Buddy Alan

Alan Edgar "Buddy" Owens (born May 23, 1948 in Mesa, Arizona), known professionally as Buddy Alan, is an American former country music artist. The son of Buck Owens and Bonnie Owens and stepson of Merle Haggard, ) and released an album entitled Wild, Free and Twenty One, in addition to making appearances on Hee Haw. Later on, he charted again in the Top 20 with "Cowboy Convention", a duet with Owens' guitarist Don Rich, and earned a Most Promising Male Artist award from the Academy of Country Music. He continued to chart into the 1970s, but retired from the music business in 1978 to attend college. After that, he became a music director at local radio stations, and was voted four times as Billboard Music Director of the Year.

Discography

Albums Year Album Chart Positions US Country 1968 Wild, Free and Twenty-One — 1970 A Whole Lot of Something — 1971 We're Real Good Friends (with Don Rich) 36 1972 Too Old to Cut the Mustard? (with Buck Owens) 35 The Best of Buddy Alan 43 1975 Chains / Another Saturday Night —

Singles Year Single Chart Positions Album US Country CAN Country 1968 "Let the World Keep On A-Turnin'" (with Buck Owens) 7 36 I've Got You on My Mind Again "When I Turn Twenty-One" 54 — Wild, Free and Twenty-One 1969 "Lodi" 23 19 1970 "Big Mama's Medicine Show" 23 9 "Down in New Orleans" 38 — A Whole Lot of Something "Santo Domingo" 57 — "Cowboy Convention" (with Don Rich) 19 — We're Real Good Friends 1971 "Lookin' Out My Back Door" 37 — single only "I'm On the Road to Memphis" (with Don Rich) 54 — We're Real Good Friends "Fishin' On the Mississippi" 48 — singles only "I Will Drink Your Wine" 46 — "Too Old to Cut the Mustard" (with Buck Owens) 29 26 Too Old to Cut the Mustard? 1972 "White Line Fever" 68 — singles only "I'm in Love" 47 — "Things" 49 — "Move It On Over" 60 — 1973 "Why, Because I Love You" 64 — "Caribbean" 67 86 "Summer Afternoons" 68 — "All Around Cowboy of 1964" 67 — Chains / Another Saturday Night 1974 "I Never Had It So Good" 70 — 1975 "Chains" 35 — "Another Saturday Night" 88 —

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