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(country music plays)
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George Jones.
It's a pretty ordinary name
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for a guy whose life and talent
were anything but ordinary.
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It wasn't just the country
music world that loved George.
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Frank Sinatra once called him the
second best singer in the world,
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and James Taylor and Elvis Costello
both liked George Jones so much,
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they each wrote songs for him.
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Now, whether you're
a country music fan or not,
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that kind of respect
deserves attention.
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("Take Me" plays)
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♪ Take me ♪
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♪ Take me to your darkest room ♪
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♪ Close every window
and bolt every door ♪
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♪ The very first moment
I heard your voice ♪
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♪ I'd be in darkness no more ♪
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"Take Me" was the first song George and
Tammy Wynette released as a single...
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♪ Barren dessert ♪
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...the first in a long
string of hit songs
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they recorded together
as husband and wife.
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♪ The very first moment
I saw your smile ♪
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♪ It would be like heaven to me ♪
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Even after they split up, they kept on
singing together, which makes sense.
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They had every chance to kill
each other as husband and wife,
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and each of them took a
stab at it at least once.
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(theme music playing)
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George Jones named his
backing band The Jones Boys.
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They were actually real brothers...
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Don, Gary, and Arnie Adams...
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and they spent more time
on the bus with George
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than just about anybody.
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We was playing in Bandera,
Texas, one night.
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We would open up
for George sometimes...
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And he was out in the crowd,
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- drinking at the table.
- Thank you very much.
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Right now, we'd like to
introduce our boss to you.
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We'd like everybody to get together,
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- give a great big hand,
- (cheering)
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to America's number one
country singer, George Jones.
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(country music plays)
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Don: - He throwed the whiskey
bottle at me on the bandstand.
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- It missed me about that far.
- (bottle shatters)
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When we was finally...
got done that night,
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well, we just walked off-stage.
What-what, we quit.
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Went and started loading
the car and trailer up,
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and I heard gravel shuffling behind
me when I was putting stuff in.
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And I turned around
and he took a swing,
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and I took the trailer door...
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- (grunts)
- ...and hit him in the face with it.
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- (laughter)
- It knocked him down,
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and the sheriff was standing
down there and he said,
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"What do you want me
to do with him, Don?"
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And I said, "Put him in jail."
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(laughter)
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So they put him in jail,
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and I took his car and went home.
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(tires screech)
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And he called us and
fired us the next day.
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He had fired him four or five
times before that ever happened.
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He got be, kind of, like Donald Trump.
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(laughter)
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Mike: George came from humble
beginnings in Vidor, Texas.
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Songwriter Peanutt Montgomery
and his wife, Charlene,
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were running buddies
with him for decades.
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We were close, uh, as, I guess, buddies
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could get, you know.
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I'd tell him I loved him,
and he said, "Now, Peanutt,
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if we were any closer, we'd be gay."
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(laughter)
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Charlene: George came
from the Big Thicket.
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It's a little community
there in Vidor...
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tall pines and everybody there
was like poverty people,
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but they didn't know they were poverty,
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because everybody lived the same life,
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so one had just about
as much as the other.
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And in the Thicket, they had
their own little set of rules,
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standards, and values,
and they stuck by those.
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Mike: Long before the
good people of East Texas
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had figured out how to make crystal
meth, they made moonshine,
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which was also illegal,
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so it stands to reason that
a boy from the Big Thicket
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would get his first number-one
hit with a song about moonshine.
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♪ Well, a city slicker came,
and he said, "I'm tough ♪
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♪ I think I want to taste
that powerful stuff" ♪
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♪ He took one slug, and
he drank it on down ♪
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♪ I heard him a-moaning
as he hit the ground ♪
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♪ Mighty, mighty pleasing,
pappy's corn squeezing ♪
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Pshh! (hiccups)
♪ Ooh, White Lightning ♪
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Gary: And the way he sang
and phrased his words,
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there ain't nobody can
even come close to him.
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♪ There ain't nothing in my pocket ♪
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♪ But three nickels and a dime ♪
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♪ But I'm holding ♪
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♪ To the pieces ♪
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♪ Of my dream ♪
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We got started with George
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and couldn't have had a better teacher
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as far as the singing and the music,
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but, uh, he was such a... a prick
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as far as, uh, off-stage, drinking,
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- and stuff like that.
