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"He Stopped Loving Her Today" is a song recorded by American country music artist George Jones. It has been named in several surveys as the greatest country song of all time. [2] It was released in April 1980 as the lead single from the album I Am What I Am. The song was Jones's first solo No. 1 single in six years.
Sensing a possibly huge windfall with this novelty act (for instance, creating a show with a singing bird as his main act), the main character asks the salesman to have the bird perform one more song. The bird sings the chorus of Jones' "He Stopped Loving Her Today." Immediately thereafter, the protagonist agrees to buy the bird for $500.
The one hit he did not miss, of course, is "He Stopped Loving Her Today", which went to number one in 1980. Jones, who had no choice but to perform the song at virtually every show he had given since it came out, had resisted rerecording it for 25 years because he believed that the original version he and producer Billy Sherrill created was too ...
Shine On was Jones's sixth album in three years, a prolific comeback that had been spearheaded by his 1980 single "He Stopped Loving Her Today".His chart success continued unabated in March 1983, with the album producing what turned out to be his last number one song "I Always Get Lucky With You".
The song is similar in theme to Jones' later comeback hit "He Stopped Loving Her Today" except from a first person point of view, with the narrator claiming he will only stop loving his departed lover when he is dead and buried: When you left I thought that I would soon be over you Even told myself that I would find somebody new
"He Stopped Loving Her Today" George Jones 1980 1 "I Feel Like Loving You Again" T.G. Sheppard: 1980 1 "Hard Times" Lacy J. Dalton: 1980 7 "Would You Catch a Falling Star" John Anderson: 1982 6 "Faking Love" T.G. Sheppard and Karen Brooks 1983 1 "I Don't Remember Loving You" John Conlee: 1983 10 "Old Flames Have New Names" Mark Chesnutt: 1992 5
By 1981, Jones’ career continued to thrive after the remarkable success of his #1 hit single "He Stopped Loving Her Today."After experiencing a lull in his career in the late 1970s, the song reignited the singer's career on the charts; in 1980, he scored a #2 hit with "Two Story House," a duet with his ex-wife Tammy Wynette, and reached #2 again with his rendition of the Tom T. Hall ...
Sherrill's biggest hit with Jones was "He Stopped Loving Her Today". In the 1989 video documentary, Same Ole Me, Sherrill recalled a heated exchange during one recording session when Jones insisted on adapting the melody from "Help Me Make It Through the Night": "I said 'That's not the melody!' and he said "Yeah, but it's a better melody.' I ...