Originally Posted by Caroline
blight, I'm glad you finally got it. I thought I was gonna have to hunt you down and make you listen until you got it!!

The story goes that George Jones did not want to record this song, and he put it off, and put it off. Finally he was talked into it and when released was surprised at how well it did.

I have loved this song from the first time I heard it. Not the lyric, not the vocal, but the emotion in both.

Live Like You Were Dying IS a great song, BUT the emotion in George Jones' vocal here put to shame anything around today. He may not have the purest, smoothest voice, but he can put the tears in my eyes quickly!


I read an article about this a while back. Don't know how true it is. It said George thought the song was to sad to be a hit. But the label insisted he do the song. Go figure.

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