GEORGE JONES' FIRST #1 HIT WAS WRITTEN BY A MAN WHO NEVER LIVED TO HEAR IT REACH THE TOP. BY THE TIME "WHITE LIGHTNING" HIT #1, ITS WRITER HAD BEEN DEAD FOR TWO MONTHS.J.P. Richardson — known to the world as the Big Bopper — wrote the song and gave it to George Jones before boarding a chartered plane on February 3, 1959. That flight crashed in an Iowa cornfield, killing Richardson along with Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens in what became known as "the day the music died." Two months later, the so
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GEORGE JONES' FIRST #1 HIT WAS WRITTEN BY A MAN WHO NEVER LIVED TO HEAR IT REACH THE TOP. BY THE TIME "WHITE LIGHTNING" HIT #1, ITS WRITER HAD
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