"Someone's Gotta Cry" is a song written by Don Bowman that was originally recorded by American country singer Jean Shepard.
During the 1950s honky tonk era of country music, Jean Shepard had risen to success with a series of top ten singles.
When the country pop musical style replaced honky tonk on radio, Shepard's popularity waned.
[1] "Someone's Gotta Cry" was among a series of follow-up singles that would make the country charts in the 1960s for Shepard.
[3] Cashbox praised the track, finding it to be "a hauntingly pretty, slow-moving tradition-styled hillbilly weeper.