"Aching, Breaking Heart" is a song by George Jones. It was his last single on

Mercury Records Mercury Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group. It had significant success as an independent operation in the 1940s and 1950s. Smash Records and Fontana Records were sub labels of Mercury. In the United States, it is ...

before moving to

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. The song peaked at number five on the ''Billboard'' country chart in March 1962. During his tenure with

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and Mercury, Jones had amassed eleven top-ten hits, with " White Lightning" and "

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" both topping the charts. However, Jones' producer and manager Pappy Daily had secured a more lucrative deal with UA. In the 1994 Mercury Jones retrospective, ''Cup of Loneliness: The Classic Mercury Years'', Colin Escott notes, "Mercury lost George just as he was on the verge of ruling the charts. Art Talmadge had left Mercury Records and gone to United Artists and when George's Mercury contract expired at the end of 1961, Pappy took him to U.A. The first single, the classic "

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", was one of seven records George would chart in 1962." "Achin', Breakin' Heart" was part of George's live show for years, as can be heard on the album '' Live at Dancetown, U.S.A.''

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George Jones songs 1961 songs Song recordings produced by Pappy Daily Songs written by Rick Hall {{1960s-country-song-stub