Holly Dunn
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Holly Dunn is a country music
artist who first found fame with her 1986 Top-10 hit "Daddy's Hands" from her self-titled début album. Dunn has charted more than a dozen country singles, two of which ("Are You Ever Gonna Love Me
", "You Really Had Me Going
") reaching the #1 spot.
Dunn is the daughter of a minister father. Her brother is country music
songwriter Chris Waters, with whom she has co-written much of her recorded material.
In 2003, Dunn announced her retirement from her musical career in order to devote full time to her other passion, art. Her paintings deal primarily with subjects from the southwestern United States, and are available through the Peña Studio and Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico
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Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
artist who first found fame with her 1986 Top-10 hit "Daddy's Hands" from her self-titled début album. Dunn has charted more than a dozen country singles, two of which ("Are You Ever Gonna Love Me
Are You Ever Gonna Love Me
"Are You Ever Gonna Love Me" is a 1989 country music single made famous by Holly Dunn. Written by Dunn, along with Tom Shapiro and her brother Chris Waters, the song was her first single released by Warner Bros. Records, to which she signed after her previous label, MTM Records, was...
", "You Really Had Me Going
You Really Had Me Going
"You Really Had Me Going" is a 1990 single by Holly Dunn. "You Really Had Me Going" was Dunn's second and final number one on the country chart. The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of 20 weeks on the country chart....
") reaching the #1 spot.
Dunn is the daughter of a minister father. Her brother is country music
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
songwriter Chris Waters, with whom she has co-written much of her recorded material.
In 2003, Dunn announced her retirement from her musical career in order to devote full time to her other passion, art. Her paintings deal primarily with subjects from the southwestern United States, and are available through the Peña Studio and Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Santa Fe is the capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico. It is the fourth-largest city in the state and is the seat of . Santa Fe had a population of 67,947 in the 2010 census...
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Studio albums
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| Holly Dunn Holly Dunn (album) Holly Dunn was the 1986 self-titled début album from country music artist Holly Dunn, who scored her first Billboard hit with "Daddy's Hands," which reached #7. An earlier single, "Two Too Many," could only rise to the #39 position... |
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| Cornerstone Cornerstone (Holly Dunn album) Cornerstone is a 1987 album by Holly Dunn. Although it yielded no #1 hits, as would some of her later albums, Cornerstone would attain the highest Billboard Top Country Albums rating in her career for Holly Dunn at #22, based on three hits which made it into the Country Top Ten singles list: the... |
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| Across the Rio Grande Across the Rio Grande Across the Rio Grande is country music artist Holly Dunn's third album, released in 1988. It did not do quite as well as the preceding Cornerstone. The only hits were the #5 "That's What Your Love Does to Me", and " Someday," which logged in at Billboard Top Country Singles #11... |
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| The Blue Rose of Texas The Blue Rose of Texas The Blue Rose of Texas is country music artist Holly Dunn's fourth album, the first with Warner Bros. Records. With this album, Holly Dunn achieved her first number 1 Billboard country single with "Are You Ever Gonna Love Me". Another major hit from the album was the number 4 "There Goes My Heart... |
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| Heart Full of Love Heart Full of Love Heart Full of Love is the fifth studio album by American country music singer Holly Dunn. It includes the singles "You Really Had Me Going" and "Heart Full of Love," which respectively reached #1 and #19 on the Hot Country Songs charts... |
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| Getting It Dunn Getting It Dunn Getting It Dunn, the sixth album by country music artist Holly Dunn. The Verlon Thompson/Beth Nielsen Chapman-written "You Say You Will" was almost simultaneously covered by Trisha Yearwood on her album Hearts in Armor, in the same year of 1992.... |
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| Life and Love and All the Stages |
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| Leave One Bridge Standing |
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| Full Circle |
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Compilations
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions |
Certifications Music recording sales certification Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,... (sales thresholds) |
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| US Country | US Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists... |
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| Milestones: Greatest Hits Milestones: Greatest Hits Milestones: Greatest Hits is a compilation album by American country music artist Holly Dunn. It was released by Warner Bros. Records in July 1991. Two singles were released from the album, "Maybe I Mean Yes" and "No One Takes the Train Anymore". The former peaked at #48 on the Billboard Hot... |
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Recording Industry Association of America The Recording Industry Association of America is a trade organization that represents the recording industry distributors in the United States... : Gold |
Singles
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions |
Album | |
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| US Country Hot Country Songs Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales... |
CAN Country RPM (magazine) RPM was a Canadian music industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada. The publication was founded by Walt Grealis in February 1964, supported through its existence by record label owner Stan Klees. RPM ceased publication in November 2000.RPM stood for "Records, Promotion,... |
