George Jones’ First Album Reissued on Vinyl (Giveaway)
It has been just over six months since we lost one of country music’s most singular and influential voices in George Jones, and though nothing will ever fill the void left in the heart of country music by the George Jones passing, our memories of his music just got a little easier to recall and share.
Reserve Records, an imprint of Secret Stash Records, has just reissued one of the most timeless and treasured pieces of country music history on vinyl: George Jones’ very first LP from Starday Records. The album has never been reissued in its entirety until now, making original copies of the album one of the most collectible records in history. 14 songs capturing George Jones in his most pure form come to life on this treasured new release that is also accompanied by a 45 of “Thumper Jones,” which was George Jones’ early rockabilly alter ego.
Starday Records was located in Beaumont, TX, and its name was taken from the two last names of its primary proprietors, Jack Starnes and Pappy Daily. Pappy was George’s first producer and mentor, and they originally cut records in Jack Sterns’ living room. George Jones had his first big hit with “Why Baby Why” in 1955, and wanting to capitalize off the interest, Starday issued George’s first LP in early 1957, which incidentally was Starday’s first record that wasn’t a single. “Thumper Jones” came about when Jones tried the rockabilly route in response to the popularity of Elvis Presley in 1956. Jones subsequently went on to become one of the biggest names in the history of country music, but it all started with Starday.
In conjunction with this vinyl reissue, and the historic tribute “Playing Possum, The Final No Show” set to transpire on Nov. 22nd at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena with 70+ performers, Saving Country music is giving away a set of the George Jones first album reissue and “Thumper Jones” single. All you have to do to enter is to leave your favorite George Jones song in a comment below. “But I can’t pick just ONE George Jones song!” That’s okay, list all your favorites! Just make sure to leave your real email address when prompted by the comment forum so we can contact you if you’re the winner. The winner will be announced on Nov. 22nd when the George Jones Tribute transpires.
And if you can’t wait to partake in all of this classic country goodness, you can order yourself up a copy right now!
November 13, 2013 @ 6:14 pm
“He Stopped Loving Her Today”
“The Grand Tour”
“Choices”
November 13, 2013 @ 6:16 pm
“Choices” will always be my favorite,
November 13, 2013 @ 6:16 pm
Who’s Gonna Fill Their Shoes!!
November 13, 2013 @ 6:18 pm
Color of the Blues
Is one of my all time favorites
But honestly he never did a song I didn’t like
So I love them all <3
November 13, 2013 @ 6:18 pm
“Who’s Gonna Fill Their Shoes”
“Choices”
“The King is Gone (So Are You)”
“When the Curtain Falls”
November 13, 2013 @ 6:18 pm
The King is Gone, Choices, Why Baby Why, Who’s Gonna Fill Their Shoes, The Race is On, and way too many to list.
I was proud to get to see the Possum from the second row a few months before he passed away. George, you’ll always hold a special place in my heart as one of the best musicians in history.
November 13, 2013 @ 6:19 pm
I AM, Wine Colored Roses, The Door, Cold Hard Truth. Good Year For The Roses, The King Is Gone
November 13, 2013 @ 6:21 pm
One? Then it would be “White Lightnin'”
November 13, 2013 @ 6:23 pm
The King is gone
November 13, 2013 @ 6:23 pm
She Thinks I Still Care
November 13, 2013 @ 6:28 pm
White Lighting
and
Window Up Above
November 13, 2013 @ 6:33 pm
1.) I Must Have Done Something Bad
2.) The Door
3.) He Stopped Loving Her Today
4.) The Grand Tour
5.) White Lightning
6.) Still Got Some Hurting Left to Do
7.) Least of All
8.) She Thinks I Still Care
9.) She Loved A Lot in Her Time
10.) A Good Year For the Roses
November 13, 2013 @ 6:39 pm
I had a bunch of Stardays 45’s back in Sweden, including some George Jones. I had to leave them behind because they were to much to carry on my way over. Little did I know they we’re treasures, I though they were remakes because the yellow label looked to new.
No use crying over spilt milk but I sure wish I had all my country vinyl with me here, starting over my new life in my home music territory….
November 13, 2013 @ 6:46 pm
White Lightnin’.
