50 Years Of Hits
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50 Years Of Hits is a country album by George Jones who was signed to Starday Records in 1953, and released his first singles in 1954 and has his first hit with "Why Baby Why" in 1955.
So far, Jones has recored nearly 900 song (comprising 943 albums), countless guest appearances on other artistrs' albums and continues to record new projects. Billboard Magazine states that George Jones has had more charted singles than any artist in any format of music! It is nearly impossible to put togther a really comprehensive collection on George Jones. This collection features one song per year, representing the actual year that song was released. Most of the time, the song chosen was biggest hit of that year but sometimes it was chosen because Jones thought that was the best song that year. The majority of the songs were big hits but several years wheb age became a factor for airplay and we used poetic license in choosing.
All but two of the selections are the original recording. Many of the early Starday songs were rerecordings for Epic in the 70's and we inserted tow (1967 & 1968) because Musicor/Gusto refused to allow us to use the originals. We also played a timeline a bit to compensate for those years (1965-1970). Jones originally recorded "Good Year For The Roses in 1970 but we used a much later version with Alan Jackson. This illustrates what little control an artist has over his music, even when the artist has repaid the record label's investment numerous times.
Music scholars have already written the George Jones saga. They have analyzed his phrasing, song choices, soulfulness, personal life and craziness. He has also told his story in his best selling autobiography, "I Lived To Tell It All." This collection will remain you what great country music is all about. This album went Gold in 2005.
Track listing
Disc 11955 – Why Baby Why
1956 – Just One More
1957 – Tall Tall Trees
1958 – Color of the Blues
1959 – White Lightning
1960 – Window Up Above
1961 – Tender Years
1962 – She Thinks I Still Care
1963 – You Comb Her Hair
1964 – The Race Is On
1965 – We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds (with Melba Montgomery)
1966 – Still Doin’ Time
1967 – Walk Through This World With Me
1968 – She’s Mine
1969 – I’ll Share My World With You
1970 – Good Year For the Roses (with Alan Jackson)
1971 – Take Me (with Tammy Wynette)
Disc 2
1972 – A Picture of Me Without You
1973 – Once You’ve Had The Best
1974 – The Grand Tour
1975 – These Days I Barely Get By
1976 – Her Name Is
1977 – Near You
1978 – Bartender’s Blues
1979 – Nightlife (with Waylon Jennings)
1980 – He Stopped Loving Her Today
1981 – Yesterday’s Wine (with Merle Haggard)
1982 – Same Ole Me
1983 – I Always Get Lucky With You
1984 – She’s My Rock
1985 – Who’s Gonna Fill Their Shoes
1986 – The One I Loved Back Then
1987 – The Right Left Hand (The Corvette Song)
1988 - Radio Lover
Disc 3
1989 – I’m A One Woman Man
1990 – A Few Ole Country Boys (with Randy Travis)
1991 – You Couldn’t Get The Picture
1992 – Finally Friday
1993 – I Don’t Need Your Rocking Chair
1994 – High Tech Redneck
1995 – One (with Tammy Wynette)
1996 – I Must Have Done Something Wrong
1997 – When Did You Stop Loving Me
1998 – Wild Irish Rose
1999 – Choices
2000 – Cold Hard Truth
2001 – Beer Run (with Garth Brooks)
2002 – 50,000 Names
2003 – I Got Everything
2004 – Amazing Grace
Prouducers
- Compilation Produced by: Evelyn Shriver
- Associate Producers: Susan Nadler and Michael Campbell
- Art Direction: Virginia Team and Luellyn Latocki
- Design: Don Baily for Latocki Team Creative, Nashville, TN
- Compilation engineered for release by Custom Mastering, Inc.
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