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The success of "He Stopped Loving Her Today" led CBS Records to renew Jones' recording contract and sparked new interest in the singer. Jones earned the Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance in 1980. The Academy of Country Music awarded the song Single of the Year and Song of the Year in 1980.
The song is similar in theme to Jones' later comeback hit "He Stopped Loving Her Today" except from a first person point of view, with the narrator claiming he will only stop loving his departed lover when he is dead and buried: When you left I thought that I would soon be over you Even told myself that I would find somebody new
By 1981, Jones’ career continued to thrive after the remarkable success of his #1 hit single "He Stopped Loving Her Today."After experiencing a lull in his career in the late 1970s, the song reignited the singer's career on the charts; in 1980, he scored a #2 hit with "Two Story House," a duet with his ex-wife Tammy Wynette, and reached #2 again with his rendition of the Tom T. Hall ...
The success of "He Stopped Loving Her Today" led CBS Records to renew Jones's recording contract and sparked new interest in the singer. He was the subject of an hour-and-a-quarter-long HBO television special entitled George Jones: With a Little Help from His Friends , which had him performing songs with Waylon Jennings, Elvis Costello, Tanya ...
Herman Bland "Pete" Wade (December 16, 1934 – August 27, 2024) was an American guitarist. Wade worked as a session musician in Nashville, playing on numerous hits including "Crazy Arms" by Ray Price, "He Stopped Loving Her Today" by George Jones, and "Fist City" by Loretta Lynn.
The one hit he did not miss, of course, is "He Stopped Loving Her Today", which went to number one in 1980. Jones, who had no choice but to perform the song at virtually every show he had given since it came out, had resisted rerecording it for 25 years because he believed that the original version he and producer Billy Sherrill created was too ...
"He Stopped Loving Her Today" George Jones 1980 1 "I Feel Like Loving You Again" T.G. Sheppard: 1980 1 "Hard Times" Lacy J. Dalton: 1980 7 "Would You Catch a Falling Star" John Anderson: 1982 6 "Faking Love" T.G. Sheppard and Karen Brooks 1983 1 "I Don't Remember Loving You" John Conlee: 1983 10 "Old Flames Have New Names" Mark Chesnutt: 1992 5
Shine On was Jones's sixth album in three years, a prolific comeback that had been spearheaded by his 1980 single "He Stopped Loving Her Today".His chart success continued unabated in March 1983, with the album producing what turned out to be his last number one song "I Always Get Lucky With You".