November 13, 2013 @ 6:46 pm
Gulp “White Lightnin'”
November 13, 2013 @ 6:52 pm
She’s My Rock
November 13, 2013 @ 6:55 pm
It’s impossible to list my favorite George Jones song! However, according to iTunes, the following 5 are the my most played:
1. Just One More (haunting at 3 am)
2. Don’t Stop the Music
3. She Thinks I Still Care
4. He Stopped Loving Her Today
5. White Lightning
November 13, 2013 @ 6:57 pm
Lots of tough “Choices”, but gotta go with White Lightning, The Race is On, and If Drinkin Don’t Kill Me( Her Memory Will.)
November 13, 2013 @ 6:59 pm
The Race is On!….WHo Shot Sam….Why Baby Why…Arg!
November 13, 2013 @ 7:00 pm
He Stopped Loving Her Today, Choices, One Woman Man
November 13, 2013 @ 7:00 pm
Walk Through This World With Me
November 13, 2013 @ 7:05 pm
Walk Through This World With Me
I Just Don’t Give A Damn
The Window Up Above
November 13, 2013 @ 7:08 pm
He Stopped Loving Her Today
November 13, 2013 @ 7:08 pm
Choices
November 13, 2013 @ 7:08 pm
She Thinks I Still Care
Choices
Don’t Leave Without Taking Your Silver
If Drinking Don’t Kill Me
November 13, 2013 @ 7:15 pm
he stopped loving her today
choices
November 13, 2013 @ 7:19 pm
She Thinks I Still Care – timeless
Funny How Time Slips Away
I Can Live Forever
Yesterday’s Wine (technically Blackberry Smoke f. George Jones, but these two together make a great combo!)
November 13, 2013 @ 7:30 pm
Favorite George Jones song
1. The Rock
2. Same Ole Me
3. The Grand Tour
4. The window up above
November 13, 2013 @ 7:42 pm
I would have to say my favorite George Jones song is A Drunk Can’t be a Man.
November 13, 2013 @ 7:48 pm
He Stopped Loving Her Today, The Grand Tour, Choices
November 13, 2013 @ 7:49 pm
The Grand Tour
November 13, 2013 @ 7:51 pm
“Root Beer,” cuz my grandaddy, who had no interest in music, used to sing it in the old Cheyenne. He thought that song was funnier’n hell.
November 13, 2013 @ 7:52 pm
“The Race Is On”
November 13, 2013 @ 7:53 pm
Half As Much and If Her Drinkin’ Don’t Kill Me.
November 13, 2013 @ 7:55 pm
She Thinks I Still Care
The Grand Tour
The One I Loved Back Then (Corvette Song)
November 13, 2013 @ 7:56 pm
Can’t pick just one
1. he stopped loving her today
2. the selfishness in a man
3. when the grass grows over me
4. things have gone to pieces
5. still doin’ time
November 13, 2013 @ 8:02 pm
his 70s and 80s material is absolutely timeless, but “choices” from later in his career is my personal favorite
November 13, 2013 @ 8:16 pm
who’s gonna fill their shoes?
she thinks I still care
November 13, 2013 @ 8:28 pm
He stopped loving her today
She thinks I still care
Golden rings
November 13, 2013 @ 8:29 pm
He Stopped Loving Her Today
November 13, 2013 @ 8:42 pm
1) Tennessee Whiskey
2) Wine Colored Roses
3) A Picture of Me Without You
November 13, 2013 @ 8:54 pm
The Corvette Song!
November 13, 2013 @ 9:42 pm
“Just One More”
“If Drinking Don’t Kill Me (Her Memory Will)”
“The Grand Tour”
November 13, 2013 @ 9:49 pm
I’m Gonna Burn Your Playhouse Down.
November 13, 2013 @ 10:08 pm
He had so many beautiful, emotional songs but the one that I listen to over and over is The King Is Gone. It is not a gut wrenching as some of the others but it is clever and catchy and a perfect little snapshot of a time and place.
November 13, 2013 @ 10:14 pm
“Choices” is my favorite!
November 13, 2013 @ 10:28 pm
ooh,thats right…i forgot this was happening. Secret Stash is the shit too.
Tennesse Whiskey (my slow dance jam)
The Grand Tour
Why Baby Why
White Lightning
November 13, 2013 @ 10:43 pm
She Thinks I Still Care
November 13, 2013 @ 11:56 pm
I just don’t give a damn
Choices
Will you visit me on sunday
Burn another honky tonk down
A good year for the roses
Right won’t touch a hand
Sometimes you just can’t win
Still doin’ time
I’d rather die young
The grand tour
November 14, 2013 @ 2:35 am
Excellent! Almost sounds like a set of lyrics in itself!!
