of the album, caught Krauss by surprise. 'It's a freak thing,' she told a reporter in March 1995.

'It's kinda ticklin' us all. We haven't had anything really chart before. Isn't it funny though? We don't know what's goin' on.The office said, 'Hey, it's charting,' and we're like, 'Huh?'

' While Krauss' version was on the charts, Mike Cromwell, then the production director at in, concocted a duet merging elements of Krauss' version with Whitley's original hit version. The 'duet' garnered national attention, and it spread from at least to, and has been heard on radio stations in as well. This 'duet' was however never officially serviced to radio and has never been available commercially.

Krauss' recording won the 1995 award for 'Single of the Year'. The song has been featured a couple of times in the soap opera. Krauss' version was also used in the 1999 motion picture '. The song has sold 468,000 digital downloads as of May 2017. Track listing [ ] • 'When You Say Nothing at All' • 'Charlotte's In North Carolina' Chart performance [ ] Chart (1995) Peak position Canada Country Tracks ( ) 7 (Official Charts Company) 91 US 53 US ( ) 3 Year-end charts [ ] Chart (1995) Position Canada Country Tracks ( ) 99 Ronan Keating version [ ] 'When You Say Nothing at All' by from the album, and Released July 26, 1999 Format, Recorded 1999; Metropolis and the Aquarium (, ). • ^ Collins, Ace (1996). The Stories Behind Country Music's All-Time Greatest 100 Songs.