I Always Get Lucky with You

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"I Always Get Lucky with You"
Single by George Jones
from the album Shine On
B-side"I'd Rather Have What We Had"
ReleasedApril 1983
GenreCountry
Length3:18
LabelEpic
Songwriter(s)Merle Haggard
Freddy Powers
Gary Church
Tex Whitson
Producer(s)Billy Sherrill
George Jones singles chronology
"Shine On (Shine All Your Sweet Love on Me)"
(1983) 		"I Always Get Lucky with You"
(1983) 		"Tennessee Whiskey"
(1983)

"I Always Get Lucky With You" is a song written by Merle Haggard, Freddy Powers, Gary Church, and Tex Whitson. It was first recorded by Haggard on his 1981 album Big City and then covered by American country music artist George Jones in April 1983 as the second single from the album Shine On. The song was Jones' ninth and final number one on the country chart as a solo artist . The single stayed at number one for one week and spent thirteen weeks on the country chart.[1]

Background

Co-writer Merle Haggard recorded the song first on his 1981 hit LP

Nashville at some of the clubs to try and get used to it before I went into the studio and it came off great. It's a great song. Merle Haggard wrote a good one there." Jones, who was about to hit rock bottom after spending most of the previous decade in a booze and drug-crazed wasteland, delivered a sterling performance, which became the last chart topper of his career, ironically bumping off "Pancho and Lefty," Haggard's hit duet with Willie Nelson. Haggard would record the song again in 2006 as part of the second Jones/Haggard release Kickin' Out the Footlights...Again. A duet version featuring Jones and Shelby Lynne was made available on the 2009 Jones LP Burn Your Playhouse Down – The Unreleased Duets
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Charts

References

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 182.
  2. ^ "George Jones Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
  3. ^ "Hot Country Songs – Year-End 1983". Billboard. Retrieved June 20, 2021.
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