“Somebody Loves You Darling” is a song written by Zeke Morris, one half of the Morris Brothers, the North Carolina duo of Wiley and Zeke Morris. The brothers recorded it for RCA Victor in 1945, at what proved to be their last session together.
The Morris Brothers were an influential act of the 1930s and 1940s, and the same session that produced “Somebody Loves You Darling” also yielded their version of “Salty Dog Blues.” The song itself is a tender reassurance — a reminder to a lonely, doubting sweetheart that somebody loves her still.
The song passed into bluegrass and became closely associated with the brother-duet tradition. The version heard here is by Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys, from their 1986 album “Lonesome and Blue.”
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