The album peaked at #73 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart. In April of 1980, Charly’s fourth album “Women Get Lonely” was released. The last single, a duet with singer Johnny Rodriguez called “I Hate the Way I Love It” peaked at #16 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart. The second single “You’re a Part of Me” peaked at #20 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart. The first single “When Love Ain’t Right” peaked at #11 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles. In July of 1979, Charly released her third album “Alone Too Long” which failed to chart at all on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart. The last single from the album “Take Me Back” peaked at #24 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart. The third single “That’s What You Do to Me” peaked at #8 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart, making it the highest charting single from the album & Charly’s first top 10 hit on the country music charts. The second single, the title song peaking at #13 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart. The first single released from the album “Make the World Go Away” peaked at #73 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart. In February of 1977, she released her debut album “Here’s Charly McClain” which failed to make Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart. When she was 20 years old, Charly signed a recording contract with Epic Records in 1976 and released her debut single “Lay Down” which managed to peak at #67 on Hot Country Singles chart. By the age of 17, Charly was a regular on the club circuit and appeared at a show in Memphis called “Mid-South Jamboree” from 1973 to 1975. When she was 12 years old, she began her music career performing with her brother, Mike and his band, Charlotte & the Volunteers. She got her nickname “Charly” from the neighborhood friends she used to play with as a child.Īt the age of 8, Charly was inspired to start recording after her father Niles was hospitalized with tuberculosis and communicated with him through a tape recorder since she was unable to visit him in the hospital. PARADISE TONIGHT (WITH MICKEY GILLEY)ġ5.Charly McClain (born Charlotte Denise McClain on Main Memphis, Tennessee) is a country music singer from the ’70s and ’80s. I’LL LOVE AWAY YOUR TROUBLES FOR A WHILEġ1. Ělthough Charly continued as a chart artist until the end of the 1980s she virtually retired from the music scene by the early 1990s when she chose to devote time to domestic life in South Western Tennessee.ģ.
With her natural beauty and sophistication giving rise to offers of modelling sessions from “Playboy” and “Penthouse” magazines (both turned down) television was to greatly benefit from her presence when videos became part of the country music norm. Ě 39 hit recording career that spanned 13 years saw her distinctive vocals surpass many others emerging on the scene.This led onto a deal with Epic Records in 1976 with “Charlotte” being dropped for the more catchy “Charly”. She sang in her brother’s band, known as Charlotte and the Volunteers, had regular appearances on the local country music show “Mid-South Jamboree” and toured with artists such as O.B.ěorn 26th March 1956 native Tennessean Charlotte Denise McClain’s country music preferences blended in well with the rock, jazz and blues sounds that surrounded her as she grew up in Memphis, a city that’s a real melting pot of music.
Why have a “Biggest Hits” in 1985 when a “Greatest Hits” came out three years earlier? But the releases, with different recordings, simply prove the immense success of this singer as she quickly piled one hit upon another.