Kenneth Dale Eoff is an American 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...

 artist, known professionally as Kenny Dale. Activein the 1970s, he recorded two albums for Capitol Records

Capitol Records

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 and charted several country hits. His biggest hit was a cover version

Cover version

In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...

 of Gene Pitney

Gene Pitney

Eugene Francis Alan Pitney, known as Gene Pitney , was an American singer-songwriter, musician and sound engineer. Through the mid-1960s, he enjoyed success as a recording artist on both sides of the Atlantic and was among the group of early 1960s American acts who continued to enjoy hits after the...

's "Only Love Can Break a Heart

Only Love Can Break a Heart

"Only Love Can Break a Heart" is the title of a popular song from 1962 by the American singer-songwriter Gene Pitney. The song was written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach and appears on Pitney's second album Only Love Can Break a Heart.Pitney had enjoyed some success as a songwriter prior to...

", which peaked at #7. Dale retired from the country music business in the early 1980s and took up residence in Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville, Tennessee

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. He now works as a school bus driver in Texas.

Albums

All albums released on Capitol Records

Capitol Records

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.

Year	Album	US Country
1977	Bluest Heartache	29
1978	Red Hot Memory	45
1979	Only Love Can Break a Heart	—
1981	When It's Just You and Me	—

Singles

Year	Single	Chart Positions		Album
		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
1977	"Bluest Heartache of the Year"	11	23	Bluest Heartache
	"Shame Shame on Me (I Had Planned to Be Your Man)"	11	16
1978	"Red Hot Memory"	17	—	Red Hot Memory
	"The Loser"	28	—
	"Two Hearts Tangled in Love"	18	31
1979	"Down to Earth Woman"	16	60	Only Love Can Break a Heart
	"Only Love Can Break a Heart Only Love Can Break a Heart "Only Love Can Break a Heart" is the title of a popular song from 1962 by the American singer-songwriter Gene Pitney. The song was written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach and appears on Pitney's second album Only Love Can Break a Heart.Pitney had enjoyed some success as a songwriter prior to... "	7	20
	"Sharing"	15	38
1980	"Let Me In"	23	50
	"Thank You, Ever-Lovin'"	33	56	When It's Just You and Me
1981	"When It's Just You and Me"	31	—
1982	"Moanin' the Blues"	65	—	Singles only
1984	"Two Will Be One"	85	—
	"Take It Slow"	86	—
1985	"Look What Love Did to Me"	83	—
1986	"I'm Going Crazy"	63	—