If one is fortunate there has been, or is, someone in our life that affects you like no other. Then, and only then, can we experience the intensity of this song.
My mom and dad divorced in 1979. My dad never remarried. He died in 2007. He went to his grave loving my mom. It was the saddest thing I had ever witnessed watching him pine for her all those years. This was one of my dad's favorite songs. Great reaction!
My grandma died early and my grandpa never remarried despite neighbor ladies chasing him hard. He was heart broke for the rest of his life, left with young kids to raise.
Same with my Dad. My mom left him when I was 17. She would come and see him now and then. She remarried a few years later. But he never stopped loving her and never dated. He died suddenly coming out from work at age 49. It was a huge funeral. Everyone liked him. But this song always reminds me of him….
The look of confusion on your face when you realized the guy was dead was so genuine I know you could not have ever heard this song before. One of my favorite George Jones songs is White lightning
You should watch the new show George and Tammy. It's really good and it will tell their whole life story. I think the 5th or 6th episode just aired comes on on Friday nights
I LOVED your reaction when you realized the guy had passed away! The song is so simple, yet so powerful. I believe that she HAD loved him at one time, and wrote him a love letter in 1962. He later underlined every “ I love you” that she had written in the letter. The song never tells why she left him. “He Stopped Loving her Today” was released in 1980, so he must’ve carried a torch for her for 18 years.
Actually he wrote the song after they had divorced but still deeply loved each other. He was a good bit older than her to start with. So he always expected to be the first to pass away from either age or alcohol and drinking addiction. The saddest part of it all is that she died long before anyone could have expected. At the age of 55 years old. So after he wrote this song. They had both remarried other people but still cared and loved each other until the end. Sadly George Jones never had a clue that she would die before him and that he would live to be 81-years-old until his passing in 2013. Heartbreaking!
If was Vince Gill when he tried to sing go rest high on that mountain I LOST IT Thank God Patti Loveless was singing with him. Lord I cried n cried and then cried some more.
He originally didn't want to record this because he didn't think anyone would buy "that old sad song." But it turned into one of his most successful hits
It rescued his career. I thank God that I got to see him back in 2004 when he was doing his 50 years of hits tour to go along with his cd that came out. I'm pretty sure I was the youngest guy who bought tickets to go see him, as I was in college at the time, and he was amazing. Easily top 6 of my favorite artists in country music. I have a hard time knocking Hank off of the #1 spot, and then George, Merle, Willie, Waylon, and Dwight all fight back and forth in the next 5 positions.
Loved your take on this . HE WAS A DRUNK & TOXIC . Tammy Wynette had to move on . He got sober for his next wife & last. GEORGE JONES IS A REAL COUNTRY MUSIC LEGEND.NOT LIKE NOW…
This is considered by many to be the best country song of all time. The level of emotion and storytelling and the absolutely iconic nature of this song is unsurpassed. I have heard this song countless times and every time it still touches me. This is how country music - or music in general - is supposed to make us feel.
Personally, I think George Jones had the best voice of all time in C & W music (followed by Hank Williams & Vince Gill) and is in the top 6 male voices in 20th century music across all genres.
I was a musician (fiddler) in Nashville for several years. One time I was outside of the Grand Ole Opry waiting to perform at the CMA Awards. I was killing time and practicing my fiddle. I finished playing a tune and behind me I heard, “Careful, son. You’re gonna hurt yourself fiddlin’ like that.” Turned around and it was George Jones! A few years later he passed away and I attended his funeral service at that same location - The Grand Ole Opry.
Mr. Boyd, your reaction is the same reaction everyone who first heard that song has. Profoundly sad song and Mr. Jones sang the hell out of it. Thanks for the memory, and yeah, I heard it when it first came out...as you say, "a long, long time ago." 😆
Teresa, I grew up listening to all the greats of country music. And Geroge Jones was definitely one of the greatest story tellers of all time... God bless you George.
Anyone who thinks that real country doesnt exist or if country is something dumb. Then you need to take a hard look at your life cause you are heartless and cant listen to the words. Alot of ppl talk crap about country. But when the world ends all them idiots are gonna depend on us to save there butts
The saddest song ever made? Then I guess you haven't heard Elvis Presley's 1956 track, "Old Shep". Give it a listen, April. And have a box of tissues ready. You're gonna need 'em.
Yes! I’m 90! I cried the first time that I heard it & ever since!!! Although some of us don’t have to die to stop loving - nevertheless, this song is a masterpiece & only George can chill your soul with that sad, sad voice!!!
I'm German. Never heard C/W before. My American husband introduced me to this kind of music. I didn't speak English, but the first song I heard was He stopped Loving her today, by George Jones. Didn't know what he was singing about, but his voice touched me deeply and brought tears to my eyes. After I understood the words, it became my favorite song. I have heard these song so many times now and every time I start sobbing. It touched my heart and soul so deeply. I will never forget the first time I heard it. This song breaks my heart. My husband is deceased now for 14 years and I never looked at another man. He was my soul mate and will be till I join him in the afterlife. Can't wait till I see him again. MrLboyed you have a beautiful sounding voice. You ought to be an announcer on the news or a talk show. Love listening to your awesome voice.
@@Joemama-km9np Thank you. Till this day, I have trouble with writing. Americans use letters you don't hear. In Germany every letter is pronounced. Take the word knife. You don't speak the k. It's silent. Why use it? Why not just write nife? Of course the e is silent too. Ich habe immer ein nettes Wochenende. Das ist Familian Tag. Meine 2 kinder und mein Enkelsohn verbringing das Wochende mit mir. Das ist immer schoen. Ich hoffe Ihr Wochenende ist auch schoen. Greetings from Texas.
@@gigih.hammer306 Haha!!! We native English-speakers often wonder the same thing about our spellings! English has "borrowed" words from other languages which sometimes have these bizarre spellings. I watched a PBS program recently about William Shakespeare--they found a transcript of a play he personally wrote and it was full of misspellings . . . and sometimes he spelled the same word in the same sentence "two different ways!" 😄
I agree....it just frustrates the hell out of me when someone does not get it....and then tries to dissect the meaning of the song. I know MrLboyd would not disappoint....lol
This is what music is supposed to do to us. If you don’t feel anything when you here this, something is wrong with you. I’m glad you finally found this song.
