Ron Oates

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American producer, arranger, keyboardist and songwriter.
Married country singer/songwriter Lynda K. Lance (1975).

ALBUMS

Help Me Make It Through The Night / Hello Happiness

2019, CD, Album, The Mansion Entertainment,

Weren't You Listening / Dixie Nightlife

Closer To Crazy

1984, 7", Single, A. Rose Records, Inc.,

We've Got To Start Meeting Like This

Engelbert Humperdinck

The Other Woman / The Other Man

The Good Old Days

Fragile - Handle With Care

Cheatin' Is Still On My Mind / Just A Mile From Nowhere

Will You Love Me Tomorrow / Bad Water

You've Got A Right

7", Promo, Avista Records

(The Legend Of) Gator Dan

7", Promo, Country Kingdom Records,

Standing Invitation

Audio Directions

1976, LP, Album, Direct-Disk Labs, Direct-Disk Labs, Direct-Disk Labs,

Soul-Jazz/Big Band

APPEARANCES +

House Of Love & If It's All Right With You / Just What I've Been Looking For

2019, SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel, Comp, Quad, RM, Vocalion,

Byron Metcalf & Jennifer Grais

2016, CD, Album, MCM World Media, Cindy Hughlett Music Ministry

2015, CD, Album, The Mansion Entertainment, MCM World Media,

2013, CD, Album, MCM World Media,

Hand To The Plow

2012, CD, Album, Rural Rhythm Christian,

Hard Time Hungrys / The Winner ... And Other Losers

Kurt Wagner & Cortney Tidwell Present Kort

Invariable Heartache

Country/Bluegrass/Ballad

Spirit Gathering

2008, CD, Album, Monroe Products

John Brack's Wise Man Quartet

Gospel Reloaded

2005, CD, Album, Not On Label

Ridin' With The Legend

2004, CD, Album, Lofton Creek Records,

Byron Metcalf & Mark Seelig With Steve Roach

Jolene / My Tennessee Mountain Home

2001, CD, Comp, RE, Camden Deluxe, BMG

Not Without Risk

2001, CD, Album, Dr. BAM's Music

Gladys Knight And The Pips

Rolf Raggenbass & Ethno Country Rock Connection

Rolf Roggenbass & Ethno Country Rock Connection

2000, CD, Comp, Grüezi

Helpers, Guides & Allies... (Navigating The Shamanic Landscape)

1998, CD, Album, RM, Not On Label (Byron Metcalf Self-released)

Rebecca Holden (From The TV-Show "Knight Rider")

