American Made
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American Made was the ninth album by The Oak Ridge Boys It featured yet another "crossover hit" with the song "American Made", which hit #1 on the country charts (on April 23, 1983) & #72 on the U.S. Hot 100 singles chart.

Track listing

  1. "Love Song
    Love Song (The Oak Ridge Boys song)
    "Love Song" is a track from the 1983 album "American Made" by The Oak Ridge Boys. "Love Song" was written by Steven Runkle and was The Oak Ridge Boys' eight number one country single. The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of twelve weeks on the country chart .-Chart...

    " (Steven Runkle) - 3:53
  2. "She's Not Just Another Pretty Face" (Sam Lorber, J.D. Martin) - 3:26
  3. "Amity" (Doug Fleet, Guy Fletcher) - 3:47
  4. "You're The One" (Rock Killough, Bob Morrison) - 3:49
  5. "Down The Hall" (Mike Reid, Troy Seals
    Troy Seals
    Troy Seals is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist.He is a member of the prominent Seals family of musicians that includes, Jim Seals and Dan Seals and Brady Seals...

    ) - 3:21
  6. "American Made
    American Made (song)
    "American Made" is the title track and first single from the 1983 album by The Oak Ridge Boys. "American Made" was written by Bob DiPiero and Pat McManus and would be The Oak Ridge Boys' seventh number one on the country chart. The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of...

    " (Bob DiPiero
    Bob DiPiero
    Bob DiPiero is an American country music songwriter. He has written 15. U.S. Number 1 hits and countless top 20 hits for the likes of Tim McGraw, The Oak Ridge Boys, Reba McEntire, Vince Gill, Faith Hill, Shenandoah, Neal McCoy, Highway 101, Restless Heart, Ricochet, John Anderson, Montgomery...

    , Pat McManus) - 2:42
  7. "Any Old Time You Choose" (Ken Bell, Terry Skinner, J.L. Wallace) - 3:54
  8. "Heart on the Line (Operator, Operator)
    Operator, Operator
    "Operator, Operator" "Operator, Operator" "Operator, Operator" (originally titled "Heart on the Line (Operator, Operator)" is a country music song co-written and recorded by Larry Willoughby, a cousin of country music singer Rodney Crowell, and Janet Willoughby. He released the song in 1983 from...

    " (Janet Willoughby, Larry Willoughby
    Larry Willoughby
    Larry Willoughby is an American country music singer-songwriter and the vice president of A&R at Capitol Records.Willoughby's debut album, Building Bridges, was released in 1984 by Atlantic America...

    ) - 3:07
  9. "You Made It Beautiful" (Richard Kerr
    Richard Kerr (songwriter)
    Richard Kerr is an English composer, who co-wrote "Mandy", "Looks Like We Made It" and "Somewhere in the Night" - all of which became hit singles for Barry Manilow.-Career:...

    , Seals) - 3:24
  10. "I'm So Glad I'm Standing Here Today" (Will Jennings
    Will Jennings
    Wilbur H. "Will" Jennings is an American songwriter who is popularly known for writing the lyrics for "My Heart Will Go On", the theme for the film Titanic .-Life and education:...

    , Joe Sample
    Joe Sample
    Joseph Leslie "Joe" Sample is an American pianist, keyboard player and composer.He is one of the founding members of the Jazz Crusaders, the band which became simply The Crusaders in 1971, and remained a part of the group until its final album in 1991 .- Biography :Sample began playing the piano...

    ) - 5:49

The Oak Ridge Boys

  • Duane Allen
    Duane Allen
    Duane David Allen had formal training in both operatic and quartet singing before becoming a member of The Oak Ridge Boys in 1966. Allen is the lead singer for the quartet and is heard on the majority of their most successful songs.He was inducted in the Texas Gospel Music Hall of Fame.He is...

  • Joe Bonsall
    Joe Bonsall
    Joseph Sloan Bonsall, Jr. known professionally as Joe Bonsall is a member of the Oak Ridge Boys, since 1973 and an author...

