<Table> <Tr> <Td> "I'm Still Not Over You" (1966) </Td> <Td> "' The Party's Over" (1967) </Td> <Td> "Blackjack County Chain" (1967) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> "I'm Still Not Over You" (1966) </Td> <Td> "' The Party's Over" (1967) </Td> <Td> "Blackjack County Chain" (1967) </Td> </Tr> <P> "The Party's Over" is a song written by country music singer Willie Nelson during the mid-1950s . After arriving in Houston, Texas, Nelson was hired to play for the Esquire Ballroom band, where he would be allowed to close the shows singing the song . Guitar instructor and Nelson's friend Paul Buskirk forwarded the song to singer Claude Gray, who recorded the original version of the song, released as "My Party's Over" in 1959 . </P> <P> Nelson recorded the song himself in 1966, which was released as a single in February 1967 . It reached number twenty - four on Billboard's Hot Country Singles, and it was included as the title track of Nelson's album . The song was later popularized by former Dallas Cowboys quarterback and Monday Night Football host Don Meredith, who sang a line of the song on the broadcasts . </P>

Who wrote turn out the lights the party's over