Becky Hobbs
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Becky Hobbs is an American country music
singer, songwriter and pianist. She first attracted critical attention from rock journalist Stann Findelle, who also wrote the liner notes on her debut MCA album, "Becky Hobbs." She has recorded seven studio albums, and has charted multiple singles on the Billboard
Hot Country Songs
charts, including the #10 hit "Let's Get Over Them Together", a duet with Moe Bandy
.
Besides her work as a solo artist, Hobbs has also written for several country and pop acts, such as Helen Reddy
, George Jones
, Loretta Lynn
, and Shelly West
, as well as Alabama
's 1994 single "Angels Among Us
" and Ken Mellons
' 1995 single "Rub-a-Dubbin'".
She is a direct descendant of Nancy Ward
.
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
singer, songwriter and pianist. She first attracted critical attention from rock journalist Stann Findelle, who also wrote the liner notes on her debut MCA album, "Becky Hobbs." She has recorded seven studio albums, and has charted multiple singles on the Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
Hot Country Songs
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...
charts, including the #10 hit "Let's Get Over Them Together", a duet with Moe Bandy
Moe Bandy
Marion Franklin Bandy, Jr.–better known professionally as Moe Bandy– is a country music singer...
.
Besides her work as a solo artist, Hobbs has also written for several country and pop acts, such as Helen Reddy
Helen Reddy
Helen Reddy , often referred to as "The Queen of 70s Pop", is an Australian-American singer and actress. In the 1970s, she enjoyed international success, especially in the United States, where she placed fifteen singles in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. Six of those 15 songs made the Top 10...
, George Jones
George Jones
George Glenn Jones is an American country music singer known for his long list of hit records, his distinctive voice and phrasing, and his marriage to Tammy Wynette....
, Loretta Lynn
Loretta Lynn
Loretta Lynn is an American country music singer-songwriter, author and philanthropist. Born in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky to a coal miner father, Lynn married at 13 years old, was a mother soon after, and moved to Washington with her husband, Oliver Lynn. Their marriage was sometimes tumultuous; he...
, and Shelly West
Shelly West
Shelly West is an American country music singer. Her mother was the country music star Dottie West, whose career spanned three decades. Shelly West is best known for having hit duets with David Frizzell, and for their #1 hit "You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma"...
, as well as Alabama
Alabama (band)
Alabama is a country music and southern rock band from Fort Payne, Alabama, United States. The band was founded in 1969 by Randy Owen and his cousin Teddy Gentry , soon joined by Jeff Cook...
's 1994 single "Angels Among Us
Angels Among Us
"Angels Among Us" is the title of a song written by Don Goodman and Becky Hobbs, and recorded by the American country music band Alabama. The song was released in December 1993 as a Christmas single from the band's 1993 album Cheap Seats. It charted twice on the Hot Country Songs charts...
" and Ken Mellons
Ken Mellons
Kenneth Edward "Ken" Mellons is an American country music artist who released his self-titled debut album in 1994. This album produced the single "Jukebox Junkie", a Top Ten hit on the Hot Country Songs charts...
' 1995 single "Rub-a-Dubbin'".
She is a direct descendant of Nancy Ward
Nancy Ward
Nanyehi , known in English as Nancy Ward was a Ghigau, or Beloved Woman of the Cherokee Nation, which meant that she was allowed to sit in councils and to make decisions, along with the other Beloved Women, on pardons...
.
Albums
| Year | Title | US Country | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | Becky Hobbs | — | MCA |
| 1975 | From the Heartland | — | Tattoo |
| 1977 | Everyday | — | |
| 1988 | All Keyed UpA | 25 | MTM |
| 1994 | The Boots I Came to Town In | — | Intersound |
| 1998 | From Oklahoma with Love | — | |
| 2004 | Songs from the Road of Life | — | Beckaroo |
| 2006 | Best of the Beckaroo, Vol. 1 | — |
- AAll Keyed Up was re-released on RCA Records in 1989 with two songs added.
Singles
| Year | Title | Chart Positions | Album | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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... |
CAN Country | |||
| 1979 | "The More I Get the More I Want" | 95 | — | singles only |
| "I Can't Say Goodbye to You" | 44 | — | ||
| 1980 | "Just What the Doctor Ordered" | 52 | — | |
| "I'm Gonna Love You Tonight (Like There's No Tomorrow)" | 79 | — | ||
| "I Learned All About Cheatin' from You" | 87 | — | ||
| 1981 | "Honky-Tonk Saturday Night" | 84 | — | |
| 1984 | "Oklahoma Heart" | 46 | — | |
| "Pardon Me (Haven't We Loved Somewhere Before)" | 64 | — | ||
| "Wheels in Emotion" | 77 | — | ||
| 1985 | "Hottest 'Ex' in Texas" | 37 | — | |
| 1988 | "Jones on the Jukebox" | 31 | 35 | All Keyed Up |
| "They Always Look Better When They're Leavin'" | 43 | — | ||
| "Are There Any More Like You" | 53 | — | ||
| 1989 | "Do You Feel the Same Way Too?" | 39 | 53 | All Keyed Up (RCA re-issue) |
| 1990 | "Talk Back Trembling Lips Talk Back Trembling Lips "Talk Back Trembling Lips" is a 1963 song first recorded by Ernest Ashworth. The song became the most successful of Ernest Ashworth's career, becoming his only No. 1 song on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart that October. The song spent 35 weeks on the country chart. The song also bubbled... " |
— | — | single only |
| "A Little Chunk of Heaven" | — | — | ||
| 1994 | "Mama's Green Eyes (And Daddy's Wild Hair)" | — | — | The Boots I Came to Town In |
| "Pale Moon" | — | — | ||
| 1998 | "Country Girls" | — | — | From Oklahoma with Love |
Guest singles
| Year | Title | Artist | Chart Positions | Album | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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... |
CAN Country | ||||
| 1983 | "Let's Get Over Them Together" | Moe Bandy Moe Bandy Marion Franklin Bandy, Jr.–better known professionally as Moe Bandy– is a country music singer... |
10 | 27 | Devoted to Your Memory |