Harold Macmillan improving standard of living; the slogan "Life's Better Under the Conservatives" was matched by Macmillan's own remark, "indeed let us be frank about it—most of our people have never had it so good," usually paraphrased as "You've never had it so good." Such rhetoric reflected a new reality of working-class affluence; it has been argued that "the key factor in the Conservative victory was that average real pay for industrial workers had risen since Churchill's 1951 victory by over 20 per cent". The scale of the victory meant that not only had the Conservatives won three successive general elections, but
We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds only was it my first major session, but it was with George Jones! George had been out roarin' the night before, and nobody even knew where he was until an hour before the session. When he finally showed up, he was in a really good mood, and the whole thing came off really well." "We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds" was Montogmery's first national hit, and the most successful recording from the Jones-Montgomery duet pairing. The song reached No. 3 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles chart in July 1963, and spent 23 weeks in the chart's top