When released to radio stations as a single, this song was edited slightly to introduce an “early fade” so that DJs had an easier time talking it up. It was the 15th consecutive #1 hit for Alabama in 1984.

A video of this song depicts the band camping in a forest at night. It is not the original video, however. The original video, released in 1984, featured partial nudity and a “bizarre plot.” Alabama decided the video was not family-friendly and had RCA Records withdraw the original video from circulation.

7 Spanish Bridges by Willie Nelson

Epic records released this song in November of 1991 as the second single from the album “I thought it was you”. The song is about a man who after having an argument with his wife goes to a local honky-tonk only to find out it has turned into a preppy bar. Douglas Jackson Brooks recorded the song but you know him by his stage name Doug Stone.

Between 1990 and 1995 this artist had 8 number songs on the Country charts. This song spent two weeks at number 1, thus becoming his only multi-week number 1 single in that span. He is known for his neotraditionalist country sound and his frequent recording of ballads.

This artist chose to record under the name Doug Stone, so as to avoid confusion with Garth Brooks, that’s what you have to do when your real name is Doug Brooks. Born in Marietta Georgia Stone had this number 1 hit in 1992. The song was written by Gene Nelson and Ronnie Samoset.

The song is about a man who breaks up with his highly desirable and beautiful, but an unfaithful girlfriend. It was released in the fall of 1984 but took a full year to become Gary Morris’s first number 1 hit.

Gary Morris is from North Richland Hills Texas. While in the third grade, Morris and his sister won a talent show after singing their rendition of the pop hit “This Old House”. After two top songs in 1984, he hit pay dirt with his first #1 song Baby Bye Bye in the fall of 1985.

In 2011, Okmulgee, OK native Mel McDaniels passed away. McDaniel’s type of country music has been referred to as “the quintessential happy song” in comparison to other country artists who discuss broken hearts and lost loves.

When asked why most of his songs are mostly positive, McDaniel told the Anchorage Daily News that “there’s enough things in the world to keep you bummed out” and that his fans don’t want to “hear me singing something that’s gonna bum ’em out some more.”

Conway Twitty received this song written by Bob McDill but decided John Anderson’s vocals were better suited for it, so he sent it to him. Not knowing who had sent him the song, Anderson turned it down. Mel McDaniel eventually received the song, and he recorded it. Good thing for Mel because in February 1985 it became his only #1 song.

This artist has released 10 studio albums. His first seven albums were released via Atlantic Records Nashville, and his next two via parent company Warner Bros. Records Nashville after Atlantic closed its country division in 2001. His first three albums are all certified multi-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA); his one album certified platinum and one certified gold. Born in Danville, Kentucky here is John Michael Montgomery.

Beaches of Cheyenne by Garth Brooks

This song and its video describe an ex-boyfriend who has “a lying, cheating, cold dead-beating, two-timing, double-dealing, mean mistreating, loving” heart that he should blame for whatever backstabbing he gets from any other woman he does to what he did to its narrator. The song charted for 20 weeks on the Billboard Hot Country Singles and Tracks chart, reaching No. 1 during the week of June 19, 1993.

Kostas Lazarides and Hank Harlan wrote this song. It was released in April 1993 as the first single from the album “Only What I Feel.” A cover version by Deborah Allen was featured prominently in the 1993 film The Thing Called Love. Here is a KBEC Classic from Patty Loveless.