Neal McCoy raises $500K for charity
The activities, which included a celebrity golf tournament, sponsor's dinner, and a concert, helped raise money for the foundation created by McCoy and his wife, Melinda, to enhance the lives of families in East Texas whose child may be suffering from a serious or life-threatening illness or disease.
Saturday night's concert at Lobo Coliseum featured performances by McCoy, Jamie O'Neal, the von Trapp Family Singers, and Williams and Ree. Fresh off the plane from visiting troops in Iraq, the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders joined McCoy on stage to perform his hit "The Shake."
TV's "Jungle" Jack Hanna was in attendance for the fifth consecutive year, entertaining the crowd with exotic animals, including a python, a lemur, and a binturong (bearcat). At the sponsor's dinner, he auctioned off his Montana home for a week, bringing in $42,000 for the cause.
More news for Neal McCoy
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- 08/05/13: McCoy premieres video
- 08/02/13: McCoy celebrates at the Opry
- 08/29/11: McCoy plans new single for October
- 04/22/11: McCoy inks with indie label
- 01/23/09: McCoy plans '09 tour
- 03/31/08: McCoy sings at Texas Rangers opener
- 03/28/08: Neal McCoy gets best of treatment
CD reviews for Neal McCoy
When discussions of great classic country voices and legacies come about, it's always names like Williams, Nelson, Cash and Jennings that get bandied about. And while there's good reason for those, one would be remiss to forget the influence of Charley Pride as well. A three-time Grammy winner with 29 number 1 hits under his belt, Pride's influence to the world of country music is oftentimes overlooked, but no less present. That influence hit heavy with longtime country star Neal ...
Today, Charley Pride may be most known for blazing a trail as an African-American country singer in the segregation era, but he deserves to be remembered as a star country singer, not just a star African-American country singer. He was, after all, one of the most successful acts of his time, with a string of hits that any singer would envy. Pride's run of hit singles listed from the mid-1960s through the '80s, and he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2000. ...
After seven years without a studio album, Neal McCoy has been quite busy of late. First came a collaboration with jazz orchestra leader Les Brown Jr., and now comes his first country record since 2005's "That's Life." To help make his return, McCoy has enlisted dome big time players, in the form of producers Miranda Lambert, Blake Shelton and Brent Rowan.
While McCoy was a reliable hitmaker in the '90s, he was most known for good-natured, novelty songs and an exciting live show. ...
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