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The Race Is On
"The Race Is On" is a song written by country music artist George Jones and Don Rollins〔(BMI: The Race is On )〕 and made a hit by George Jones. It was the first single released from his 1965 album of the same name. Released as a single in September 1964, it peaked at number three on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles chart and at number 96 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in January 1965. The song uses thoroughbred horse racing as the metaphor for the singer's romantic relationships.
==George Jones version==
Jones had recorded "The Race Is On" in June 1963 but it was not released until September 1964 on the album ''I Get Lonely in a Hurry''. The single galloped to #3 on the ''Billboard'' country chart. It also climbed to number 96 on the pop charts, a rarity for a Jones single, and United Artists capitalized on its success by making it the title of his next 1965 LP. According to the Bob Allen book ''George Jones: The Life and Times of a Honky Tonk Legend'', Don Rollins wrote the song one day after visiting the Turf Paradise Race Track in Phoenix, Arizona. Allen observes:
:"George imbued 'The Race Is On' with a masterfully frenetic, on-the-edge vocal reading, full of whining emotional ambivalence and mock sadness. 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."
In the 1994 retrospective ''Golden Hits'', Jones recalled that Dewey Groom first played him the song in his office at the Longhorn Ballroom in Dallas. Jones was unimpressed with all the demo tapes Groom played for him and had started to leave when Groom played the Rollins song; Jones heard the opening line and exclaimed, "I'll take it!" According to the liner notes for the 1994 Sony compilation ''The Essential George Jones: The Spirit of Country'', the throbbing, echoey six-string bass guitar solo was played by Kelso Herston, who went on to write hit songs for Jones and produce one of his later MCA albums. Jones was extremely fond of the tune, recording it again with Musicor, Epic, and as a as a duet with Travis Tritt for the ''The Bradley Barn Sessions'' in 1994. He almost always performed it live in concert as well.
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