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The Grand Tour (song)
"The Grand Tour" is a song made famous by country music singer George Jones. Originally released in 1974, the song was the title track to his album released that year.
The song became Jones' sixth No. 1 song (fifth if only solo entries are considered) on ''Billboard's'' Hot Country Singles chart in August 1974, and was the fourth-biggest hit of the year.〔()〕
==Recording and composition==
The song is widely hailed as one of the finest performances in country music history. Genre historian Bill C. Malone, in his liner notes for ''Classic Country Music: A Smithsonian Collection'', called it a "perfect matching of lyrics and performance" and "one of the great modern songs of divorce." Throughout the song, the lyrics mix the singer's tour of a home that once held many personal, private and happy memories (''"Step right up, come on in ..."'') with foreshadowing to set the final stop on the stroll - one of the nursery, where the singer's wife "left me without mercy, taking nothing but our baby and my heart." Prior to the clinching end scene, the singer stops at various pieces of furniture, such as an easy chair and their marital bed, to reflect on fond memories of better times. Malone wrote that "the graphic imagery permits the listener to see both the inside of the abandoned home where love has died and the interior of the narrator's mind." Songwriter Norro Wilson reflected on the success of "The Grand Tour" in ''The Billboard Book of Number One Country Hits'': "As I recall, when George cut that song, it was the most talked-about record he'd had in an awfully long time...'The Grand Tour' is one of my proudest moments."
As Jones biographer Bob Allen noted in 1983, the cut was the "Eureka moment" for producer Billy Sherrill: "After several years of trial and error, Sherrill was also learning how to coax rich, low-register textures out of George's powerful voice and meld them, ever more effectively, with his own heavy-handed 'Sherrillized' production style." Jones had not scored a #1 hit on the country charts since 1967's "Walk Through This World with Me," although he had reached the top of the charts with "We're Gonna Hold On," a duet with his wife Tammy Wynette.
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