''What's in Our Heart'' is an album by

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s George Jones and

Melba Montgomery Melba Joyce Montgomery (born October 14, 1938) is an American country music singer and songwriter. She is known for a series of duet recordings made with George Jones, Gene Pitney and Charlie Louvin. She is also a solo artist, having reaching the ...

released in 1963 on

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Recording

On May 4, 1963, the Jones/Montgomery duet "

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" was released and rose to number three, charting for twenty-eight weeks. The singers would chart seven more songs in the next four years. The bluegrass-tinged ''What's In Our Heart'', their first duet album, would eventually reach number 3 on the country album charts. In his autobiography ''I Lived To Tell It All'', Jones remained quite proud of the work he did with Montgomery: "I had giant records years later with

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, and there were many other successful duet partners, such as

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and

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and

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and Loretta Lynn. I'm not saying Melba and I were the first to sing male-female duets in country music because we weren't. And I'm not saying we were the best. But Melba said recently that she thinks we popularized the male-female format, and I agree." In the book ''George Jones: The Life and Times of a Honky Tonk Legend'', Bob Allen quotes Montgomery: "I was nervous as a cat! Not only was it my first major session, but it was with ''George Jones''! George had been out roarin' the night before, and nobody even knew where he was until an hour before the session. When he finally showed up, he was in a really good mood, and the whole thing came off really well."

Reception

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's Stephen Thomas Erlewine writes, "Many (including the man himself) rank these as Jones' best duets ever, putting them above his work with Tammy Wynette collaborations, when in truth they're kind of hard to compare - not only are they different from the lush, dramatic work with Tammy, they're quite a bit different than any other country he ever did, occasionally veering into the pile-driving intensity of bluegrass."

Track listing

# " Let's Invite Them Over" (Onie Wheeler) # "

We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds "We Must Have Been Out Of Our Minds" is a song made famous as a duet by country music singers George Jones and Melba Montgomery. Originally released in 1963, the song became a Top 5 hit on the '' Billboard'' Hot Country Singles chart and a country ...

" (Melba Montgomery) # "Suppose Tonight Would Be Our Last" (George Jones, Montgomery) # "I Let You Go" (Montgomery) # "Multiply the Heartaches" ( Fred Rose) # "She's My Mother" ( Charlie Louvin, Ira Louvin) # " What's in Our Heart" (Jones, Johnny "Country" Mathis) # "Until Then" (Montgomery, Carl Montgomery) # "Don't Go" (Onie Wheeler) # "Now Tell Me" (Pete Hunter) # "There's a Friend in the Way" (Onie Wheeler) # "Flame in My Heart" (Jones, Bernard Spurlock)

References

External links

George Jones' Official Website
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