I always loved to hear Charly McClain sing a slow, gentle love song, she was really good at it. She had a very unique voice that in some ways was not as powerful or as loud as the others, but there was an incredible, and alluring vulnerability in it, and the more "country" the song, the better she sounded. She was in the same era of Janie Fricke, Crystal Gayle, Sylvia, Tanya, Barbara Mandrell, Dolly, Shelly West, Rosanne Cash,a young Rebaand others. I played all her songs for many years on great stations all across the country. Then she did something not many do, one day she just walked away. That voice made her as popular as any woman of her era. In the 1980's she had a nice run of hits, had a following, in addition to an enviable, beautiful, soft, angelic voice that was her absolute calling card. She asked about Charly McClain and what happened to her.Actually, her name is Charlotte Denise McClain, but we all knew her as Charly. Jackie asked me about an artist I haven't thought about in a very long time.
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