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<h1>I Think She Died In Childbirth, Plausible....</h1><h1><br></h1><h1>The Grand Tour (song)</h1><p>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Tour_(song)#mw-head" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jump to navigation</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Tour_(song)#searchInput" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jump to search</a><strong>"The Grand Tour"</strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_(music)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Single</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Jones" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">George Jones</a>from the album <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Tour_(album)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>The Grand Tour</em></a>ReleasedMay <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974_in_country_music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">1974</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">U.S.</a>)RecordedJanuary 22, 1974<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_genre" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Genre</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Country</a>Length3:06<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_label" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Label</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Records" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Epic</a> 33352<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songwriter" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Songwriter(s)</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norro_Wilson" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Norro Wilson</a>, Carmol Taylor, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Richey" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">George Richey</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_producer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Producer(s)</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Sherrill" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Billy Sherrill</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Jones" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">George Jones</a> singles chronology "Once You've Had the Best"</p><p>(1973) "<strong>The Grand Tour</strong>"</p><p>(1974) "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Door_(George_Jones_song)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Door</a>"</p><p>(1974) <strong>"The Grand Tour"</strong> is a song made famous by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">country music</a> singer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Jones" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">George Jones</a>. Originally released in 1974, the song was the title track to his album released that year. The song became Jones' sixth No. 1 song (fifth if only solo entries are considered) on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Billboard</em></a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Country_Songs" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hot Country Singles</a> chart in August 1974, and was the fourth-biggest hit of the year.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Tour_(song)#cite_note-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[1]</a> In 2014, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Stone" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Rolling Stone</em></a> named the song number 38 on its "40 Saddest Country Songs of All Time".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Tour_(song)#cite_note-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[2]</a></p><h2>Contents</h2><h2>Recording and composition</h2><p>The song is widely hailed as one of the finest performances in country music history. Genre historian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_C._Malone" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bill C. Malone</a>, in his liner notes for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Country_Music:_A_Smithsonian_Collection" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Classic Country Music: A Smithsonian Collection</em></a>, called it a "perfect matching of lyrics and performance" and "one of the great modern songs of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divorce" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">divorce</a>". Throughout the song, the lyrics mix the singer's tour of a home that once held many personal, private, and happy memories ("Step right up, come on in ...") with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreshadowing" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">foreshadowing</a> to set the final stop on the stroll—one of the nursery, where the singer's wife "left me without mercy, taking nothing but her baby and my heart". Prior to the clinching end scene, the singer stops at various pieces of furniture, such as an easy chair and their marital bed, to reflect on fond memories of better times. Malone wrote that "the graphic imagery permits the listener to see both the inside of the abandoned home where love has died and the interior of the narrator's mind."</p><p>Songwriter Norro Wilson reflected on the success of "The Grand Tour" in <em>The Billboard Book of Number One Country Hits</em>: "As I recall, when George cut that song, it was the most talked-about record he'd had in an awfully long time...'The Grand Tour' is one of my proudest moments." As recounted in Rich Kienzle's 2016 Jones biography <em>The Grand Tour</em>, Wilson arrived at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Ole_Opry" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grand Ole Opry</a> around the time of the record's release and "No sooner I walked in the door everybody come runnin' up to me and said, 'Jesus <em>Christ</em>! Have you got a <em>monster</em> on your hands!'...And man, I went ballistic! Everybody I ran across that night said, 'That's just gonna be a monster.' It was a really, really, really good record."</p><p>As Jones biographer Bob Allen noted in 1983, the cut was the "eureka moment" for producer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Sherrill" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Billy Sherrill</a>: "After several years of trial and error, Sherrill was also learning how to coax rich, low-register textures out of George's powerful voice and meld them, ever more effectively, with his own heavy-handed 'Sherrillized' production style."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Tour_(song)#cite_note-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[3]</a> Jones had not scored a #1 hit on the country charts since 1967's "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk_Through_This_World_with_Me_(song)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Walk Through This World with Me</a>", although he had reached the top of the charts with "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%27re_Gonna_Hold_On_(song)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">We're Gonna Hold On</a>", a duet with his wife <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammy_Wynette" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tammy Wynette</a>.</p><h2><br></h2><h2><br></h2><h2><br></h2><h2><br></h2><p><br></p>