Judy Rodman
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Judy Rodman is an American Country Music Singer
. In the mid-80s, she was a successful country music singer, making all the way to number one on the country charts in 1986 with the song "Until I Met You
." She also won the Academy of Country Music
's "Top New Female Vocalist" award in 1985.
Today, Rodman is a singer, songwriter, producer and vocal instructor in Nashville, Tennessee
. Her recorded songs include LeAnn Rimes
's number-one hit "One Way Ticket (Because I Can)
" (co-written with Keith Hinton). She has also developed Power, Path & Performance, a vocal technique she teaches and sells on CDs.
, in 1951. When she was four years old, she began to sing. By the time she was eight, she was already playing the guitar
. Because of this, she soon started singing with her father's band at a cruise ship party. While growing up, Rodman's family often moved from time to time. After living in so many places, Rodman's musical tastes varied from Cajun
to Calypso
. When Rodman was 17 years old, she began singing commercial
jingle
s. Her voice was heard on one nationally for Jeno's Pizza
. When she went to college at age 18, she studied music. Her roommate was Janie Fricke
, also a future Country singer in the 80s. The two soon became fast friends and became jingle singers for the Tanner Agency in Memphis, Tennessee
. Rodman also sang with a local nightclub band called Phase II
.
In the mid-70s, Rodman worked as a background singer for Country-Soul singers. Soon Judy married drummer
John Rodman and the couple decided to move to Nashville, Tennessee
(the country music capital) in 1980. Here, Rodman sang jingles for national companies. Soon, Rodman would decide to change careers, and try to make it in the business of Country music.
, Tammy Wynette
, and also legendary Blues performer Ray Charles
. Rodman soon decided she wanted to become a Country singer, and try to make it in that business. Success came when she was soon signed to MTM Records
.
Her debut single made the Top 40 titled "I've Been Had By Love Before". "You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone" did a little bit better in the Top 40 that year, and by the end of the year she had a Top 30 Country hit, with her self-penned song "I Sure Need Your Lovin". Because of this success, Rodman was nominated and won the Academy of Country Music
's "Top Female Vocalist" award in 1985, her only major award from Country music.
Rodman's biggest success in the Country market came the next year in 1986, with a new album that was self-titled. That year, she had a No. 1 Country hit called "Until I Met You
". The song spent at a week at No. 1 on the Hot Country Songs
list on the week of July 19. It was succeeded by the song, "On the Other Hand" by Randy Travis
. "Until I Met You" was Rodman's only No. 1 hit. She did follow-up her success well that year, with a Top 10 hit from the same album called "She Thinks That She'll Marry", which proved Rodman was not destined to be a One-hit wonder
. Her second album came in 1987 called A Place Called Love, which spawned several Country hits including the Top 10 "Girls Ride Horses Too" and a Top 5 cover of Bob Dylan
's "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight". Her singles for her upcoming third album proved successful, but her label folded out before her album had the chance to be released.
After the label folded, Rodman eventually faded away from the Country music spotlight, finding work in other places in Country music, besides singing it.
, Randy Travis
, Kathy Mattea
, Patty Loveless
, Ricky Van Shelton
, Lyle Lovett
, and Dwight Yoakam
all found their way to making hits on the Country charts around this time. Country-Pop-styled vocalists, like Rodman, and her friend Janie Fricke
to name a few, were soon finding less and less success on the Country charts.
However, Rodman found different ways to keep herself busy in the music industry. Around this time, Rodman worked in the recording studio as a track producer, vocal producer and background singer once again. As a new decade approached, she re-found success as a songwriter
as well. She wrote songs for Warner-Chappell music, Chrysalis music, and her own publishing company, Favorable Wind Songs. One of many successful compositions were Leann Rimes
#1 hit, One Way Ticket and the Tammy Wynette
/Wynonna Judd
duet, Girl Thang. She also developed her own vocal training method and began working with all kinds of genres of singers, including singer/songwriter Radney Foster
, new pop artists Mat Kearney
and Emil Bishaw and country artists Bryan White
and Australian star Shea Fisher
and musical theater projects like her own Runaway Home and We The People.
