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CD Details

Released: November 29, 1994
Originally Released: 1994
Label: Bear Family

Entertainment Reviews:

Mojo (Publisher) - 12/99, p.126

"...well worthy, if often lightweight examples of mid-'60s country music....the duo were placed in the same studio merely because both singers were supplying hits for the Musicor label..."

Tracks:

1.Why Baby Why
2.Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You)
3.For Me This Is Happy
4.That's All It Took
5.I'm Gonna Listen to Me
6.I'm a Fool to Care
7.She Thinks I Still Care
8.Big Job
9.I'm up to My Neck in I.O.U.'s
10.Sweeter Than the Flowers
11.Wreck on the Highway
12.More I Saw of Her, The (The Blinder I Became)
13.Thousand Arms, A (Five Hundred Hearts)
14.I've Got Five Dollars and It's Saturday Night
15.Louisana Man
16.Drinking from the Well of Your Love
17.Life to Go
18.One Has My Name
19.Mockin' Bird Hill
20.I'd Like to See Me Stop You
21.I Can't Stop Loving You
22.Your Old Standby
23.Won't Take Long
24.I've Got a New Heartache
25.My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You
26.I Really Don't Want to Know
27.As Long as I Live
28.Born to Lose
29.Don't Rob Another Man's Castle
30.Love Bug
31.Y'all Come

Product Description:

Personnel: George Jones (vocals, guitar).

Liner Note Author: Michael McCall.

Late in 1964, George Jones switched labels, moving from United Artists to Musicor. Musicor was already home to pop hitmaker Gene Pitney ("Town Without Pity," "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence"), and label execs quickly struck on the idea of pairing the two successful artists. The duo's first session produced the hit "I've Got Five Dollars And It's Saturday Night." Although the duo only charted once more with a cover of the Kershaw Brothers' "Louisiana Man," the pairing lasted long enough to complete two albums. During the same year, Pitney recorded a solo country album. Bear Family's GEORGE JONES & GENE PITNEY contains all three of these albums in their entirety.

Very few singers can hold their own with George Jones--Melba Montgomery and Tammy Wynette may be the only ones who could--and while Gene Pitney may be a great singer of dramatic pop ballads, he is no match for Jones when it comes to country. He's not bad, but listening to this disc it's hard not to wish that he would stop singing so that we could hear more of Jones. This album is an interesting curiosity of interest mostly to country historians and completists.