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Love Can't Ever Get Better Than This
"Love Can't Ever Get Better Than This" is a song written by Nancy Montgomery and Irene Kelley, and recorded by American country music artists Ricky Skaggs and Sharon White. It was released in April 1987 as the third single from the album ''Love's Gonna Get Ya!''. The song reached #10 on the ''Billboard A billboard (also called a hoarding in the UK and many other parts of the world) is a large outdoor advertising structure (a billing board), typically found in high-traffic areas such as alongside busy roads. Billboards present large advertise ...'' Hot Country Singles chart. Personnel * Eddie Bayers – drums * Dennis Burnside – piano * Jesse Chambers – bass * Ricky Skaggs – co-lead vocals, acoustic guitar, mandolin, fiddle, triangle, producer * Gary Smith – Kurzweil and Yamaha DX7 synthesizers * Sharon White – co-lead vocals Chart performance References 1987 singles Ricky Skaggs songs Epic Records singles 1986 songs Song recordings produced by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricky Skaggs
Rickie Lee Skaggs (born July 18, 1954), known professionally as Ricky Skaggs, is an American neotraditional country and bluegrass singer, musician, producer, and composer. He primarily plays mandolin; however, he also plays fiddle, guitar, mandocaster, and banjo. Skaggs was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2016 and the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2018. On January 13, 2021, it was announced Skaggs had been awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Donald Trump, alongside fellow country musician Toby Keith. Biography Early career Skaggs was born in Cordell, Kentucky. He started playing music at age 5 after he was given a mandolin by his father, Hobert Skaggs. At age 6, he played mandolin and sang on stage with Bill Monroe. At age 7, he appeared on television's Martha White country music variety show, playing with Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs. He also wanted to audition for the Grand Ole Opry at that time, but was told he was too young. In his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharon White (singer)
The Whites is an American country music vocal group from Fort Worth, Texas, United States. It consists of sisters Sharon White and Cheryl White, and their father, Buck White. Sharon on guitar, Cheryl on bass and Buck on Mandolin. Formed in 1972, the trio has recorded multiple albums and charted multiple songs on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Songs chart. They are also known as frequent collaborators of country and bluegrass musician Ricky Skaggs, who is Sharon's husband. Overview The Whites consist of Sharon White (born December 17, 1953), her sister Cheryl (born January 27, 1955), and their father Buck (born December 13, 1930). It consists of sisters Sharon White and Cheryl White, and their father, Buck White. Buck grew up playing music and started playing in dances wrestling arenas, auditoriums but he didn't really like that atmosphere a lot. Buck had two jobs when the sisters were growing up; a plumber by day, piano and mandolin player by night. He started really enjoying musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love's Gonna Get Ya!
''Love's Gonna Get Ya!'' is the eighth studio album by American country music artist Ricky Skaggs. It was released in 1986 via Epic Records. The album peaked at number 3 on the '' Billboard'' Top Country Albums chart. Track listing Personnel * Ricky Skaggs – lead vocals, harmony vocals (1-4, 6, 8), acoustic guitar (1, 3-6, 8, 9, 12), electric guitar (1, 5, 7), lead guitar (2), acoustic rhythm guitar (2, 11), mandolin (5, 7, 9), fiddle (5, 9), electric rhythm guitar (8), triangle (9), acoustic lead guitar (10), electric lead guitar (10), mandocaster (11) * Gary Smith – acoustic piano (1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12), Kurzweil synthesizer (4, 9), Yamaha DX7 (4, 9) * Dennis Burnside – acoustic piano (3, 4, 5, 9, 10) * Dave Innis – keyboards (6, 12) * John Hall – electric lead guitar (8), backing vocals (8) * Terry Crisp – steel guitar (1, 2, 6, 8, 11) * Lloyd Green – steel guitar (3, 4, 10) * Jesse Chambers – bass (1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 11) * Emory Gordy Jr. – bass (3, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Country Music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, old-time, and American folk music forms including Appalachian, Cajun, Creole, and the cowboy Western music styles of Hawaiian, New Mexico, Red Dirt, Tejano, and Texas country. Country music often consists of ballads and honky-tonk dance tunes with generally simple form, folk lyrics, and harmonies often accompanied by string instruments such as electric and acoustic guitars, steel guitars (such as pedal steels and dobros), banjos, and fiddles as well as harmonicas. Blues modes have been used extensively throughout its recorded history. The term ''country music'' gained popularity in the 1940s in preference to '' hillbilly music'', with "country music" being used today to describe many styles and subgenres. It came to encomp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epic Records