- Yeah.
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Gary: Paycheck worked for
George four or five times.
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Arnie: Him and George
was two of a kind.
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We kind of like grew
up together, you know.
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Paycheck, he was always drunk,
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and him and George fought all the time.
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We was riding down to Virginia
or somewhere late at night,
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and George and John was
up in the front seat,
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and George was driving, and they
got to arguing about something,
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because they argued all the time,
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and, uh, they started screaming
at each other. (chuckles)
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Paycheck said, "Well, just
pull this son of a bitch over.
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I'll just whip your ass."
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George said, "By God, all right."
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Pulled her over, and John jumped out,
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- and George took off.
- (guys laugh)
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George wasn't no scholar by no means.
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We'd talked him into going into the
hospital to dry out in, uh, Alabama.
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They did an IQ test on him.
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I asked the doctor,
"What was the score?"
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He said, "62."
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- (guys laugh)
- Where'd that put you?
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Well, dumb enough to work for him!
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George and I was riding along
on the bus there one time
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and we was listening to the radio,
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and we heard a song that
Johnny Paycheck had written.
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It was called "Apartment Number Nine."
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Tammy Wynette:
♪ You'll find me waiting here ♪
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♪ In apartment number nine ♪
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George said,
"Man, who is that singing?"
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And it was young Tammy Wynette,
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who nobody'd heard of yet.
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Mike: You can see where this is headed.
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Scott Kennedy runs a
Tammy Wynette museum,
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near the cotton fields where
she grew up in Mississippi.
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Scott: Tammy, along with everybody else
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in Tremont, Mississippi, picked cotton.
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Tammy didn't like to pick cotton,
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but she had to.
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When she was out there in those fields,
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to help pass the time away,
well, she'd start singing,
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and it just made the
cotton picking go better.
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When she was picking
that cotton down there,
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she was just waiting for the day
and designing her costumes,
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when she was gonna be
on the stage with her hero,
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George Jones, singing hit tunes.
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Mike: Janette and her sister,
Nanette, ought to know.
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The Smith sisters took turns over
the years doing Tammy's hair,
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as well as just about everybody
else's in Nashville.
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Jim Nabors.
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Ray Charles.
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Ah! Gene Kelly.
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Jerry Lee Lewis.
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Burt Reynolds.
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Oh! Reba.
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Tammy was born with the
name Virginia Wynette Pugh.
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She got married before
she graduated from high school.
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I think it was because she felt like
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she didn't belong to anybody.
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It was pretty well known that
Tammy always loved the boys.
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She had to have a man in her life
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all of the time,
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and she made some of the
worst dadgum choices.
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Mike: Her first choice
in terms of marriage
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was a young man
by the name of Euple Byrd.
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Now, Tammy had dated
all the Byrd brothers,
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but she ended up marrying Euple.
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It was, uh, a very tortured romance.
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Mike: Big words for Jimmy McDonough,
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a Gonzo journalist with bylines
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in the Village Voice,
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Mojo, Spin,
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and Juggs.
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They moved into a log cabin
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on her grand-pappy's property,
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and no running water,
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no electricity, no stove.
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Immediately, they
started making babies,
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and they ended up having three kids.
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She gets a hairdresser's license,
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'cause Euple wasn't
bringing in any dough.
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She was never really in poverty,
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except after she married Euple and
lived in that cabin back there.
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Both: Euple Byrd.
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So this was a grim period in her life.
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Tammy had suffered with depression
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and ended up getting shock treatment.
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Janette: So, one day,
she says to Euple,
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"I'm still going to
Nashville to become a star.
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I'm going to be a star."
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And Euple said,
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"Dream on, baby. Dream on."
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At some point there,
Tammy just decides,
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"I'm going to Nashville."
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She packs up her belongings, her kids...
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there's a tricycle tied
to the top of the roof...
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- (engine starts, revs)
- ...and she leaves Euple.
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Mike: Choice number two for Tammy,
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after she left Euple, got her
a little closer to her dream.
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She took her three kids to Nashville
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and hitched her wagon to
a man named Don Chapel.
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Now, Don is a good songwriter
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and also a mediocre singer
who wears a bad wig,
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but he's pitching songs
to George Jones,
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and Jones is recording 'em.
