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Every No. 1 Country Single of the Eighties: The Oak Ridge Boys, “Trying to Love Two Women”

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Won’t someone please think of the cheaters?

Every No. 1 Country Single of the Eighties: The Oak Ridge Boys, “Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight”

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The Oak Ridge boys top both charts with an Emmylou Harris cover.

The Best of 1991: The Ballot

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1991 is the year that multiple Country Universe writers fell in love with country music. One look at the ballot and it’s easy to see why.

100 Greatest Men: #47. Rodney Crowell

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100 Greatest Men: The Complete List

First as a songwriter, then as a new country superstar, and currently as an alternative country icon, Rodney Crowell has made an indelible mark on country music for nearly four decades.

100 Greatest Men: #88. The Oak Ridge Boys

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100 Greatest Men: The Complete List

They started out as a gospel group in the forties, but it was their country-pop hits of the early eighties that made them superstars.

First formed as Wally Fowler and the Georgia Clodhoppers in 1943, they became the Oak Ridge Quartet when they found that they were performing their gospel songs in that area of Tennessee more than in any other place.