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The Best of George Jones (1955-1967)George Jones
Release Date: 07/30/1991
Original Release:
1991
# of Discs:
1
J&R Item # 114732_CD
UPC # 081227053123
Label: Rhino Records (USA)
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Performer: George Jones
Artist: Melba Montgomery; Gene Pitney Producer: Bill Inglot (Compilation) Distributor: WEA (Distributor) Notes: THE BEST OF GEORGE JONES (1955-1967) is a compilation of all the Top 10 hits that Jones recorded between 1955-1967 for the Starday, Mercury, United Artists and Musicor labels. Personnel includes: George Jones (vocals, guitar); Melba Montgomery, Gene Pitney (vocals). Includes liner notes by Rich Kienzle. Personnel: George Jones (vocals, guitar). Liner Note Author: Rich Kienzle. A typically excellent Rhino anthology, THE BEST OF GEORGE JONES (1955-1967) collects all of George Jones' early chart hits, ending just before his jump to Epic Records (and his marriage to Tammy Wynette) and the perhaps better-known work that followed. The first few songs, including "Why, Baby, Why" (better known from Webb Pierce's honky-tonk version) find Jones searching for his own style, recording both barroom weepers ("Just One More") and rockabilly ("White Lightning"). By 1962, he'd found it in the trademark clench-jawed intensity and soul that power anguished ballads like She Thinks I Still Care" and "You Comb Her Hair." Industry strictures however dictated that he dabble in other styles, so the album also includes up-tempo novelty tunes like "Love Bug" and "I'm a People."
George Jones is the greatest of country singers but he has also been a victim of the infamous hard-living honky-tonk lifestyle. Though he's gone through several phases, from rockabilly to honky-tonk to countrypolitan, his melismatic, Lefty Frizell-influenced style has remained at the core of his unique sound. His stormy marriage to Tammy Wynette (1969-75) included duet albums of love songs and bitter recriminations. By the late '70s, his drinking and cocaine addiction had made him so unreliable that he was known as "No Show Jones." In 1979 he received medical treatment and staged a significant comeback with I AM WHAT I AM, which included his greatest single, "He Stopped Loving Her Today."
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