The song was released in 1980. George Jones was a master at making the listener feel what he was putting down. Jones himself was a deeply emotional man, so much so that he used drugs and alcohol (of EPIC proportions) to shut out the hurt inside. When George sang, you believed whatever he sang about, because he himself felt the feelings that he was singing about.
One of my favorite George Jones’ songs is “Who’s going to fill their shoes”? (and none of the new country artists could even come close) I really miss the “old country” even the crying in my beer songs of the good old days.
Nothing makes a beer more palatable than a good George Jones song. The ol' possum is a masterful storyteller and he plays your heartstrings like a guitar.
The moment when he sang "Soon they'll Carry him away" and YOU realized WHAT it meant, now THAT is why those of us that KNOW the song are watching "Reaction" videos. PURE, GENUINE, REACTION. 😎
I used to call this song a Shakespeare tragedy in four minutes. The beginning of the song paints the story of a breakup that wasn't over anything in particular. There's no anger on her part, and he starts by saying I'll love you til I die. And he does. It is musical storytelling at its finest.
Your reaction was priceless. Once you realized what had happened, your whole concept of what you thought the song was talking about, did a 180. This song never fails to make my eyes start sweating.
I love the fact that this song confused you & at the same time grabbed at your heart strings! Sir, that right there is what real Country music can do. Never forget this one old saying about how Country music is written: "Three chords & the truth" 🤗
THE. GREATEST. SINGER. EVER. There's so many songs from George that will tear your heart out. When he was healthy, and at his best, nobody else could touch him. And he's still better than most when he's drunk or not on point. Legend
The Possum! Had tickets just prior to him passing and last concert. He said he got us good with that one! Went to the event over 100 folks from country to rock every venue there. Tennessee, Airborne, US Army here HOOAH!!!
Brother your reaction at the 4:15 mark is priceless and that was the emotion he was trying to generate with this song, when you realize why he stopped loving her today, one of the best all time in my opinion
Every true country music fan knows this song and I just waited until you realized why he stopped loving her. Such a sad song sung so eloquently with such a great voice.
I was on my way to a camping trip when I heard George had died. His music had a way of transcending genre. We toasted him with bourbon that night. Rednecks, hippies, bankers, and waitresses all raised a glass.
I have an uncle who was just diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. This song will be in my memorial to him. He only loved one woman his whole life. They got married 3 times and divorced 3 times. This song has always reminded me of the two of them. She loved him too, but they just couldn’t live together and make it work.
That moment he realized the protagonist died....I love that expression. It shows how great this song is that it wasn't obvious that the reason 'he stopped loving her today' was because he died.
This is one of the greatest country songs of all time. I see the message of this song as an idea that I believe humanity has lost. It’s still within us all, but unfortunately most don’t value. The idea that anyone one of us can follow through on a commitment we make no matter what length of time that commitment is.
@@elizabethy3909 I don't think that means what you think it means. In the song he pines for her. Never talks about calling her, watching her or any of that?
Yes, I can't imagine how so many ppl stay guarded or too self-obsessed to give their time learning about someone at letting them into your heart. Love doesn't fade, many claim to love but become spiteful--that is NOT love. Love is giving your trust, faith & while heart to someone. I can't imagine life without my husband.
This song was voted song of the decade in the 80's It still gives me chills I always thought he felt this way about Tammy Wynette & I think a lot of others did too I thought Alan Jackson singing this at George's funeral was appropriate Whiskey Lullaby by Brad Pasley & Allison Kraus is another sad love you til I die song
This is it man, the good stuff. This song sung by this singer is the quintessential country song above all others. George Jones had a velvet voice and controlled so well. When you’ve heard a thousand different country songs, some of them extremely good by hundreds of different singers, this one by this singer effortlessly rises to the top. Almost equally good, is another George Jones song called The Grand Tour.
We played this song at my Daddys funeral 8/22. Everytime i heard this song it brought me to tears. This is the 1st time ive been able to listen to this song since he passed. Daddy raised us on good honkey tonk music. I've edited this so many times because it's my favorite reaction video. Sir, my favorite part is when you realize what the song is all about. Thank you for reacting and enjoying❤
One of my very favorite country songs. It’s about true love, but they can’t be together…much like George and Tammy. It’s hard to not weep listening to it. ❤
This song was written about my deceased husband's parent's. Phillips Lamar Jones and Helen Faye Barge. He loved her so much and she loved him as well. The love letter's dated in 1962 the year my deceased husband Herman Lamar was born.
It's beautiful ❤️ thank you for sharing that. On the way to plum ridge from kountze my Mom would always point to a property and say that's where George Jones lives. I don't know if it's true but we would listen to this song when we did.
I still get goosebumps listening to parts of that song, even though I first heard it a little over 30 years ago. So sad, but still one of my favorites!
@@billwalker7556 I'm not embarrassed, and you were the one insisting on correcting someone else's post. I called you out because you were wrong with your correcting
First time I heard this song many many years ago, when I realized the man died, I was in tears. The best country song of all time IMO and every time I hear it I get chills. George just tell this story, through his song, so well.
The greatest voice in country music. Some of the best nights I can remember we're watching my dad singing Jones and haggard songs on karaoke nights at the bars around north Florida.
This was one of my very unsentimental dad's favorite songs, but I didn't realize until after he died of leukemia in 1989 that it was because that's how he felt about my mom - till death do you part. She kept loving him and being his wife until she died of pneumonia in 2015, and then they were together again forever.
I remember the first time I heard this song I was driving home from work and I just started to cry so much that I had to pull over. Still gets me every time
I heard this song so many times growing up. George Jones was a particular favorite of my Dad's and this song, the story telling in it, is amazing. Recently I realized how much this mirrored my own parents, unfortunately cancer took my mom away, but my dad loved her till his dying breath. Thank you for reacting to it 🙂
I’m 70 and grew up in country music, my father was leader of a popular country band from 1948 to 19 67, my brothers also for 10 years. George Jones is an ICON in the country music world, a musical vocal with gut feelings. Listen to his song “ The Chrystal Chandelier “ amazing career forever loved.
