Jack Jones sings The Race Is On live 1965
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- The versatile vocalist sings his country-flavored standard on the Hullabaloo show. Of the many artists who recorded this song (including George Jones), Jack had the biggest hit.
Neat to see this song on this show. I remember it being played on KLIV in San Jose, CA. in 1965 along with all the rock songs of that day. I am a big Jack Jones fan and this was one of his best songs! 😎
"The Race Is On" is a song written by Don Rollins and made a hit on the country music charts b yGeorge Jones and on the pop and easy listening charts by the unrelated Jack Jones. George's version 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 and it was his only Top-40 hit. Jack's version topped Billboard's Easy Listening chart and reached number 15 on the Hot 100 the same year. The song uses thoroughbred horse racing as the metaphor for the singer's romantic relationships.
Would have been fun to see Jack and George Jones together on this one!
You got that right! That would have been great to see them sing this song together.
Great singer awesome song 👍
His so good can sing anything
Now the race is on
And here comes pride up the back stretch
Heartache's a-going to the inside
My tears are holding back
They're trying not to fall
My heart's out of the running
True love's scratched for another's sake
The race is on, and it looks like heartache's
And the winner loses all
Jack Jones has such a beautiful head of hair. Wish I could run my fingers through his hair!
Glenn Johnson Knew Jack Jones recorded this song but what a surprise when i found this footage.WOW!Thanks for this clip from this vintage show.
On this day in 1965 {January 30th} Dick Clark conducted a telephone interview with singer Jack Jones on his ABC-TV Saturday-afternoon program, 'American Bandstand'...
At the time Mr. Jones' covered version of "Dear Heart" was at position #42 on Billboard's Top 100 chart, three weeks earlier it had peaked at #30 {for 1 week} and it spent eleven weeks on the Top 100...
And three weeks later on February 21st his next release, "The Race Is On", entered the Top 100 chart at position #89, seven weeks later it would peak at #15 {for 2 weeks} and it also stayed on the Top 100 for eleven weeks...
And on April 18th, 1965 "The Race Is On" reached #1 {for 1 week} on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Tracks chart...
Between 1962 and 1968 the Hollywood, CA native had twenty records on the Top 100 chart, his biggest hit was "Wives and Lovers"*, it peaked at #14 {for 1 week} on January 5th, 1964...
John Allan Jones celebrated his 80th birthday earlier this month on January 14th {2018}...
* And from the 'For What It's Worth' department, the week after "Wives and Lovers" entered the Top 100, the British invasion began, for the Beatles' first charted record, "I Want To Hold Your Hand", entered the Top 100 at position #45, and two weeks later it was at #1...
Jack (without trying to feign a southern accent) gave Country music great, George Jones a run for the money. Jack's "The Race Is On " pulled into the Top-10 on New York's 77WABC.
You are right! Most singers would give a southern twang to the song, but Jones was always true to his own style.
Jack singing live to the original backing track-he gets a yuk in the intro by being a little late- check his slight grin. Nice guy.
oh please
ok, this just looks weird. Jack is singing in a go-go studio lol. This song is anything but a go-go song. I went to a lot of clubs in the sixties and never heard this song there.
But I love the song with its country flavor. And I'm a big fan of Jones.
That looks like "The Whiskey A Go Go" in LA. (I never went to any clubs). Whiskey A Go Go was very famous and popular at one time. I don't know if this is the club Jack Jones is playing this in but here's a list of some of the other artists that have played there:
The Stooges, Alice Cooper (who recorded a live album there in 1969), The Doors, Golden Earring, No Doubt, System of a Down, The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Chicago, Germs, Buffalo Springfield, Steppenwolf, Van Halen, Johnny Rivers, X, Led Zeppelin, KISS, Guns N' Roses, Death, AC/DC,Metallica and Mötley Crüe.
Here is "Sam the Sham and the Pharaoh's" playing in what looks like the same club--ruclips.net/video/bOd64IqJJ1c/видео.html
is anyone in this video alive today?
Sorry Jack, Jones owns this song.
George Jones that is.
@ No way George Jones would've cracked the teen record market up North and on the West Coast in those days. Sure, George's version was more "Southern" and raw - but, in 1964, Jack's version fit right in with the Surf/Car genre of The Beach Boys, Jan & Dean, The Hondells, and The Rip Chords.
@@nuwavedave jack jones was the first version i heard when i was 12 yo and had no exposure to country music (i'm a lifelong NJ resident). nobody equated it with the hot rod genre as all the lyrics were about horse racing. and being a country song, the George Jones version makes more sense.
doesn't do the song justice. lazy vocals
I prefer the original from George Jones.
Jack was an easy listening crooner, not a country artist, and at that he excelled. this was a novelty for him and nothing more. that it got as high on the charts as it did speaks of his singing ability.
after recording for Kapp records until 1968 he was picked up by RCA and had a good run there, although he never hit the top 10 again.
Jack Jones probably did more in life then you'll ever do.
He can sing but this song sounds way better with George Jones singing it not Jack Jones.
Some agree, but not me!
udpert most agree George Jones sings it better not some.....