But he "had no ideas about trying to write a hit record."
But when we got a hit record all that changed.
"When you first come into show business and get a hit record, it is the start of something", Jones said.
The first hit record to ever mention a baby though?
It has been a decade and a half since the group had its last hit record.
Not bad for a guy who never came close to a hit record when he was alive.
I have a horrible feeling that it's going to be a hit record.
"I cut my first hit record in 1963," he said.
I had to wait more than 13 years - until now - for one of my discoveries to have a hit record.
Tom says every singer wants to have a hit record.
The share price hit a record of $21.17 on Friday.
The number and value of deals hit a new record in 2010.
Pay growth for workers in Britain hit a record low between 2010 and 2011, according to official data last week.
They hit a previous record of €453bn on Tuesday night.
In the same period, existing home sales hit a record.
The federal budget deficit hit a record of $413 billion in 2004.
It last hit a record on January 11, 1973 when the average closed at 1,051.70.
Farmers' cash income hit a record $57.1 billion, nearly 50 percent higher than in 1984.
Last year batters hit a record 4,458, up 17 percent from the 1986 total of 3,813.
Earlier this month, they hit a record of $21.875 a share; even after yesterday's decline, the price is up 20 percent in 1989.