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Chart Rewind: In 1984, Alabama Had a Hit as Big as ‘Texas’


Alabama's "If You're Gonna Play in Texas" was No. 1 on the Hot Country Songs chart in 1984. Here's the chart rewind.

Formed near Fort Payne, Ala., in the early ‘70s, Alabama was initially billed as Wildcountry, consisting of cousins Jeff Cook, Teddy Gentry and Randy Owen. “We were lookin’ for a song that would use a fiddle,” “Texas” co-producer Shedd shared in Tom Roland’s The Billboard Book of Number One Country Hits. Jeff Cook, Teddy Gentry, Randy Owen and Mark Herndon of Alabama at the 60th Anniversary of the Grand Ole Opry on Nov. 21, 1985, in Nashville.

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