"Borderline" is a song recorded by American
country music
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group
The Shooters
The Shooters was a five-piece country music band founded in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. It consisted of Walt Aldridge (lead vocals, guitar), Gary Baker (bass guitar), Barry Billings (guitar), Chalmers Davis (keyboards), and Michael Dillon (Billboard ...
. It was released in October 1988 as the first single from their album ''
Solid as a Rock''. The song peaked at number 13 on the ''
Billboard
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''
Hot Country Singles
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This 50-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly by collecting airplay data from Nielsen BDS along with digital sal ...
chart.
Lead vocalist
Walt Aldridge
James Walton Aldridge Jr. (born November 12, 1955 in Florence, Alabama) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, engineer and record producer.
Aldridge is known primarily as a Nashville songwriter. He has written dozens of hit country songs ...
wrote and produced the song.
Chart performance
References
1988 songs
1988 singles
The Shooters songs
Songs written by Walt Aldridge
Epic Records singles
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