George married Tammy Wynette (mentioned in the early part of the clip) in 1969 and they divorced in 1975. George released this song in 1980. George did move on and did remarry. I think this song was about how he felt at that time and he was projecting out to the end of his life. But the magic of Tammy & George is only matched by Stevie & Lindsey. The sheer chemistry is magical!
Yep if you don't pay attention to the very first line in the song "He said I'll love you till I die" the meaning of the chorus almost slips by you it takes a minute for people to realize the magnitude of what he said.
One of the best country songs ever. After he finished recording the song he said, “this is the saddest song I’ve ever heard”. If you want to really get into their story, and when I say they, I’m talking about George and Tammy, you should watch the series by the same name on Showtime or Paramount. Their lives together seemed to be written in the songs they recorded before they were together and most certainly after they were married and sadly divorced. They were the original “power couple” in country music. When you understand their story, and you listen to other songs by George, like The Race Is On, it brings a whole new meaning and context to a song he recorded before they were ever together. Stand By Your Man was recorded by Tammy in 1969, the year they were married. I could go on, and on. Check it out. Subscribed to your channel now so I can follow your other videos on George.
I so appreciate your attention to this classic song. Nobody sings the sad songs like George. My paternal grandparents divorced when my dad was a young teenager. He and his sisters always felt my grandfather always loved my grandmother. The day my grandfather died my dad said "he stopped loving her today". I appreciate your reaction.
I love George. A voice made for Country. The first line "He said I'll love you till I die" and the title "He Stopped Loving Her Today" give it up immediately. One of my favorite songs of all time.
My parents were married in '79, my mom moved out to be with another guy in '90, and they divorced in '95. She married several times, he never did. This was his chosen song he wanted played at his funeral. My mom passed in '20, and my dad just passed in August '22. We found old letters and photos. This song fully sounds just like my dad's story.
One of my favorite songs of all time. Mr. Jones was an incredible artist. But yes, the crux of the story is that he loved her until the day he died. If he had moved on or not was a moot point, because if he did or not, he still loved her.
I remember when He stopped loving her today came out in 1980 and it immediately became a huge hit, My Mother who is a huge George Jones fan loves this song, She called me the day George Jones passed in '13 very upset. George Jones was iconic.
He meant it when he say " he will love her until he died", another classic song from George Jones is " Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes" you have to check out the official music video for that one .
George Jones ... considered one of the greatest..if not the greatest in country music... TIP : when u listen to these "old ones" ..meaning the old country songs...u can't listen with a "modern" view point..or with the standard for how things are these days..I have to listen how they lived back then..see there was a time when when people fell in love they stayed in love... Until her last days... They travel this life through all the hardships trials and ups and downs imaginable together..when u loved someone it was with everything inside of u...right down In ur soul and bones... Not saying that peeps don't love these days...jus saying it's different.. seems a lot easier for peeps to discard things ..so u really have got to listen to these old songs in a different kind of way.. The relationship he is talking about in the song was by no means one that a person could move on from in just a lil while...they were together for a long time...but there was "that thing" she had stood by him through..asked him to "change" mabey.. an she reached that point that she had to go...it hurt her as much as it did him ...and so he died loving her..and she came to see him one last time because she still in her heart still loved him...that's how I've always thought about it anyways..🙂 Your face..the moment u "got it" ...I smiled so big..was a great reaction..💜🙏🏻
This is old school country at its finest and is generally considered the greatest country song of all time. If you haven’t yet check out Brad paisley “whiskey lullaby”. A few more of Georgie’s classics are “a picture of me without out you”, still doing time and bartender blues
this song came out at the perfect time for George Jones. He and Tammy wynette had divorced and he had been struggling with alcoholism, which resulted in him missing shows, and The grand tour album was a great way to come back. He didn't write this song but he was in a situation that made it work better than it would have with any other singer.
My grandparents played this on the way to the grocery store an hour away and discussed the sadness of it. They were married 60 + years when my grandfather passed in 2002. She joined him just last year❤ I’ll forever be 10 years old trying to understand the concept of death in adult relationships via George in my grandparents car when this song plays 💫
I seen him in Lafayette. He didn't show up. The owner of the bar hunted him down and found him in a bar. He was quite drunk, but he performed without a hitch. Even drunk, his performant was very professional. I walked to the front of the stage to get a better look at him. He seen me and winked at me.
You are first reaction video I have seen that immediately caught on that he had passed away. The emotion you felt is one of the reasons this is considered by most true country fans to be the #1 country song of all time. George Jones was a legend. One of my favorites is “If Drinkin’ Don’t Kill Me Her Memory Will”.
I clicked on this video for the best country song ever written (the year was 1980) and your commentary just made my day. The expression on your face when you realized WHY he stopped loving her today 😂 priceless. You didn’t really think a happy ending was coming? Lol if you really want to cry, listen to whiskey lullaby
I finally went to a George Jones concert just a few years before he passed away. At the very first riff of the guitar, the whole audience was on its feet. We knew what song he was about to do! Isn't it a tear-jerker? RIP Mr. Jones. Another song, I think it's underrated, is Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes.
Yes we just played Who's going to fill their shoes tonight after my dad left my brothers new year's eve party at 10 pm because he had in so much back pain. Hes such a proud strong man and it took 2 grown men to practically carry my dad out to the car. I bawled like a baby watching that. Hes 76 years old. He grew up on the Michigan State Experiment Station in the U.P. of Michigan and worked there until he graduated from high school, went down state to work at GM, worked at the Apache Ranch as a ranch hand while working a 2nd job taking care of horses for someone else, did over the road trucking for 20 years hauling steel until his health issues made him not pass a cdl physical (his semi rolled partially over him while he was under it for maintenance). I know too much info but to me and my brother he is our hero. We are 53 and 50 years old. Who's going to fill his shoes after he's gone...absolutely no one and I'll probably be in a straight jacket because i won't be able to handle it. Everything he did in his life since day he married my mom right out of high school was for his family.
Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes is amazing! It's been 10 years this April since Mr. Jones passed and I STILL cannot listen to that song without totally breaking down. It's like he was singing about himself without ever crediting himself for being that well-known and well-liked, but that's no shock considering who it was coming from. He was one of the few stars that never really considered themselves to be that great.
Pure, unadulterated vulnerability. Loved watching his facial reactions. We don't see much if this now. Everyone is so jaded. Our hearts are hard and digital compared to before the internet.
Quintessential county song. Best one ever written and no one can ever sing it the way The Possum does. The emotion he evokes from the listener, he was worried it was too sappy. No George, it's the best country music song ever written, period. A lot of others come close but still can't touch this, and I honestly don't think anyone could ever surpass it. It's one of those songs that should never be covered.
George Jones was a country music icon. His first big hit was White Lightning. He performed from the early 1950's until his death in 2013. Golden Ring, Two Story House, The Race is On, Still Doin' Time, If Drinkin' Don't Kill Me, and I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair, are a few of his hits. I saw him in concert in the late 1990s and he was fantastic.
George Jones knew how to tell a story in his songs, particularly the ones that appeared to be so significantly close to his own life. I’m very much enjoying the special on now of George and Tammy. I saw him once years ago in Dallas and I wore out her cassette playing them over and over in high school. Two of the greats…
I seen George Jones a day before my birthday 1 year before he died in my home town where I was born raised and still live today. It was one of the best birthday presents a guy could ask for. He could hardly sing by then though, it was my very first concert so I figured his voice was just giving out from singing so much. I didnt realize how ill he was. Seeing him right there in the flesh, a man I would listen to for hours at a time throughout the week, right in front of me. Its a unique fascinating feeling.
He wasn't obsessed...just had a genuine, real love. ♥️ The first line of the song is..."He said I'll love you till I die."..and he did.🥺💔
And TW loved him but was so addicted to pain medicine she chose that over love
If one is fortunate there has been, or is, someone in our life that affects you like no other. Then, and only then, can we experience the intensity of this song.
@@oscarcrouch1341 WELL SAID!!!
Yes, not obsession just devotion & took his commitments seriously.
After 20 years that is kinda obsession.
My mom and dad divorced in 1979. My dad never remarried. He died in 2007. He went to his grave loving my mom. It was the saddest thing I had ever witnessed watching him pine for her all those years. This was one of my dad's favorite songs. Great reaction!
My grandma died early and my grandpa never remarried despite neighbor ladies chasing him hard. He was heart broke for the rest of his life, left with young kids to raise.
Same as me basically. My dad dies in 1992 and my mom never remarried and only dated one guy. She died in 2021.
This is me today. My x divorced me 20 years ago and I could never find a woman I could love like I did her.
Same with my Dad. My mom left him when I was 17. She would come and see him now and then. She remarried a few years later. But he never stopped loving her and never dated. He died suddenly coming out from work at age 49. It was a huge funeral. Everyone liked him. But this song always reminds me of him….
My Dad also. It's very sad and beautiful love story I always cry when I hear it.
He said I'll love you till I die, and he meant it!
Dying from a broken heart is a real thing..Miss you George
@@midnighttoker5774 so true...
The name of the song and first verse tell you how it's gonna end
The look of confusion on your face when you realized the guy was dead was so genuine I know you could not have ever heard this song before. One of my favorite George Jones songs is White lightning
You should watch the new show George and Tammy. It's really good and it will tell their whole life story. I think the 5th or 6th episode just aired comes on on Friday nights
George could touch your soul any time he wanted to. He will never be replaced.
I LOVED your reaction when you realized the guy had passed away! The song is so simple, yet so powerful.
I believe that she HAD loved him at one time, and wrote him a love letter in 1962. He later underlined every “ I love you” that she had written in the letter. The song never tells why she left him.
“He Stopped Loving her Today” was released in 1980, so he must’ve carried a torch for her for 18 years.
Actually he wrote the song after they had divorced but still deeply loved each other. He was a good bit older than her to start with. So he always expected to be the first to pass away from either age or alcohol and drinking addiction. The saddest part of it all is that she died long before anyone could have expected. At the age of 55 years old. So after he wrote this song. They had both remarried other people but still cared and loved each other until the end. Sadly George Jones never had a clue that she would die before him and that he would live to be 81-years-old until his passing in 2013. Heartbreaking!
@@evaosteenallen7957 george jones didn't write the song.
Alan Jackson signs this at George Jones’ funeral. I don’t think I’ve ever cried that hard except during 911.
If was Vince Gill when he tried to sing go rest high on that mountain I LOST IT Thank God Patti Loveless was singing with him. Lord I cried n cried and then cried some more.
Please check out those 2 performances at George's funeral. Both are incredible and require tissues to watch.
It was really poignant when Jackson removed his hat.
I was thinking when watching this how good second wife must have felt. Most people I believe will always think of George and Tammy when they hear it.
My husband even cried when Alan J sang George’s beautiful ballad.
He originally didn't want to record this because he didn't think anyone would buy "that old sad song." But it turned into one of his most successful hits
He actually bet $1 that it would be a flop. He admitted that it was the best $1 he ever lost. He wanted to lose more bets like that.
I believe he referred to it as.... That morbid son of a bitch!.....
It rescued his career. I thank God that I got to see him back in 2004 when he was doing his 50 years of hits tour to go along with his cd that came out. I'm pretty sure I was the youngest guy who bought tickets to go see him, as I was in college at the time, and he was amazing. Easily top 6 of my favorite artists in country music. I have a hard time knocking Hank off of the #1 spot, and then George, Merle, Willie, Waylon, and Dwight all fight back and forth in the next 5 positions.
Close Mark Cain but he called it " a morbid son of a bitch"
@@daveholyoak7472 came here to say that.
He said, “I’ll love you till I die.”
The greatest country song by the greatest country singer. 100% Legend.
