Razzy Bailey – his real first name was Erastus – had 18 top-40 country hits, 1978-84, and five number ones including Friends, Midnight Hauler, Loving Up A Storm, I Keep Coming Back and She Left Love All Over Me. His first single, Once We Loved, was a regional hit in his native Alabama in 1959. He wrote and recorded 9,999,999 Tears in 1966. It was not a hit but a 1976 version by Dickey Lee reached #3 on the country chart.
1980s hitmaker Razzy Bailey dies at 82
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