The album strongly revitalized Parton's somewhat stagnant music career, spending five weeks at number one on Billboard's Country Albums chart, selling several million copies and producing four Top 10 country hits including Phil Spector's " To Know Him Is to Love Him ", which went to number one.

She recorded a series of bluegrass-inspired albums, beginning with The Grass Is Blue ( 1999 ), winning a Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album, and Little Sparrow ( 2001 ), with its cover of Collective Soul's " Shine " winning a Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance.

In addition, Memphis is mentioned in scores of other songs, including " Proud Mary " by Creedence Clearwater Revival, " Honky Tonk Women " by The Rolling Stones, " Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes " by George Jones, " Daisy Jane " by America, " Life Is a Highway " by Tom Cochrane, " Black Velvet " by Alannah Myles, " Cities " by Talking Heads, " Crazed Country Rebel " by Hank Williams III, " Pride ( In the Name of Love )" by U2, " M. E. M. P. H. I. S.

Subsequent singles including " Banks of the Ohio " ( No. 94 Pop, No. 34 AC ) and remakes of George Harrison's " What Is Life " ( No. 34 AC ) and John Denver's " Take Me Home, Country Roads " ( No. 119 Pop ) made minimal chart impact until the release of " Let Me Be There " in 1973.

On the patriotic album Yankee Doodle Mickey, Ringwald sang " This Is My Country ", " The Star-Spangled Banner " and " God Bless America ".

* " Love Is Sweeping The Country " w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin

In 1968, her next studio album, Your Squaw Is on the Warpath, spawned two Top 5 Country hits: the title track and " You've Just Stepped In ( From Stepping Out on Me )".

" In 2006, Rimes recorded a cover version of Barbara Mandrell's " If Loving You Is Wrong ( I Don't Want to Be Right )", for a tribute album to Mandrell's career titled, She Was a Country When Country Wasn't Cool: A Tribute to Barbara Mandrell.

"" (" This Is Our Beloved Country ") is the national anthem of Guinea-Bissau.

* " Country Is " by Tom T Hall on the album ' Country Is ' 1975.

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The traditional sphere of Aberffraw's influence in north Wales included Ynys Môn as their early seat of authority, and Gwynedd Uwch Conwy ( Gwynedd above the Conwy, or upper Gwynedd ), and the Perfeddwlad ( the Middle Country ) also known as Gwynedd Is Conwy ( Gwynedd below the Conwy, or lower Gwynedd ).

* Publication of Cocker's Arithmetick: Being a Plain and Familiar Method Suitable to the Meanest Capacity for the Full Understanding of That Incomparable Art, As It Is Now Taught by the Ablest School-Masters in City and Country, attributed to Edward Cocker ( died 1676 ).

Other notable pop and country songs written by Taylor include " He Sits at Your Table " ( Willie Nelson ), " I Can't Let Go " ( Evie Sands, Linda Ronstadt ), " The Baby " ( The Hollies ), " Worry " ( Johnny Tillotson ), " Make Me Belong to You "( Barbara Lewis ), " I Can Make It With You " ( The Pozo Seco Singers, Jackie DeShannon ), " Any Way That You Want Me " ( The Troggs, Evie Sands, Juice Newton ), " Step Out of Your Mind ", " Country Girl City Man " ( Billy Vera and Judy Clay ), " I'll Hold Out My Hand ", " Try ( Just a Little Bit Harder )" ( Janis Joplin ), " Julie " ( Bobby Fuller Four ), " Lonely Is As Lonely Does " ( The Fleetwoods ), " Sweet Dream Woman " ( Waylon Jennings ), " A Little Bit Later On Down the Line " ( Bobby Bare ) and " Son of a Rotten Gambler " ( Emmylou Harris, the Hollies, Anne Murray ).

1981 — Where Country Is

* A novelty song based on Smokey Stover —" What This Country Needs Is Foo ", with words and " FOOsic " by Mack Kay — was recorded by Eddie DeLange and His Orchestra on Bluebird Records in 1939.

In April 1986 the programme won the Sony Radio Academy Award for Best Magazine Programme, ahead of BBC Radio 4's A Small Country Living and Capital Radio's The Way It Is.

To date, he has charted four hits on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, and nine more on the Hot Country Songs charts, including two Number One country hits in 1986's " Give Me Wings " and " The Moon Is Still Over Her Shoulder ".

Hall's recording career took off after Ms. Riley's rendition of the song, and he had such hits as " A Week in a Country Jail ," "( Old Dogs, Children and ) Watermelon Wine ," " I Love ," " Country Is ," " The Year Clayton Delaney Died ," " I Like Beer ," " Faster Horses ( the Cowboy and the Poet )", and many others.

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Randy states in his book, " Born Country " that the band paid almost $ 2 million dollars to get outof their management deal with Larry McBride.

They released their second Greatest Hits package in 1991, which included two new songs that were singles " Then Again ," and " Born Country.

Those songs that went the distance on other charts, but not Billboard ( although all were top five hits on the Billboard chart ), are " Here We Are " and " Then Again " ( 1991 ); " Born Country " and " Take a Little Trip " ( 1992 ); " Once Upon a Lifetime " ( 1993 ); " Give Me One More Shot ," " She Ain't Your Ordinary Girl " and " In Pictures " ( 1995 ); " Sad Lookin ' Moon " ( 1997 ); and " How Do You Fall in Love " ( 1998 ).

Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home — now known as " Constable Country "— which he invested with an intensity of affection.

Born near Abergavenny, Williams continued the earlier tradition of writing from a left-wing perspective on the Welsh industrial scene in his trilogy " Border Country " ( 1960 ), " Second Generation " ( 1964 ), and " The Fight for Manod " ( 1979 ).

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Born in Birmingham, Lynne Jones went to the local Bartley Green Girls ' Grammar School ( now the comprehensive Hillcrest School ) on Stonehouse Lane in Woodgate near Woodgate Valley Country Park, off the B4121.

* When Our Country Was Born, recorded by Vincent Lopez, lyrics and music by Gloria Parker.

Born in Ezpeleta near Bayonne, in the north of Basque Country, in Pyrénées-Atlantiques département of France, he entered the Congregation of the Mission in 1848, having already displayed great fondness for the natural sciences.

Born in 1946 in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain, Buesa studied law in Madrid and Barcelona and practiced from 1970 to 1986 in Vitoria-Gasteiz.

Born in 1946 in the Black Country, Cutler later moved to the Birmingham suburb of Harborne.

* Smoky Dawson, Country Music Performer – Born in Collingwood, Raised in Warrnambool.

Born on 14 December 1945 in Leeds, Yorkshire, with Black Country links on his mother ’ s side, he is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors ( FRICS ) and co-founder, in the 1980s, of Nattrass Giles, a commercial property business.

Born in Kamobo village, near Kapsabet, Rono won the gold medal at the Africa Cross Country Championships in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1985 and in 1986 he was the silver medallist in the 1500m at the World Junior Championships in Athens, Greece.

Born in King Country, New Zealand, he has become a cult hero in his adopted country of Wales.

Born in Midelt, Morocco, Khalid Skah established himself first as a good cross country runner by winning the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in 1990 and 1991.

The album's title track (" Born to Fly "), which was released as the lead single, was a Number One hit on the Hot Country Songs chart.

In 2001, Evans was the most-nominated artist at the Country Music Association awards with seven nominations overall, and she won her first CMA award when " Born to Fly " won the award for Video of the Year, her first major industry award.

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Seidel graduated from St. Louis Country Day School and earned his A. B.

Other notable roles include Whirlpool ( 1948 ), A Star is Born ( 1954 ) and The Big Country ( 1958 ).

This change of sound was evident on her next two studio albums Born to Sing ( 1966 ) and Downtown Country ( 1967 ).

Spawned from Born to Sing and Downtown Country were the singles " Ain't Had No Lovin '" and " The Hurtin's All Over ", which both peaked within the Top 5 on the Hot Country Singles chart.

* Kelly Cordahl *- Born in Northwood, N. D., Kelly has played with Pure Country & currently Identity 5 ( One of the biggest drawing rock bands in the state ).