Today, Rodman is a busy professional vocal coach, recording studio producer and songwriter, as well as continuing her recording session singing and live performances. Her trademarked vocal training method is called "Power, Path, and Performance". Rodman currently sells CD vocal training products available on her official website.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. In the mid-80s, she was a successful country music singer, making all the way to number one on the country charts in 1986 with the song "Until I Met You
Until I Met You
"Until I Met You" is a country music song released as a single in 1986 by American country music artist, Judy Rodman. It was Rodman's fourth-issued single and her only song to reach #1 on the Billboard Country chart .-Song information:...
." She also won the Academy of Country Music
Academy of Country Music
The Academy of Country Music was founded in 1964 in Los Angeles, California as the Country & Western Music Academy. Whereas the Country Music Association, founded in 1958, was based in Nashville, the Academy sought to promote country music in the western states. Among those involved in the...
's "Top New Female Vocalist" award in 1985.
Today, Rodman is a singer, songwriter, producer and vocal instructor in Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...
. Her recorded songs include LeAnn Rimes
LeAnn Rimes
LeAnn Rimes is an American country/pop singer. She is known for her rich vocals and her rise to fame as an eight-year-old champion on the original Ed McMahon version of Star Search, followed by the release of the Patsy Cline-intended single "Blue" when Rimes was only age 13, resulting in her...
's number-one hit "One Way Ticket (Because I Can)
One Way Ticket (Because I Can)
"One Way Ticket " is a single, released in 1996, by American country music artist LeAnn Rimes. The single made her the fourth teen-aged country music act to score a Number One single on the U.S. Billboard country music charts. It is also her only Number One country hit.According to one of her...
" (co-written with Keith Hinton). She has also developed Power, Path & Performance, a vocal technique she teaches and sells on CDs.
Early life and rise to fame
Rodman was born in Riverside, CaliforniaRiverside, California
Riverside is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, and the county seat of the eponymous county. Named for its location beside the Santa Ana River, it is the largest city in the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario metropolitan area of Southern California, 4th largest inland California...
, in 1951. When she was four years old, she began to sing. By the time she was eight, she was already playing the guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
. Because of this, she soon started singing with her father's band at a cruise ship party. While growing up, Rodman's family often moved from time to time. After living in so many places, Rodman's musical tastes varied from Cajun
Cajun
Cajuns are an ethnic group mainly living in the U.S. state of Louisiana, consisting of the descendants of Acadian exiles...
to Calypso
Calypso music
Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago from African and European roots. The roots of the genre lay in the arrival of enslaved Africans, who, not being allowed to speak with each other, communicated through song...
. When Rodman was 17 years old, she began singing commercial
Advertising
Advertising is a form of communication used to persuade an audience to take some action with respect to products, ideas, or services. Most commonly, the desired result is to drive consumer behavior with respect to a commercial offering, although political and ideological advertising is also common...
jingle
Jingle
A jingle is a short tune used in advertising and for other commercial uses. The jingle contains one or more hooks and lyrics that explicitly promote the product being advertised, usually through the use of one or more advertising slogans. Ad buyers use jingles in radio and television...
s. Her voice was heard on one nationally for Jeno's Pizza
Jeno's Pizza
The organization Jeno's Pizza, was created on 1 October 1973, the first outlet was established in the city of Bogotá , in the race 15 with 77th Street neighborhood Lake, then in 1976 open another outlet in the Cll. 39 with Carrera 13...
. When she went to college at age 18, she studied music. Her roommate was Janie Fricke
Janie Fricke
Janie Fricke is an American country music singer, best remembered for a series of country music hits in the early to mid 1980s....
, also a future Country singer in the 80s. The two soon became fast friends and became jingle singers for the Tanner Agency in Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers....
. Rodman also sang with a local nightclub band called Phase II
Phase II
Phase II may refer to:* Phase II clinical trial* Drug metabolism Phase II* Star Trek: Phase II, a planned Star Trek television series that eventually evolved into Star Trek: The Motion Picture...
.
In the mid-70s, Rodman worked as a background singer for Country-Soul singers. Soon Judy married drummer
Drummer
A drummer is a musician who is capable of playing drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and/or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a...
John Rodman and the couple decided to move to Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...
(the country music capital) in 1980. Here, Rodman sang jingles for national companies. Soon, Rodman would decide to change careers, and try to make it in the business of Country music.
Country Music Stardom In the 80s
Soon, Rodman switched occupations and went back to singing background, this time for major Country stars, like Johnny CashJohnny Cash
John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...
, Tammy Wynette
Tammy Wynette
Virginia Wynette Pugh, known professionally as Tammy Wynette , was an American country music singer-songwriter and one of the genre's best-known artists and biggest-selling female vocalists....
