| The Closer You Get... | ||||
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| Studio album by Alabama | ||||
| Released | March 1983 | |||
| Recorded | 1981-1982 | |||
| Genre | Country, country rock | |||
| Length | 40:53 | |||
| Label | RCA Records | |||
| Producer | Alabama Harold Shedd |
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The Closer You Get... is the seventh studio album by country music band Alabama, released in 1983. All three singles from this album — "The Closer You Get", "Lady Down on Love" and "Dixieland Delight" — reached Number One on the Hot Country Songs charts in 1983. "She Put the Sad in All His Songs" was also recorded by Ronnie Dunn (who formed the duo Brooks & Dunn with Kix Brooks in 1991) and was released by him as a single in 1983.
The album was certified quadruple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.
Strings by the Nashville String Machine, arranged by Kristin Wilkinson
*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone