Thom Schuyler
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Thom Schuyler is an American songwriter. Schuyler wrote songs recorded by more than 200 various artists including "16th Avenue" for Lacy J. Dalton
, "Love Will Turn You Around" for Kenny Rogers
, and "Long Line of Love" for Michael Martin Murphey
.
In 1983, Schuyler signed to Capitol Records
and released the album Brave Heart. Its title track was a #43 single on the Hot Country Singles (now Hot Country Songs
) charts. Later, he founded the trio S-K-O
(originally known as Schuyler, Knobloch & Overstreet) with Fred Knobloch and Paul Overstreet
. S-K-O charted seven singles in the mid-1980s, including the Number One hit "Baby's Got a New Baby". Overstreet later assumed a solo career and the trio was renamed S-K-B when Craig Bickhardt replaced him.
After S-K-B disbanded, Schuyler continued to write songs, and was eventually made chairman of the Country Music Association
. He also headed RCA Records
' Nashville division from 1992 to 1995. In that role he signed singer Kenny Chesney
, the band Lonestar
and also had a signiciant role in launching the career of Martina McBride
and Sara Evans
. Schuyler continued to write songs for Almo-Irving Music, administered several music catalogs and recorded a few independent albums.
Schuyler is currently the Youth Minister at a church in Nashville and is an adjunct instructor at Belmont University.
Lacy J. Dalton
Lacy J. Dalton , is an American country and western singer and songwriter, known for her gritty, powerful vocals, which a number of critics likened to a country equivalent to Bonnie Raitt . She had a number of hits in the 1980s, including "Takin' It Easy," "Crazy Blue Eyes" and "16th Avenue." ...
, "Love Will Turn You Around" for Kenny Rogers
Kenny Rogers
Kenneth Donald "Kenny" Rogers is an American singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur...
, and "Long Line of Love" for 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...
.
In 1983, Schuyler signed to Capitol Records
Capitol Records
Capitol Records is a major United States based record label, formerly located in Los Angeles, but operating in New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its former headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine...
and released the album Brave Heart. Its title track was a #43 single on the Hot Country Singles (now Hot Country Songs
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...
) charts. Later, he founded the trio S-K-O
S-K-O
S-K-O, originally known as Schuyler, Knobloch and Overstreet, was an American country music group composed of Thom Schuyler, Fred Knobloch and Paul Overstreet. The original lineup recorded one album for MTM Records and charted three country hits, including the Number One "Baby's Got a New Baby"...
(originally known as Schuyler, Knobloch & Overstreet) with Fred Knobloch and Paul Overstreet
Paul Overstreet
Paul Lester Overstreet is an American country music singer and songwriter. He recorded 10 studio albums between 1982 and 2005, and charted 16 singles on the Billboard country charts, including two #1 hits...
. S-K-O charted seven singles in the mid-1980s, including the Number One hit "Baby's Got a New Baby". Overstreet later assumed a solo career and the trio was renamed S-K-B when Craig Bickhardt replaced him.
After S-K-B disbanded, Schuyler continued to write songs, and was eventually made chairman of the Country Music Association
Country Music Association
The Country Music Association was founded in 1958 in Nashville, Tennessee. It originally consisted of only 233 members and was the first trade organization formed to promote a music genre...
. He also headed RCA Records
RCA Records
RCA Records is one of the flagship labels of Sony Music Entertainment. The RCA initials stand for Radio Corporation of America , which was the parent corporation from 1929 to 1985 and a partner from 1985 to 1986.RCA's Canadian unit is Sony's oldest label...
' Nashville division from 1992 to 1995. In that role he signed singer Kenny Chesney
Kenny Chesney
Kenneth "Kenny" Arnold Chesney is an American country music singer and songwriter. Chesney has recorded 15 albums, 14 of which have been certified gold or higher by the RIAA. He has also produced more than 30 Top Ten singles on the U.S...
, the band Lonestar
Lonestar
Lonestar is an American country music group consisting of Richie McDonald , Michael Britt , Keech Rainwater , Dean Sams , and Michael Hill . McDonald left the band in November 2007 for a solo career before returning in 2011...
and also had a signiciant role in launching the career of Martina McBride
Martina McBride
Martina McBride is an American country music singer and songwriter. McBride has been called the "Céline Dion of Country Music" for her big-voiced ballads and soprano range....
and Sara Evans
Sara Evans
Sara Lynn Evans is an American country singer and songwriter.Evans was one of the few traditional-styled singers to emerge from Nashville in the late 1990s, according to Allmusic. Since emerging in the late 1990s, Evans has made five No. 1 Country hits and Gold and Platinum-certified albums by...