  • William Lee Golden
    William Lee Golden
    William Lee Golden , a native of Brewton, Alabama, is an American country music singer. Between 1965 and 1987, and again from 1995 onward, he has been the baritone singer in the country music group The Oak Ridge Boys.-Personal life:...

  • Richard Sterban
    Richard Sterban
    Richard Anthony Sterban is an American bass singer born in Camden, New Jersey, who joined the country and gospel quartet The Oak Ridge Boys in 1972. Prior to joining The Oak Ridge Boys, Sterban toured with J. D. Sumner and the Stamps Quartet, who were singing backup for Elvis Presley at that time...


Musicians

  • Barry Beckett
    Barry Beckett
    Barry Edward Beckett was a keyboardist who worked as a session musician with several notable artists on their studio albums...

     - keyboards
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

  • Mickey Buckins - percussion
  • Jimmy Capps - acoustic guitar
    Acoustic guitar
    An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...

  • Eugene Chrisman - drums, percussion
  • Lloyd Green
    Lloyd Green
    Lloyd Green is an American steel guitarist. Green is most notable for his session work, having played on records with artists such as Johnny Cash, Alan Jackson, Lynn Anderson, Don Williams, Paul McCartney, Charley Pride and many others.-Early life:Lloyd Green was born on October 4, 1937 in Leaf,...

     - steel guitar
    Steel guitar
    Steel guitar is a type of guitar or the method of playing the instrument. Developed in Hawaii in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a steel guitar is usually positioned horizontally; strings are plucked with one hand, while the other hand changes the pitch of one or more strings with the use...

  • Roger Hawkins - drums
  • David Hood
    David Hood
    David Hood , is a bassist from Muscle Shoals, Alabama. He also plays the trombone and is a member of the Alabama Music Hall of Fame....

     - bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Jimmy Johnson
    Jimmy Johnson (musician)
    Jimmy Johnson is an American a member of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section that was attached to FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama for a period in the 1960s and 1970s, and later was the a founder of Muscle Shoals Sound Studio located at first on 3614 Jackson Highway in Sheffield, Alabama and at...

     - lead guitar
  • Kenneth Lovelace - fiddle
    Fiddle
    The term fiddle may refer to any bowed string musical instrument, most often the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music...

  • Steve Nathan - keyboards, synthesizer
    Synthesizer
    A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...

  • Ron Oates - keyboards
  • Wayne Perkins
    Wayne Perkins
    Wayne Perkins is a rock and R & B guitarist, singer, songwriter and session musician. He was the oldest of six children, a brother and four sisters. Both of his parents sang and played guitar...

     - lead guitar, acoustic guitar
  • Billy Sanford - lead guitar, mandolin
    Mandolin
    A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...

  • Bobby Thompson - banjo
    Banjo
    In the 1830s Sweeney became the first white man to play the banjo on stage. His version of the instrument replaced the gourd with a drum-like sound box and included four full-length strings alongside a short fifth-string. There is no proof, however, that Sweeney invented either innovation. This new...

  • Jack William - bass guitar
  • Chip Young - acoustic guitar
  • Reggie Young
    Reggie Young
    Reggie Young was lead guitarist in the American Sound Studios Band , and is a leading session musician. He played on various recordings with artists such as Elvis Presley, B.J. Thomas, John Prine, Dusty Springfield, J.J...

     - lead guitar
  • The Nashville Hornworks - horns

Production

  • Produced By Ron Chancey
  • Engineer & Mixing: Les Ladd
  • Assistant Engineers: Ken Corlew, Ken Criblez, Tim Farmer, Pete Greene, Russ Martin, David McKinley, Mary Beth McLemore

Album

Chart (1983) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 2
U.S. Billboard 200 51

Singles

Year Single Peak chart positions
US Country
Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

US
Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

CAN Country
RPM (magazine)
RPM was a Canadian music industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada. The publication was founded by Walt Grealis in February 1964, supported through its existence by record label owner Stan Klees. RPM ceased publication in November 2000.RPM stood for "Records, Promotion,...

1983 "American Made" 1 72 12
"Love Song" 1 1
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