The Eighties in America Country music 257
Year Song Performer
1985 “Can’t Keep a Good Man Down,” “Forty-Hour Week (for a Livin’),”
“There’s No Way” Alabama
“Somebody Should Leave” Reba McEntire
“Have Mercy,” “Love Is Alive,” “A Girl’s Night Out” The Judds
“The Chair” George Strait
“On the Other Hand” Randy Travis
“Forgiving You Was Easy” Willie Nelson
“Lost in the Fifties Tonight (In the Still of the Night),” “She Keeps the
Home Fires Burnin’” Ronnie Milsap
“I Don’t Know Why You Don’t Want Me” Roseanne Cash
“Highwayman” Waylon Jennings, Willie
Nelson, Johnny Cash,
Kris Kristofferson
1986 “She and I,” “Touch Me When We’re Dancing” Alabama
“Little Rock,” “What Am I Gonna Do About You?,” “Whoever’s in New
England” Reba McEntire
“Cry Myself to Sleep,” “Grandpa (Tell Me ’bout the Good Old Days),”
“Rockin’ with the Rhythm of the Rain” The Judds
“It Ain’t Cruel to Be Crazy About You,” “Nobody in His Right
Mind Would’ve Left Her” George Strait
“Diggin’ up Bones” Randy Travis
“Guitar Town” Steve Earle
“Guitars, Cadillacs,” “Honky Tonk Man” Dwight Yoakam
“Now and Forever (You and Me)” Anne Murray
“In Love” Ronnie Milsap
1987 “Face to Face” Alabama
“Last One to Know,” “One Promise Too Late” Reba McEntire
“I Know Where I’m Going,” “Maybe Your Baby’s Got the Blues” The Judds
“All My Ex’s Live in Texas,” “Am I Blue,” “Ocean Front Property” George Strait
“Forever and Ever, Amen,” “I Won’t Need You Anymore (Always and
Forever),” “Too Long Gone” Randy Travis
“’80’s Ladies,” “Do Ya’” K. T. Olsin
“Snap Your Fingers” Ronnie Milsap
1988 “Fallin’ Again,” “Song of the South” Alabama
“I Know How He Feels,” “Love Will Find Its Way to You,” “New Fool at
an Old Game” Reba McEntire
“Change of Heart,” “Give a Little Love,” “Turn It Loose” The Judds
“Baby Blue,” “Famous Last Words of a Fool,” “If You Ain’t Lovin’ (You
Ain’t Livin’)” George Strait
“Deeper than the Holler,” “Honky Tonk Moon, ”I Told You So" Randy Travis
“I Sang Dixie,” “Streets of Bakersfield” Dwight Yoakam
“Hold Me,” “I’ll Always Come Back” K. T. Oslin
“Button off My Shirt” Ronnie Milsap
“Runaway Train” Roseanne Cash(continued)