She had a way with the right song that made you listen. Great Hurtin' Song (Very Underrated Song) (#3) The song, With Youwas a real wedding favorite at the time for those lucky enough to have discovered us. But no matter what she was doing in life, TV or on the charts, her songs were radio popular. She was beautiful, and did some acting on 1980's TV as well, then married soap opera star Wayne Masseyin 1984 and they recorded some songs together on the country charts. But in 1981 she hit, and went on about a six year run of big songs.
She started very young and had a few albums in the mid 70's to no avail. She went on to score three number one songs, but she had a ton of hits, and was a staple on the radio. McClain though was country, and I always respected that when many other were still recording songs with more of a pop audience still in mind first. Sure we had some stars, but the core style of music being recorded was a bit off center. I was playing these songs on the radio, but the trouble was, we just were not deep enough. No doubt country was struggling after the Urban Cowboy phase and the the Neo- Traditionalists had not shown up yet. Time has not been very kind to the early and mid 1980's and I think that's too bad. That era of country has been a bit forgotten. Great Song As I First Got Into Country Radio In fact, she would be my pick to sing such a song, top of the list.Funny, that we got to know her from her first number one hit, Who's Cheatin' Who in 1981 that was a real punchy number, Alan Jackson took that same song to number one a few years later, but McClain had it first. I always loved to hear Charly McClain sing a slow, gentle love song, she was really good at it. She had a very unique voice that in some ways was not as powerful or as loud as the others, but there was an incredible, and alluring vulnerability in it, and the more "country" the song, the better she sounded. She was in the same era of Janie Fricke, Crystal Gayle, Sylvia, Tanya, Barbara Mandrell, Dolly, Shelly West, Rosanne Cash,a young Rebaand others. I played all her songs for many years on great stations all across the country.
Then she did something not many do, one day she just walked away. That voice made her as popular as any woman of her era. In the 1980's she had a nice run of hits, had a following, in addition to an enviable, beautiful, soft, angelic voice that was her absolute calling card. She asked about Charly McClain and what happened to her.Actually, her name is Charlotte Denise McClain, but we all knew her as Charly. Jackie asked me about an artist I haven't thought about in a very long time.
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