Known for his "trucker songs" Red Sovine also sang other material as proven by the 1966 album "Country Music Time" and the track "Missing You" (Noe - Sovine) which was originally recorded as a single released in 1955 as the flip side to "Why, Baby, Why".

Polio survivor Texan Ray Peterson covered the tune in 1961 taking "Missing You" into the top thirty.