Close Together (As You and Me)

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Close Together (As You and Me)
Studio album by George Jones and Melba Montgomery
Released 1966
Genre Country
Label Musicor Records
Producer Pappy Daily
George Jones chronology
It's Country Time Again!
(1966)
Close Together (As You and Me)
(1966)
We Go Together
(1972)

Close Together (As You and Me) is an album of duets and solo selections by George Jones and Melba Montgomery. It was released on the Musicor label in 1966.

George Jones American musician

George Glenn Jones was an American musician, singer and songwriter. He achieved international fame for his long list of hit records, including his best known song "He Stopped Loving Her Today", as well as his distinctive voice and phrasing. For the last twenty years of his life, Jones was frequently referred to as the greatest living country singer. Country music scholar Bill Malone writes, "For the two or three minutes consumed by a song, Jones immerses himself so completely in its lyrics, and in the mood it conveys, that the listener can scarcely avoid becoming similarly involved." Waylon Jennings expressed a similar opinion in his song "It's Alright": "If we all could sound like we wanted to, we'd all sound like George Jones." The shape of his nose and facial features earned Jones the nickname "The Possum."

Melba Montgomery American musician

Melba Montgomery is an American country music singer. She is best known for duet hit recordings in the 1960s with country music singer George Jones and later Charlie Louvin.

Musicor Records was a New York City-based record label, active during the 1960s and 1970s. The label was founded by songwriter Aaron Schroeder and distributed by United Artists Records. In 1965, UA employee and A&R man Art Talmadge started his own Talmadge Productions company and, along with fellow UA employee/A&R man Harold "Pappy" Daily, bought the Musicor label from UA.

Track listing

  1. "Close Together (As You and Me)"
  2. "From Here To The Door" (Don Chapel)
  3. "Living On Easy Street" (Earl Montgomery)
  4. "As of Now"
  5. "Feudin' and Fightin'" (Dubin/Lane)
  6. "Long As We're Dreaming"
  7. "Developing My Pictures" (E. Montgomery)
  8. "Let's Both Have A Cry"
  9. "Heartaches for a Day"
  10. "Simply Divine" (Melba Montgomery)

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