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Leavin's For Unbelievers
"Leavin's for Unbelievers" is a song written by Randy Goodrum and Brent Maher, and recorded by American country music artist Dottie West Dorothy Marie Marsh West (October 11, 1932 – September 4, 1991) was an American country music singer and songwriter. Along with her friends and fellow recording artists Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn, she is considered one of the genre's most in .... It was released in June 1980 as the third single from the album '' Special Delivery''. The song peaked at number 13 on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles chart. "Leavin's for Unbelievers" was the third and final single spawned from West's 1979 album entitled, '' Special Delivery''. Chart performance References {{authority control 1980 singles Dottie West songs Songs written by Randy Goodrum Song recordings produced by Larry Butler (producer) United Artists Records singles Songs written by Brent Maher 1979 songs ...
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Dottie West
Dorothy Marie Marsh West (October 11, 1932 – September 4, 1991) was an American country music singer and songwriter. Along with her friends and fellow recording artists Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn, she is considered one of the genre's most influential and groundbreaking female artists. West's career started in the 1960s, with her top-10 hit, " Here Comes My Baby Back Again", which won her a Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance in 1965, the first woman in country music to receive a Grammy. In the early 1970s, West wrote a popular commercial for the Coca-Cola company, titled " Country Sunshine", which reached number two on ''Billboard's'' Hot Country Singles in 1973. In the late 1970s, she teamed up with country pop superstar Kenny Rogers for a series of duets that took her career to new highs, earning platinum-selling albums and number-one records for the first time. Her duet recordings with Rogers, "Every Time Two Fools Collide", " All I Ever Need Is You", ...
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Country Music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, old-time, and American folk music forms including Appalachian, Cajun, Creole, and the cowboy Western music styles of Hawaiian, New Mexico, Red Dirt, Tejano, and Texas country. Country music often consists of ballads and honky-tonk dance tunes with generally simple form, folk lyrics, and harmonies often accompanied by string instruments such as electric and acoustic guitars, steel guitars (such as pedal steels and dobros), banjos, and fiddles as well as harmonicas. Blues modes have been used extensively throughout its recorded history. The term ''country music'' gained popularity in the 1940s in preference to ''hillbilly music'', with "country music" being used today to describe many styles and subgenres. It came to encompas ...
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United Artists Records Singles
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Song Recordings Produced By Larry Butler (producer)
A song is a musical composition intended to be performed by the human voice. This is often done at distinct and fixed pitches (melodies) using patterns of sound and silence. Songs contain various forms, such as those including the repetition and variation of sections. Written words created specifically for music, or for which music is specifically created, are called lyrics. If a pre-existing poem is set to composed music in classical music it is an art song. Songs that are sung on repeated pitches without distinct contours and patterns that rise and fall are called chants. Songs composed in a simple style that are learned informally "by ear" are often referred to as folk songs. Songs that are composed for professional singers who sell their recordings or live shows to the mass market are called popular songs. These songs, which have broad appeal, are often composed by professional songwriters, composers, and lyricists. Art songs are composed by trained classical composers ...
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Dottie West Songs
Dottie or Dotty is a feminine given name or nickname (most often a short form of Dorothy) which may refer to: People * Dottie Alexander (born 1972), keyboardist for of Montreal, an American indie pop band * Dotty Attie (born 1938), American painter and printmaker * Dottie Wiltse Collins (1923–2008), American pitcher in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League * Dottie Green (1921–1992), American player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League * Dottie Hunter (1916–2005), Canadian player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League * Dotty Lynch (1945–2014), American academic, journalist and political pollster * Dotty Mack, star of the 1950s American variety television series '' The Dotty Mack Show'' * Dottie Martin (born 1937), First Lady of North Carolina * Dottie Peoples (born 1950), American gospel singer * Dottie Pepper (born 1965), American golfer (as Dottie Mochrie) and television golf broadcaster * Dottie Rambo (1934–2008) ...
