Hank Williams was driving from Nashville, Tennessee to Shreveport, Louisiana in 1952 with his paramour Billie Jean Jones. While talking about his first wife Audrey, Hank called her "a cheatin' heart". Hank knew he liked the phrase and wrote the song in the car while dictating the lyric to his girlfriend. "Your Cheatin' Heart:" was recorded with The Drifting Cowboys (Chet Atkins, Floyd Chance, Don Helms, Tommy Jackson and Jack Shook) in Nashville that September. In January of the next year Hank was killed and the song was released within days of his death. The single topped the Country chart and sold over a million copies.

The Ray Charles (Robinson) 1962 version of "Your Cheatin' Heart" peaked at number seven Adult Contemporary, twenty-three R&B, number twenty-nine on Billboard pop, and reached number thirteen in the U.K. The single is from the ABC LP "Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music, Volume Two". Wikipedia "In The Rolling Stone Album Guide (1992), J. D. Considine regarded the second Modern Sounds album as superior to the first, "because its balladry is smoother (as with his version of Williams's 'Your Cheatin' Heart')."