November 14, 2013 @ 12:30 am
‘A Good Year For The Roses,’ ‘A Good Old Fashioned Cry,’ and ‘When The Grass Grows Over Me.’ Most Jones songs tear my heart out when I listen to them, but these three especially.
November 14, 2013 @ 12:40 am
Once you’ve had the best, Her name is…, If the drinkin don ‘t kill me.
Just to name a few!
November 14, 2013 @ 2:16 am
Honky Tonk Song, White Lightnin’, and cliche, but He Stopped Loving Her Today
November 14, 2013 @ 2:34 am
So many great songs ….. But I’ll go for “The King Is Gone”, if only for his fantastic delivery of the lines: “I pulled the head off Elvis, Filled Fred up to his pelvis, Yabba Dabba Doo, the King is gone, And so are you”
November 14, 2013 @ 4:16 am
Songs I like in no partik’lar order would be: Honkytonk Song, Who’s Gonna Fill Their Shoes, Eskimo Pie, White Lightnin’, The Bottle In My Hand (duet with David Allen Coe), Why Baby Why, Ragged But Right (cover of Riley Puckett song), He Stopped Loving Her Today.
That’s jes a few of the many great songs I love my George Jones. May his mem’ry linger on, an never let ‘im be fergotten
November 14, 2013 @ 4:33 am
He stopped loving her today
Choices
Who’s gonna fill their shoes
White lightning
The grand tour
The race is on
The battle
The king is gone
November 14, 2013 @ 4:41 am
Window up above
November 14, 2013 @ 4:53 am
White Lightning
The Race is on
November 14, 2013 @ 5:50 am
So tough but….. He Stopped Loving Her Today
November 14, 2013 @ 5:57 am
Mr. Fool
“no one can ever call me Mr. Fool no more”
I found it on a Jones best-of called Hard Core Honky Tonk Vol I
November 14, 2013 @ 6:21 am
Achin’, Breakin’ Heart
Who’s Gonna Fill Their Shoes
November 14, 2013 @ 7:40 am
She Thinks I Still Care
November 14, 2013 @ 7:52 am
“Why baby why”, and “A good year for the roses”!!
November 14, 2013 @ 8:12 am
Finally Friday
I Just Don’t Give a Damn
I’ve Aged Twenty Years in Two
and all the usual favorites 🙂
November 14, 2013 @ 9:01 am
George’s Starday period is actually my favorite era of George Jones. The singing and playing on these tracks is just so damn funky…I’ve listened to them hundreds of times over the years.
My choices from the Starday era:
You’re in My Heart (B-side of George’s first single: I’ve been singing this myself for decades)
Seasons of My Heart (Starday version only!)
Color of the Blues (the lyrics are absolute poetry)
Just One More (the nadir of booze-fueled despair)
November 14, 2013 @ 9:18 am
My favorite is probably “When the Last Curtain Falls”… although “He Stopped Loving Her Today” is right up there, too. Hard to choose!
November 14, 2013 @ 10:04 am
my top 10:
Choices
He Stopped Loving Her Today
Still Doin Time
Bartenders Blues
Good Year For the Roses
I just dont give a damn
I’m not ready yet
You’re still on my mind
A Girl I Used to know
the grand tour
Others: whose gonna fill their shoes?, Just one more, Golden Ring, If Drinking dont kill me, When the grass grows over me, Aged 20 years in 5, walk through this world with me and I’ll share my world with you.
In my opinion, his voice was at it’s peak from early 60’s to early to mid 70’s. His sound was also less overproduced during this period. Despite this, my favorite songs tend to be between 74 and 84. The soul and emotion in his voice during that period is chilling.
November 14, 2013 @ 10:17 am
The Grande Tour
Bartender’s blues
Wrongs what I do best
He stopped loving her today
Walls can fall
Way too many to list
November 14, 2013 @ 10:25 am
Walk through this world with me.
My wife and I danced our first dance together at our wedding two years ago to that song., We will be at the concert on the 22nd. We bought tickets as soon as they went on sale and were very sad once we heard Jones passed and wouldnt make it to this show.
November 14, 2013 @ 10:41 am
“Choices”
“He Stopped Loving Her Today”
Definitely miss George!
November 14, 2013 @ 10:51 am
Tender Years!
November 14, 2013 @ 10:52 am
Good Year for the Roses
Tender Years
Window Up Above
The King is Gone (And So Are You)
She Thinks I Still Care
November 14, 2013 @ 11:05 am
Still doin time
Wine colored roses
November 14, 2013 @ 11:22 am
Ol George Stopped Drinkin Today
White Lightning
If Drinkin Dont Kill Me
Wino The Clown
I Gotta Get Drunk
Brothers of a Bottle
November 14, 2013 @ 11:23 am
The King is Gone (And So Are You)
What a classic!!
and my fav George and Tammy is Golden Ring.
