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The song was ranked no. 142 on Rolling Stone's 2021 500 Greatest Songs of All Time ranking. [4] Alan Jackson sang the song during George Jones' funeral service on May 2, 2013. George Strait and Jackson sang the song as a tribute during the 2013 CMA Awards on November 6, 2013.
"Memories of Us" is a song by American country singer George Jones. The sad, nostalgic ballad was composed by Dave Kirby and Glenn Martin and became the title track of Jones' 1975 LP - his first after divorcing Tammy Wynette.
"The Grand Tour" is a song made famous by country music singer George Jones.Originally released in 1974, the song was the title track to his album released that year. The song became Jones' sixth No. 1 song (fifth if only solo entries are considered) on Billboard ' s Hot Country Singles chart in August 1974, and was the fourth-biggest hit of the year. [1]
On "The George Jones Show" airing on The Nashville Network in 1999, country singer Sammy Kershaw described this song, that he'd heard only once, as a young child, as one of the most "memorable" and "saddest songs" he'd ever heard in his life. Kershaw cited George Jones as a heavy influence of his own music. Video of that interview can be seen ...
"Out of Control" laid the foundation for this new vocal approach. As Rich Kienzle notes in the 1994 Sony retrospective The Essential George Jones: The Spirit of Country, "He changed the volume of his voice or swooped from a deep bass to a high treble to accentuate a phrase or lyric. At times he'd stiffen his jaw or sing through clenched teeth ...
Originally conceived as "songs I wished I had recorded," Jones recorded eleven songs that included many he had passed on over the years that went on to become hits for other artists. The album includes his first ever "duet video" with Dolly Parton on the Hank Williams, Jr . penned "The Blues Man"; the song chronicles the life of a singer not ...
In the liner notes to the 1983 Jones compilation Anniversary - 10 Years of Hits, producer Billy Sherrill writes that he was surprised that the song "Memories of Us", a personal favorite, failed as a single, and in his 1996 autobiography I Lived to Tell It All, Jones admitted that at the time he "constantly feared that my career, like my three ...
Richards, Rolling Stones Voodoo Lounge World Tour, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1995. Jones would record "Say It's Not You" as a duet with Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards in 1994, with the guitarist writing in his memoir Life that country-rock pioneer and Jones fan Gram Parsons first made him aware of the song: "Gram taught me country music - how it worked, the difference between the ...