Less not forget written by my hometown boy from Auburndale, Fl. The great Bobby Braddock who's best friend was my next door neighbor Bill Chilsom RIP.
I saw th man that wrote that song on Ray Steven's TV show. He does a he'll of job with it to. Just a piano and a woman doing th back up vocals
Loved your take on this . HE WAS A DRUNK & TOXIC . Tammy Wynette had to move on . He got sober for his next wife & last. GEORGE JONES IS A REAL COUNTRY MUSIC LEGEND.NOT LIKE NOW…
This is considered by many to be the best country song of all time. The level of emotion and storytelling and the absolutely iconic nature of this song is unsurpassed. I have heard this song countless times and every time it still touches me. This is how country music - or music in general - is supposed to make us feel.
Perfectly said! I’m 48, have listened to this song hundreds of times but it still hits the same every time. Definitely one of my all time favorites.
Personally, I think George Jones had the best voice of all time in C & W music (followed by Hank Williams & Vince Gill) and is in the top 6 male voices in 20th century music across all genres.
Me also!!
In the top 5 or 10. The grand tour is another one.
Technically speaking, "You Never Even Called Me by My Name" is the best/most perfect Country Western song of all time, lol
And this is why I love country music....classic country. It has so much meaning.
RIP George.
@@finallythere100 What TF are you talking about?
I was a musician (fiddler) in Nashville for several years. One time I was outside of the Grand Ole Opry waiting to perform at the CMA Awards. I was killing time and practicing my fiddle. I finished playing a tune and behind me I heard, “Careful, son. You’re gonna hurt yourself fiddlin’ like that.” Turned around and it was George Jones! A few years later he passed away and I attended his funeral service at that same location - The Grand Ole Opry.
I remember crying when I heard of George Jones’ passing and I remember watching his funeral service on T.V.
Mr. Boyd, your reaction is the same reaction everyone who first heard that song has. Profoundly sad song and Mr. Jones sang the hell out of it. Thanks for the memory, and yeah, I heard it when it first came out...as you say, "a long, long time ago." 😆
Tugs at your heartstrings eh brother? That was George Jones.
WOW.....
Backup fiddler, here. The man is legendary. Took my bride to watch him live on our honeymoon. 😂. Only notable live concert I've ever seen.
That's REAL country music my friend, it tells a story, country music as I knew as I grew up with is gone. This song pulls at your heart strings.
Teresa, I grew up listening to all the greats of country music. And Geroge Jones was definitely one of the greatest story tellers of all time... God bless you George.
So true! I just watched Loretta Lynn sing to Doo, her husband. The Foundation! I certainly was crying
Modern country is mostly trash….
George, the greatest!
Anyone who thinks that real country doesnt exist or if country is something dumb. Then you need to take a hard look at your life cause you are heartless and cant listen to the words. Alot of ppl talk crap about country. But when the world ends all them idiots are gonna depend on us to save there butts
This is the saddest song ever made- and sung so beautifully. George Jones is a legend! RIP
The saddest song ever made? Then I guess you haven't heard Elvis Presley's 1956 track, "Old Shep". Give it a listen, April. And have a box of tissues ready. You're gonna need 'em.
Yes! I’m 90! I cried the first time that I heard it & ever since!!! Although some of us don’t have to die to stop loving - nevertheless, this song is a masterpiece & only George can chill your soul with that sad, sad voice!!!
Whisky Lullaby is pretty sad too.
I dunno. "You were always on my mind" is dang high up there.
I'm German. Never heard C/W before. My American husband introduced me to this kind of music. I didn't speak English, but the first song I heard was He stopped Loving her today, by George Jones. Didn't know what he was singing about, but his voice touched me deeply and brought tears to my eyes. After I understood the words, it became my favorite song. I have heard these song so many times now and every time I start sobbing. It touched my heart and soul so deeply. I will never forget the first time I heard it. This song breaks my heart. My husband is deceased now for 14 years and I never looked at another man. He was my soul mate and will be till I join him in the afterlife. Can't wait till I see him again. MrLboyed you have a beautiful sounding voice. You ought to be an announcer on the news or a talk show. Love listening to your awesome voice.
Ihren Englisch ist gut! haben sie eine schones wochen ende!
@@Joemama-km9np Thank you. Till this day, I have trouble with writing. Americans use letters you don't hear. In Germany every letter is pronounced. Take the word knife. You don't speak the k. It's silent. Why use it? Why not just write nife? Of course the e is silent too. Ich habe immer ein nettes Wochenende. Das ist Familian Tag. Meine 2 kinder und mein Enkelsohn verbringing das Wochende mit mir. Das ist immer schoen. Ich hoffe Ihr Wochenende ist auch schoen. Greetings from Texas.
God bless you!
@@mikeosborne1070 Thank you Mike Osborne. May God bless you also.
@@gigih.hammer306 Haha!!! We native English-speakers often wonder the same thing about our spellings! English has "borrowed" words from other languages which sometimes have these bizarre spellings. I watched a PBS program recently about William Shakespeare--they found a transcript of a play he personally wrote and it was full of misspellings . . . and sometimes he spelled the same word in the same sentence "two different ways!" 😄
All these decades later, I still love this song...
You’re one of the few reactors who has comprehended the song correctly.
I agree....it just frustrates the hell out of me when someone does not get it....and then tries to dissect the meaning of the song. I know MrLboyd would not disappoint....lol
Tell me please!!!
@@RebeccaPaige Sounded right to me.
@@RebeccaPaige Yes, we know.
@@RebeccaPaige that is not true either. She came to his funeral. It is simply about a man who couldn't get over an ex. People are overthinking it.
This is what music is supposed to do to us. If you don’t feel anything when you here this, something is wrong with you. I’m glad you finally found this song.
Amen.
The song was released in 1980. George Jones was a master at making the listener feel what he was putting down. Jones himself was a deeply emotional man, so much so that he used drugs and alcohol (of EPIC proportions) to shut out the hurt inside. When George sang, you believed whatever he sang about, because he himself felt the feelings that he was singing about.
