Ace in the Hole made a few records for the independent Dallas-based label D in the late '70s, but they never went anywhere. Toward the end of the decade, Strait attempted to carve out a niche in Nashville, but he failed since he lacked any strong connections. In 1979, he became friends with Erv Woolsey, a Texas club owner who had formerly worked for MCA Records. Woolsey had several MCA executives come down to Texas to hear Strait. His performance convinced the company to sign him in 1980. "Unwound," Strait's first single, was released in the spring of 1981 and climbed into the Top Ten. The follow-up, "Down and Out," stalled at 16, but "If You're Thinking You Want a Stranger (There's One Coming Home)" reached number three in early 1982. The
George has come out with a total of 45 albums. Many of them were just his top hits and did not have any new content. George’s first album was released in 1981 and was called Strait Country. On the album he had one number one called Unwound and thats when George’s success started to grow (Schrute, D). He had multiple number one albums in the 80’s including Strait from the Heart, Does Fort Worth Ever Cross your Mind, Something Special, Ocean Front Property, and Beyond the Blue Neon. Also, George was named Entertainer of the Year in 1989 and 1990. He continued to have great success in the 90’s with three albums that also were number ones. Then in the 2000s George released 4 new albums that have had multiple number ones. In all George has had three Entertainer of the Year awards, 60 number one hits, and multiple platinum records (Schrute, D). He has been the most successful country singer of all time and has continued to have great success throughout his later
Strait says that his father, John, help him keep his faith through the rough times and that he would not be the man he is today without him (West). Having a famous uncle can be tricky because either no one believes it is true or they ask if he gives special treatment. The truth is I have never met him before, he has let the feud with part of his family get in the way of meeting the rest of them, maybe it will happen one day. It is still pretty cool to be related to a famous person, my mother says that George and I share the talent of music. He is one of the biggest country stars in America. Known as the “King of Country”, George has sold more than 65 million albums with nearly 50 number 1 hits and has performed in front of 104,000 plus people
In 1989 Hank Williams Jr won the Best Country Collaboration with Vocals with the song “There’s a tear in my beer.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM8tROzp4Dc This youtube link is to the music video of there is a Tear In My beer, one of his most famous songs.
While the liberal experienced emotional changes amid the 1970s, the Communist agreement experienced reduced rates of development yet not the sorts of amazing economic rebuilding that happened in the West. These improvements in the 1970s suggested the Cold War's determination in the 1980s. Arranged in similar connection, the changes of the liberal world economy during the 1970s uncovered – an in a few ways improved – the relative backwardness of the Soviet Union's charge economy, with final outcomes for the truth of the Communist administration. Universal fiscal change, in this view, encouraged the ideological and geopolitical improvements that would take the Cold War.
There are many discontinuities and continuities between 1930-1950 and 1950-1980 so this is very difficult to determine to whether continuities or discontinuities are more important between these periods. Noting that one might easily argue otherwise, I would like to claim that the discontinuities outweigh the continuities between these two periods for several reasons. First of all, despite some similarities in the protectionism, the DP government followed a more agriculture-oriented and liberal economic policy than that of the RPP governments of 1930s. On the other hand, although the main economic policy followed in 1930s governments and governments between 1960-1980 was import substituting industrialization, while the former one followed the
Since I was raised in a small, country town in Oklahoma I definitely heard my fair share of country music. For the most part I wasn’t a fan of mainstream country music because it all sounded very similar, in my opinion. I found Blue Grass music or more Folk inspired country music to be more interesting. But when I was offered the opportunity to attend a Jason Aldean concert with a few friends this semester I didn’t want to miss out. I knew what to expect going to a Jason Aldean concert and that was a lot of boots and a lot of pearl snaps, and I was definitely correct. Jason was in Oklahoma on February 5th for his “We Were Here” tour. I had never been to a country music concert before and was looking forward to the new experience.
One reason George Strait should win is that he has a great deal of hit songs. He has sixty number one hits, more than any other performer in history. The closest runner up is Conway Twitty, with forty hit songs. George Strait continues to hold his record, and no one has broke it. [texasmonthly.com]
Even though Hank was pushed/encourages to become a country music performer, he enjoys what he does. In result, he is one of the most well known “rock” country singer. He has several top hits and many awards. Some awards include 4 emmys, 10 #1 singles, 13 #1 albums, 20 gold albums, and 6 platinums. Also, he won a grammy award for best album/track “There’s a tear in My Beer”, which was released in 2002.
In 1962, Cooke issued Twistin' the Night Away, a somewhat belated "twist" album that became one of his biggest-selling LPs. He didn't really hit his stride as an LP artist; however, until 1963 with the release of Night Beat, a moody assembly of blues-oriented songs that were among the best and most challenging numbers that Cooke had recorded up to that time. By the time of its release, he was mostly identified through his singles, which were among the
He’s released at least one single a year for every year since the beginning of his career. The first single released in 1981, called “Unwound”, is one of the top ten hot country (Taste of Country ). Strait out of the box (1995) is his highest certified multi-platinum album, which has sold more than 5 Million copies. Some noteworthy number one hits include Give it away, I saw God Today, Heartland, I Cross My Heart, I Hate Everything, Right or Wrong, The Chair, I am Blue, Baby Blue, Ace in the Hole, Love Without End, Amen, Carried Away, and Run. (Spong). Therefore in his life George had many number one hits and albums, no wonder he’s considered to be
Chris Stapleton released his debut album, Traveller, in the Spring of 2015. This album is characterized by what I would describe as a traditional country feel, but with a slightly more modern sound, or to be more technical, a country rock meets blues album. This record, and Chris Stapleton himself, went relatively unnoticed by the general public after initial release. It was not until the 2015 CMA awards when Stapleton performed “Tennessee Whiskey” with Justin Timberlake that his album truly took off (Welch). Since then, songs from Traveller can frequently be heard on national country radio stations, as well as on tour, a show I will be attending in May.
George Strait is one of my most favorite country artist next to the legend...Johnny Cash. George Harvey Strait is an American country music singer, songwriter, actor, and music producer. He is known as the “King of Country” and is considered one of the most influential and popular recording artists of all time.
George Harvey Strait was born and bred in the Texas cowboy tradition. He came into the world on May 18, 1952 in Poteet, Texas (“Strait Facts”) and was raised in nearby Pearsall, TX on his family's working cattle ranch, a legacy in the family for over 100 years. His childhood was spent working with his father and brother on their farm, and he carried on the ranching tradition by studying agriculture at Texas State University (Dickinson). In 1971, he married his wife, Norma, and shortly after enlisted in the United States Army.
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The Stranger Billy Joel is an accomplished singer-songwriter and pianist. He was born in Brooklyn where he started reluctantly taking piano lessons and soon fell in love with the instrument. He rose to early fame but didn’t make it big until releasing his fifth studio album entitled, The Stranger. The album included such hits as: “Movin’ Out”, “She’s Always a Woman”, and one of Billy Joel’s favorite songs, “Vienna”. Vienna was written arguably after Joel went to visit his divorced dad in Vienna and learned a powerful life lesson.