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(Ironically, the song was co-authored by George Richey, who Wynette married in the summer of 1978.) The ambitious pairings with pop and rock singers may have displeased many hardcore Jones fans but one of the songs, James Taylor's "Bartender's Blues", had been a top ten country hit in 1978. Taylor wrote the tune with Jones in mind and sang ...
Epic released the song as a single in 1974 and it climbed to #15 on the Billboard country charts. In July 2013 Uncut singled out the performance as a "grand romance." John Prine covered the song with Iris Dement and it became the opening track on his 1999 LP In Spite of Ourselves .
George & Tammy: Duets [15] Released: 2004; Label: Sony/Time Life; Formats: CD — Playlist: The Very Best of George Jones & Tammy Wynette [16] Released: October 9, 2012; Label: Epic/Sony Music; Formats: CD — The Classic Christmas Album [17] Released: 2013; Label: Epic/Legacy; Formats: CD; 72 "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was ...
While "Two Story House" was riding high on the charts, Jones and Wynette made a disastrous appearance on The Tonight Show to promote it. In his book George Jones: The Life and Times of a Honky Tonk Legend, Bob Allen recounts the episode: "George showed up with an ill-suited "uptown" hairdo that had been slapped on him at the last minute by an image consultant, and which made him look like ...
Greatest Hits is an album by country music artists George Jones and Tammy Wynette.It was the first compilation by Epic Records that collected some of their biggest hits, including the number-one singles "We're Gonna Hold On", "Golden Ring", and "Near You".
Chastain and Shannon do all of their own singing in George & Tammy, with The Eyes of Tammy Faye Oscar winner belting out one of Wynette's most famous tracks, "Stand by Your Man."That 1968 tune was ...
Tammy Wynette and George Jones, on the other hand, did have a relationship." The truth was not as idyllic as their fans preferred to imagine it. Years later, in the documentary Stand By Your Dream, Wynette recalled, "It was very difficult on us, both of us being in the business and both of us being together twenty-four hours a day. We were ...
A production crew films a scene for “George and Tammy,” a television series about country music stars George Jones and Tammy Wynette, played by Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain, far left ...