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"Tar Top" is a song written by Randy Owen, and recorded by American country music group Alabama. It was released in August 1987 as the first single from their album Just Us . The song reached number 7 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in October 1987, making it their first commercial single not to reach number 1 since 1980's " My Home ...
Just Us is the eleventh studio album by American country music band Alabama, released in 1987. As with most of their albums, the band co-produced with Harold Shedd. The album charted at number 1 on Billboard Top Country Albums, and accounted for three singles. It also charted at number 55 on the Billboard 200.
The Alabama Band #3 My Home's in Alabama: 1979 1980 [16] "Can't Keep a Good Man Down" † Bob Corbin 40-Hour Week: 1985 [10] "Can't You See" Toy Caldwell: Alabama Live: 1988 "A Candle in the Window" Susan Longacre Walt Aldridge Gary Baker: Alabama Christmas: 1985 [17] "Carolina Mountain Dewe" Randy Owen Roll On: 1984 [14] "Changes Comin' On ...
"40 Hour Week (For a Livin')" is one of the songs central to a point of contention among country music historians. Alabama is frequently billed as having the longest uninterrupted No. 1 streak in the history of the Billboard magazine Hot Country Songs chart, with 21 songs peaking atop the chart between 1980 and 1987, "40 Hour Week (For a Livin')" being the song that set the new standard."
The song was Alabama's 21st — and as it turned out, final consecutive — chart-topper in a string that dated from August 1980's "Tennessee River". The follow-up single, the semi-autobiographical "Tar Top," peaked at number seven that November, breaking the streak. A new streak would be started in early 1988 with the song "Face to Face".
"If You're Gonna Play in Texas (You Gotta Have a Fiddle in the Band)" is a song written by Murry Kellum and Dan Mitchell, and recorded by American country music band Alabama. It was released in July 1984 as the B-side of the third single from their Roll On album.
40-Hour Week is the ninth studio album from American country music band Alabama.Released in January 1985, the album included three songs that topped the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart and continued the band's dominance during the 1980s.
Released in January 1982, "Mountain Music" became Alabama's sixth No. 1 song on Billboard magazine's Hot Country Singles chart the same week the Academy of Country Music named the group the Top Vocal Group and Entertainer of the Year. [3] To date, "Mountain Music" remains one of the group's most popular songs.