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. It was released in January 1967 as the title track of his twenty-fourth album. The single was George Jones' fifty-seventh release on the country chart and his fourth number one. "Walk Through This World With Me" stayed at number one for two weeks and spent a total of nineteen weeks on the country chart.

Recording and composition

Jones was less than enthusiastic about the musically middle-of-the-road love ballad that was almost inspirational in its unabashedly optimistic and romantic sentiments, and it was only at his producer H.W. "Pappy" Daily's insistence that he recorded the song at all. In the 1994 retrospective ''Golden Hits'', Jones states that he was unhappy with his singing on the LP version and, after the song started getting heavy airplay in

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, he told his manager

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that he wanted to recut it. "The single record on it was different," he asserted in the documentary, "even though it was almost the same. I did a little better job singing the single than I did on the album." Two years later he elaborated in his autobiography ''I Lived to Tell It All'': :"At first I fought Pappy, telling him consistently that I thought the song was weak. He kept pitching it to me, and I kept telling him no. He regularly brought it to me at recording sessions, which meant that he brought it to me often...I couldn't believe that a song I had resisted so much had done so well." For all his dominance of the country charts for most of his career, Jones would only score nine solo #1 hits in his lifetime, with "Walk Through This World with Me" being his first since "

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" in 1962. Jones would not score another #1 until "

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" in 1974.

Other versions

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, Covered that song for the 1967 album Country, My Way * Engelbert Humperdinck recorded this song for his 1967 debut album, ''Release Me''. *

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recorded this song for her 1967 debut album, Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad. *french (Quebequois) version by Nicole LeBlanc & Serge Caissie: tend(s) moi la main

Chart performance

References

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