One episode of his in particular is forever memorialized in the Vince Gill song “One More Last Chance”
One of my favorite George Jones’ songs is “Who’s going to fill their shoes”? (and none of the new country artists could even come close) I really miss the “old country” even the crying in my beer songs of the good old days.
Memories of my childhood. It was such a great time to grow up.
You are absolutely right,great man
And yet, the irony of this song is that he thought it was terrible when he cut it! God Bless George Jones.
Nothing makes a beer more palatable than a good George Jones song. The ol' possum is a masterful storyteller and he plays your heartstrings like a guitar.
The moment when he sang "Soon they'll Carry him away" and YOU realized WHAT it meant, now THAT is why those of us that KNOW the song are watching "Reaction" videos. PURE, GENUINE, REACTION. 😎
I used to call this song a Shakespeare tragedy in four minutes. The beginning of the song paints the story of a breakup that wasn't over anything in particular. There's no anger on her part, and he starts by saying I'll love you til I die. And he does. It is musical storytelling at its finest.
Thank you for catching that!! You won’t find a bad George Jones song, he is truly a LEGEND in country music.
Your reaction was priceless. Once you realized what had happened, your whole concept of what you thought the song was talking about, did a 180. This song never fails to make my eyes start sweating.
I had the same reaction when I heard it the first time.
Nothing missing in this story. He loved her with all his heart. ❤
I love the fact that this song confused you & at the same time grabbed at your heart strings! Sir, that right there is what real Country music can do. Never forget this one old saying about how Country music is written: "Three chords & the truth" 🤗
Yes!
THE. GREATEST. SINGER. EVER. There's so many songs from George that will tear your heart out. When he was healthy, and at his best, nobody else could touch him. And he's still better than most when he's drunk or not on point. Legend
The Possum! Had tickets just prior to him passing and last concert. He said he got us good with that one! Went to the event over 100 folks from country to rock every venue there. Tennessee, Airborne, US Army here HOOAH!!!
I'm bawling...I know a man like George and why he chose a TAMMY...it is CRAZY LOVE. IM FULLY IN IT.
When he has the perfect little buzz he was the best ever period. The man who wrote is an old friend from Auburndale fl. Bobby Braddock.
Brother your reaction at the 4:15 mark is priceless and that was the emotion he was trying to generate with this song, when you realize why he stopped loving her today, one of the best all time in my opinion
Every true country music fan knows this song and I just waited until you realized why he stopped loving her. Such a sad song sung so eloquently with such a great voice.
That is why this is one of, if not the best country songs of all time!
This song is the best country song of all time. It help many heartbreaks heal.
that moment when you realized he'd passed. Priceless. From that moment forward it goes from being a heavy song to a heartbreaking ode to love lost.
I was on my way to a camping trip when I heard George had died. His music had a way of transcending genre. We toasted him with bourbon that night. Rednecks, hippies, bankers, and waitresses all raised a glass.
He'll yeah.
I have an uncle who was just diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. This song will be in my memorial to him. He only loved one woman his whole life. They got married 3 times and divorced 3 times. This song has always reminded me of the two of them. She loved him too, but they just couldn’t live together and make it work.
That moment he realized the protagonist died....I love that expression. It shows how great this song is that it wasn't obvious that the reason 'he stopped loving her today' was because he died.
That’s why this is one of the most beautiful love songs of all time, he died still loving her!
This is one of the greatest country songs of all time.
I see the message of this song as an idea that I believe humanity has lost. It’s still within us all, but unfortunately most don’t value. The idea that anyone one of us can follow through on a commitment we make no matter what length of time that commitment is.
I've listened to this one my whole life, was a fave of my parents. And it still is a punch in the gut. Can you imagine being loved that much?
Where I come from, it's called, "stalking". 😆
@@elizabethy3909 I don't think that means what you think it means. In the song he pines for her. Never talks about calling her, watching her or any of that?
@@kareeb6080 My husband loved me that way. He died over 14 years ago. and I still love him and will forever. Never will I love again.
Yes, I can't imagine how so many ppl stay guarded or too self-obsessed to give their time learning about someone at letting them into your heart. Love doesn't fade, many claim to love but become spiteful--that is NOT love. Love is giving your trust, faith & while heart to someone. I can't imagine life without my husband.
Nope, I can't.
This song was voted song of the decade in the 80's
It still gives me chills
I always thought he felt this way about Tammy Wynette & I think a lot of others did too I thought Alan Jackson singing this at George's funeral was appropriate
Whiskey Lullaby by Brad Pasley & Allison Kraus is another sad love you til I die song
Barbara Allen by emmylou Harris also another one.
More than appropriate it was a masterpiece when Jackson paid homage
Amanda-by Waylon Jennings is another tear jerker by an all-time great.
This is it man, the good stuff. This song sung by this singer is the quintessential country song above all others. George Jones had a velvet voice and controlled so well. When you’ve heard a thousand different country songs, some of them extremely good by hundreds of different singers, this one by this singer effortlessly rises to the top. Almost equally good, is another George Jones song called The Grand Tour.
We played this song at my Daddys funeral 8/22. Everytime i heard this song it brought me to tears. This is the 1st time ive been able to listen to this song since he passed. Daddy raised us on good honkey tonk music.
I've edited this so many times because it's my favorite reaction video. Sir, my favorite part is when you realize what the song is all about. Thank you for reacting and enjoying❤
The Grand Tour is another really emotional song from George. Aaron Neville does a cover that is very good.
Tony Jackson has such a beautiful cover of “The Grand Tour”, which to me is even sadder than this song. If you like George, check out Tony on UA-cam!
@@elizabethsagharichi8743 love Tony Jackson.
One of my very favorite country songs. It’s about true love, but they can’t be together…much like George and Tammy. It’s hard to not weep listening to it. ❤
This song was written about my deceased husband's parent's. Phillips Lamar Jones and Helen Faye Barge. He loved her so much and she loved him as well. The love letter's dated in 1962 the year my deceased husband Herman Lamar was born.
It's beautiful ❤️ thank you for sharing that. On the way to plum ridge from kountze my Mom would always point to a property and say that's where George Jones lives. I don't know if it's true but we would listen to this song when we did.
