George Jones—born in Saratoga, Texas, in 1931—joined the Marine Corps in late 1951, serving the majority of his service at Camp Pendleton in San Diego County. According to the Texas State Historical ...

George Jones survived alcoholism, cocaine abuse, three divorces and countless other acts of self-destructive behavior during the course of a singing career that has seen him pepper the charts with ...

In 1970, George Jones released “A Good Year For The Roses”. The song, written by Jerry Chesnut, is on his George Jones With Love album. A Top 5 single, the heartbreaking song says, “But what a good ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Country music has lost another beloved performer. Don Adams, a singer, songwriter and longtime band member for Johnny Paycheck and ...

Other great singers have come and gone, but this fact remained inviolate until Jones passed away Friday at 81 in a Nashville hospital after a year of ill health. "Today someone else has become the ...

When Rolling Stone recently updated its list of the 200 Greatest Country Songs of All Time, one track’s placement was never in doubt. Coming in at No. 5, George Jones’ 1980 masterpiece, “He Stopped ...

Tammy Wynette and George Jones, who earned the title of Mr. and Mrs. Country Music, were married for six years Georgette Jones shared the final words her mother Tammy Wynette said about dad George ...