Neal McCoy

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Hubert Neal McGaughey Jr. (born July 30, 1958), known professionally as Neal McCoy, is an American country music singer.

He has released 10 studio albums on various labels, and has released 34 singles to country radio.

Although he first charted on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart in 1988, he did not reach the top 40 for the first time until 1992's "Where Forever Begins", which peaked at number 40.

McCoy broke through two years later with the back-to-back number one singles "No Doubt About It" and "Wink" from his platinum-certified album No Doubt About It.

Although he has not topped the country charts since, his commercial success continued into the mid to late 1990s with two more platinum albums and a gold album, as well as six more top 10 hits.

A seventh top 10 hit, the number 10 "Billy's Got His Beer Goggles On", came in 2005 from his self-released That's Life.

Early life

Hubert Neal McGaughey Jr. was born on July 30, 1958, in Jacksonville, Texas, to a Filipino American mother and Irish-American father. Inspired by the variety of music that his parents listened to, which included country, rock, disco and R&B, McGaughey first sang in his church choir before founding an R&B band. He later switched his focus to country music, performing in various bars and clubs in Texas. McGaughey, after attending junior college near his hometown, found work selling shoes at a shopping mall. In the early 1980s, he met his wife, Melinda, at the store.

After winning a 1981 talent contest hosted by Janie Fricke, he secured a spot as an opening act for Charley Pride.

Personal life

McCoy has been married to Melinda since 1980. The two met when McCoy was working at a shoe store in a local mall. The couple have two children, a son and a daughter.

McCoy is also the head of a charity called the East Texas Angel Network, which helps provide money for families of seriously ill children.

McCoy resides in Longview, Texas.

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Musical career

He started as Neal McGoy, a phonetic spelling of his surname, when he registered to the independent 16th Avenue Records label in 1988. Despite the fact that the former world No. 1 dropped, he released "That's How Much I Love You" and "That's American." He did not have an album for the brand and remained at 85 on the country charts. He continued to tour as an opening act for Pride until 1990, the year that the 16th Avenue label closed.

He signed to Atlantic Records in 1990, changing his surname to McCoy as a result of the label's request, although fans had already started to refer to him as McCoy. At This Moment, his first album, At This Moment, was released in the year. None of the three singles made it to the country's Top 40, although lead-off single "If I Built You a Fire" was a top 20 country hit in Canada. The other two hits were the title track, a cover of Billy Vera and the Beats' #1 Hot 100 hit from late 1986-early 1987, and "This Time I've Hurt Her More Than She Loves Me," co-written by Earl Thomas Conley and first released by Conway Twitty. McCoy continued touring and created a "reputation for thrilling, freewheeling live shows."

Where Forever Begins, A second album by Atlantic, followed in 1992. This album became the first American Top 40 countries to reach No. 1 in the nation's No. 1. At No. 14, there is a 40-peaking title track, followed by "There Ain't Nothin' I Don't Like About You" at No. At No. 57, and "Now I Pray for Rain" at No. 2. 26 people have been arrested. The album was also his first appearance on Top Country Albums, at No. 10. 58.

McCoy's breakthrough album, No Doubt About It, was released in 1994 by working with producer Barry Beckett for the first time. The album featured his only top-one country hits in its title track and "Wink," which also appeared on Billboard Hot 100 for minor reasons. The album also received a platinum award from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and gold from the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA). At No. 12, there was "The City Put the Country Back in Me" as its final single. 5.

You Gotta Love That, his fourth album, received a platinum award and four singles: "For a Change," "They're Playin' Our Song," and the title track (respectively the first, second, and fourth singles) all hit No. 30. There were 3 people who were "If I Was a Drinking Man" at No. 3, while "If I Were a Drinking Man" did not appear. 16.

McCoy's self-titled fifth studio album debuted a drop in his charting. Despite being gold-certified, Neal McCoy scored just one Top Ten hit in a review of The Casinos' 1967 doo-wop song "You Can Tell Me Goodbye." The next two singles — "Going, Going, Gone" and "That Woman of Mine" — both debuted at No. 1 in the United States — debuted at No. 10. 35. He appeared on the multi-artist charity single "Hope" in 1996, the proceeds of which went to the T. J. Martell Foundation's cancer research. He ranked No. 1 on "That Woman of Mine" after "That Woman of Mine" after his debut on "That Woman of Mine." "The Shake," the only new song on his first Greatest Hits album, revived nine of his greatest hits to that point and received platinum recognition.