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Don had written a song for George,
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and Tammy was aware of that,
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so she gets in thick with Don Chapel.
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I guess they fell in love or in heat.
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Who knows? But they married.
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Mike: It lasted all of
about eight months.
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That's how long it took for Don Chapel
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to introduce his new
wife to George Jones.
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It all happened in a cheap motel room.
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They'd gone there to try
to sell George a song.
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She walked into the motel room,
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and he was in the bed
with another woman.
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I think it might have been two women.
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Oh, dear God.
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Tammy said, "He didn't
even notice I was there."
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That, for Tammy Wynette,
is a challenge.
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Shortly after that meeting,
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Don and Tammy start doing
shows with George Jones,
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and George walked out
on stage one night
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and sang a song with Tammy.
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Next thing you know, Jones
and Tammy are getting cozy,
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you know, on the road.
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And according to one tour manager,
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they had a little
assignation in a motel.
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He said that Jones' eyes
were as big as saucers,
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and he said, "Do you know what she did?
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Tammy done sucked my toes."
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(chuckles)
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His toes? It really was his toes?
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That's probably right.
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Mike: This act of passion
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apparently sealed the deal for George.
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Now, no one knows exactly what Tammy's
husband, Don, knew or didn't know,
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but for some reason, he invited
George over for dinner.
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Of course, Tammy is making ham
and dumplings or whatever.
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You know, she'd put on the spread,
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and Don Chapel talked to her
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like she was a piece
of dung on his shoe.
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And George Jones gets up,
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flips the table over,
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and throws a chair through the window.
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George says, "Tammy, I
love you, and you love me.
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Get the kids. We're out of here."
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Honey, she didn't even grab her coat.
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She walked out that door
and never looked back.
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And it's the beginning
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of George Jones and Tammy Wynette.
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Both: ♪ Well, I'm gonna
get on the old turnpike ♪
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♪ And I'm gonna ride ♪
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♪ I'm gonna leave this
town till you decide ♪
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♪ Which one you want the most,
them Opry stars or me ♪
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♪ Milwaukee, here I come
from Nashville, Tennessee ♪
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Jimmy: George and Tammy
started touring together
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and rode together in a bus, and boys,
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and were Mr. and Mrs. Country Music.
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They were like movie stars.
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Mike: One of their first big admirers
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was Tammy's first husband, Euple Byrd.
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One night we're out on
the road, on concert,
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and Euple walks up to the stage
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and stands in line to get an autograph.
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Both: Euple Byrd.
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Nanette: And he says, "Can
I have your autograph?"
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And Tammy says, "Dream on, baby.
Dream on."
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George and Tammy:
♪ No, we're not the jet set ♪
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♪ We're the old Chevrolet set ♪
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Janette: She had that style.
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What I think is very interesting,
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that Tammy Wynette let us do her hair,
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and she was a hairdresser.
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In her first career, she did hair.
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Baby fine, thin hair...
Tammy Wynette's hair was...
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She had the hair of a frog.
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Thank God for wigs.
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Scott: Tammy Wynette was a
lady, and she was classy,
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and so she looks at George and says,
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"Well, maybe I can 'teen'
you up just a little bit."
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When I went to work for George,
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he had already been
nicknamed "The Possum."
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The reason for that was
'cause he looked like one.
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His eyes was...
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Yeah, his eyes was, uh,
way too close together.
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Of course, you know, Tammy has
that background in hairdos,
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so she thought, "Well,
that little crew cut
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"you've been wearing
for all these years,
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that's not gonna get
that right now, George."
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So he wears it long,
and she combs it back.
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And some of their friends
said, "Maybe it looks
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like Cornelius from The
Planet of the Apes.
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(dramatic music plays)
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Mike: Tammy was grooming George
to be the perfect husband,
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but I think we all know it
just doesn't work like that.
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When Tammy married George,
she was aware that he drank,
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and she really thought,
"Well, I can change him,"
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and that became very obvious
quickly that that wasn't the case.
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Tammy was not a boozer.
She didn't drink.
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George Jones was an alcoholic.
He wanted to get drunk.
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Mike: Wayne Oliver was
a 20-year-old kid
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when he first encountered the legend.
