What American country singer previously known as Bubba Wray released the song "On the Verge" in 1997?
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On the Verge (song) "On the Verge" is a song written by Hugh Prestwood, and recorded by American country music artist Collin Raye. It was released in February 1997 as the sixth and final single from Raye's album "I Think About You". The song reached #2 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in May 1997.
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Collin Raye Floyd Elliot Wray (born August 22, 1960) is an American country music singer, known professionally as Collin Raye, and previously as Bubba Wray. Under the latter name, he recorded as a member of the band The Wrays between 1983 and 1987. He made his solo debut in 1991 as Collin Raye with the album "All I Can Be", which produced his first Number One hit in "Love, Me". "All I Can Be" was the first of four consecutive albums released by Raye to achieve platinum certification in the United States for sales of one million copies each. Raye maintained several Top Ten hits throughout the rest of the decade and into 2000. 2001's "Can't Back Down" was his first album that did not produce a Top 40 country hit, and he was dropped by his record label soon afterward. He did not record another studio album until 2005's "Twenty Years and Change", released on an independent label.
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Too Far to Care Too Far to Care is the third studio album by American country/rock band Old 97's, first released on June 17, 1997 (see 1997 in music). The album's title comes from the song "Streets of Where I'm From."
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The Truth (Brady Seals album) The Truth is the debut studio album of American country music singer Brady Seals, and his first solo album after leaving the country band Little Texas. It was released on February 25, 1997 on Reprise Records. The album includes the singles "Another You, Another Me", "Still Standing Tall", and "Natural Born Lovers". Of these, only "Another You, Another Me" reached Top 40 on Hot Country Songs. Seals co-wrote all but two of the album's songs, and co-produced the album with Rodney Crowell.
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High Lonesome Sound (song) "High Lonesome Sound" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Vince Gill. It was released in April 1996 as the first single and title track from his album "High Lonesome Sound". The song reached #12 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in June 1996 and #1 on the "RPM" Country Tracks chart in Canada the following month.
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Ricky Van Shelton Ricky Van Shelton (born January 12, 1952) is an American former country music artist. Active between 1986 and 2006, he charted more than twenty singles on the "Billboard" Hot Country Songs charts. This figure includes ten Number One hits: "Somebody Lied", "Life Turned Her That Way", 'Don't We All Have the Right", "I'll Leave This World Loving You", "From a Jack to a King" (a cover of the Ned Miller hit), "Living Proof", "I've Cried My Last Tear for You", "Rockin' Years" (a duet with Dolly Parton), "I Am a Simple Man", and "Keep It Between the Lines". Besides these, seven more of his singles have landed in the Top Ten on the same chart. He has also released nine studio albums, of which his first four have all been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.
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Billy Yates (singer) Billy Yates (born March 13, 1963 in Doniphan, Missouri) is an American country music artist. He has released ten studio albums and has charted four singles on the "Billboard" country charts, including the number 36 "Flowers" in 1997. Yates also co-wrote George Jones' singles "I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair" and "Choices".
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Jude Johnstone Jude Johnstone is an American singer-songwriter. Her songs have been covered by Laura Branigan, Trisha Yearwood, Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Raitt, Bette Midler, Johnny Cash, Stevie Nicks, Mary Black and others. Johnstone wrote the #1 song "The Woman Before Me" on Yearwood's debut CD, which also won an award from Broadcast Music Incorporated. In 1997, Johnny Cash won the Country Album of the Year Grammy for American II Unchained (Johnny Cash album) for which Johnstone wrote the title track. BoJak Records was created by her manager Bob Burton in 2002 to release her debut CD "Coming of Age" followed by the 2005 release of "On a Good Day," and in 2007 "Blue Light," 2008 "mr.sun," 2011 "Quiet Girl", 2013 "Shatter," and in 2016, "A Woman's Work." She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Anita Cochran Anita Renee Cockerham (born February 6, 1967), known professionally as Anita Cochran, is an American country music singer, songwriter, guitarist and record producer. Signed to Warner Bros. Records in 1997, she made her debut on the U.S. country charts that year with the release of her first album "Back to You". It produced the hit single "What If I Said", a duet with country music artist Steve Wariner, which reached Number One in early 1998, producing not only Anita's first Number One overall, but also Wariner's first Number One since 1989. Although she never entered the Top 40 on the country charts again, she recorded a second album for Warner Bros. before being dropped in 2004.
