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George Jones: A Good Year For The Roses (4-CD Deluxe Box Set)

4-CD box, LP size, 52 pages book, 131 tracks, playing time 341:00.

George Jones' classic Musicor recordings have been out of circulation for years while a lawsuit was resolved. George Jones' Musicor recordings were never issued systematically or in full until now! George Jones' Musicor recordings were never issued in premium sound quality until now! The set includes 20 previously unissued recordings. Includes all-time classic George Jones hits, such as When The Grass Grows Over Me, I'll Share My World With You, As Long As I Live, and one of the greatest ever country classics, A Good Year For The Roses! Plus the earliest duets with Tammy Wynette! The second of two boxes. Together, they include every Musicor recording, except the duets with Gene Pitney (available elsewhere on Bear Family)!

These were George Jones' truly classic years. After more than a decade as one of country music's top stars, newfound maturity and soulfulness augmented what was already the greatest voice in country music. The six years from 1965 to 1971 that Jones spent on Musicor Records were marked by personal turmoil and unprecedented success, but through it all he kept minting one country standard after another. This is the second part of Bear Family's comprehensive two volume edition of Jones' complete Musicor recordings, covering all sessions from 1965 until 1971.

Until now, the Musicor sides were randomly packaged and many were unavailable, but the two Bear Family boxes (plus one CD of duets with Gene Pitney available elsewhere on Bear Family) will tell the complete story. It was during these years that George Jones married Tammy Wynette and this set includes his earliest duets with Tammy... plus a rare duet with Johnny Paycheck! And then there are the original versions of such all-time George Jones standards as When The Grass Grows Over Me, I'll Share My World With You, As Long As I Live, and one of the greatest ever country classics, A Good Year For The Roses! They're all here in stunningly restored sound together with 20 previously unissued recordings. In 1971, George Jones broke acrimoniously from Musicor's co-owner, Pappy Daily, who'd discovered and nurtured him, to join Tammy Wynette on Epic Records. The hits would continue, but George Jones would never sound as good again! This set includes liner notes by Rich Kienzle and a complete discography by Don Roy, Kittra Moore, and Richard Weize.

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Interpret: George Jones
Album titlle: A Good Year For The Roses (4-CD Deluxe Box Set)
Genre Country
Label Bear Family Records
Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
Artikelart Box set
EAN: 4000127169297
weight in Kg 1.4