, and also legendary Blues performer Ray Charles
Ray Charles
Ray Charles Robinson , known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. He was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records...
. Rodman soon decided she wanted to become a Country singer, and try to make it in that business. Success came when she was soon signed to MTM Records
MTM Records
MTM Records was an American independent record label specializing in country music. It was founded in 1984 as a subsidiary of the production company of the same name, a company owned by actress Mary Tyler Moore. After MTM Enterprises was sold in late 1988, the label was absorbed into Capitol Records...
.
Her debut single made the Top 40 titled "I've Been Had By Love Before". "You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone" did a little bit better in the Top 40 that year, and by the end of the year she had a Top 30 Country hit, with her self-penned song "I Sure Need Your Lovin". Because of this success, Rodman was nominated and won the Academy of Country Music
Academy of Country Music
The Academy of Country Music was founded in 1964 in Los Angeles, California as the Country & Western Music Academy. Whereas the Country Music Association, founded in 1958, was based in Nashville, the Academy sought to promote country music in the western states. Among those involved in the...
's "Top Female Vocalist" award in 1985, her only major award from Country music.
Rodman's biggest success in the Country market came the next year in 1986, with a new album that was self-titled. That year, she had a No. 1 Country hit called "Until I Met You
Until I Met You
"Until I Met You" is a country music song released as a single in 1986 by American country music artist, Judy Rodman. It was Rodman's fourth-issued single and her only song to reach #1 on the Billboard Country chart .-Song information:...
". The song spent at a week at No. 1 on the 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...
list on the week of July 19. It was succeeded by the song, "On the Other Hand" by Randy Travis
Randy Travis
Randy Travis is an American country music singer and actor. Since 1985, he has recorded 20 studio albums and charted more than 30 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, 22 of which were number one hits...
. "Until I Met You" was Rodman's only No. 1 hit. She did follow-up her success well that year, with a Top 10 hit from the same album called "She Thinks That She'll Marry", which proved Rodman was not destined to be a One-hit wonder
One-hit wonder
A one-hit wonder is a person or act known mainly for only a single success. The term is most often used to describe music performers with only one hit single.-Characteristics:...
. Her second album came in 1987 called A Place Called Love, which spawned several Country hits including the Top 10 "Girls Ride Horses Too" and a Top 5 cover of Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
's "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight". Her singles for her upcoming third album proved successful, but her label folded out before her album had the chance to be released.
After the label folded, Rodman eventually faded away from the Country music spotlight, finding work in other places in Country music, besides singing it.
New horizons
Soon, Rodman faded off Billboard's Country Music charts. This around the same time Neo-Traditional Country singers were entering Nashville and the Country market's taking up spots on the Country music charts, and finding their way on the Top 10 and Top 20 on the charts. Singers like, Garth BrooksGarth Brooks
Troyal Garth Brooks , best known as Garth Brooks, is an American country music artist who helped make country music a worldwide phenomenon. His eponymous first album was released in 1989 and peaked at number 2 in the US country album chart while climbing to number 13 on the Billboard 200 album chart...
, Randy Travis
Randy Travis
Randy Travis is an American country music singer and actor. Since 1985, he has recorded 20 studio albums and charted more than 30 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, 22 of which were number one hits...
, Kathy Mattea
Kathy Mattea
Kathleen Alice "Kathy" Mattea is an American country music and bluegrass performer who often brings folk, Celtic and traditional country sounds to her music. Active since 1983 as a recording artist, she has recorded seventeen albums and has charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot...
, Patty Loveless
Patty Loveless
Patty Loveless , is an American country music singer.Since her emergence on the country music scene in late 1986 with her first album, Loveless has been one of the most popular female singers of the Neotraditional country movement, although she has also recorded albums in the Country pop and...
, Ricky Van Shelton
Ricky Van Shelton
Ricky Van Shelton is a currently retired American country music artist. Active between 1986 and 2006, he has charted more than twenty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts...
, Lyle Lovett
Lyle Lovett
Lyle Pearce Lovett is an American singer-songwriter and actor. Active since 1980, he has recorded thirteen albums and released 21 singles to date, including his highest entry, the number 10 chart hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, "Cowboy Man"...