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He was one of several managers
Jones would have over the years.
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Started out George liked Bloody Marys.
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You know, he liked to have a
couple of them in the mornings
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with some celery, peppers,
and spices he could get.
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And then we'd go have lunch,
and he'd like a couple beers,
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and then he'd go to Jack and Coke,
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sometimes straight Jack.
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- He liked that whiskey.
- He did.
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(both laugh)
But George wanted to drink,
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believe me, brother, he'd get it.
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I used to have
to feed him raw potatoes.
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People'd say, "Well, why do you
carry a bag of potatoes around?"
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Because that starch
would soak up that alcohol.
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He would put salt all over 'em,
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and he loved them raw potatoes.
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I remember one time when Jones
and I were sitting on the bus,
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he said, "Come on, Nanette,
have a drink with me."
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And I said, "George,
I don't want a drink."
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So he goes back where the closets are,
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comes out with a bottle of vodka,
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hands it to me, and says, "Drink it."
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He gets drunk on his ass, man.
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George goes on stage,
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he can't remember
the words to the songs.
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He didn't know if he was
on stage or off stage.
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He didn't know where he was.
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Janette: They would sing
real close to the microphone
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so he could read Tammy's lips.
(chuckles)
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Nanette: They would be
singing, and Tammy'd go...
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and she'd poke him,
"Okay, it's your turn."
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She was always instructing
him when to go.
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Mike: There was no one George
liked to spend his days
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drinking with more than country
music legend, Waylon Jennings.
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Sadly, his son, Shooter,
was present during many
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of their marathon drinking sessions.
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Well, I remember when I was little,
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George Jones would come over
to our house,
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and there was one time when
he just got drunk and he was,
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he would get angry, and
he'd get angry at my dad.
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And I think he called him a "Conway
Twitty singing son of a bitch."
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♪ Bum, bum, bum ♪
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Shooter: And that's when my
dad tied him to the tree.
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(grunting) He was out there
screaming, you know,
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"I'm the greatest country
music singer of all time!"
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And my dad opened the door and said,
"Yeah, and you're fucking tied to a tree,"
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then slammed the door, you know?
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Then later, he was around, he was fine.
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Mike: By all accounts, George had another
problem with another Nashville legend.
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Tammy had confided in him
that she had been friendly
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with the great Porter Wagoner
when she first got to town.
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Porter Wagoner had... okay, first
of all, he had great hair.
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He had a great pompadour. He
wore fabulous Nudie suits...
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I mean, decked out to the
nines with rhinestones.
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George Jones and Porter Wagoner
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were booked on The Grand
Ole Opry together,
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so George got to thinking
that Porter and Tammy
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had something going on, like a romance.
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- So, he saw Porter go to the bathroom,
- (unzips)
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- so George follows Porter into the bathroom.
- (door opens)
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I do know that Porter
Wagoner's penis proceeds him.
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- I mean, his reputation...
- The reputation of the size of his penis...
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- Both: Proceeds him.
- (laughs)
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Charlene: George walked
up behind Porter,
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said, "I want to see what
it is Tammy's so proud of."
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And he reached around Porter,
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got a hold of his penis,
and twisted it real hard.
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(grunting, scuffling)
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George said that Porter
didn't move much on stage,
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but said he moved a lot
down there in that bathroom.
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He said his Nudie suit got to
glittering all over the place.
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Mike: A few years into the marriage,
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George and Tammy decided maybe
it would be for the best
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if they got out of Nashville.
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They started house hunting in Florida.
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Charlene: When things go
shaky, Tammy would say,
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"George, let's go out and
look around at some houses."
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Well, that was right up George's alley.
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George Jones loved interior decorating.
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Red and black was his favorite color,
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and velvet paint... (laughs) paintings.
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Velvet wallpaper. It's just... ugh!
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The bed was mirrored
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with drapes down the side of the bed
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that were heavy velvet.
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(laughing)
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It's the damnedest thing
you've ever seen in your life.
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Mike: Tammy let George decorate
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their plantation manor
in Lakeland, Florida,
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with help from a local furniture store,
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and then he and Tammy
returned the favor.
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Tammy and I would like to tell you
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about some friends of ours,
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the folks at Badcock
Home Furnishing Centers.
