Your country music thread a few days ago sent me on a little nostalgia trip into my storage shed. I knew I had some early 80s country albums out there, but when I went to check I found hundreds of old 45s that I had forgotten about having - some rock, but mostly early 80s country.

Here are just a few songs that brought back a memory or two.

Women Do Know How to Carry On - Waylon Jennings

Watchin' Girls Go By - Ronnie McDowell

Wandering Eyes - Ronnie McDowell

Put Your Dreams Away - Mickey Gilley (his best song IMO)

It Ain't Easy Bein' Easy - Janie Frickie

Don't Worry 'Bout Me Baby - Janie Frickie

You Don't Know Love - Janie Frickie

In Times Like These - Barbara Mandrell

Somebody's Knockin' - Terry Gibbs

Mistakes - Don Williams (Great singer, I've got a lot of his singles - Miracles, Listen to the Radio, I Believe in You)

She Can't Say That Anymore - John Conlee

Goin' Where the Lonely Go - Merle Haggard

Pickin' Up Strangers - Johnny Lee

Seven Year Ache - Rosanne Cash

Finally - TG Sheppard

Almost Persuaded - Johnny Rodriguez & Charly McClain (I think I had a crush on her at one time)

Somewhere Between Right and Wrong - Earl Thomas Conley

The Ride - David Allan Coe

Everybody Makes Mistakes - Lacy J. Dalton

There are many more, but these are the highlights. If not for your thread, they probably would have remained in storage and I wouldn't have enjoyed hearing them again, so thanks

Although I was never much into C & W music as a kid, both my mother and father loved it, so I was usually forced to listen to it on the radio while in the car driving on vacation. I did, however, come to enjoy a few songs, such as:

"I Fell in Love Again Last Night" by The Forrester Sisters

"Eighties Ladies" by K.T. Oslin

"Strong Enough to Bend" by Tanya Tucker

"Runaway Train" by Roseanne Cash

"Love's Been a Little Bit Hard on Me" by Juice Newton, "Angel of the Morning" Juice Newton, "Queen of Hearts", as well...

: Your country music thread a few days ago sent
: me on a little nostalgia trip into my
: storage shed. I knew I had some early 80s
: country albums out there, but when I went to
: check I found hundreds of old 45s that I had
: forgotten about having - some rock, but
: mostly early 80s country.

: Here are just a few songs that brought back a
: memory or two.

: Women Do Know How to Carry On - Waylon Jennings

: Watchin' Girls Go By - Ronnie McDowell

: Wandering Eyes - Ronnie McDowell

: Put Your Dreams Away - Mickey Gilley (his best
: song IMO)

: It Ain't Easy Bein' Easy - Janie Frickie

: Don't Worry 'Bout Me Baby - Janie Frickie

: You Don't Know Love - Janie Frickie

: In Times Like These - Barbara Mandrell

: Somebody's Knockin' - Terry Gibbs

: Mistakes - Don Williams (Great singer, I've got
: a lot of his singles - Miracles, Listen to
: the Radio, I Believe in You)

: She Can't Say That Anymore - John Conlee

: Goin' Where the Lonely Go - Merle Haggard

: Pickin' Up Strangers - Johnny Lee

: Seven Year Ache - Rosanne Cash

: Finally - TG Sheppard

: Almost Persuaded - Johnny Rodriguez &
: Charly McClain (I think I had a crush on her
: at one time)

: Somewhere Between Right and Wrong - Earl Thomas
: Conley

: The Ride - David Allan Coe

: Everybody Makes Mistakes - Lacy J. Dalton

: There are many more, but these are the
: highlights. If not for your thread, they
: probably would have remained in storage and
: I wouldn't have enjoyed hearing them again,
: so thanks

Those are some great tunes!

We have a station here that plays most of those songs during its oldies show on Saturday and Sunday nights. (listening to it right now)

As for Mickey Gilley, my favorite was always "Stand By Me." I grew up about a mile away from Gilley's. (just thought I would throw that in)

: Those are some great tunes!

: We have a station here that plays most of those
: songs during its oldies show on Saturday and
: Sunday nights. (listening to it right now)

: As for Mickey Gilley, my favorite was always
: "Stand By Me." I grew up about a
: mile away from Gilley's. (just thought I
: would throw that in)
Wow!!! I have to throw my favorites country songs as well: Baby I Lied Debroah Allen Don't Bother To Knock(a forgotten country song) Jim Ed Brown & Helen Corneilus Any song by Restless Heart(especially "Wheels", "She's Coming Home"(never release as a single),"Say What"s In Your Heart" & the biggest "I Still Be Loving You" She Likes My Car Ronne Milsap(along with a lot of hits as well) Any song by Dan Seals(especially "Meet Me In Montana" with Marie Osmond(who also had a lot of hits in the 80's including "You're Still New To Me with Paul Davis(who also had written a lot of country hits in the 80's I'm still waiting for new music from him). Anyway, he co-wrote "Bop" a hit for Dan. Paul scored 2 #1's in the 80's after hit pop hits "Cool Night" & "'65 Love Affair": YSSNTM is the one mentioned, the other is "I Won't Take Less Than Your Love" with Tanya Tucker & Paul Overstreet. Both had success in the 80's also. Overstreet as a songwriter writing for nearly everyone from Randy Travis to Keith Whitley. Ricky Skaggs to Michael Martin Murphy. He was part of the short-lived group SKO(Tom Schuyler & Fred Knobloch were the two men in that group). They had 3 hits together: "You Can't Stop Love", "American Me", & the #1 hit, "Baby's Got A New Baby". They would add songwriter Craig Bickhardt and scored 4 hits. The biggest of them was "Givers & Takers". Do you sense a six degrees of connection here? Anyway, I like Another World Crystal Gayle & Gary Morris. I know!! I know!! I never heard of that song. I have; but, radio stations must have forgot it. OK, I'm beat. Anybody else? I forgot to add Tanya Tucker who had a lot of hits in the 80's as well.

Another World - Crystal Gayle & Gary Morris

Humm... I think that was the theme song used for a soap opera of the same name - Another World, which was cancelled in the mid 90's.

: Another World - Crystal Gayle & Gary Morris

: Humm... I think that was the theme song used
: for a soap opera of the same name - Another
: World, which was cancelled in the mid 90's.
It was & it was a hit. Reaching #4 on the country chart in the summer of '87. I never get tired of listening to that song.