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Alabama's main members — Randy Owen, Teddy Gentry, and Jeff Cook — wrote or co-wrote a significant amount of material in their catalogue, which was considered unusual for country musicians at that time. Contributing songwriter Greg Fowler is credited on 72 Alabama songs, followed by Ronnie Rogers at 68.
Source. Rating. Allmusic. [ 1] Greatest Hits is the first compilation album by American country music band Alabama. The album was released by RCA Records in 1986, and has since been certified platinum for sales of 5 million units by the Recording Industry Association of America. [ 2] By the mid-1980s, Alabama had become the most dominant act in ...
Alabama is an American country music band formed in Fort Payne, Alabama, in 1969. The band was founded by Randy Owen ( lead vocals, rhythm guitar) and his cousin Teddy Gentry ( bass, backing vocals ). They were soon joined by another cousin, Jeff Cook ( lead guitar, fiddle, and keyboards ). First operating under the name Wildcountry, the group ...
Alabama discography. American country music band Alabama has released 26 studio albums, including 20 recorded for RCA Records. Alabama also charted 77 songs on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, of which 32 reached number one. The band's longest-lasting number one was "Jukebox in My Mind", which spent four weeks at that position in 1990.
Randy Yeuell Owen (born December 13, 1949) is an American country musician. He is best known for his role as the lead singer of Alabama, a country rock band that saw tremendous mainstream success throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Alabama became the most successful band in country music, releasing over 20 gold and platinum records, dozens of ...
"Sweet Home Alabama" is a song by American rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, released on the band's second album Second Helping (1974). It was written in response to Neil Young's 1970 song "Southern Man", which the band felt blamed the entire South for American slavery; [5] Young is name-checked and dissed in the lyrics.
“The list is compiled with a lot of great songs, so just really excited to be even considered. But also I feel like it’s a great song, so I feel like we deserve to be there, and hopefully we ...
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