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Earl Thomas Conley (born October 17, 1941, in Portsmouth, Ohio) is an United States|American country music singer and composer. Between 1980 and 2003, he recorded ten studio albums, including seven for the RCA Records label. In the 1980s and into the 1990s, Conley also charted more than thirty singles on the ''Billboard (magazine)|Billboard'' Hot Country Songs charts, of which eighteen reached Number One.

Biography
When Conley was 14, his father lost his job, forcing the young boy to move in with his older sister.{{Fact|date=August 2008 He was offered a scholarship to an art school, but rejected it in favor of joining the U.S. Army.{{Fact|date=August 2008 After being honorably discharged from the military, he began playing in clubs in Nashville, Tennessee, at night, supporting himself working blue-collar jobs during the day.

Feeling that he wasn't making any progress in Nashville, Conley moved to Huntsville, Alabama|Huntsville, Alabama to work in a steel mill. There, he met record producer Nelson Larkin, who helped him sign with independent record label GRT in 1974. Conley released four singles on that label, none of which became large hits. At the same time, he was selling songs that he had written to other artists, including Conway Twitty and Mel Street, who were having much success with them.{{Fact|date=August 2008

Conley returned to Nashville, now wr... read all