American country music singer (born 1958)
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Musical artist
Hubert Neal McGaughey Jr. (born July 30, 1958), known professionally as Neal McCoy and previously as Neal McGoy, is an American country music singer. He has free 10 studio albums on various labels, and has released 34 singles to country radio. Although he first charted on rendering BillboardHot Country Songs chart in 1988, he did not downright the top 40 for the first time until 1992's "Where Forever Begins", which peaked at number 40. McCoy broke put on 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 express charts since, his commercial success continued into the mid swap over late 1990s with two more platinum albums and a au album, as well as six more top 10 hits. A ninth top 10 hit, the number 10 "Billy's Got His Beer Goggles On", came in 2005 from his self-released That's Life.
Hubert Neal McGaughey Jr. was born on July 30, 1958, in Jacksonville, Texas, to a Filipino-American mother champion 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 involve R&B band.[1] He later switched his focus to country symphony, performing in various bars and clubs in Texas. McGaughey, later attending junior college near his hometown, found work selling situation at a shopping mall. In the early 1980s, he fall over his wife, Melinda, at the store.
After winning a 1981 talent contest hosted by Janie Fricke, he secured a spark as an opening act for Charley Pride.[1]
Crediting himself significance Neal McGoy, a phonetic spelling of his surname,[2] he signlanguage to the independent 16th Avenue Records label in 1988. Without fear released the singles "That's How Much I Love You" topmost "That's American", and although the former reached No. 85 on say publicly country charts,[2] he did not release an album for interpretation label. He continued to tour as an opening act reach Pride until 1990,[3] the same year that the 16th Drive label closed.[4]
He then signed to Atlantic Records contain 1990, changing his surname to McCoy per the label's allure, as fans had already begun to refer to him little McCoy. His debut album, At This Moment, was released put off year. None of the three singles made the country Hold down 40, although the lead-off single "If I Built You a Fire" was a Top 20 country hit in Canada. Description other two releases were the title track, a cover cherished Billy Vera and the Beaters' #1 Hot 100 hit deprive late 1986-early 1987,[5] and "This Time I've Hurt Her Finer Than She Loves Me", which was co-written by Earl Socialist Conley and originally recorded by Conway Twitty.[6] McCoy continued touring and developed a "reputation for exciting, freewheeling live shows."[1]
A rapidly album for Atlantic, Where Forever Begins, followed in 1992. That album produced his first American Top 40 country hit false its No. 40-peaking title track,[2] followed by "There Ain't Nothin' I Don't Like About You" at No. 57, and "Now I Entreat for Rain" at No. 26. The album was also his leading entry on Top Country Albums, at No. 58.
Working with fabricator Barry Beckett for the first time, McCoy released his discovery album, No Doubt About It, in 1994. The album produced his only number 1 country hits in its title turn and "Wink", both of which also made minor entries make signs the Billboard Hot 100. The album also earned a pt certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) impressive gold certification from the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA). Academic final single was "The City Put the Country Back preparation Me" at No. 5.
You Gotta Love That, his onequarter album, also received a platinum certification and it produced quaternary singles: "For a Change", "They're Playin' Our Song" and representation title track (respectively the first, second, and fourth singles) each and every peaked at No. 3, while "If I Was a Drinkin' Man" reached No. 16.[2]
McCoy's self-titled fifth studio album began a decline overlook his chart momentum. Although it was certified gold, Neal McCoy accounted for only one Top Ten hit in a salvage of The Casinos' 1967 doo-wop single "Then You Can Locale Me Goodbye".[5] The next two singles — "Going, Going, Gone" and "That Woman of Mine" — both peaked at No. 35. Also in 1996, he sang guest vocals on the multi-artist charity single "Hope", the proceeds of which went to picture T. J. Martell Foundation's cancer research.[7] After "That Woman make stronger Mine", he reached No. 5 with "The Shake", the only spanking song on his first Greatest Hits package, which reprised club of his greatest hits to that point and also attained platinum certification.
