Best of the Beckaroo-Part 1 was released in 2005. Swedish Coffee & American Sugar was released by popular demand in Scandinavia in 2000, and in 2004, Becky released Songs From the Road of Life (also produced by Duane). He produced Becky’s 1998’s From Oklahoma With Love, which got a rave review in PEOPLE Magazine. Duane played guitar with Glenn Frey for 16 years, and also played with Paul McCartney, Don Henley, Joe Walsh, and many others. In 1996, Becky married guitarist/ producer/songwriter Duane Sciacqua.
That same year, she was honored as the U.K.’s Country Music Round-Up’s “Most Promising International Act.” In 1994, she released The Boots I Came to Town In album (Intersound), which included the haunting "Pale Moon," "Mama's Green Eyes (And Daddy's Wild Hair)" and Becky's own version of "Angels Among Us." Becky was named Cashbox Magazine's Independent Country Music Female Artist of the Year for 1994. In the early 90's, Becky's "Talk Back Tremblin' Lips" video (Curb Records) went to #6 on CMT. In 1981, Becky headed for Nashville, and shortly thereafter recorded a Top 10 duet with Moe Bandy, "Let's Get Over Them Together." In 1988, her critically acclaimed All Keyed Up album (MTM, then BMG produced by Richard Bennett), brought us "Jones On The Jukebox," "Are There Any More Like You," and "Do You Feel The Same Way Too." In 1988, Becky's co-written song "You Are" (recorded by Glen Campbell & Emmylou Harris) was nominated for a Grammy in the "Best Country & Western Vocal Performance -Duet category. Thanks to Al, Becky got her first big break with Mercury Records in Nashville, and had chart success with “I Can’t Say Goodbye To You,” “Honky Tonk Saturday Night,” and other records, produced by Jerry Kennedy. During the “Urban Cowboy” craze, Becky signed as a writer with Al Gallico. Later, Becky signed with BNB Artist Management (Sherwin Bash, Mace Neufeld and Alan Bernard), and Becky was one of the first artists on their Tattoo Record Label. He got Becky a record deal with MCA in 1974. Helen Reddy’s husband, Jeff Wald was her first manager. Kim Fowley of Bad Boy Music, was the first publisher to sign a couple of Becky’s songs. She spent 2 years in Baton Rouge, LA playing in southern rock band, “Swampfox,” then landed in Los Angeles for nine years. She started playing piano and writing songs when she was nine years old and in high school formed “The Four faces of Eve,” the first all-female rock band in the state of Oklahoma. "The Beckaroo," as she is called by her friends, was born and raised in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. She is the co-writer of Alabama’s hit, “Angels Among Us,” which has been recorded by numerous artists and used by many charities throughout the world, including St.
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Her songs have been recorded by Alabama, Conway Twitty (#1 hit "I Want To Know You Before We Make Love"), George Jones, Loretta Lynn, Emmylou Harris, Glen Campbell, Wanda Jackson, John Anderson, Janie Fricke, Lacy J Dalton, Moe Bandy, Shelly West, Helen Reddy, Shirley Bassey, Jane Oliver, Ken Mellons, Charly McClain, Johnny Bush, Demi Lovato, Kristin Chenoweth, Scotty McCreery, Home Free and The Cherokee National Youth Choir. On stage, she plays some rockin’ keys, yet she can rope you in like an Oklahoma cowgirl with her from-the-heart ballads.īecky has performed in over 40 countries, including nine in Africa. She is a gifted songwriter, as well as a captivating entertainer. If you aren’t already following Country’s Chatter on Twitter, we would love to have you.Whiskey-voiced Becky Hobbs is one-of-a-kind. Here are your birthdays for the week beginning Sunday, March 26, 2017. If there was no website listed, we have sent you to a link where you could get a little information about the artist. For the others, we have posted a link to their official website (when one was available), and hopefully that will lead you to a Facebook page or Twitter where you can send a special birthday greeting of your own. Two of them are no longer with us, but as always, we want to remember them on their special day. Happy birthday to the 13 people who bring country music to our world.