Epic Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America Sony Corporation of America (SONAM, also known as SCA), is the American arm of the Japanese conglomerate Sony Group Corporation SONAM, headquartered in New York City, manages the company's US-based businesses. Sony's principal U.S. business ..., the North American division of Japanese Conglomerate (company), conglomerate Sony. The label was founded predominantly as a jazz and classical music label in 1953, but later expanded its scope to include a more diverse range of genres, including pop music, pop, Rhythm and blues, R&B, rock music, rock, and hip hop music, hip hop. History Beginnings Epic Records was launched in 1953 by the Columbia Records unit of CBS, for the purpose of marketing jazz, pop music, pop, and European classical music, classical music that did not fit the theme of its more mainstream Columbia Records label. Initial classical music r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irene Kelley
Irene Kelley is an American country and bluegrass musician. As a songwriter, she has written for Ricky Skaggs, Alan Jackson, Loretta Lynn, and the Osborne Brothers. Early life Kelley is originally from Pennsylvania and in high school sang in a Led Zeppelin cover band. She was asked to leave the group after suggesting the band cover songs from Dolly Parton. Career Kelley moved to Nashville, Tennessee in the early 1980s. This was after visiting on her honeymoon in 1983 and discovering the first gathering of the International Bluegrass Music Association. Kelley co-wrote the Ricky Skaggs and Sharon White song " Love Can't Ever Get Better Than This" with Nancy Montgomery. The song peaked at number ten on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles chart in 1987 and was awarded Duet of the Year at the Country Music Association Awards that same year. Kelley signed to MCA Records MCA Records was an American record label owned by MCA Inc., which later became part of Universal Music Group ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Country Music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, old-time, and American folk music forms including Appalachian, Cajun, Creole, and the cowboy Western music styles of Hawaiian, New Mexico, Red Dirt, Tejano, and Texas country. Country music often consists of ballads and honky-tonk dance tunes with generally simple form, folk lyrics, and harmonies often accompanied by string instruments such as electric and acoustic guitars, steel guitars (such as pedal steels and dobros), banjos, and fiddles as well as harmonicas. Blues modes have been used extensively throughout its recorded history. The term ''country music'' gained popularity in the 1940s in preference to '' hillbilly music'', with "country music" being used today to describe many styles and subgenres. It came to encomp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard (magazine)
''Billboard'' (stylized as ''billboard'') is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation. The magazine provides music charts, news, video, opinion, reviews, events, and style related to the music industry. Its music charts include the Hot 100, the 200, and the Global 200, tracking the most popular albums and songs in different genres of music. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV shows. ''Billboard'' was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson later acquired Hennegan's interest in 1900 for $500. In the early years of the 20th century, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs, and burlesque shows, and also created a mail service for travelling entertainers. ''Billboard'' began focusing more on the music industry as the jukebox, phonograph, and radio became commonplace. Many topics it covered were spun-off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine in the United States. This 50-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly by collecting airplay data from Nielsen BDS along with digital sales and streaming. The current number-one song, as of the chart dated December 24, 2022, is "You Proof" by Morgan Wallen. History ''Billboard'' began compiling the popularity of country songs with its January 8, 1944, issue. Only the genre's most popular jukebox selections were tabulated, with the chart titled "Most Played Juke Box Folk Records". For approximately ten years, from 1948 to 1958, ''Billboard'' used three charts to measure the popularity of a given song. In addition to the jukebox chart, these charts included: * The "best sellers" chart – started May 15, 1948, as "Best Selling Retail Folk Records". * An airplay chart – started December 10, 1949, as "Country & Western Records Most Played By Folk Disk Jockeys". The juk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Whites
The Whites is an American country music vocal group from Fort Worth, Texas, United States. It consists of sisters Sharon White and Cheryl White, and their father, Buck White. Sharon on guitar, Cheryl on bass and Buck on Mandolin. Formed in 1972, the trio has recorded multiple albums and charted multiple songs on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Songs chart. They are also known as frequent collaborators of country and bluegrass musician Ricky Skaggs, who is Sharon's husband. Overview The Whites consist of Sharon White (born December 17, 1953), her sister Cheryl (born January 27, 1955), and their father Buck (born December 13, 1930). It consists of sisters Sharon White and Cheryl White, and their father, Buck White. Buck grew up playing music and started playing in dances wrestling arenas, auditoriums but he didn't really like that atmosphere a lot. Buck had two jobs when the sisters were growing up; a plumber by day, piano and mandolin player by night. He started really enjoying musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1987 Singles
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Ricky Skaggs Songs
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