Jones, George - A Good Year For The Roses (4-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 1
01	Wrong Side Of The World	George Jones
02	As Long As I Live	George Jones
03	The Poor Chinee	George Jones
04	New Man In Town	George Jones
05	Beneath Still Waters	George Jones
06	The Green Grass Grows All Around	George Jones
07	Let It Rain Let It Shine	George Jones
08	I'll Sail My Ship Alone	George Jones
09	Possum Holler	George Jones
10	I Can't Go Home	George Jones
11	How Wonderful A Poor Man's Life Can Be	George Jones
12	Unwanted Babies	George Jones
13	Tell Me Something I Don't Know	George Jones
14	Even The Loser (Likes To Dream)	George Jones
15	Between My House And Town	George Jones
16	Mansion Hill	George Jones
17	Your Angel Steps Out Of Heaven	George Jones
18	On Second Thought	George Jones
19	Barbara Joy	George Jones
20	When The Grass Grows Over Me	George Jones
21	Burn Another Honky Tonk Down	George Jones
22	Same Old Boat	George Jones
23	When The Wife Runs Off	George Jones
24	I Don't Have Sense Enough (To Come In Out Of	George Jones
25	Do What You Think's Best	George Jones
26	Third Time Down	George Jones
27	Our Happy Home	George Jones
28	You've Become My Everything	George Jones
29	My Mom And Santa Claus	George Jones
30	Lonely Christmas Call	George Jones
31	I Cried Myself Awake	George Jones
32	Heartaches And Hangovers	George Jones
33	Divorce Or Destroy	George Jones
34	Great Big Spirit Of Love	George Jones
35	Milwaukee Here I Come	George Jones
36	Just An Average Couple	George Jones
37	I'll See You While Ago	George Jones
38	She's Mine	George Jones
39	If Not For You	George Jones
40	The Race Is On	George Jones
41	I'll Share My World With You	George Jones
42	The Hardest Part Of All	George Jones
43	How Much Rain	George Jones
44	Where Grass Won't Grow	George Jones
45	Old Blue Tomorrow	George Jones
46	Shoulder To Shoulder	George Jones
47	The Fortune I've Gone Through	George Jones
48	For Better Or For Worse (But Not For Long)	George Jones
49	She's As Close As I Can Get	George Jones
50	No Blues Is Good News	George Jones
51	I Know	George Jones
52	Among The Few	George Jones
53	Papa's Wagon	George Jones
54	Never Grow Cold	George Jones
55	Mama Take Me Home	George Jones
56	Playing Possum	George Jones
57	I Just Got Tired Of Being Poor	George Jones
58	You Can Always Come Back	George Jones
59	Going Life's Way	George Jones
60	Okie From Muskogee	George Jones
61	Image Of Me	George Jones
62	Love Me	George Jones
63	I Stayed Long Enough	George Jones
64	All I Have To Offer You Is Me	George Jones
65	Mama's Hungry Eyes	George Jones
66	Each Season Changes You	George Jones
67	Will You Visit Me On Sunday	George Jones
68	I'm Finally Over You	George Jones
69	Rosie Bokay	George Jones
70	These Hands	George Jones
71	A Wound Time Can't Erase	George Jones
72	Try	George Jones
73	Where Could I Go	George Jones
74	Loving You Makes You Mine	George Jones
75	Tell Me My Lying Eyes Are Wrong	George Jones
76	Leaning On The Shoulder Of Love	George Jones
77	A Good Year For The Roses	George Jones
78	A Day In The Life Of A Fool	George Jones
79	You And Your Sweet Love	George Jones
80	A Good Year For The Roses	George Jones
81	I'll Follow You (Up To Our Cloud)	George Jones
82	With Half A Heart	George Jones
83	A Good Old Fashioned Cry	George Jones
84	Imitation Of Love	George Jones
85	You're Still On My Mind	George Jones
86	Open Pit Mine	George Jones
87	Poor Little Rich Boy	George Jones
88	My Favorite Lies	George Jones
89	The Old, Old House	George Jones
90	There's No Justice	George Jones
91	I Made Leaving (Easy For You)	George Jones
92	Brothers Of The Bottle	George Jones
93	Late Getting Home	George Jones
94	They'll Never Take Her Love From Me	George Jones
95	Lifetime To Regret	George Jones
96	You Put Living Back In Life	George Jones
97	She's Lonesome Again	George Jones
98	You Gotta Be My Baby	George Jones
99	Wrong Number	George Jones
100	I Wouldn't Know About That	George Jones
101	Yearning	George Jones
102	Would It Do Me Any Good	George Jones
103	Someone Sweet To Love	George Jones
104	Sometimes You Just Can't Win	George Jones
105	Right Won't Touch A Hand	George Jones
106	Getting Over The Storm	George Jones
107	Wrapped Around Her Finger	George Jones
108	I Can Still See Him In Your Eyes	George Jones
109	Fightin' Side Of Me	George Jones
110	Come Sundown	George Jones
111	Knock Three Times	George Jones
112	The Last One To Touch Me	George Jones
113	Free As A Breeze	George Jones
114	After You	George Jones
115	Love Makes It Alright	George Jones
116	Saginaw Michigan	George Jones
117	Who'll Turn Out The Lights	George Jones
118	Hello Darlin'	George Jones
119	High On The Thought Of You	George Jones
120	You Made A Believer Out Of Me	George Jones
121	I Fall In Love Everyday	George Jones
122	Get Some Loving Done	George Jones
123	Our Love Is Forever	George Jones
124	Everything's Gonna Be Alright	George Jones
125	Will I Ever Love Again	George Jones
126	I Had You	George Jones
127	My Special Memory	George Jones
128	Everytime I Think Of You	George Jones
129	She's More Of A Woman	George Jones
130	Heaven Made Women	George Jones
131	I Can Love You Enough	George Jones

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"George Jones"

George Jones

12.9. 1931 Saratoga - Texas / 26. 04. 2013

Record Labels: Starday, Mercury, Longhorn, Power Pak, Hillside, United Artists, Musicor, RCA, Intercord, Ace, Rounder, Epic.
First Top Ten Hit: Why Baby, Why (1955)
First No. 1 Hit: White Lightning (1959)

In November, 1953, he was fresh out of the Marines, having joined two years earlier in the wake of an unraveling marriage. Before taking the oath, he'd been a denizen of honky tonk stages in and around Beaumont, Texas. Born in a rough-cut log house near Saratoga in East Texas' mysterious, often violent Big Thicket region on September 12, 1931, hillbilly music surrounded him as a kid; his singing voice turned heads even when he was an adolescent.

Jones wasn't back long when he heard about Starday, a new record company. Lefty Frizzell's ex-manager Jack Starnes and hard-bitten Houston area railroader-turned-juke box and slot machine impresario-turned record label owner, distributor and retailer Harold 'Pappy' Daily co-founded it in 1952. George's buddy, aspiring local singer Sonny Burns, had dealings with them, so Jones returned to playing the dives around the area, expanding his profile in 1954 as a disc jockey over KTRM. He soon found Starday interested in auditioning him.

