When You Say Nothing at All

"When You Say Nothing at All"
Single by Keith Whitley
from the album Don't Close Your Eyes
B-side	"Lucky Dog"
Released	1988
Genre	Country
Length	3:40
Label	RCA
Songwriter(s)	Paul Overstreet Don Schlitz
Producer(s)	Garth Fundis Keith Whitley
Keith Whitley singles chronology
"Don't Close Your Eyes" (1988) "When You Say Nothing at All" (1988) "I'm No Stranger to the Rain" (1989)

"When You Say Nothing at All" is a country song written by Paul Overstreet and Don Schlitz. It was a hit song for four different performers: Keith Whitley, who took it to the top of the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart on December 24, 1988; Alison Krauss & Union Station, whose version was their first solo top-10 country hit in 1995; Irish singer Frances Black, whose 1996 version became her third Irish top-10 single and brought the song to the attention of Irish pop singer Ronan Keating, whose 1999 version was his first solo single and a number-one hit in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and New Zealand.