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"16th Avenue" is a song written by Thom Schuyler, and recorded by American country music artist Lacy J. Dalton. It was released in September 1982 as the second single and title track from the album 16th Avenue. The song reached number 7 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. [1]
Thomas James Schuyler (born June 10, 1952) is an American songwriter. Schuyler wrote songs recorded by more than 200 various artists including "16th Avenue" for Lacy J. Dalton, "Love Will Turn You Around" for Kenny Rogers, and "A Long Line of Love" for Michael Martin Murphey.
Lacy J. Dalton (born Jill Lynne Byrem; October 13, 1946) [1] is an American country music singer and songwriter. She is known for her gritty, powerful vocals, which People Magazine likened to a country equivalent of Bonnie Raitt. [2] Dalton had a number of hits in the 1980s, including "Takin' It Easy", "Crazy Blue Eyes", and "16th Avenue".
16th Avenue may refer to: 16th Avenue, a street forming the Music Row district of Nashville, Tennessee "16th Avenue" (song), a 1982 song by Lacy J. Dalton;
Lacy J. Dalton had a hit song in the 1980s about 16th Avenue, while the area served as namesake to Dolly Parton's 1973 composition "Down on Music Row". In 1999, the song " Murder on Music Row " was released and gained fame when it was recorded by George Strait and Alan Jackson , lamenting the rise of country pop and the accompanying decline of ...
Conlee was born on a tobacco farm in Versailles, Kentucky. [5] By age 10, Conlee had begun singing and playing guitar, and later sang tenor in a barbershop quartet. [6]Conlee did not immediately take up a musical career, instead becoming a licensed mortician, [7] [6] employed by Duell-Clark Funeral Chapel, and later a disc jockey at radio stations WQXE in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, [8] and at ...
The first 16th Avenue label was founded in Toronto in May 1981 by Apple Productions Corporation principals Stan Campbell and Veronica Mataseje. In May 1984, 16th Avenue Records moved to Nashville, Tennessee. In 1987 the Opryland Music Group assumed the 16th Avenue Records name with Jerry Bradley as President.
Lori Melton from ticketing company AXS wrote that the list "reads like an iconic student body in a songwriting master class" and complimented the inclusion of female songwriters Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Dolly Parton, Stevie Nicks, Madonna, Chrissie Hynde, Loretta Lynn, Lucinda Williams, and Björk, as well as Taylor Swift, who is the ...