{"id":28248,"date":"2014-01-03T15:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T21:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=28248"},"modified":"2014-01-03T15:00:02","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T21:00:02","slug":"28248","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/03\/28248\/","title":{"rendered":"George Jones tops UKCountryRadio Greatest Hits"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28249\" alt=\"georgejonespostermaritz01\" src=\"http:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/01\/georgejonespostermaritz01.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"420\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align:center;\">George Jones tops UKCountryRadio.com&#8217;s Greatest Hits<\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"text-align:center;\">The top 30 country songs of all time<\/h3>\n<p>Over Christmas and the New Year, we revealed UKCountryRadio.com&#8217;s Greatest Hits &#8211; the top 30 country songs of all time as chosen by you. Thank you to everyone who has sent in their all-time favourite three country songs over the last few months, allowing us to compile the chart.<br \/>\nIt was obvious from the early days that the George Jones track &#8220;He Stopped Loving Her Today&#8221; was running away with the lead and, indeed, this classic song topped the chart. It is a fitting tribute to Jones, coming at the end of the year in which he passed away.<br \/>\n&#8220;Crazy&#8221; by Patsy Cline, written by Willie Nelson, was number two in the list, followed by Johnny Cash&#8217;s biggest hit &#8220;Ring Of Fire&#8221; at number three.<br \/>\nNelson&#8217;s CMA Single of the Year 1982 &#8220;Always On My Mind&#8221; came in at number four, with regular visitor to the UK Gene Watson featured at number five with &#8220;Farewell Party&#8221;.<br \/>\nRounding out the top ten were Crazy Arms by Ray Price at 6, Sunday Morning Coming Down by Kris Kristofferson at 7, Help Me Make It Through The Night, also by Kristofferson, at 8, Dolly Parton&#8217;s &#8220;I Will Always Love You&#8221; at 9, and Don Williams&#8217; &#8220;You&#8217;re My Best Friend&#8221; at number 10.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Here is UKCountryRadio.com&#8217;s Greatest Hits\u00a0 <\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Top 30 country songs of all time as chosen by you.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Thank you to everyone who sent us their all-time favourite three country songs during 2013 to help compile the chart.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">.<br \/>\n1. He Stopped Loving Her Today &#8211; George Jones<br \/>\n2. Crazy &#8211; Patsy Cline<br \/>\n3. Ring Of Fire &#8211; Johnny Cash<br \/>\n4. Always On My Mind &#8211; Willie Nelson<br \/>\n5. Farewell Party &#8211; Gene Watson<br \/>\n6. Crazy Arms &#8211; Ray Price<br \/>\n7. Sunday Morning Coming Down &#8211; Kris Kristofferson<br \/>\n8. Help Me Make It Through The Night &#8211; Kris Kristofferson<br \/>\n9. I Will Always Love You &#8211; Dolly Parton<br \/>\n10. You&#8217;re My Best Friend &#8211; Don Williams<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">11. Your Cheating Heart &#8211; Hank Williams<br \/>\n12. Stand By Your Man &#8211; Tammy Wynette<br \/>\n13. Jolene &#8211; Dolly Parton<br \/>\n14. Rhinestone Cowboy &#8211; Glen Campbell<br \/>\n15. The Gambler<br \/>\n16. On The Road Again &#8211; Willie Nelson<br \/>\n17. Islands In The Stream &#8211; Kenny Rogers &amp; Dolly Parton<br \/>\n18. Diggin&#8217; Up Bones &#8211; Randy Travis<br \/>\n19. All My Ex&#8217;s Live In Texas &#8211; George Strait<br \/>\n20. Ain&#8217;t Goin&#8217; Down Til The Sun Comes Up &#8211; Garth Brooks<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">21. Buy Me A Rose &#8211; Kenny Rogers<br \/>\n22. It&#8217;s Five O&#8217;Clock Somewhere &#8211; Alan Jackson with Jimmy Buffett<br \/>\n23. If You&#8217;re Going Through Hell &#8211; Rodney Atkins<br \/>\n24. The House That Built Me &#8211; Miranda Lambert<br \/>\n25. Hello World &#8211; Lady Antebellum<br \/>\n26. I&#8217;m Moving On &#8211; Hank Snow<br \/>\n27. Hey Good Lookin&#8217; &#8211; Hank Williams<br \/>\n28. There Stands The Glass &#8211; Webb Pierce<br \/>\n29. I Walk The Line &#8211; Johnny Cash<br \/>\n30. El Paso &#8211; Marty Robbins<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8213\" alt=\"ukcountryradiologo\" src=\"http:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/ukcountryradiologo.jpg\" width=\"414\" height=\"133\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Jones tops UKCountryRadio.com&#8217;s Greatest Hits The top 30 country songs of all time Over Christmas and the New Year, we revealed UKCountryRadio.com&#8217;s Greatest Hits &#8211; the top 30 country songs of all time as chosen by you. Thank you to everyone who has sent in their all-time favourite three country songs over the last few months, allowing us to compile the chart. It was obvious from the early days that the George Jones track &#8220;He Stopped Loving Her Today&#8221; was running away with the lead and, indeed, this classic<a href=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/03\/28248\/\" class=\"read-more\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}