The Race Is On

"The Race Is On" is a song written by country music artist George Jones and Don Rollins and made a hit by George Jones. It was the first single released from his 1965 album of the same name. Released as a single in September 1964, it peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart and at number 96 on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1965. The song uses thoroughbred horse racing as the metaphor for the singer's romantic relationships.

George Jones version

Jones had recorded "The Race Is On" in June 1963 but it was not released until September 1964 on the album I Get Lonely in a Hurry. The single galloped to #3 on the Billboard country chart. It also climbed to number 96 on the pop charts, a rarity for a Jones single, and United Artists capitalized on its success by making it the title of his next 1965 LP. According to the Bob Allen book George Jones: The Life and Times of a Honky Tonk Legend, Don Rollins wrote the song one day after visiting the Turf Paradise Race Track in Phoenix, Arizona. Allen observes:

The Race Is On (album)

The Race Is On is an album by George Jones, released on United Artists in 1965.

The title track had been recorded in June 1963 but was not released until September 1964 on the album I Get Lonely in a Hurry and the single galloped to number 3 on the Billboard country chart. It also climbed to number 96 on the pop charts, a rarity for a Jones single, and United Artists capitalized on its success by making it the title of this 1965 release. Jones almost always played it live in concert. In the 1994 retrospective Golden Hits, Jones recalled that Dewey Groom first played him the song in his office at the Longhorn Ballroom in Dallas. Jones was unimpressed with all the demo tapes Groom played for him and had started to leave when Groom played the Rollins song; Jones heard the opening line and exclaimed, "I'll take it!" The album also includes the first recording of "She's Mine," which Jones would rerecord and release as a single on Musicor in 1969, scoring another Top 10 hit.

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The Race (Wiz Khalifa song)

"The Race" is a song by American rapper Wiz Khalifa from his third studio album Rolling Papers. The song was written by Khalifa and produced by Eric Dan and Jeremy "Big Jerm" Kulousek for ID Labs. "The Race" was released as a digital single from Rolling Papers on March 8, 2011, and debuted and peaked at number 66 on the Billboard Hot 100 afterwards.

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The Race (TV series)

The Race was a reality game show broadcast on Sky One in the UK from 6 to 12 November 2006, hosted by Denise van Outen.

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The show pitted two teams of celebrities (one all-male, one all-female) against one another; each led by a professional Formula One racing driver in a battle of the sexes.

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The Boys (team captain Eddie Irvine):

The Girls (team captain David Coulthard):

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