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During that same year, Charly got married to former soap opera actor\singer Wayne Massey. The singles “Candy Man” (which peaked at #5 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart) and “The Right Stuff” (which peaked at #14 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart) were moderately successful. The lead single from the album “Men” was a top 10 hit, peaking at #7 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart.
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The album peaked at #73 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart. In April of 1980, Charly’s fourth album “Women Get Lonely” was released. The last single, a duet with singer Johnny Rodriguez called “I Hate the Way I Love It” peaked at #16 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart. The second single “You’re a Part of Me” peaked at #20 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart. The first single “When Love Ain’t Right” peaked at #11 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles. In July of 1979, Charly released her third album “Alone Too Long” which failed to chart at all on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart. The last single from the album “Take Me Back” peaked at #24 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart. The third single “That’s What You Do to Me” peaked at #8 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart, making it the highest charting single from the album & Charly’s first top 10 hit on the country music charts. The second single, the title song peaking at #13 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart. The first single released from the album “Make the World Go Away” peaked at #73 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart. In February of 1977, she released her debut album “Here’s Charly McClain” which failed to make Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart. When she was 20 years old, Charly signed a recording contract with Epic Records in 1976 and released her debut single “Lay Down” which managed to peak at #67 on Hot Country Singles chart. By the age of 17, Charly was a regular on the club circuit and appeared at a show in Memphis called “Mid-South Jamboree” from 1973 to 1975.
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When she was 12 years old, she began her music career performing with her brother, Mike and his band, Charlotte & the Volunteers. She got her nickname “Charly” from the neighborhood friends she used to play with as a child.Īt the age of 8, Charly was inspired to start recording after her father Niles was hospitalized with tuberculosis and communicated with him through a tape recorder since she was unable to visit him in the hospital. Charly McClain (born Charlotte Denise McClain on Main Memphis, Tennessee) is a country music singer from the ’70s and ’80s.