''I Get Lonely in a Hurry'' is an album by

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, released on

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in 1964.

Background

The album marks the first appearance of "

The Race Is On "The Race Is On" is a song written by Don Rollins (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 ...

", which later became one of Jones's biggest hits and remained a concert staple throughout his long career. According to Bob Allen's book ''George Jones: The Life and Times of a Honky Tonk Legend'', Don Rollins composed the song one day after visiting the Turf Paradise Race Track in

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. It features tongue-twisting lyrics that use the fast-paced images of a horse race to describe a broken relationship. Allen writes of Jones's memorable vocal: "By gleefully bending and stretching the notes and singing, at times, slightly ahead of or behind the song's fast-clipped meter, he embellished it with a subtle sense of tension and release that perfectly complemented the rapid-fire cascading effect of the song's lyrics." The album also contains "She's Mine", which would become a top ten hit for Jones on Musicor in 1969, and "Love's Gonna Live Here", a 1962 song written and popularized by

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, who was one of the few country singers who rivalled Jones's success in the 1960s. "Book of Memories" is a cover of the

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song, "My Book of Memories" released earlier in 1964. "Least of All" was originally recorded by

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earlier in 1964 as "Least of All You". "Holiday for Love" was originally recorded by

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in 1957.

Reception

''I Get Lonely in a Hurry'' peaked at number 10 on the ''Billboard'' country albums chart.

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calls Jones performance on "Book of Memories" "haunting".

Track listing

#"I Get Lonely in a Hurry" (George Jones, "Country" Johnny Mathis, Virginia Franks) #"Book of Memories" ( Bobby Austin) #"I'm Gonna Change Everything" (Alex Zanetis) #"

The Race is On "The Race Is On" is a song written by Don Rollins (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 ...

" (Don Rollins) #"Least of All" (

, Carole Smith) #"Gonna Have a Little Talk with You" (Oney Wheeler) #"I've Been Known to Cry" (Eddie Hallowell) #"

Love's Gonna Live Here "Love's Gonna Live Here" is a 1963 single by Buck Owens, who also wrote the song. The single would be Buck Owens' second number one on the country charts spending sixteen weeks at the top spot and a total of thirty weeks on the chart. After "Love ...

" (

) #"Gold and Silver" (Shirley Legate) #"Holiday for Love" (

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, Wayne P. Walker) #" She's Mine" (George Jones, Jack Ripley) #"Where Does a Little Tear Come From" (Marge Barton,

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)

References

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