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Bill LaBounty
Bill LaBounty
Background information
Origin	U.S.
Genres	Country; Soft rock
	Singer-songwriter
Instruments	Vocals, keyboards
	1978-present
Labels	Warner Bros./Curb, Noteworthy
	Fat Chance; Lonestar; Steve Wariner

Bill LaBounty is an American musician. He was initially a singer-songwriter in the soft rock genre, first as a member of the band Fat Chance, and later as a solo artist.^[1] As a solo artist, LaBounty recorded six studio albums, including four on Curb Records/Warner Bros. Records. His first chart single, "This Night Won't Last Forever", was covered in 1979 by Michael Johnson, whose rendition was a Top 20 pop hit that year.

In the 1990s, LaBounty shifted his focus to country music and has co-written several songs for country music artists, including Steve Wariner's Number One hits "Lynda", "The Weekend" and "I Got Dreams".^[2] LaBounty signed to a songwriting contract with Curb Publishing in 2001.^[3]

Discography

Albums

Promised Love (1975, Warner/Curb)
This Night Won't Last Forever (1978, Warner/Curb)
Rain in My Life (1979, Warner/Curb)
Bill LaBounty (1982, Warner/Curb)
Right Direction (1994, Noteworthy)
Best Selection (2004, Columbia)
Back To Your Star (2009, Chill Pill Records (USA), T.a.c.s Records (Japan))
Time starts now (2012, box 4 CDs with unreleased tracks)
Into Something Blue" (2014)

Singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions			Album
Year	Single	US AC	US ^[4]	CAN	Album
1976	"Lie to Me"	--	109	--	Promised Love
1978	"This Night Won't Last Forever"	46	65	81	This Night Won't Last Forever
1978	"In 25 Words or Less"	36	--	--	This Night Won't Last Forever
1982	"Never Gonna Look Back"	22	110	--	Bill LaBounty

List of singles co-written by LaBounty

This list of songs or music-related items is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

Brooks & Dunn - "Rock My World (Little Country Girl)"
Robbie Dupree - "Hot Rod Hearts"
Michael Johnson - "This Night Won't Last Forever" (later covered by Sawyer Brown)
Lonestar - "Tequila Talkin'", "Heartboke Every Day"
Eddy Raven - "Sooner or Later"
Sawyer Brown - "Used to Blue", "Heart Don't Fall Now"
Shenandoah - "I Want to Be Loved Like That", "Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart" (with Alison Krauss)
Tanya Tucker with Delbert McClinton - "Tell Me About It"
Steve Wariner - "Lynda", "The Weekend", "I Got Dreams", "The Domino Theory", "Drive"
Jimmy Buffett with Steve Goodman- "Where's the Party"

References

^ "Bill LaBounty". Steve Lukather.net. Archived from the original on 2008-04-05. Retrieved .
^ "Bill LaBounty: The Right Direction". Perigord.com. Archived from the original on 2007-09-05. Retrieved .
^ Stark, Phyllis (2001-04-14). "Nashville Scene". Billboard: 39.
^ Whitburn, Joel (2011). Top Pop Singles 1955-2010. Record Research, Inc. p. 504. ISBN 0-89820-188-8.

External links

[1] "Bill LaBounty". Steve Lukather.net. Archived from the original on 2008-04-05. Retrieved .

[2] "Bill LaBounty: The Right Direction". Perigord.com. Archived from the original on 2007-09-05. Retrieved .

[3] Stark, Phyllis (2001-04-14). "Nashville Scene". Billboard: 39.

[whitburn2010-4] Whitburn, Joel (2011). Top Pop Singles 1955-2010. Record Research, Inc. p. 504. ISBN 0-89820-188-8.

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