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Both: Badcock.
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- B-A-D-C-O-C-K.
- Badcock.
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Both: Badcock.
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Yeah, it's Badcock.
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Take it from us,
Badcock will treat you right.
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Mike: George managed to decorate
just about everything they owned,
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so Tammy set him loose on the only
unrenovated space they had left.
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We had bought a bus one time,
and George had taken the bus,
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stripped it all down, and they put
bunk beds and everything in it.
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I mean, it looked nice and
decorative, and stuff like that,
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with pictures hanging on the wall.
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I mean, hanging.
Not fastened, but hanging.
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He had the bunk beds
setting on the floor.
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Not nailed down,
but just setting on there.
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He kinda liked the shag carpet.
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- We had shag everywhere.
- On the walls.
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Gary: - So consequently, we
was coming around a curve,
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and the driver couldn't
drive to begin with.
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He ran it off of a mountain.
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Everything in there came
crashing up to the front.
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(chuckles) George got
his chest bone cracked.
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I got a bed rail upside my head.
(banging)
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We couldn't hardly get out,
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'cause it was setting on its nose.
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George, he didn't like to tour anyhow.
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I don't think he really liked
to be out there on stage.
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Mike: It turns out the reigning king
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of country music didn't really like
performing country music in public,
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according to Tammy and George's
daughter, Tamala Georgette Jones.
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Georgette Jones:
He loved music so much,
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but he was very, very nervous
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when he would sing in public,
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'cause he was worried about how...
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what people would think about him.
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00:19:22,493 --> 00:19:25,362
And when he became popular
and started doing well,
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people would just come up
and hand him drinks...
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and he realized after he had one
or two, he wasn't nervous anymore.
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He didn't really think that that was
going to turn into two or three,
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to five or six, to 10 or 12,
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to every night, to all the time.
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He'd get drunk, and he'd miss shows
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and refuse to go on and just...
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- he was a belligerent...
- Arnie: Mm-hmm.
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Gary: Just a very belligerent guy.
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George would take off
in the middle of the night,
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and you couldn't find him.
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Mike: Old Possum had a
knack for disappearing
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throughout his long career,
which probably explains
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why he had so many managers.
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Gerald Murray put in
his time on the bus.
447
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George, he hadn't called
in a couple of nights,
448
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so I started getting
worried just a little bit.
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We didn't know where he was.
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All of a sudden, one
day, he come driving up,
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and I said, "Man, where have you been?"
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He said, "Oh, I've just
been out riding around."
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And said, "Well, where'd
you get that white truck?"
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He said, "Well, I bought it
down at that Chevrolet place."
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I sat down, looked at the mileage,
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And I said, "Where'd you ride to?"
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And he said, "Ah." He said, "I
just wanted to go riding around."
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He said, "I picked up
this guy down there,
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"and he was, uh, just kind of homeless.
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"We got going down
the road, and I said,
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'Well, where you going?'
And he said, 'Four mile.'"
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And George said,
"Uh, four miles to where?"
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The guy said, "Four miles."
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So they drive on a little piece
and then George asked him,
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he said, "Uh, four miles to where?"
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He said, "Four miles."
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So they just keep on riding
down the road right there,
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and George going four miles to
somewhere, he don't know where,
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until he finally realizes
that the guy was saying
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Fort Myers... Florida.
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Mike: By the time George figured
out where the guy was headed,
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he'd probably driven over 600
miles, four miles at a time.
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I said, "What did you do? And he said,
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"Well, I gave him a little
bit of money, you know."
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00:21:09,631 --> 00:21:11,498
And I said, "How much
money did you give him?"
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00:21:11,499 --> 00:21:12,867
He said, "It wasn't all that much."
477
00:21:12,868 --> 00:21:14,769
I said, "Well, how much did you keep?"
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He said, "Well, I kept $20 to get gas,
479
00:21:17,973 --> 00:21:19,674
so I could get home."
480
00:21:19,675 --> 00:21:20,941
And I said, "$20?"
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I said, "But when you
left, you had 25,000."
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(cash register dings)
483
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We were always looking for Jones,
484
00:21:27,215 --> 00:21:29,082
because he got to be "No-Show Jones."
485
00:21:29,083 --> 00:21:30,950
Possum got to be No-Show.
