50 Years of Hits
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| Compilation album by George Jones | |||||
| Released | November 09, 2004 | ||||
| Recorded | 1955 – 2004 | ||||
| Genre | Country | ||||
| Length | Disc 1 – 45:04 Disc 2 – 51:07 Disc 3 – 54:18 |
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| Label | Bandit | ||||
| Producer | Pappy Daily Billy Sherrill Norro Wilson Buddy Cannon Kyle Lehning Evelyn Shriver |
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50 Years of Hits is a country album by George Jones who was signed to Starday Records in 1953, released his first singles in 1954, and had his first hit with "Why Baby Why" in 1955.
Jones has recorded nearly 900 songs and made hundreds of guest appearances on other artists' albums. He continues to record new projects. Billboard Magazine states that George Jones has had more charted singles than any artist in any format of music. This collection features one song per year, representing the actual year that song was released. Most of the time, the song chosen was Jones' biggest hit of that year, but sometimes it was chosen because Jones thought it was his best song that year.
All but two of the selections are original recordings. Many of the early Starday songs were rerecordings for Epic in the 70's, and two were inserted (1967 & 1968) because Musicor/Gusto refused to allow the producers to use the originals. Jones originally recorded "Good Year For The Roses in 1970, but a much later version with Alan Jackson is used here. The inclusion of his 1981 #1 single, Still Doin' Time, among his mid 1960s hits is an embarrassing error given the CD's pride at presenting one hit from each year or one song from each year that George recorded. That 1981 song should have appeared on Disc 2 between He Stopped Loving Her Today and Same Ole Me. Instead, on here, we have his 1982 #1 single with Merle Haggard representing the year 1981, Yesterday's Wine. Same Ole Me was indeed a hit single in early 1982...but it was a hit before the duet material with Merle came along...so there are several songs that appear out of chronological order. The inclusion of a 1979 duet he recorded with Waylon Jennings, Night Life, appears out of place as it wasn't even a single pushed at radio. The CD should have included Someday My Day Will Come instead to represent 1979. Radio Lover is another example...that song was recorded in 1983 on the album Jones Country but Epic Records released it as a single in 1989 but on here, they have it listed as a 1988 single. The big hit, if you call it that, in 1988 for George was a duet with newcomer Shelby Lynne, If I Could Bottle This Up, that reached the Top-50 on Top Country Songs but that duet single isn't featured here.
Contents |
[edit] Track listing
[edit] Disc one
1955 – 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)
1981 – Still Doin’ Time
1967 – Walk Through This World With Me
1968 – She’s Mine
1969 – I’ll Share My World With You
1994 – Good Year For the Roses (with Alan Jackson)
1971 – Take Me (with Tammy Wynette)
[edit] Disc two
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 (with Tammy Wynette)
1978 – Bartender’s Blues
1979 – Nightlife (with Waylon Jennings)
1980 – He Stopped Loving Her Today
1982 – 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 (The Corvette Song)
1987 – The Right Left Hand
1988 – Radio Lover
[edit] Disc three
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
1995 – One (with Tammy Wynette)
1996 – I Must Have Done Something Bad
1997 – When Did You Stop Loving Me
1998 – Wild Irish Rose
1999 – Choices
2001 – Beer Run (B Double E Double Are You In?) (with Garth Brooks)
2002 – 50,000 Names
2003 – I Got Everything
[edit] Prouducers
- Compilation Produced by Evelyn Shriver
- Associate Producers Susan Nadler and Michael Campbell
- Art Direction Virginia Team and Luellyn Latocki
- Design by Don Baily for Latocki Team Creative, Nashville, TN
- Compilation engineered for release by Custom Mastering, Inc.
[edit] On The Charts
Album – Billboard (North America)
| Year | Chart | Position |
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| 2004 | The Billboard 200 | 118 |
| 2004 | Top Country Albums | 20 |
| 2004 | Top Independent Albums | 5 |
