Alabama Changes Country Music on this Day in 1980
On this day in 1980, Alabama scored its first number one hit on the country charts with
Tennessee River. It would be the first of 21 consecutive number one hits, spanning until 1987, for the biggest band in the history of country music.
The band got its start in (you guessed it) Fort Payne, Alabama back in 1969, however, they initially had another name. Back then, they were known as
WildCountry.
WildCountry performed in bars across the southern U.S. throughout the 1970s. It wasn t until 1977 that they began going by
Alabama.
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