| Too Many Times | ||||
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| Released | September 18, 1986 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 36:44 | |||
| Label | RCA | |||
| Producer | Nelson Larkin, Earl Thomas Conley, Mark Wright | |||
| Earl Thomas Conley chronology | ||||
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Too Many Times is the sixth studio album by American country music artist Earl Thomas Conley. It was released on September 18, 1986, via RCA Records. The album includes the singles "Too Many Times", his duet with Anita Pointer, "I Can't Win for Losin' You", "That Was a Close One" and "Right from the Start". [1]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Too Many Times" (duet with Anita Pointer) | Micheal Smotherman, Scott Page, Tony McShear | 3:55 |
| 2. | "I Can't Win for Losin' You" | Robert Byrne, Rick Bowles | 4:06 |
| 3. | "Dancin' with the Flame" | Ron "Snake" Reynolds | 3:06 |
| 4. | "Attracted to Pain" | Earl Thomas Conley, Randy Scruggs | 3:19 |
| 5. | "Many Forgiving Years" | Joe Scaife, Mark Wright | 3:47 |
| 6. | "Right from the Start" | Billy Herzig, Randy Watkins | 3:08 |
| 7. | "That Was a Close One" | Byrne | 4:26 |
| 8. | "I Need a Good Woman Bad" | Conley, Tom Brasfield | 4:07 |
| 9. | "Preservation of the Wild Life" | Jim Allison, Linda Young | 3:13 |
| 10. | "If Leavin' Was Easy" | Conley, Scruggs | 3:37 |
| Chart (1986) | Peak position |
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| US Top Country Albums (Billboard) [2] | 3 |
Earl Thomas Conley was an American country music singer-songwriter. Between 1980 and 2003, he recorded ten studio albums, including seven for RCA Records. In the 1980s and into the 1990s, Conley also charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, of which eighteen reached Number One. His eighteen Billboard Number One country singles during the 1980s were the third most by any artist in any genre during that decade, after Alabama and Ronnie Milsap.
The discography of Earl Thomas Conley, an American country music singer, consists of ten studio albums and 42 singles. He first charted in 1975 as Earl Conley for the GRT and Warner Bros. Records labels, before moving to Sunbird Records. He had his first number one in 1981 with "Fire & Smoke", and had a total of eighteen number ones between then and "Love Out Loud" in 1989.
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"Right from the Start" is a song written by Billy Herzig and Randy Watkins, and recorded by American country music artist Earl Thomas Conley. It was released in July 1987 as the fourth single from the album Too Many Times. The song was Conley's fourteenth number one country single. The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of fourteen weeks on the country chart.
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