The Shooters was a five-piece country music

Country music

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 band founded in Muscle Shoals, Alabama

Muscle Shoals, Alabama

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. It consisted of Walt Aldridge

Walt Aldridge

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 (guitar

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, lead vocals

Singing

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) Gary Baker (bass guitar

Bass guitar

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), Barry Billings (guitar), Chalmers Davis (keyboards

Keyboard instrument

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), and Michael Dillon (drums

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). They charted several times on the Billboard

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country charts between 1986 and 1989. The quintet's first four singles were to have been included on an album titled Going Against the Wind. 1989's Solid as a Rock included their highest-charting single, the number 13 "Borderline".

After disbanding, Aldridge found work as a songwriter, session musician and record producer, while Baker joined songwriting partner Frank J. Myers

Frank J. Myers

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 to write John Michael Montgomery

John Michael Montgomery

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's 1994 hit single "I Swear

I Swear

"I Swear" is a ballad written by Gary Baker and Frank J. Myers that became a hit for two acts in 1994. Initially it was a number one song on the U.S. Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart for American country music artist John Michael Montgomery at the beginning of the year. His version crossed over...

", which was later covered by All-4-One

All-4-One

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 as well. Baker and Myers also recorded one album as the duo Baker & Myers

Baker & Myers

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.

Albums

Year	Album	Chart Positions		Label
		US Country	CAN Country
1989	Solid as a Rock	40	23	Epic

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
1987	"They Only Come Out at Night"	21	49	non-album singles
	"'Til the Old Wears Off"	41	39
	"Tell It to Your Teddy Bear"	34	—
1988	"I Taught Her Everything She Knows About Love"	31	46
	"Borderline"	13	*	Solid as a Rock
1989	"If I Ever Go Crazy"	17	21
	"You Just Can't Lose 'Em All"	39	55