. Schuyler continued to write songs for Almo-Irving Music, administered several music catalogs and recorded a few independent albums.
Schuyler is currently the Youth Minister at a church in Nashville and is an adjunct instructor at Belmont University.
Songs written by Thom Schuyler
| Year | Song | Artist |
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| 1980 | "Hurricane Hurricane (Leon Everette song) "Hurricane" is the title of a song co-written by Thom Schuyler, Keith Stegall and Stewart Harris, and recorded by American singer Leon Everette. It was released in July 1981 as the lead single from Everette's RCA Records album Hurricane. It is Everette's highest-charting single.-Content:The song is... " |
Leon Everette Leon Everette Leon Everette is an American country music artist. While in the Navy during the Vietnam War, Everette won a singing contest and decided to pursue a career in country music.... |
| 1982 | "Love Will Turn You Around Love Will Turn You Around (song) "Love Will Turn You Around" is the title of a song performed and co-written by American country music singer Kenny Rogers. The song was released as a single in 1982 from Rogers' album of the same name. It is also the theme song to Rogers' 1982 film Six Pack.... " |
Kenny Rogers Kenny Rogers Kenneth Donald "Kenny" Rogers is an American singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur... |
| "Years After You" | Eddie Rabbitt Eddie Rabbitt Edward Thomas "Eddie" Rabbitt was an American singer-songwriter and musician. His career began as a songwriter in the late 1960s, springboarding to a recording career after composing hits such as "Kentucky Rain" for Elvis Presley in 1970 and "Pure Love" for Ronnie Milsap in 1974... |
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| "I Don't Know Where to Start I Don't Know Where to Start "I Don't Know Where to Start" is a single by American country music artist Eddie Rabbitt. Released in 1982, it was the third single from the album Step by Step. The song reached #2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.... " |
Eddie Rabbitt Eddie Rabbitt Edward Thomas "Eddie" Rabbitt was an American singer-songwriter and musician. His career began as a songwriter in the late 1960s, springboarding to a recording career after composing hits such as "Kentucky Rain" for Elvis Presley in 1970 and "Pure Love" for Ronnie Milsap in 1974... |
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| 1983 | "16th Avenue" | Lacy J. Dalton Lacy J. Dalton Lacy J. Dalton , is an American country and western singer and songwriter, known for her gritty, powerful vocals, which a number of critics likened to a country equivalent to Bonnie Raitt . She had a number of hits in the 1980s, including "Takin' It Easy," "Crazy Blue Eyes" and "16th Avenue." ... |
| 1984 | "Nothing Like Falling in Love Nothing Like Falling in Love "Nothing Like Falling in Love" is a single by American country music artist Eddie Rabbitt. Released in November 1983, it was the second single from his album Greatest Hits Vol. 2. The song reached #10 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in February 1984 and #1 on the RPM Country Tracks chart... " |
Eddie Rabbitt Eddie Rabbitt Edward Thomas "Eddie" Rabbitt was an American singer-songwriter and musician. His career began as a songwriter in the late 1960s, springboarding to a recording career after composing hits such as "Kentucky Rain" for Elvis Presley in 1970 and "Pure Love" for Ronnie Milsap in 1974... |
| 1985 | "My Old Yellow Car My Old Yellow Car "My Old Yellow Car" is a single released by American country music artist Dan Seals. It is the third and final single released from his 1984 album San Antone. It peaked at #9 in early-1985.-Content:... " |
Dan Seals Dan Seals Danny Wayland "Dan" Seals was an American musician. The younger brother of Seals & Crofts member Jim Seals, he first gained fame as the "England Dan" half of the soft rock duo England Dan and John Ford Coley, which charted nine pop and adult contemporary singles between 1976 and 1980, including... |
| "A Long Line of Love A Long Line of Love "A Long Line of Love" is the title of a song written by Paul Overstreet and Thom Schuyler. It was recorded by American country music artist, Michael Martin Murphey. It was released in April 1987 as the second single from his album Americana. The song reached number one on the U.S. and Canadian... " |
Michael Martin Murphy | |
| "Years After You" | John Conlee John Conlee John Conlee is an American country music singer. Between 1978 and 2004, Conlee charted a total of thirty-two singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts and recorded eleven studio albums... |
