Carl Butler
Carl Robert Butler, known professionally as Carl Butler, was an American country music singer-songwriter and one half a husband-and-wife singing duo with his own wife, Pearl Butler. The duo had one of the biggest-selling singles of 1962, "Don't Let Me Cross Over". A later single, written by Carl, "Too Late to Try Again", hit No. 9 on the country charts in 1964 for them, while the B side, "My Tears Don't Show", also written by Carl, crept up to No. 36.
Butler also wrote "If Tear Drops Were Pennies", twice a top ten country hit, with Carl Smith in 1951, and Dolly Parton/Porter Wagoner in 1973, as well as a minor hit on the pop charts for Rosemary Clooney in 1951. Butler wrote "Crying My Heart Out Over You", with Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, and Earl Sherry. The song charted for Flatt and Scruggs in 1960, but is best known from the 1982 Ricky Skaggs version, which hit #1.