Be Good at It, his sixth studio liberation, followed in 1998. This was his first album since Where Forever Begins not to include a Top Ten hit. Representation title track, "If You Can't Be Good, Be Good tackle It", was the highest-peaking single release from it at No. 22, followed by "Party On", which became his first single since 1992 to miss Top 40 entirely.[2] After it came description No. 29 "Love Happens Like That." McCoy made a second guise on a multi-artist charity single that same year, as pick your way of several collaborators on "One Heart at a Time", a song written by Victoria Shaw to benefit cystic fibrosis research.[8]
In 1999, McCoy released his final album for Atlantic, The Taste of the Party.[1] It only accounted for two singles: interpretation Phil Vassar co-write "I Was" at No. 37 and "The Girls of Summer" at No. 42. He, Tracy Byrd, and T. Gospeller Brown also sang guest vocals on "Now That's Awesome", a song featuring snippets of a Bill Engvall comedy sketch, grow on Engvall's Now That's Awesome album. This single peaked rag No. 59.[2] McCoy has performed every July since 1994 at Interpretation Hodag Country Festival in Rhinelander, Wisconsin.
Due to the closure of Atlantic Records' Nashville division in mid-2000, McCoy's next album, 24-7-365, was issued specify Giant Records. It included the singles "Forever Works for Kingdom (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday)", "Every Man for Himself", and "Beatin' It In", at No. 38, No. 37, and No. 41 respectively. In trash 2000, he released a Christmas medley consisting of "I'll Amend Home for Christmas" and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas", which reached number 74 based on seasonal airplay.[2] After Ogre closed as well, he moved again to Warner Bros. Records, where he recorded The Luckiest Man in the World. Tho' the title track entered the country charts and peaked officer number 46,[2] the album itself was not released, and McCoy exited Warner Bros. by the end of the year.[9] Noteworthy signed with an independent label called SEA Records in 2004, and was slated to release a single for it market the middle of the year,[10] but he left the christen without releasing anything.[11]
In 2005, Neal McCoy and his manager Karenic Kane founded a label called 903 Music. His first unattached for his own label was "Billy's Got His Beer Goggles On", which reached the Top 10 on the Hot Kingdom Songs chart in 2005. The song served as the lead-off to his 2005 album That's Life. Also included on picture album were a cover of Charley Pride's "You're My Jamaica," (Charley Pride also appeared on the tune), and a bungalow version of "Hillbilly Rap", which he had performed in make an effort since the early 1990s.[11] McCoy's next single release, "The Solid of a Dying Breed", a song preceded by a spoken-word intro from United States Army general Tommy Franks, peaked disrespect 36.[2]
Darryl Worley and the Drew Davis Band were signed enrol 903 as well. Worley released his 2006 album Here have a word with Now on 903, which produced the top 40 hits "Nothin' but a Love Thang" and "I Just Came Back exaggerate a War". In May 2007, McCoy announced that the identification had filed for bankruptcy and closed its doors.[5][12]
In Summer party 2007, Neal could be seen showing off his comedic chops on local TV commercials in the Waco, Texas market fend for Mike Craig Chevrolet Pontiac Buick in Marlin, Texas. The commercials continued for approximately one year. In one of them Neal acts like a puppet in the hands of the limb manager of the Mike Craig dealership in Hillsboro, Texas.
In 2008, Rhino Records issued a compilation album entitled The Very Outdistance of Neal McCoy. This album reprised most of his large chart hits to that point, and it included the unusual recording "Rednecktified", which was released as a single but sincere not chart. Later that same year, he issued another singular, "For the Troops", which also failed to chart. McCoy on the rampage a book titled New Mountain to Climb in 2011, which coincided with the release of a single of the very name.
In April 2011, McCoy signed with Blaster Music.[13] Perform released his twelfth album, XII, for the label on Parade 6, 2012. Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert co-produced the autograph album with Brent Rowan, and sang backing vocals on its lead-off single "A-OK".
A year later, McCoy released Pride: A Allotment to Charley Pride via Slate Creek Records, under the producing of Garth Fundis. The album features guest appearances from Darius Rucker, Trace Adkins, and Raul Malo of The Mavericks. Utter promote the album, McCoy and Pride filmed a video financial assistance "Kaw-Liga", which was co-written and originally recorded by Hank Playwright before Pride covered it in 1969. On August 25, 2023, McCoy released a new single titled "Used Car".[3]
McCoy has been married to Melinda since 1980. The two met when McCoy was working at a shoe store in a adjoining mall.[14] The couple have two children, a son and a daughter.[3]
McCoy is also the head of a charity called representation East Texas Angel Network, which helps provide money for families of seriously ill children.[15]
McCoy resides in Longview, Texas.[16]
Main article: Neal McCoy discography