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| "I Fell in Love Again Last Night I Fell in Love Again Last Night "I Fell in Love Again Last Night" is a 1985 single written by Paul Overstreet and Thom Schuyler and recorded by The Forester Sisters. "I Fell in Love Again Last Night" was The Forester Sisters' second country hit and the first of five number ones on the country chart. The single went to number... " |
The Forester Sisters The Forester Sisters The Forester Sisters are an American country music vocal group consisting of sisters Kathy, June, Kim and Christy Forester. The quartet had commercial success in the 1980s, charting fifteen Top Tens on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, including the Number Ones "I Fell in Love Again Last... |
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| 1986 | "I Want a Love Like That" | Judy Rodman Judy Rodman Judy Rodman is an American Country Music Singer. In the mid-80s, she was a successful country music singer, making all the way to number one on the country charts in 1986 with the song "Until I Met You." She also won the Academy of Country Music's "Top New Female Vocalist" award in 1985.Today,... |
| "You Can't Stop Love" | SKO | |
| 1987 | "Love Out Loud Love Out Loud (Earl Thomas Conley song) "Love Out Loud" is the title of a song written by Thom Schuyler and recorded by Earl Thomas Conley. It was released in March 1989 as the fourth single from the album, The Heart of It All. The song was Earl Thomas Conley's eighteenth and final number one on the country chart as a solo artist... " |
Earl Thomas Conley Earl Thomas Conley Earl Thomas Conley is an American country music singer-songwriter. Between 1980 and 2003, he recorded ten studio albums, including seven for the RCA Records label. In the 1980s and into the 1990s, Conley also charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, of which... |
| "This Old House" | SKB SKB SKB may refer to:* SKB , a Slovenian bank* IATA code for Robert L. Bradshaw International Airport on the island of St. Kitts* Sportsklubben Brann, Norwegian football club* Socket Buffer, for computer networking... |
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| 1989 | "Point of Light Point of Light "Point of Light" is the title of a song co-written by Don Schlitz and Thom Schuyler and recorded by American country music artist Randy Travis. It was the lead-off single released from his album, High Lonesome. It was his twenty-first single overall... " |
Randy Travis Randy Travis Randy Travis is an American country music singer and actor. Since 1985, he has recorded 20 studio albums and charted more than 30 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, 22 of which were number one hits... |
| 1995 | "Life Gets Away Life Gets Away "Life Gets Away" is the title of a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Clint Black. It was released in October 1995 as the fifth and final single from Black's album One Emotion. The song reached number on the U.S... " |
Clint Black Clint Black Clint Patrick Black is an American country music singer-songwriter, record producer, multi-instrumentalist and occasional actor. Signed to RCA Records in 1989, Black made his debut with his Killin' Time album, which produced four straight Number One singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country... |
| 2006 | "And It Feels Like And It Feels Like "And It Feels Like" was the first single from American country pop singer LeAnn Rimes' album Whatever We Wanna. It was one of the only singles of her career not to be released in the United States.-Track listing:*UK CD Maxi Single... " |
LeAnn Rimes LeAnn Rimes LeAnn Rimes is an American country/pop singer. She is known for her rich vocals and her rise to fame as an eight-year-old champion on the original Ed McMahon version of Star Search, followed by the release of the Patsy Cline-intended single "Blue" when Rimes was only age 13, resulting in her... |
Albums
| Year | Album |
|---|---|
| 1983 | Brave Heart |
| 1993 | Precious Child (with Craig Bickhardt Craig Bickhardt Craig Bickhardt is an American country music singer and songwriter. His musical career includes co-writing credits for The Judds, Steve Wariner, Kathy Mattea and others. He was also a member of S-K-B, formerly S-K-O, after Paul Overstreet exited that band, and he has released three studio albums... ) |
| 2008 | Prayer of a Desperate Man |
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... |
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| 1983 | "A Little at a Time" | 49 | Brave Heart |
| "Brave Heart" | 43 |