About The Song
By mid-1981, Mac Davis and his producer Rick Hall were down in Muscle Shoals, Alabama working on a new album at the FAME Studio. Among the musicians working those sessions were Walt Aldridge and Tommy Brasfield. Adding to the guitar playing, Aldridge also doubled as a studio engineer. The two men were also “closet” songwriters. They had been secretly writing songs in Muscle Shoals. For over a year, they’ve been writing songs before coming up with what they felt was worthy enough to show to a publisher. The guys called it “(There’s) No Gettin’ Over Me”. Aldridge and Brasfield had been working on the song between “takes” during the Davis’ sessions. At one point, they got stuck. So they went downstairs to the studio to ask Davis if he would help them. Davis’ mind was on the record he was making and he didn’t turn out to be much help.
After about a week, Aldridge and Brasfield finally finished “(There’s) No Gettin’ Over Me”. They made a demo with Walt singing lead and playing guitar. Then Tommy took the finished product to Nashville to pitch the song. He didn’t have to wait long to find a taker. The first artist he approached passed on it, but then he went to Ronnie Milsap’s office and played it for Rob Galbraith.
However, Galbraith thought Ronnie should hear “(There’s) No Gettin’ Over Me” right away. After hearing the song, Milsap and his producer Tom Collins immediately moved to get it cut quickly.
Ronnie Milsap was a stickler for perfection and recorded the song some twelve times. In the end, the cut that they went with turned out to be the very first one. Both Milsap and Collins came to realize that the “magic” achieved on the first take subsequently diminished on each additional attempt.
It yielded his third Grammy award. In addition to the record’s lofty No. 1 status on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart, it also spent five weeks at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart. It also reached No. 2 on the adult contemporary playlist. By the way, most listeners (then and now) refer to the song by a grammatically incorrect title: “There Ain’t No Gettin’ Over Me,” which is completely understandable since that’s the hook line that Milsap used throughout the recording. At no time is the song’s official title, “(There’s) No Gettin’ Over Me,” ever used.
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Lyrics
Well you can walk out on me tonight
If you think that it ain’t feeling right
But darling
There’s ain’t no getting over me
Well you can say that you need to be free
But there ain’t no place that I won’t be
Sweet darling bass run up
There ain’t no getting over me
I’ll be the bill you forgot to pay bass run up
I’ll be the dream that keeps you awake
I’ll be the song on the radio
I’ll be the reason that you tell the boys no
Don’t you know
You can tell everyone that we’re through
You might even believe it too
But darling
There’s ain’t no getting over me
Sweet darling lead, bass run up
There ain’t no getting over me
I’ll be the face that you see in the crowd
I’ll be the times that you cry out loud
I’ll be the smile when there’s no one around
I’ll be the book that you just can’t put down
So you can walk out on me tonight
If you think that it ain’t feeling right
But darling
There’s ain’t no getting over me
You’ll see sweet darling
There’s ain’t no getting over me
No no no no No Darling
There ain’t no getting over me
Oh
No darling
There ain’t no getting over me
Oh darling
There ain’t no getting over me