486
00:21:30,951 --> 00:21:34,288
They booked him for The Johnny
Carson Show. He wouldn't go.
487
00:21:34,289 --> 00:21:36,256
He said, "They'll make fun of me."
488
00:21:36,257 --> 00:21:40,160
And, uh, he missed it. That's
when he was named No-Show Jones.
489
00:21:40,161 --> 00:21:42,862
I'm not sure that George
Jones ever thought
490
00:21:42,863 --> 00:21:45,765
about being a star
or wanted to be a star. And...
491
00:21:45,766 --> 00:21:47,100
Or ever knew he was as star.
492
00:21:47,101 --> 00:21:48,735
Or ever knew he was as star,
493
00:21:48,736 --> 00:21:51,205
and he didn't give a damn about money.
494
00:21:51,206 --> 00:21:52,639
He just didn't.
495
00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:54,708
He was with somebody tough like Waylon,
496
00:21:54,709 --> 00:21:57,443
and he was in a bathroom,
and they were bragging
497
00:21:57,444 --> 00:21:59,378
about how much money
they'd made that night.
498
00:21:59,379 --> 00:22:02,381
And George just started
peeling off $100 bills
499
00:22:02,382 --> 00:22:04,016
and flushing them down
the toilet, you know.
500
00:22:04,017 --> 00:22:06,419
He just had no respect for money.
501
00:22:06,420 --> 00:22:08,354
George was a car fanatic.
502
00:22:08,355 --> 00:22:11,557
One year, I was with him,
he had 36 brand-new cars.
503
00:22:11,558 --> 00:22:15,461
My favorite car of George's
was this Pontiac Bonneville
504
00:22:15,462 --> 00:22:18,431
that had 4,000 silver dollars embedded
505
00:22:18,432 --> 00:22:21,500
in the dash of the car
and throughout the floor.
506
00:22:21,501 --> 00:22:24,103
And it had bullhorns
on the front of the car,
507
00:22:24,104 --> 00:22:27,707
and the horn made
a sound like a dying bull.
508
00:22:27,708 --> 00:22:29,642
(bull bellows)
509
00:22:29,643 --> 00:22:31,909
That was what was amazing about Jones.
510
00:22:31,910 --> 00:22:34,312
This was a guy who just
didn't give a damn
511
00:22:34,313 --> 00:22:38,450
and did whatever he wanted
to do for his own amusement.
512
00:22:38,451 --> 00:22:40,685
That was an essential part of this guy,
513
00:22:40,686 --> 00:22:42,487
and it had to be hard to live with.
514
00:22:42,488 --> 00:22:45,590
Mike: - When George became
especially hard to live with,
515
00:22:45,591 --> 00:22:49,794
Tammy would turn to their
lawyer, this guy, Jon Lentz.
516
00:22:49,795 --> 00:22:52,664
One night I was at home,
and Tammy called and said,
517
00:22:52,665 --> 00:22:53,998
"Can you please come over here?"
518
00:22:53,999 --> 00:22:56,033
George wanted to get some more whiskey...
(bottle shatters)
519
00:22:56,034 --> 00:22:58,570
...and she threw all of the
car keys in the bushes
520
00:22:58,571 --> 00:22:59,771
where he couldn't find them.
521
00:22:59,772 --> 00:23:02,140
So he decided to ride his power mower
522
00:23:02,141 --> 00:23:04,041
toward Melrose Liquors.
523
00:23:04,042 --> 00:23:07,678
And we got in my car and
headed down Franklin Road.
524
00:23:07,679 --> 00:23:11,382
Well, low and behold, as I
looked across the highway,
525
00:23:11,383 --> 00:23:14,685
there was George
coming back the other way.
526
00:23:14,686 --> 00:23:16,921
He'd already gotten to Melrose Liquors.
527
00:23:16,922 --> 00:23:18,990
The thing's going five miles an hour.
528
00:23:18,991 --> 00:23:21,058
He didn't even turn the blade off,
529
00:23:21,059 --> 00:23:23,861
I mean, so it's
throwing rocks everywhere.
530
00:23:23,862 --> 00:23:26,530
And in his lap he had
a little brown sack.