The song was by my hometown friend Bobby Braddock. Auburndale, Fl proud. His best friend was my next door neighbor and pal Bill Chislom RIP.
I will ALWAYS LOVE THIS MAN!!! BEST COUNTRY ARTIST OF ALL TIME BABY!!!!
I still get goosebumps listening to parts of that song, even though I first heard it a little over 30 years ago. So sad, but still one of my favorites!
The first line of the song I get goosebumps.
considered by many, to be the greatest country song ever written
Cant argue that
Hands down the best country song ever written or recorded
George Jones is my all-time favorite singer. His tone was incredible and his story telling was second to none!
"They placed a wreath apon his door" chocks me up everytime I hear this song ❤
@@billwalker7556 apon and upon have the same meaning,
@@billwalker7556 I'm not embarrassed, and you were the one insisting on correcting someone else's post. I called you out because you were wrong with your correcting
@@billwalker7556 like I said you are the only person who doesn't get it
@@billwalker7556 apin has the same meaning,,,or don't you understand
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First time I heard this song many many years ago, when I realized the man died, I was in tears. The best country song of all time IMO and every time I hear it I get chills. George just tell this story, through his song, so well.
Alan Jackson performed this song at George's funeral was a real tear jerker
This is such a classic. If you want another George Jones i suggest "The One I Loved Back Then (The Corvette Song)". It's such a fun song. Love it!
Yes it is
Can't go bad with a George strait song either 🙂
Good year for the Roses always makes me tear up!
that was my favorite song by him when I was growing up, I thought it was so hilarious.
Never heard a bad Jones song "its t
It’s wonderful to see a young man discover a classic song. Makes me feel good. Kudos to you Sir.
This song always makes me think of my wife’s dad. He and her mom had been divorced for thirty years but he held a flame for her till the day he died
My favorite song by George!!
The greatest voice in country music.
Some of the best nights I can remember we're watching my dad singing Jones and haggard songs on karaoke nights at the bars around north Florida.
This was one of my very unsentimental dad's favorite songs, but I didn't realize until after he died of leukemia in 1989 that it was because that's how he felt about my mom - till death do you part. She kept loving him and being his wife until she died of pneumonia in 2015, and then they were together again forever.
I remember the first time I heard this song I was driving home from work and I just started to cry so much that I had to pull over. Still gets me every time
I heard this song so many times growing up. George Jones was a particular favorite of my Dad's and this song, the story telling in it, is amazing. Recently I realized how much this mirrored my own parents, unfortunately cancer took my mom away, but my dad loved her till his dying breath. Thank you for reacting to it 🙂
No one could stir your heart like George…
I’m 70 and grew up in country music, my father was leader of a popular country band from 1948 to 19 67, my brothers also for 10 years. George Jones is an ICON in the country music world, a musical vocal with gut feelings. Listen to his song “ The Chrystal Chandelier “ amazing career forever loved.
IMO this is the greatest Country song. I have to listen to it anytime I run across it. Absolutely makes me feel it.
George married Tammy Wynette (mentioned in the early part of the clip) in 1969 and they divorced in 1975. George released this song in 1980. George did move on and did remarry. I think this song was about how he felt at that time and he was projecting out to the end of his life. But the magic of Tammy & George is only matched by Stevie & Lindsey. The sheer chemistry is magical!
My ex husband deacated this song to me
My name is Jaylene not Patricia B. the song was deacated to me by ex husband
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Fun fact George wouldn't record the song until they added more to it so he added the last part of her going to the funeral. A classic. RIP Jones!
Another classic George Jones tear jerker
Rip Mr Jones. One of the best
Yep if you don't pay attention to the very first line in the song "He said I'll love you till I die" the meaning of the chorus almost slips by you it takes a minute for people to realize the magnitude of what he said.
One of the best country songs ever. After he finished recording the song he said, “this is the saddest song I’ve ever heard”. If you want to really get into their story, and when I say they, I’m talking about George and Tammy, you should watch the series by the same name on Showtime or Paramount. Their lives together seemed to be written in the songs they recorded before they were together and most certainly after they were married and sadly divorced. They were the original “power couple” in country music. When you understand their story, and you listen to other songs by George, like The Race Is On, it brings a whole new meaning and context to a song he recorded before they were ever together. Stand By Your Man was recorded by Tammy in 1969, the year they were married. I could go on, and on. Check it out. Subscribed to your channel now so I can follow your other videos on George.
I so appreciate your attention to this classic song. Nobody sings the sad songs like George. My paternal grandparents divorced when my dad was a young teenager. He and his sisters always felt my grandfather always loved my grandmother. The day my grandfather died my dad said "he stopped loving her today". I appreciate your reaction.
Brother, this is an incredible song. This is country music!!
The best country song ever written. But the look on your face when it hit you!!
The reaction on your face when the situation hit you was everything. Great reaction video to a great song.
I love George. A voice made for Country. The first line "He said I'll love you till I die" and the title "He Stopped Loving Her Today" give it up immediately. One of my favorite songs of all time.
I grew up as a metal fan but around 2000 I took my father in law to see George Jones and I have to say he put on a great show..
My parents were married in '79, my mom moved out to be with another guy in '90, and they divorced in '95. She married several times, he never did. This was his chosen song he wanted played at his funeral. My mom passed in '20, and my dad just passed in August '22. We found old letters and photos. This song fully sounds just like my dad's story.
The very first line in the song says it all. He said "I'll love you 'til I die".
One of my favorite songs of all time. Mr. Jones was an incredible artist. But yes, the crux of the story is that he loved her until the day he died. If he had moved on or not was a moot point, because if he did or not, he still loved her.
I remember when He stopped loving her today came out in 1980 and it immediately became a huge hit, My Mother who is a huge George Jones fan loves this song, She called me the day George Jones passed in '13 very upset. George Jones was iconic.
He meant it when he say " he will love her until he died", another classic song from George Jones is " Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes" you have to check out the official music video for that one .
George Jones ... considered one of the greatest..if not the greatest in country music...