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1980 Singles
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Hot Country Singles
Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine in the United States. This 50-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly by collecting airplay data from Nielsen BDS along with digital sales and streaming. The current number-one song, as of the chart dated December 24, 2022, is " You Proof" by Morgan Wallen. History ''Billboard'' began compiling the popularity of country songs with its January 8, 1944, issue. Only the genre's most popular jukebox selections were tabulated, with the chart titled "Most Played Juke Box Folk Records". For approximately ten years, from 1948 to 1958, ''Billboard'' used three charts to measure the popularity of a given song. In addition to the jukebox chart, these charts included: * The "best sellers" chart – started May 15, 1948, as "Best Selling Retail Folk Records". * An airplay chart – started December 10, 1949, as "Country & Western Records Most Played By Folk Disk Jockeys". The ...
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Are You Happy Baby?
"Are You Happy Baby?" is a song written by Bob Stone, and recorded by American country music artist Dottie West. It was released in December 1980 as the first single from the album ''Wild West''. "Are You Happy Baby?" was Dottie West's second number one hit as a solo artist. Other versions In 1980, Johnny Contardo of Sha Na Na Sha Na Na was an American rock and roll doo-wop group. Formed in 1969, but performing a song-and-dance repertoire based on 1950s hit songs, it simultaneously revived and parodied the music and the New York street culture of the 1950s. After ga ... also released a version on his album ''Changeover''. Charts References {{authority control 1981 singles 1980 songs Dottie West songs Liberty Records singles Song recordings produced by Brent Maher ...
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Special Delivery (Dottie West Album)
''Special Delivery'' is the twenty-second solo studio album by American country artist, Dottie West. The album was released in 1979 on Liberty Records and was produced by Randy Goodrum and Brent Maher. The album came on the heels of two chart-topping West duet albums with Kenny Rogers and reestablished West as a major solo artist, becoming West's most successful solo album since 1967, thanks in part to three top 15 country hits on the collection, including "A Lesson in Leavin'", the first solo number one record in West's 20-year career. Background and critical reception ''Special Delivery'' consisted of ten tracks of material and was her first release for Liberty Records (which was previously United Artists Records). The album's tenth track was a cover version of Bob Seger's "We've Got Tonight", which later became a Kenny Rogers and Sheena Easton duet in 1983. Producers Randy Goodrum and Brent Maher also co-wrote most of the album's tracks, including the singles, "A Lesson in ...
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A Lesson In Leavin'
"A Lesson in Leavin'", also titled as "Lesson in Leavin"', is a song written by Randy Goodrum and Brent Maher. It was originally recorded in 1979 by American country music singer, Dottie West, for her Special Delivery album. Following several hit duets with Kenny Rogers including three chart-toppers, as well as many more years of solo chart action, including her top five smash "Country Sunshine" the song went to No. 1 on the Billboard Country Chart in 1980, giving West her first solo chart topper. In 1999, it was re-recorded by American country music singer, Jo Dee Messina, whose version spent seven weeks at No. 2 on the same chart. Messina recorded the song as a tribute to West who died in 1991. Content Both versions of "A Lesson in Leavin'" are set at a mid-beat tempo. The song discusses how a woman is angry that her male lover has left her. She hopes that the man's next lover treats him the way the woman was treated, saying that he will be given "a lesson in leavin'." Dotti ...
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Larry Butler (producer)
Larry Butler (March 26, 1942 – January 20, 2012) was a country music producer/songwriter. From the mid-1970s through the 1980s, he worked with Kenny Rogers. Many of his albums with Rogers went either gold or platinum and accumulated many millions of sales around the world. These albums include ''Kenny Rogers'' (1976), ''The Gambler'' (1978), ''Gideon'' (1980) and ''I Prefer The Moonlight'' (1987). Rogers and Butler maintained a friendship outside of show business. Butler also produced Rogers' 1993 album ''If Only My Heart Had A Voice''. He also participated in Rogers 2006 retrospective DVD ''The Journey''. Butler is the only Nashville producer to win the Grammy Award for Producer of the year. Career Born in Pensacola, Florida, Butler began his career at the age of six with the Harry James Orchestra; at age ten he sang with Red Foley, and before he was old enough to drive he had hosted his own radio show and played piano on The Lynn Toney Show, a live television show in his ...
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