531
00:23:26,531 --> 00:23:31,035
I made a U-turn on Franklin
Road, pulled up beside George.
532
00:23:31,036 --> 00:23:34,738
Tammy just rolled down the
window and let him have it.
533
00:23:34,739 --> 00:23:36,307
I hardly ever heard her curse,
534
00:23:36,308 --> 00:23:39,342
and she said, "You stupid son of a
bitch, you're gonna get killed!"
535
00:23:39,343 --> 00:23:42,846
And George acted completely
oblivious to all of this.
536
00:23:42,847 --> 00:23:44,781
He would not acknowledge our presence.
537
00:23:44,782 --> 00:23:47,784
He didn't look at Tammy.
He didn't look at the car.
538
00:23:47,785 --> 00:23:52,189
He just kept driving this
power mower down the highway.
539
00:23:52,190 --> 00:23:54,224
When we got back to the
house, George stopped.
540
00:23:54,225 --> 00:23:57,560
He turned around and looked
at me, he said, "Hi, Jon."
541
00:23:57,561 --> 00:24:00,197
I said, "Hi, George."
And he said, "Well,
542
00:24:00,198 --> 00:24:02,765
"as you can see my wife
is a little upset with me,
543
00:24:02,766 --> 00:24:05,435
"so if you don't mind,
I'm going to excuse myself,
544
00:24:05,436 --> 00:24:08,671
go to my bedroom, lock
myself in, and get drunk."
545
00:24:08,672 --> 00:24:11,340
One time, she took the
keys from the lawn mower.
546
00:24:11,341 --> 00:24:13,742
They used to have a bunch of a
horses, and he got on the horse.
547
00:24:13,743 --> 00:24:15,945
- ♪
♪
- Next thing we knew,
548
00:24:15,946 --> 00:24:17,679
we got a phone call from the bar
549
00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:19,315
that George had got on the horse,
550
00:24:19,316 --> 00:24:21,583
rode it downtown, and
tied it out front.
551
00:24:21,584 --> 00:24:23,118
- (neighs)
- So we went down,
552
00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:25,955
and George was so blitzed
by the time we got there,
553
00:24:25,956 --> 00:24:27,957
he couldn't ride the horse back.
554
00:24:27,958 --> 00:24:30,025
Mike: From the very beginning
555
00:24:30,026 --> 00:24:32,294
of their romance, there
was never any question
556
00:24:32,295 --> 00:24:35,629
about what Tammy would do
if the marriage got rocky.
557
00:24:36,466 --> 00:24:39,101
♪ But if you love him ♪
558
00:24:39,102 --> 00:24:43,071
♪ You'll forgive him ♪
559
00:24:44,474 --> 00:24:47,642
♪ Even though he's hard ♪
560
00:24:47,643 --> 00:24:48,977
♪ To understand ♪
561
00:24:48,978 --> 00:24:50,812
Nanette: She wanted
to stand by her man,
562
00:24:50,813 --> 00:24:53,815
and by God, she did,
through thick and thin,
563
00:24:53,816 --> 00:24:56,585
through hell and fire and brimstone.
564
00:24:56,586 --> 00:24:58,487
♪ After all ♪
565
00:24:58,488 --> 00:25:02,122
♪ He's just a man ♪
566
00:25:04,093 --> 00:25:08,129
♪ Stand by your man ♪
567
00:25:08,130 --> 00:25:09,698
I mean, it was just the song
568
00:25:09,699 --> 00:25:12,367
for all of the women all over the world
569
00:25:12,368 --> 00:25:15,370
and all of the gay people
all over the world.
570
00:25:15,371 --> 00:25:17,706
They loved that "Stand By Your Man."
571
00:25:17,707 --> 00:25:22,243
♪ And show the world you love him ♪
572
00:25:22,244 --> 00:25:24,578
And there she was, standing by her man.
573
00:25:24,579 --> 00:25:27,481
That's the way all their
fans looked at it,
574
00:25:27,482 --> 00:25:29,749
and they was just eating it up.
575
00:25:30,852 --> 00:25:34,522
♪ Stand by ♪
576
00:25:34,523 --> 00:25:40,293
♪ Your man ♪
577
00:25:41,196 --> 00:25:43,963
(applause)
578
00:25:43,999 --> 00:25:50,099
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