November 14, 2013 @ 11:23 am
You’re Still On My Mind… soooo gooood
November 14, 2013 @ 11:26 am
The Race Is On, and She Thinks I Still Care
November 14, 2013 @ 11:27 am
Not sure if this counts because Willie may have written this one, but I love “Gotta Get Drunk” with George Jones and Willie Nelson.
And, of course, “Why, Baby, Why” is a classic!
November 14, 2013 @ 11:32 am
She Thinks I Still Care
November 14, 2013 @ 11:46 am
– Radio Lover
– Bed of Roses
– This Wanting You
And of course, all of the above!
November 14, 2013 @ 11:57 am
many but….. The Window Up Above
November 14, 2013 @ 12:16 pm
Out of Control…
“Does he search for contentment that he might hope to find
From a honky tonk woman or the bottles of wine
He shakes and he trembles even though he’s not old
Like a leaf in a whirlwind he’s out of control”
November 14, 2013 @ 12:18 pm
He Stopped Loving Her Today is my favorite. Love his music.
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November 14, 2013 @ 12:36 pm
Walk Through This World With Me
November 14, 2013 @ 12:51 pm
On The Back Row
The Grand Tour
She Once Live Here
A Good Year for the Roses
Tell Me My Lying Eyes are Wrong
Mr. Fool
The King is Gone
The Door
anything with Melba Montgomery
I could be here all day …
November 14, 2013 @ 12:57 pm
“Choices” and “You and Me and Time” with Georgette.
November 14, 2013 @ 2:08 pm
I have many favorite George Jones songs, but my top four would have to be.
1.) He Stopped Loving Her Today
2.) Who’s Gonna Fill Their Shoes
3.) What My Woman Can’t Do
4.) Choices
November 14, 2013 @ 2:24 pm
Who’s Gonna Fill Their Shoes
He Stopped Loving Her Today
Still Doin’ Time
November 14, 2013 @ 3:31 pm
Soon they’ll carry him away . . .
November 14, 2013 @ 4:03 pm
Window Up Above
November 14, 2013 @ 5:01 pm
1. Who’s Gonna Fill Their Shoes
2. He Stopped Loving Her Today
3. If Drinkin’ Don’t Kill Me (Her Memory Will)
4. A Good Year For The Roses
5. The Right Left Hand
November 14, 2013 @ 5:53 pm
“The Race is On”
“White Lightning”
November 14, 2013 @ 8:04 pm
Who’s gonna fill their shoes
The Grand Tour
Choices
He Stopped Loving her Today
November 14, 2013 @ 10:06 pm
In the Shadow of a Lie.
November 14, 2013 @ 10:40 pm
Seems like most are only naming his radio hits
If only you would love me again
Somebody wants me out of the way
Window up above
The Grand Tour
Millions in Milwuakee
Hurtin left to do
Ghost of another man
Things have gone to pieces
Bone dry
Still Doin”™ Time
Tender years
Goodbye joke
If i could put them all together
The door
Big fool of the year
King of the mountain
She thinks i still care
Once you had the best
Something to drink about
Ragged but i’m right
Mama take me home
The old man no one loves
Over something good
There’s the door
She hung the moon
Just when i needed you
I’ve got to see you again
Who’s gonna fill their shoes
A picture of me without you
Tramp on the street
Iv’e aged 20 years in 5
Tell me my lying eyes are wrong
100 Proof memories
i’m leaving out tons more but that’s to be expected
November 15, 2013 @ 6:06 am
Choices
He stopped loving her today
Golden ring
November 15, 2013 @ 8:55 am
“The Show’s Almost Over”
November 15, 2013 @ 9:24 am
Golden Ring
She thinks I still care
Grand Tour
November 15, 2013 @ 9:24 am
“Why Baby Why”
Probably the most singalongable chorus I’ve ever heard, and he wastes no time hitting you with it. Brilliant.
November 15, 2013 @ 9:44 am
‘He Stopped Loving Her Today’ is, of course, flawless. But another favorite of mine would be ‘Lonesome Life’.
November 15, 2013 @ 9:48 am
Late Jones but still one of the best,
“A Thousand Times a Day” from the early nineties
I could listen to it a million times and it still wouldn’t be enough