Redmon & Vale
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Redmon & Vale was 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...

 duo formed in 1997 by Allison Redmon and Tina Vale, both of whom served as vocalists. They met through a common friend, with whom they initially performed as a trio before deciding to work as a duo instead after the trio split up.

The duo released a self-titled studio album and two singles in 1999 on DreamWorks Records
DreamWorks Records
DreamWorks Records was an American record label. Founded in 1996 by David Geffen, Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg as a subsidiary of DreamWorks SKG, the label operated until 2005 when it was shut down...

. The album included two singles, both of which charted on the Billboard
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country charts. Jeffrey B. Remz of Country Standard Time
Country Standard Time
Country Standard Time is a website dedicated to country music and related genres such as Bluegrass and Rockabilly. It provides news and musical reviews pertaining to the genre. It was established in 1992 by Jeffrey B. Remz as a print magazine, which was first published only in New England but went...

gave the album a negative review, saying that it "mine[d] the generic, overproduced field of bland pop country." A reviewer for The Technique
The Technique
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, the student newspaper for the Georgia Institute of Technology
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, gave the album a more positive review, noting that the two singers seemed to focus more on harmonies than most other country groups. The album's first single, "If I Had a Nickel (One Thin Dime)" reached #65 on the country charts, while the second single, "Squeezin' the Love Outta You", peaked at #74. The latter was also recorded by Carolyn Dawn Johnson
Carolyn Dawn Johnson
Carolyn Dawn Johnson is a Canadian Juno Award winning country music singer-songwriter. Johnson first rose to fame by co-writing Chely Wright's 1999 Number One single, "Single White Female," which reached number one on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in September 1999...

 (who co-wrote it) on her 2004 album Dress Rehearsal
Dress Rehearsal (Carolyn Dawn Johnson album)
Dress Rehearsal is the second studio album by Canadian country music singer-songwriter Carolyn Dawn Johnson, and was released on May 4, 2004 on Arista Nashville. It produced the singles "Simple Life" and "Die of a Broken Heart" in the U.S., which respectively reached #13 and #52 on the Hot Country...

.

Albums

Title Album details
Redmon & Vale
  • Release date: October 5, 1999
  • Label: DreamWorks Nashville
    DreamWorks Records
    DreamWorks Records was an American record label. Founded in 1996 by David Geffen, Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg as a subsidiary of DreamWorks SKG, the label operated until 2005 when it was shut down...


Singles

Year Single Peak positions Album
US Country
Hot Country Songs
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1999 "If I Had a Nickel (One Thin Dime)" 65 Redmon & Vale
"Squeezin' the Love Outta You" 74

Music videos

Year Video Director
1999 "If I Had a Nickel (One Thin Dime)" Steven Goldmann
Steven Goldmann
Steven Goldmann is a Canadian music video and film director. He has directed over 200 music videos. Goldmann also directed the movies Broken Bridges and Trailer Park of Terror, and has additionally directed several television programs.-1990-1999:...

"Squeezin' the Love Outta You" David Abbott
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