New Country Hits [SEP] performer
New Country Hits
New Country Hits is an album by American country music artist George Jones. It was released in 1965 on the Musicor Records label.
Background.
"New Country Hits" features Jones's first studio recording of "Take Me", a song he co-wrote with Leon Payne and would record more famously with Tammy Wynette. The album also includes the hits "Love Bug" (inspired by Buck Owens and the Bakersfield sound) and the self-pitying "Things Have Gone To Pieces"
- Thelma Camacho (joined Apr 1967), later a member of The First Edition, then a solo recording artist)
- Keith Barbour (joined May 1967, later a solo recording artist who had a hit with "Echo Park")
- David Jackson (joined Jun 1967, formerly a member of The Good Time Singers on The Andy Williams Show, later a folk/country performer and studio musician)
- Mayf Nutter (joined Sep 1967, later a country performer)
- Joe Frank Carollo