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Between 1974 and 1975, three singles were issued by the Jones-Wynette duo. Of the three, its most successful was 1974's "We Loved It Away". It peaked in the Billboard country top ten and was included on their sixth studio album, George & Tammy & Tina. The latter included Wynette's daughter, Tina.
Although Jones and Wynette had divorced in 1975, they remained a valuable commercial commodity for Epic, scoring their biggest chart hits after their split. The album peaked at number 23 on the Billboard country albums chart and eventually went Gold in the U.S. [ citation needed ]
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 ...
It became Wynette's sixteenth disc to chart in the top ten of country albums list. [9] The title track was the only single issued from the project. It was released by Epic Records in March 1973. [10] The single topped the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart in 1973, along with reaching number 72 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The first track was a #13 hit titled "Too Much Water" which Jones recorded on March 19, 1957, which was his very first session of Jones' held in Nashville. He later performed the song live on "The Tex Ritter Show." "Why Baby Why" was recorded on August 27, 1955, and soon after release in September. The song became Jones' first charting single.
In February 2016, Josh Brolin announced that he and Chastain would play George Jones and Tammy Wynette in a biographical film. [3] In September 2020, it was announced the film would instead be a limited series, based on the book The Three of Us: Growing Up with Tammy and George by Georgette Jones, with Brolin no longer attached, instead serving as an executive producer. [4]
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 ...
The song's electric clavinet solo was played by Nashville session musician Hargus "Pig" Robbins.Part of the song's success may have been that fans assumed George was singing about ex-wife Tammy Wynette; indeed, in the liner notes to the Jones retrospective Anniversary – 10 Years of Hits, producer Billy Sherrill confirms that song was "about Tammy."