Toby Keith Ringtones for Mobile Phones
Toby Keith Covel was born in Clinton, Oklahoma on 8 July 1961. He is among most popular American country music singers and songwriters at recent days. When he was twenty, he formed the "Easy Money" band and they played in different local bars as he continued to work in the oil industry. Since 1993, Keith moved himself to Nashville, Tennessee. Here he presented several copies of first demo tape the band had made to the many record companies in the city. Fortunately for Keith, a flight attendant and one of his fans gave a copy of the demo tape to Harold Shedd - an executive in Mercury Records, while he was traveling on her flight. Shedd enjoyed the records he heard, and soon went to see Keith perform live. Shortly after that they signed him to a recording contract with Mercury. Thus, his debut single, "Should have been a cowboy" from 1993, climbed to number one on the Billboard country singles chart, and his self-titled debut compilation easily became certified platinum. Other great hits, presented here, included - "A little less talk and a lot more action" and "Wish I did not know now". Keith went briefly to Polydor Records and created his next two collections, "Boomtown" from 1994 and "Blue moon" in 1996. These new compilations soon occurred to be gold and platinum. Also, in 1996, Keith was presented on the now out-of-print album of Beach Boys - "Stars and stripes - volume 1", performing a cover of their great hit from 1963 - "Be true to your school" with the band themselves providing the harmonies and backing vocals. Soon after that, in 1997, Keith moved back to Mercury Records - now called Mercury Nashville, and recorded his fourth album, entitled "Dream walkin". This compilation presented another interesting duet with Sting - "I am so happy I cannot stop crying", which had previously been a hit for Sting himself. Keith began work on his next collection - "How do you like me now" in 1999 originally at Mercury but soon purchased the rights to this album and moved to "DreamWorks Nashville" because of deep creative differences with Mercury. The first single of "How do you like me now" unfortunately failed to make the Top 40 on the country charts. However, the next song, which was the its title track, went on to spend five weeks at number one, helping boost the total sales of this compilation to double platinum.
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