We Can Make It (George Jones song)

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1971 single by George Jones

"We Can Make It"

Single by George Jones
from the album  George Jones (We Can Make It)
B-side| "One of These Days"
Released| 1971
Recorded| 1971
Genre| Country
Length| 2:02
Label| Epic
Songwriter(s)| Glenn Sutton, Billy Sherrill
Producer(s)| Billy Sherrill
George Jones singles chronology
| "I'll Follow You (Up to Our Cloud)"
(1971)  | "We Can Make It"
(1971)  | "Loving You Could Never Be Better"
(1972)

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"We Can Make It" is a song by George Jones. It was his first solo single with Epic Records in 1972 after leaving Musicor.

## Background

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"We Can Make It" was written by Glenn Sutton and Jones' new producer Billy Sherrill. In the liner notes to the 1982 compilation Anniversary - 10 Years of Hits, Sherrill admits that they composed it with Jones's recent marriage to Tammy Wynette specifically in mind, providing the singer with a song that seemed to be speaking to his wife. Both Jones and Sherrill admitted in the 1990 Jones documentary Same Ole Me, they were both extremely nervous, with the latter commenting, "I was scared to death. I was scared of him - he said he was scared of me." Sherrill added that one modification he did make to Jones's style was having him sing in lower keys because he found the vocals on his early records "really, really high, and kind of annoying, to me." "We Can Make It," which made it to #6 on the charts, contained all the hallmarks of the Sherrill sound, including an ascending introduction and his countrypolitan "wall of sound," something Jones was not altogether comfortable with; in 2006 he recalled to Billboard, "He just came up with that sound like he got with Tammy, (singing) "Ba bum ba bum ba bum," build-ups...He tried to do that with me, but I finally had a talk with him. I said, 'Billy, I'm country, I'm traditional, I know you're wanting to cross over with me like you have with Tammy, Charlie Rich and those people, but I'm hardcore and I can't help it. That's what I feel, and I can't do a good job for the label, you or anybody else if I don't feel it myself.'"

## Discography

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Further information: George Jones albums discography and George Jones and Tammy Wynette discography

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George Jones singles

* Albums
* Singles
* Discography with Tammy Wynette
* Awards

1950s|

* "No Money in This Deal"
* "Play It Cool, Man"
* "You All Goodnight"
* "Why Baby Why"
* "What Am I Worth"
* "I'm Ragged But I'm Right"
* "Rock It"
* "You Gotta Be My Baby"
* "Just One More"
* "Don't Stop the Music"
* "Too Much Water"
* "Tall, Tall Trees"
* "Seasons of My Heart"
* "Too Much Water"
* "Treasure of Love"
* "White Lightning"
* "Who Shot Sam"
* "Big Harlan Taylor"

1960s|

* "Accidentally on Purpose"
* "Out of Control"
* "The Window Up Above"
* "Family Bible"
* "Tender Years"
* "Aching, Breaking Heart"
* "She Thinks I Still Care"
* "Open Pit Mine"
* "A Girl I Used to Know"
* "Your Heart Turned Left (And I Was on the Right)"
* "I'll Share My World with You
* "The Race Is On"
* "Love Bug"
* "Take Me"
* "I'm a People"
* "Walk Through This World with Me"
* "I Can't Get There from Here"
* "If My Heart Had Windows"
* "Say It's Not You"
* "Small Time Laboring Man"
* "As Long as I Live"
* "Milwaukee, Here I Come" (with Brenda Carter)
* "When the Grass Grows Over Me"
* "I'll Share My World with You"
* "If Not for You"
* "She's Mine"

1970s|

* "Where Grass Won't Grow"
* "Tell Me My Lying Eyes Are Wrong"
* "A Good Year for the Roses"
* "Sometimes You Just Can't Win"
* "Right Won't Touch a Hand"
* "I'll Follow You (Up to Our Cloud)"
* "We Can Make It"
* "Loving You Could Never Be Better"
* "A Picture of Me (Without You)"
* "What My Woman Can't Do"
* "Nothing Ever Hurt Me (Half as Bad as Losing You)"
* "Once You've Had the Best"
* "The Grand Tour"
* "The Door"
* "These Days (I Barely Get By)"
* "Memories of Us"
* "The Battle"
* "You Always Look Your Best (Here in My Arms)"
* "Her Name Is"
* "Old King Kong"
* "If I Could Put Them All Together (I'd Have You)"
* "Bartender's Blues"
* "I'll Just Take It Out in Love"
* "Someday My Day Will Come"

1980s|

* "He Stopped Loving Her Today"
* "I'm Not Ready Yet"
* "If Drinkin' Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will)"
* "Still Doin' Time"
* "Same Ole Me"
* "Shine On (Shine All Your Sweet Love on Me)"
* "I Always Get Lucky with You"
* "Tennessee Whiskey"
* "You've Still Got a Place in My Heart"
* "She's My Rock"
* "Hallelujah, I Love You So" (with Brenda Lee)
* "Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes" (with Lacy J. Dalton)
* "The One I Loved Back Then (The Corvette Song)"
* "Somebody Wants Me Out of the Way"
* "Wine Colored Roses"
* "The Right Left Hand"
* "I Turn to You"
* "The Bird"
* "I'm a Survivor"
* "The Old Man No One Loves"
* "If I Could Bottle This Up" (with Shelby Lynne)
* "I'm a One Woman Man"
* "The King Is Gone (So Are You)"
* "Writing on the Wall"
* "Radio Lover"

1990s|

* "You Couldn't Get the Picture"
* "I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair"
* "Honky Tonk Song"
* "Choices"

As a collaborative artist|

* "Yearning" (with Jeanette Hicks)
* "Did I Ever Tell You" (with Margie Singleton)
* "Waltz of the Angels" (with Margie Singleton)
* "We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds" (with Melba Montgomery)
* "Let's Invite Them Over" (with Melba Montgomery)
* "Please Be My Love" (with Melba Montgomery)
* "What's in Our Heart" (with Melba Montgomery)
* "Things Have Gone to Pieces" (with Gene Pitney)
* "I've Got Five Dollars and It's Saturday Night" (with Gene Pitney)
* "Blue Moon of Kentucky" (with Melba Montgomery)
* "That's All It Took (with Gene Pitney)
* "Maybellene" (with Johnny Paycheck)
* "You Can Have Her" (with Johnny Paycheck)
* "When You're Ugly Like Us (You Just Naturally Got to Be Cool)" (with Johnny Paycheck)
* "You Better Move On" (with Johnny Paycheck)
* "Yesterday's Wine" (with Merle Haggard)
* "C.C. Waterback" (with Merle Haggard)

As a featured artist|

* "We Didn't See a Thing" (Ray Charles with Chet Atkins and George Jones)
* "A Few Ole Country Boys" (Randy Travis featuring George Jones)
* "You Don't Seem to Miss Me" (Patty Loveless with George Jones)
* "A Country Boy Can Survive (Y2K version)" (Chad Brock featuring George Jones and Hank Williams, Jr.)
* "Country Boy" (Aaron Lewis featuring Charlie Daniels and George Jones)

Promotional singles|

* "Wrong Number"

Other charted songs|

* "Money to Burn"
* "Big Fool of the Year"
* "I Saw Me"
* "What's in Our Heart" (with Melba Montgomery)
* "My Tears Are Overdue"
* "I Just Don't Give a Damn"
* "He Stopped Loving Her Today"

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