Anniversary: 10 Years of Hits

Typical of compilations to come out of the giant companies like Sony, this lacks any appreciable liner notes [just two meagre paragraphs] and no discography of the contents.

In the period covered he actually had 44 hit singles, but in this they decided not to give us any of the 12 duets with Tammy Wynette, the one with stepdaughter Tina, the four with Johnny Paycheck, or the two with Merle Haggard [four of the foregoing were # 1 hits].

Generally speaking, the 22 selections included do represent his best solo hits in the period covered, with the exception of Good Ones And Bad Ones, which was the uncharted flipside of the 1981 # 1 Still Doin' Time. A better choice in retrospect may have been the 1977 # 24 If I Could Put Them All Together (I'd Have You).

What you have to remember is, by the time of the earliest selection included here [We Can Make It - # 6 in early 1972], he already had 80 hit singles to his credit dating back to 1955 and, from the...Read more

This is an impressive collection of George Jones standards that have held up well after all of these years. This one combines songs from 1972-1982....an era not relished for it's "Country" music. I dont think there's a bad song on the CD (and there are 22); in fact, in my opinion, every single one of these should be number #1's. There are some real gems here that may have been forgotten, to include: "If Drinking' Dont Kill Me", "The Door", "Once You've Had the Best", and "We Can Make It". George has recorded so many songs, that some of the ones listed here may not ring a bell when they are mentioned, but you'll recognize each and everyone after you hear the first note. Stellar collection of original recordings.

George Jones has been recording since 1953 and has had hit songs in every single year from 1955 through 1996. after a hiatus from the charts in 1997 he bounced back in 1998 and went another three years with having songs on the charts. in retrospect, this 22 song CD only sampled a decade in his then 29 year career but it's these Billy Sherrill countrypolitan-type singles that enabled Jones to continue his brilliant career long after his rowdy honky-tonk songs were replaced on the radio by crooners (Eddy Arnold, Jim Reeves, a risk-taking Ray Price, among others) in the early '60s. this CD is generally applauded for it's chronological sequence of songs from his first Epic hit, "We Can Make It", in 1972 to the song that had just reached the Top-10 in early 1982 "Same Ole Me". "Good Ones and Bad Ones" was included on the album because it's been said that Billy Sherrill wanted the song to be a single but the duet album with Merle Haggard later in 1982 wiped out...Read more