, and Dwight Yoakam
Dwight Yoakam
Dwight David Yoakam is an American singer-songwriter, actor and film director, most famous for his pioneering country music...
all found their way to making hits on the Country charts around this time. Country-Pop-styled vocalists, like Rodman, and her friend Janie Fricke
Janie Fricke
Janie Fricke is an American country music singer, best remembered for a series of country music hits in the early to mid 1980s....
to name a few, were soon finding less and less success on the Country charts.
However, Rodman found different ways to keep herself busy in the music industry. Around this time, Rodman worked in the recording studio as a track producer, vocal producer and background singer once again. As a new decade approached, she re-found success as a songwriter
Songwriter
A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...
as well. She wrote songs for Warner-Chappell music, Chrysalis music, and her own publishing company, Favorable Wind Songs. One of many successful compositions were Leann Rimes
LeAnn Rimes
LeAnn Rimes is an American country/pop singer. She is known for her rich vocals and her rise to fame as an eight-year-old champion on the original Ed McMahon version of Star Search, followed by the release of the Patsy Cline-intended single "Blue" when Rimes was only age 13, resulting in her...
#1 hit, One Way Ticket and the Tammy Wynette
Tammy Wynette
Virginia Wynette Pugh, known professionally as Tammy Wynette , was an American country music singer-songwriter and one of the genre's best-known artists and biggest-selling female vocalists....
/Wynonna Judd
Wynonna Judd
Wynonna Ellen Judd is an American country music singer. Her solo albums and singles are all credited to the singular name Wynonna. Wynonna first rose to fame in the 1980s alongside her mother, Naomi, in the country music duo The Judds...
duet, Girl Thang. She also developed her own vocal training method and began working with all kinds of genres of singers, including singer/songwriter Radney Foster
Radney Foster
Radney Foster is an American Texas Country artist. Initially a songwriter in Nashville, Tennessee, Foster made his debut in 1986 alongside Bill Lloyd in the duo Foster & Lloyd...
, new pop artists Mat Kearney
Mat Kearney
Mathew William "Mat" Kearney is an American musician born in Eugene, Oregon, now based in Nashville, Tennessee. Kearney has received critical acclaim and widespread recognition for his Columbia Records debut, Nothing Left to Lose. So far, he has a total of four top 20 hits on the Adult Top 40...
and Emil Bishaw and country artists Bryan White
Bryan White
Bryan White is an American country music artist. Signed to Asylum Records in 1994 at age 20, White released his self-titled debut album that year. Both it and its follow-up, 1996's Between Now and Forever, were certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, and 1997's The...
and Australian star Shea Fisher
Shea Fisher
Shea Fisher is an Australian-born country singer. She has moved to the United States to begin a career in country music, signing to Stroudavarious Records that year...
and musical theater projects like her own Runaway Home and We The People.
Today, Rodman is a busy professional vocal coach, recording studio producer and songwriter, as well as continuing her recording session singing and live performances. Her trademarked vocal training method is called "Power, Path, and Performance". Rodman currently sells CD vocal training products available on her official website.
Studio albums
| Title | Album details | Peak positions |
|---|---|---|
| US Country | ||
| Judy |
|
23 |
| A Place Called Love |
|
29 |
Singles
| Year | Single | Peak 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 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,... |
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| 1985 | "I've Been Had by Love Before" | 40 | — | Judy |
| "You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone" | 33 | — | ||
| 1986 | "I Sure Need Your Lovin'" | 30 | — | |
| "Until I Met You Until I Met You "Until I Met You" is a country music song released as a single in 1986 by American country music artist, Judy Rodman. It was Rodman's fourth-issued single and her only song to reach #1 on the Billboard Country chart .-Song information:... " |
1 | — | ||
| 1987 | "She Thinks That She'll Marry She Thinks That She'll Marry "She Thinks That She'll Marry" is a single by American country music artist Judy Rodman. Released in 1986, it was the fifth single from the album Judy. The song reached #9 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.-Chart performance:... " |
9 | — | |
| "Girls Ride Horses Too Girls Ride Horses Too "Girls Ride Horses Too" is a single by American country music artist Judy Rodman. Released in 1987, it was the first single from the album A Place Called Love. The song reached #7 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.... " |
7 | 10 | A Place Called Love | |
| "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" | 5 | 9 | ||
| 1988 | "I Want a Love Like That" | 18 | 41 | |
| "Goin' to Work" | 43 | — | Goin' to Work | |
| "I Can Love You" | 45 | 64 | ||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | ||||