The song “Golden Ring” was a song made famous by country music George Jones and Tammy Wynette. The song was originally released in 1976 and was the No. 1 hit on Billboard country charts.
Bobby Braddock and Rafe Vanhoy wrote the duet song about a golden wedding ring that has seen a couple through love, marriage, and divorce before it ends up back in the pawnshop where it was first found. Songwriter Bobby Braddock was inspired by a drama about the life of a handgun that followed the lives of its various owners and applied the idea to this song.
George Jones and Tammy Wynette knew the story of this song very well—they divorced fourteen months before it’s the song’s release in 1976. They re-recorded the song in 1994 for George Jones album ‘The Bradley Barn Sessions’.
This song was the second of Jones and Wynette duet that topped the Billboard Hot Country Singles Chart. The first was “We’re Gonna Hold ON” in 1973 and the Last was “Near You” in 1977.
In 2014, Jamie O’Neal and Andy Griggs covered this song for O’Neal’s album ‘Eternal’. “I just really wanted to get him on the album, and it seemed like the perfect song for us to sing together, and he’s just so good. I think it really suits his voice. It’s weird because we didn’t even record it together at the same time, but we sing it live together on stage. I was here when he recorded it, but I just think that we kind of know what each other are going to do vocally, if that makes sense, like it’s an instinct. So I think our voices really mesh well together,” O’Neal said.
Other versions include duets by Jason Sellers and Pam Tillis (for Sellers’ 1998 album, A Matter of Time and Ashton Shepherd and Daryle Singletary (for Shepherd’s 2013 album, This Is America).
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