Be Good at It, his sixth studio release since 1998, is followed by Be Good at It. This was his first album since Where Forever Begins did not have a Top Ten hit. It was the highest-peaking single release from it, "If You Can't Be Good at It." 22, "Party On" his first single since 1992, followed by "Party On," his first single since 1992 to miss Top 40 completely. The No. 1 was the No. 2 after it had appeared on the charts. 29 "Love Happens Like That" McCoy appeared on a multi-artist charity single the same year as one of many contributors on "One Heart at a Time," a Victoria Shaw song written to raise cystic fibrosis research.

McCoy's Last Album for Atlantic, The Life of the Party, was released in 1999. It only took place for two singles: at No. 1, the Phil Vassar co-writer "I Was" was the No. 1st to write "I Was" at No. 0r. No. 37 and "The Girls of Summer" at No. 84. 42 years old. On "Now That's Awesome," a song featuring snippets of a Bill Engvall comedy sketch, Tracy Byrd and T. Graham Brown also performed guest vocals on Engvall's "Now That's Awesome." This single ranked No. 2 on the charts at No. 1. 59.

McCoy's next album, 24-7-365, was released by Giant Records in late 2000, due to the closing of Atlantic Records' Nashville division in mid-2000. It featured the singles "Forever Works for Me," "Every Man for Himself," "Beforever Works for Me," and "Beatin' It In" at No. 58. No. 38. No. 37 is the president of the United Kingdom and No. According to the 41. He released "I'll Be Home for Christmas" and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" in late 2000, which ranked at number 74 on seasonal airplay. He returned to Warner Bros. Records, where he found The Lucky Man in the World after Giant closed as well. Although the title track made it to the country charts and peaked at number 46, McCoy and Warner Bros. were not announced, and McCoy left Warner Bros. by the end of the year. In 2004, he began a record with SEA Records and was supposed to debut a single for it in the middle of the year, but he left the company unveiled.

Neal McCoy and his partner Karen Kane formed 903 Music in 2005. "Billy's Got His Beer Goggles On," his first single for his own label, debuted on the Hot Country Songs chart in 2005. The song served as the lead-off to his 2005 album That's Life. Aside from the album were a preview of Charley Pride's "You're My Jamaica" (Charley Pride also appeared on the track) and a studio version of "Hillbilly Rap," which he had performed in concert since the early 1990s. "The Last of a Dying Breed," McCoy's newest single release, followed by a spoken-word introduction from US Army general Tommy Franks, topped at 36.

Darryl Worley and the Drew Davis Band were also signed to 903. Worley's 2006 album Here and Now, which resulted in the top 40 hits "Nothin' But a Love Thang" and "I Just Came Back From a War," among other things. McCoy revealed in May 2007 that the brand had filed for bankruptcy and closed its doors.

In the Waco, Texas market for Mike Craig Chevrolet Pontiac Buick in Marlin, Texas, Neal could be seen sporting his comedic chops on local television commercials. The businesses were active for about a year. In one of them, Neal acts like a puppet in the custody of the Mike Craig dealership in Hillsboro, Texas.

In 2008, Rhino Records released The Very Best of Neal McCoy. This album resurrected most of his biggest chart hits to that point, as well as the new one, "Rednecktified," which was released as a single but not chart. He released another single, "For the Troops," later this year, which also failed to chart. In 2011, McCoy wrote a book titled New Mountain to Climb, which coincided with the unveiling of a single of the same name.

McCoy signed with Blaster Music in April 2011. On March 6, 2012, he released his twelfth album, XII, for the label. Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert co-produced the album with Brent Rowan and sang backing vocals on the album's lead-off song "A-OK."

Under the direction of Garth Fundis, McCoy released Pride: A Tribute to Charley Pride a year later. Darius Rucker, Trace Adkins, and Raul Malo of The Mavericks appear on the album. McCoy and Pride produced a video for "Kaw-Liga," which was co-written and originally recorded by Hank Williams before Pride covered it in 1969.

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