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List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 1997 This is a list of singles that charted in the top ten of the "Billboard" Hot 100 during 1997. During this year, How Do I Live by LeAnn Rimes became the longest-running top-ten single, breaking a record for 32 weeks (a record that went unmatched for over nineteen years).
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Brent Cobb Brent Cobb is an American country music singer-songwriter who is currently signed to Low Country Sounds, an imprint of Elektra Records. Cobb has released two studio albums and one EP. His most recent album, "Shine On Rainy Day", was released in October 2016 and is his major-label debut (with Elektra). The album has thus far peaked at number 17 on "Billboard"' s Top Country Albums chart. Cobb has also written songs for a variety of country artists including, Luke Bryan, Kellie Pickler, Kenny Chesney, Miranda Lambert, Little Big Town, and others.
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Now That I'm On My Own "Now That I'm On My Own" is a song recorded by Canadian country music group Farmer's Daughter. It was released in 1997 as the third single from their second studio album, "Makin' Hay". It peaked at number 10 on the "RPM" Country Tracks chart in July 1997.
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True Believer (Troy Cassar-Daley album) True Believer is an Australian country music album by Troy Cassar-Daley, released in January 1997.
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Dancin', Shaggin' on the Boulevard "Dancin', Shaggin' on the Boulevard" is a song written by Randy Owen, Teddy Gentry and Greg Fowler, and recorded by American country music band Alabama. It was released in June 1997 as the second single from the album, "Dancin' on the Boulevard". The song peaked at No. 3 on the "Billboard magazine" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in September 1997.
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Blue (LeAnn Rimes album) Blue is the debut album by American country singer LeAnn Rimes, released in the United States on July 9, 1996 by Curb Records. It reached No. 3 on "Billboard" 200, and No. 1 on Top Country Albums.
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Time Marches On (song) "Time Marches On" is a song written by Bobby Braddock, and recorded by American country music artist Tracy Lawrence. It was released in March 1996 as the second single and title track from his album "Time Marches On". It was the fifteenth chart single of his career. It spent three weeks at Number One on the "Billboard" country charts in mid-1996, becoming the longest-lasting Number One hit of his career. It also received a Single of the Year nomination from the Country Music Association in 1996, as well as a Song of the Year nomination for both 1996 and 1997.
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Watson Country Watson Country is the title of a recording by American folk music and country blues artists Doc Watson and Merle Watson, released in 1996.
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Kris Tyler Kris Tyler (born in Omaha, Nebraska) is an American country music artist. Tyler has released one studio album; she also charted two singles on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. Her highest charting single, "What a Woman Knows," peaked at No. 45 in 1997.
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Blue (Bill Mack song) "Blue" is a song released in 1958 by Bill Mack, an American songwriter-country artist and country radio disc jockey. It has since been covered by several artists, in particular by country singer LeAnn Rimes, whose 1996 version became a hit. The song won Mack the 1996 Grammy Award for Best Country Song, a 1996 Academy of Country Music Award for Song of the Year, a 1997 Country Music Association Awards nomination for Song of the Year, a 1997 Country Radio Music Awards nomination for Song of the Year, and is included on the CMT list of the top 100 country songs of all time. Rimes' rendition won the 1996 Grammy for Best Female Country Vocal Performance.
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The Wrays The Wrays, also known as The Wray Brothers Band, were an American country music group from Oregon composed of Bubba Wray, Jim Covert, Lynn Phillips and Joe Dale Cleghorn. Following two independent singles, The Wrays released a pair of singles on Mercury Records in the 1980s. Their highest charting single, "You Lay a Lotta Love on Me," reached the Top 50 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles chart in 1987. After The Wrays broke up, lead singer Bubba Wray launched a successful solo career as Collin Raye.
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Go Rest High on That Mountain "Go Rest High on That Mountain" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Vince Gill. It was released in August 1995 as the sixth single from his album "When Love Finds You". It is a eulogic ballad. Gill began writing the song following the death of country music superstar Keith Whitley, who died in 1989. Gill did not finish the song until a few years later following the death of his older brother Bob, in 1993, of a heart attack. Ricky Skaggs and Patty Loveless both sang background vocals on the record.
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Someone You Used to Know "Someone You Used to Know" is a song written by Tim Johnson and Rory Lee Feek Julian Williams, and recorded by American country music singer Collin Raye. It was released in August 1998 as the second single from his CD "The Walls Came Down". The song peaked at #3 on the U.S. "Billboard" country music charts and #5 on the Canadian "RPM" Country Tracks. It also peaked at #37 on the Billboard Hot 100 becoming Raye's biggest crossover hit.