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| 1985 | "Playing for Keeps" | 62 | — | singles only |
| "My Heart Holds On" | 64 | — | ||
| 1986 | "Two Too Many" | 39 | — | Holly Dunn |
| "Daddy's Hands Daddy's Hands "Daddy's Hands" is a single written and recorded by American country music artist Holly Dunn. Released in 1986, it was the second single from the album Holly Dunn. The song reached #7 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.... " |
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| 1987 | "Love Someone Like Me Love Someone Like Me "Love Someone Like Me" is a single by American country music artist Holly Dunn. Released in 1987, it was the first single from the album Cornerstone. The song reached #2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.-Chart performance:... " |
2 | 2 | Cornerstone |
| "Only When I Love Only When I Love "Only When I Love" is a single by American country music artist Holly Dunn. Released in 1987, it was the second single from the album Cornerstone. The song reached #4 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.-Chart performance:... " |
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| 1988 | "Strangers Again Strangers Again "Strangers Again" is a single by American country music artist Holly Dunn. Released in 1988, it the third single from the album Cornerstone. The song reached #7 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.-Chart performance:... " |
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| "That's What Your Love Does to Me That's What Your Love Does to Me "That's What Your Love Does to Me" is a single by American country music artist Holly Dunn. Released in 1988, it was the first single from the album Across the Rio Grande. The song reached #5 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.... " |
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| "(It's Always Gonna Be) Someday" | 11 | * | ||
| 1989 | "Are You Ever Gonna Love Me Are You Ever Gonna Love Me "Are You Ever Gonna Love Me" is a 1989 country music single made famous by Holly Dunn. Written by Dunn, along with Tom Shapiro and her brother Chris Waters, the song was her first single released by Warner Bros. Records, to which she signed after her previous label, MTM Records, was... " |
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| "There Goes My Heart Again There Goes My Heart Again "There Goes My Heart Again" is a single by American country music artist Holly Dunn. Released in 1989, it was the second single from the album The Blue Rose of Texas. The song reached #4 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. Joe Diffie, who co-wrote the song, sings backing vocals... " |
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| 1990 | "My Anniversary for Being a Fool" | 63 | 75 | Heart Full of Love |
| "You Really Had Me Going You Really Had Me Going "You Really Had Me Going" is a 1990 single by Holly Dunn. "You Really Had Me Going" was Dunn's second and final number one on the country chart. The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of 20 weeks on the country chart.... " |
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| 1991 | "Heart Full of Love" | 19 | 12 | |
| "Maybe I Mean Yes" | 48 | 45 | Milestones: Greatest Hits | |
| "No One Takes the Train Anymore" | — | — | ||
| 1992 | "No Love Have I" | 67 | — | Getting It Dunn |
| "As Long as You Belong to Me" | 68 | — | ||
| 1993 | "Golden Years" | 51 | 62 | |
| 1995 | "I Am Who I Am" | 56 | 56 | Life and Love and All the Stages |
| "Cowboys Are My Weakness" | — | — | ||
| 1996 | "It's Not About Blame" | — | — | |
| 1997 | "Leave One Bridge Standing" | — | — | Leave One Bridge Standing |
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Guest singles
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| US Country Hot Country Songs Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales... |
CAN Country RPM (magazine) RPM was a Canadian music industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada. The publication was founded by Walt Grealis in February 1964, supported through its existence by record label owner Stan Klees. RPM ceased publication in November 2000.RPM stood for "Records, Promotion,... |
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| 1987 | "A Face in the Crowd A Face in the Crowd (Michael Martin Murphey and Holly Dunn song) "A Face in the Crowd" is the title of a song written by Karen Staley and Gary Harrison, and recorded by American country music artists Michael Martin Murphey and Holly Dunn. It was released in January 1987 as the first single from the album Americana... " |
Michael Martin Murphey Michael Martin Murphey Michael Martin Murphey is an American singer-songwriter best known for writing and performing Western music, Country music, and Popular music. A multiple Grammy nominee, Murphey has six gold albums, including Cowboy Songs, the first album of cowboy music to achieve gold status since Gunfighter... |
4 | 7 | Americana Americana (Michael Martin Murphey album) - Track listing :# "A Face in the Crowd" # "A Long Line of Love"# "Once Upon a Time"# "Out of Touch"# "Almost Free"# "Worlds Apart"# "No One Else But You"# "You're History"# "My Darling Wherever You Are"# "I'm Never Gonna Let You Go"... |
| 1990 | "Maybe" | Kenny Rogers Kenny Rogers Kenneth Donald "Kenny" Rogers is an American singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur... |
25 | 17 | Something Inside So Strong Something Inside So Strong (album) Something Inside So Strong is a 1989 album by country music superstar Kenny Rogers.- Overview :Something Inside So Strong is another album of Rogers' that heads in the adult-contemporary direction, but actually performs better than his other recent albums... |
| "Tomorrow's World" | Various artists | 74 | — | single only | |
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Music videos
| Year | Title | Director |
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| 1987 | "Daddy's Hands" | Jim May/Coke Sams |
| 1988 | "Strangers Again" | |
| 1990 | "You Really Had Me Going" | |
| 1991 | "Maybe I Mean Yes" | |
| "No One Takes the Train Anymore" | ||
| 1992 | "As Long as You Belong to Me" | |
| 1995 | "I Am Who I Am" | Thom Oliphant |
| "Cowboys Are My Weakness" | Jon Small | |
| 1997 | "Leave One Bridge Standing" | Steven R. Monroe |