His audition and first session took place in Jack Starnes' living room-turned-improvised recording studio. With an amateur's passion for the era's great singers, he tried to emulate the best of all of them as he sang--until Daily asked with great sincerity, "George, you've sung like Roy Acuff, Lefty Frizzell, Hank Williams and Bill Monroe. Can you sing like George Jones?"

No Money In This Deal, the first single, came from that session. It didn't take. Neither did the next five singles.

It was single number seven, the Hankish Why Baby Why that landed in the Top Ten in 1955. More Starday hits followed. After a brief, abortive alliance between Starday and Mercury Records, Daily, who still co-owned Starday with his partner Don Pierce, (Jack Starnes had departed earlier) fell out with Pierce in 1958. When the smoke cleared, Pierce took Starday; George wound up contracted to Pappy and remained a Mercury artist. Pappy kept his hand in the regional market. He'd formed Houston-based D and Dart Records as a regional operation aimed at finding new talent, Gabe Tucker helping him run things. Glad Music, Daily's new publishing company, would handle that end of things.

Jones came up with some landmark hits on Mercury, among them Color Of The Blues and the Chuck Berry-influenced White Lightning, from the pen of Daily discovery and Jones buddy, KTRM disc jockey-singer-composer J. P. 'The Big Bopper' Richardson. He originally recorded his hard-driving rocker Chantilly Lace for D, until Mercury, who'd initially passed on it, re-released it nationally. That put it over the top and made the Bopper and fulltime rock star from later '58 until February 3, 1959, when the small private plane carrying him, Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens crashed killing everyone on board.

At Mercury, Jones's vocal style began evolving, his keening, edgy nasality morphed into a more distinctive type of phrasing. Overtones of Hank and Acuff remained, but Jones's voice moved into a lower register. He could wrench emotion out of a phrase or lyric by bearing down on it as he sang. The new maturity manifested itself in his final Mercury hits: The Window Up Above and especially the #1 single Tender Years, where the formerly twangy accompaniment replaced by muted Nashville Sound backing.

The new Jones style quickly began influencing others, Buck Owens among them. Interviewed in 1988, Buck confirmed that point. "I thought that George was the greatest thing since sliced bread. I could not help it and later on in the last years I've tried to make a concerted effort to not get into that, but if you listen on (my records in the) early years, you're sure gonna hear George because he was a big influence on me as far as the singers go," he said. As time passed, George began singing in lower registers that combined with his distinctive phrasing his singular sound brought more admiration among fans and his peers.

Pappy came to know Mercury executive Art Talmadge, who'd left to join United Artists Records. Daily and Jones followed him there. The label was only four years old. Originally created to distribute soundtracks from UA-produced films, it branched out, becoming a hip jazz label and then broadened into other areas. Their newly-created country division consisted mainly of Daily acts with Jones as the flagship, Pappy serving as UA's de facto country producer.

Jones's relationship with Daily was business only, and fostered deep resentment that hadn't abated in his 1996 autobiography 'I Lived To Tell It All,' where he wrote bitterly, "I made a lot of money for Pappy Daily, Starday and Mercury. Basically, I was a naïve guy who was overly trusting of some people who proved to be untrustworthy. I was never paid royalties on a regular basis. It became very frustrating to hear my songs on the radio, see them listed high on the charts and not have enough money to hire a band."

His two-year UA contract yielded exactly 151 recordings. Some singles and albums from that period stand among his most memorable. Every album was 'produced by Pappy Daily.' Or so it seemed. In 2001, Jones clarified their 16 year studio relationship, which continued through his 1965-1970 stint with Talmadge's Musicor Records. "A lot of people think (Pappy) was the producer, but he really wasn't. He timed the songs in the studio and he wrote out the paperwork. That was about all he did. I worked with the musicians myself and we worked out the arrangements. I basically left it up to the musicians after we run through the songs. I wanted them to be more a part of the production."

Jones created many great moments in the studio during his UA phase. Some were captured on tape, some not. His legendary reputation as a drinker and hellraiser already established, his stature continued to rise. Many Nashville insiders began hanging at George's sessions, both to marvel at the voice and to see what whiskey-fueled mischief he'd make this time. One frequent sideman explained that while Jones was usually well-lubed throughout a recording session, a certain sweet spot existed. Too few drinks didn't loosen him up sufficiently; too many washed out a session. An amount of alcohol in between those extremes unleashed every bit of his unrestrained, uninhibited power.

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