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09.11.2022 - 05:03 / deadline.com
Jeff Cook, the Grammy-winning founding guitarist, keyboardist and fiddler of Alabama — one of the most successful country groups of all time, with had 33 No. 1 country hits, including 21 in a row — died Tuesday at his home in Destin, FL, a band rep to the Associated Press. He was 73.
Cook had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2017.
Born on August 27, 1949, in Fort Payne, AL, Cook co-founded the band as in the early 1970s with his cousins — singer-guitarist Randy Owen and bassist Teddy Gentry — and drummer Bennett Vartanian. The group spent several summers playing in a Myrtle Beach, SC, bar called The Bowery and renamed Alabama in 1977, the group broke through with “My Home’s in Alabama,” which peaked at No. 17 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs in 1980. That initial success launched the quartet to superstardom: Its next 21 singles all topped that that chart, save for a 1982 Christmas song.
“More than anything,” Cook is quoted on the band’s website, “our longevity is a tribute to the hard work we did in selecting songs — because it’s the songs that people remember.”
Overall, the group with a Southern rock edge racked up more than 50 Top 10 country singles, including such enduring classics as “Song of the South” and “Jukebox in My Mind,” and 20 platinum albums from 1980-2011. They have sold nearly 50 million albums in the U.S., per the RIAA — which ranks the group as the 31st best-selling act of all time.
Billboard lists the group as the No. 5 country act of the 1980s and No. 6 of the ’90s. As of 2012, it ranked as the No. 17 act in the Hot Country Songs’ 68-year history to that point.
Its biggest crossover single was “Love in the First Degree,” which hit No. 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1981.
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