YMMV / George Jones

• Awesome Music:
  • "He Stopped Loving Her Today."
  • "A Good Year for the Roses".
• Covered Up:
  • "Love Bug" is perhaps better known through George Strait's cover.
  • His version of "The Race Is On" is on pretty close footing: both his and Sawyer Brown's cover both seem equally recognized.
  • In a lesser example, his Shelby Lynne duet "If I Could Bottle This Up" was later a slightly higher-charting hit when releaed three years later by its writer, Paul Overstreet.
  • Two tracks off High-Tech Redneck were covered by other artists: Patty Loveless covered "A Thousand Times a Day" in 1996, and Chad Brock covered "The Visit" in 2000.
  • "Choices" was originally cut by its co-writer Billy Yates.
  • His 2001 single "50,000 Names" was first released by its writer, Jamie O'Hara.
  • "A Good Year for the Roses" is better known among rock fans as an Elvis Costello song.
  • "White Lightning" was originally written and recorded by J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson. Jones' version was recorded just six days after Richardson's death.
  • Chris Stapleton's version of "Tennessee Whiskey" is so different from Jones' version, newer fans might not even know it's a cover. And Jones' version itself is a cover; it was originally sung by David Allan Coe.
• Fan Nickname: "The Possum" and "No-Show Jones." The former got a Shout-Out in "I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair."
• First and Foremost: Although his version of "Why Baby Why" was blunted on the charts by Red Sovine and Webb Pierce's #1 version (followed swiftly by another version by Hank Locklin), and Charley Pride later had a #1 hit with it again in 1983, it's still thought of as mainly Jones's song.
• Narm: Someone who recorded the sheer volume of songs as Jones is bound to have some ridiculous sounding songs that failed to hit the intended mark. "Unwanted Babies" is a melodramatic laundry list of unconnected social issues that even George himself tried to distance himself from (insisting that the label say Glenn Patterson). "Wean Me" is about the subject of the song, an alcoholic, begging his wife/girlfriend to help him stop drinking- except it uses a ridiculous metaphor of him being weaned like a baby. For what it's worth, Jones himself originally considered "He Stopped Loving Her Today" to be this while it was being recorded, considering it too morbid to be taken seriously.
• Refrain from Assuming: No, it's not "Hotter Than a Two-Dollar Pistol". It's "The One I Loved Back Then (The Corvette Song)".
• Suspiciously Similar Song: "White Lightning" has more than a passing resemblance to "Johnny B. Goode".

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