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"The Race Is On" is a song written by Don Rollins [1] (not to be confused with the Don Rollins who co-wrote "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" for Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett) and made a hit on the country music charts by George Jones and on the pop and easy listening charts by the unrelated Jack Jones. George Jones's version was the first single ...
The Race Is On is an album by George Jones, released on United Artists in 1965. The title track had been recorded in June 1963 but was not released until September 1964 on the album I Get Lonely in a Hurry and the single galloped to number 3 on the Billboard country chart. [ 1 ]
The race was deliberately moved off Memorial Day (Friday May 30) and pushed to Saturday so as not to detract from the holiday. [3] May 30 fell on Sunday in 1920, 1926, 1937, 1948, 1954, and 1965. In each of those years, the race was held on Monday May 31. The final race under that scheduling format (1970) was on Saturday May 30.
Parnelli Jones, a hard-bitten, hard-charging race driver who came out of Torrance and won the controversial Indianapolis 500 in 1963, then was the hard-luck loser four years later, died Tuesday at ...
The first race was held on 30 March 1963, one of numerous 50-mile (80 km) races that year. After the Kennedy assassination, many of these events were never held again. [1] It is the oldest continuously held ultramarathon in the US. [2] [3] The current course records are held by Hayden Hawks (5:18:40) for men and Sarah Biehl (6:05:42) for women. [4]
The 1963 Daytona 500, the 5th running of the event held on February 24, 1963, was won by Tiny Lund driving a 1963 Ford. Lund drove his number 21 to victory in three hours and 17 minutes. Lund drove his number 21 to victory in three hours and 17 minutes.
In the June 26, 1965 issue, Billboard published a review of the album, which stated, "Her current hit is "Blue Kentucky Girl" and this album is a beautiful showcase for not only that tune, but the classic "Send Me the Pillow That You Dream On" and "I Still Miss Someone" sung with impact and vivaciousness by the Grand Ole Opry's Loretta Lynn.
This race still holds the record for the fewest leaders in a NASCAR Cup Series race at Martinsville along with the 1961 Old Dominion 500, the 1965 Old Dominion 500 and the 1976 Old Dominion 500. [6] Individual winnings for this race were as low as $100 ($995 when adjusted for inflation) and as high as $3,800 ($37,818 when adjusted for inflation).