TIP : when u listen to these "old ones" ..meaning the old country songs...u can't listen with a "modern" view point..or with the standard for how things are these days..I have to listen how they lived back then..see there was a time when when people fell in love they stayed in love... Until her last days... They travel this life through all the hardships trials and ups and downs imaginable together..when u loved someone it was with everything inside of u...right down In ur soul and bones...
Not saying that peeps don't love these days...jus saying it's different.. seems a lot easier for peeps to discard things ..so u really have got to listen to these old songs in a different kind of way..
The relationship he is talking about in the song was by no means one that a person could move on from in just a lil while...they were together for a long time...but there was "that thing" she had stood by him through..asked him to "change" mabey.. an she reached that point that she had to go...it hurt her as much as it did him ...and so he died loving her..and she came to see him one last time because she still in her heart still loved him...that's how I've always thought about it anyways..🙂
Your face..the moment u "got it" ...I smiled so big..was a great reaction..💜🙏🏻
Don't ya just love it
My favorite george jones song
He led a fascinating life
This is old school country at its finest and is generally considered the greatest country song of all time. If you haven’t yet check out Brad paisley “whiskey lullaby”. A few more of Georgie’s classics are “a picture of me without out you”, still doing time and bartender blues
this song came out at the perfect time for George Jones. He and Tammy wynette had divorced and he had been struggling with alcoholism, which resulted in him missing shows, and The grand tour album was a great way to come back. He didn't write this song but he was in a situation that made it work better than it would have with any other singer.
My grandparents played this on the way to the grocery store an hour away and discussed the sadness of it. They were married 60 + years when my grandfather passed in 2002. She joined him just last year❤ I’ll forever be 10 years old trying to understand the concept of death in adult relationships via George in my grandparents car when this song plays 💫
I seen him in Lafayette. He didn't show up. The owner of the bar hunted him down and found him in a bar. He was quite drunk, but he performed without a hitch. Even drunk, his performant was very professional. I walked to the front of the stage to get a better look at him. He seen me and winked at me.
You are first reaction video I have seen that immediately caught on that he had passed away. The emotion you felt is one of the reasons this is considered by most true country fans to be the #1 country song of all time. George Jones was a legend. One of my favorites is “If Drinkin’ Don’t Kill Me Her Memory Will”.
I clicked on this video for the best country song ever written (the year was 1980) and your commentary just made my day. The expression on your face when you realized WHY he stopped loving her today 😂 priceless. You didn’t really think a happy ending was coming? Lol if you really want to cry, listen to whiskey lullaby
I finally went to a George Jones concert just a few years before he passed away. At the very first riff of the guitar, the whole audience was on its feet. We knew what song he was about to do! Isn't it a tear-jerker? RIP Mr. Jones. Another song, I think it's underrated, is Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes.
Yes we just played Who's going to fill their shoes tonight after my dad left my brothers new year's eve party at 10 pm because he had in so much back pain. Hes such a proud strong man and it took 2 grown men to practically carry my dad out to the car. I bawled like a baby watching that. Hes 76 years old. He grew up on the Michigan State Experiment Station in the U.P. of Michigan and worked there until he graduated from high school, went down state to work at GM, worked at the Apache Ranch as a ranch hand while working a 2nd job taking care of horses for someone else, did over the road trucking for 20 years hauling steel until his health issues made him not pass a cdl physical (his semi rolled partially over him while he was under it for maintenance). I know too much info but to me and my brother he is our hero. We are 53 and 50 years old. Who's going to fill his shoes after he's gone...absolutely no one and I'll probably be in a straight jacket because i won't be able to handle it. Everything he did in his life since day he married my mom right out of high school was for his family.
Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes is amazing! It's been 10 years this April since Mr. Jones passed and I STILL cannot listen to that song without totally breaking down. It's like he was singing about himself without ever crediting himself for being that well-known and well-liked, but that's no shock considering who it was coming from. He was one of the few stars that never really considered themselves to be that great.
Also, 50,000 names on the Wall.
This song always breaks my heart everytime. Exactly how I feel about my old girl. Lboyd reaction is always so great
Pure, unadulterated vulnerability. Loved watching his facial reactions. We don't see much if this now. Everyone is so jaded. Our hearts are hard and digital compared to before the internet.
One of the best country songs ever written, actually not even country it's just one of the songs ever .
THAT is a song that will get the chill bumps going. Beautiful
Quintessential county song. Best one ever written and no one can ever sing it the way The Possum does. The emotion he evokes from the listener, he was worried it was too sappy. No George, it's the best country music song ever written, period. A lot of others come close but still can't touch this, and I honestly don't think anyone could ever surpass it. It's one of those songs that should never be covered.
Love your reaction to this song. Awesome!!
Man, I remember being very very young and hearing my grandfather sing this. Beautiful and incredibly sad song!
He always sang songs from his heart and touched his fans......
George Jones was a country music icon. His first big hit was White Lightning. He performed from the early 1950's until his death in 2013. Golden Ring, Two Story House, The Race is On, Still Doin' Time, If Drinkin' Don't Kill Me, and I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair, are a few of his hits. I saw him in concert in the late 1990s and he was fantastic.
You stumbled across an amazing song we all love. RIP. George
George Jones knew how to tell a story in his songs, particularly the ones that appeared to be so significantly close to his own life. I’m very much enjoying the special on now of George and Tammy. I saw him once years ago in Dallas and I wore out her cassette playing them over and over in high school. Two of the greats…
He made it his song. It was written By Bobby Braddock and Curly Putman. 2 of the greatest songwriters ever.
I seen George Jones a day before my birthday 1 year before he died in my home town where I was born raised and still live today. It was one of the best birthday presents a guy could ask for. He could hardly sing by then though, it was my very first concert so I figured his voice was just giving out from singing so much. I didnt realize how ill he was. Seeing him right there in the flesh, a man I would listen to for hours at a time throughout the week, right in front of me. Its a unique fascinating feeling.
My favorite George Jones song. Beautiful.
Such a beautiful song. If this is truly your first time hearing this, I am seriously jealous. I still get chills bro.
That's EXACTLY what I was thinking! LOL