CR019/PH05 - Wandering Soul: George Jones, Starday Recording Artist
Cocaine & Rhinestones: The History of Country Music
Tyler Mahan Coe
4.8 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2021
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
There are some personalities who would embrace being called The Greatest Country Singer Ever or, at least, settle into the role once it became clear the brand was eternal. George Jones did not have one of those personalities. The fame and fortune generated by his talent made him want to run away, so he spent decades running... toward something even worse than what he was trying to escape.
Was there ever a chance of this story playing out any differently? Probably not, no. But what in the hell even happened here? Our search for answers takes us back to Texas for one Singing Marine's perspective on what it was like when lightning started flashing and thunder started clashing as he took the country music world by storm.
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| 0:00.0 | Most Americans learn everything they know about bullfighting from Ernest Hemingway or Bugs |
| 0:07.6 | Bunny. |
| 0:09.1 | Daffy Duck played at being a madditor in the 1947 cartoon Mexican joyride. |
| 0:25.9 | 1953's bully for Bugs is what everyone remembers. |
| 0:30.2 | One of the most referenced looney tunes ever. |
| 0:32.7 | The one where he misses the left turn at Albuquerque says. |
| 0:51.7 | The story goes Chuck Jones was drawing a bull for some other clip when Eddie Celtser |
| 0:56.5 | head of Warner Bros. cartoons walked through the room, noticed what Chuck was drawing, |
| 1:01.0 | and loudly declared he didn't want to see any cartoons about bull fights because bull |
| 1:05.6 | fights were not funny. |
| 1:07.8 | Since everyone knew Eddie Celtser was always wrong about everything, Chuck and a co-worker |
| 1:12.5 | immediately booked a research trip to Mexico. |
| 1:15.9 | The cheers and booze of the audience in the Finnish cartoon were recorded at an actual |
| 1:21.0 | bullfight, but the realism ends there. |
| 1:24.1 | Not many people would have laughed at a documentary approach. |
| 1:28.1 | See Ernest Hemingway, who first met the bulls in the summer of 1923, right before he |
| 1:33.5 | turned 24 years old. |
| 1:36.4 | Every year, a week before Hemingway's July birthday, the city of Pamplona celebrates |
| 1:40.9 | San Fermín, a nine day festival with eight days of bulls. |
| 1:45.4 | If you've ever seen pictures or videos of a running of the bulls, this is the biggest |
| 1:49.7 | and most famous one. |
| 1:52.1 | Most people who run with the bulls of San Fermín are tourists. |
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