1997, CD, Album, Not On Label,

The Essential Eddy Arnold

Che & Ray Featuring John Brack

Wherever You Are Tonight

1994, CD, Album, Not On Label,

Ten Shades Of Green

Follow The Wind

Rolf Raggenbass

Deep In The Heart Of Country

1993, CD, Album, BMG Ariola (Schweiz) AG,

Country Bestsellers

Billy Joe Royal

Billy Joe Royal

1991, CD, Album, K-Tel International (Switzerland) AG,

Made In Nashville

1991, CD, Album, Activ (2),

What A Way To Go

A Thousand Winding Roads

Heart Over Mind

John Brack Singing Face To Face

That Old Desire

David Allan Coe

1990 Songs For Sale

Billy Joe Royal

Tell It Like It Is

Country Highlights

What She Does Best

Exchange Of Hearts

Isaac Payton Sweat

1987, LP, Album, Tex-Lou Records,

Weekends Were Made For Cheating

A Christmas Remembered

Ballad/Classic Rock/Folk Rock/Novelty/Holiday

Billy Joe Royal

The Royal Treatment

Chiseled In Stone

Jeff Stevens And The Bullets

Bolt Out Of The Blue

1986, LP, Album, Atlantic America,

The Oak Ridge Boys

The Nashville Christmas Album

The Singing Sierran

Somebody Else's Fire

Somebody Else's Fire

She's Single Again

That Feeling Inside

The Oak Ridge Boys

Sometimes When We Touch

Every Second Someone Breaks A Heart / Pardon Me, But This Heart's Taken

The First Word In Memory

The First Word In Memory Is Me

Your Heart's Not In It

If All The Magic Is Gone

Earl Thomas Conley

Engelbert Humperdinck

The Other Woman / The Other Man

Diamond In The Dust

If The Fall Don't Get You / Where's The Fire

Ronnie McDowell

Country Boy's Heart

The Oak Ridge Boys

Some Memories Just Won't Die

Gladys Knight & The Pips*

Soul/Contemporary R&B

Earl Thomas Conley

Your Love's On The Line

After The Great Depression

Earl Thomas Conley

Don't Make It Easy For Me

The Oak Ridge Boys

The Midnight Hour

The Love She Found In Me

1982, LP, Album, GlorySound

1982, LP, Comp, Ovation Records, Intercord

Everytime You Cross My Mind (You Break My Heart)

Heartbreak Express

The Oak Ridge Boys

A Little More Razz

Goin' Home For Christmas

Country/Religious/Holiday

It's A Long Way To Daytona

Stickin' Together

Oak Ridge Boys*

Don't Laugh Now

Funk/Soul/Rhythm & Blues

Come Back To Me

The Best Of Joe Sun

We Have This Moment Today

1981, LP, Chapel,

Gospel/Easy Listening

Pieces Of My Life

1981, LP, Country Roads (2)

New Song (3) With Rick Powell

1981, LP, New Dawn

I Will Praise Thee

1981, LP, Album, Brentwood Records, Brentwood Records

Dave Rowland & Sugar*

Only When I Laugh

When It's Just You And Me

Earl Thomas Conley

Heaven's National Anthem

Gospel/Religious

The Smithsonian Collection Of Classic Country Music

Country/Folk/Hillbilly

Midnight Hauler

Rick Morgenstern

America's Gone Country

Just A Lil' Bit Country

The Oak Ridge Boys

You Have A Way Without Words

1980, 7", Promo, RCA,

1980, LP, Album, Calvary Records

Rev. William McCrea

1980, LP, Album, Pilgrim Records (2)

The Valley That Time Forgot

1980, 7", Mono, Promo, RCA,

The Doug Davis Trio

1980, LP, Album, Great Circle Records

1980, LP, Album, Great Circle Records,

1980, Cass, Album, RCA, RCA Victor,

9 To 5 And Odd Jobs

With A Love Like Ours

The Oak Ridge Boys

One Day At A Time / I Knew The Mason

John Wesley Ryles

Let The Night Begin

Let's Get It While The Gettin's Good

Don't Look Now (But We Just Fell In Love)

I Love Women / Someone To Put Out The Fire

First Love Feelings / What's The Name Of That Song?

That's What I Get For Loving You / Undivided Love

A Legend And His Lady

I Keep Coming Back / True Life Country Music

Ring The Bells Of Freedom

One In A Million

Rough Around The Edges

Loving Up A Storm

1979, LP, Calvary Records, Calvary Records,

The Spragues Arrive

1979, LP, Album, Great Circle Records,

1979, LP, Great Circle Records

Barnatro & Barndomsminnen

Hello This Is Paul Evans

Heart Of The Matter

I Can't Get Enough Of You

Just Like Real People

John Wesley Ryles

Liberated Woman

Lonely Together

Pop Rock/Disco/Country Rock

Only Love Can Break A Heart / Child Of The Wind

Where Were You When I Was Falling In Love

The Prodigal According To Reba

I Must Be Crazy / I Can't See Me Without You

John Wesley Ryles

You Are Always On My Mind

Soft Rock/Pop Rock

Love Me Like A Woman

Don't Let Me Cross Over

Only Love Can Break A Heart

Point Of Refuge

The Oak Ridge Boys

The Oak Ridge Boys Have Arrived

John Wesley Ryles

Let The Night Begin

Out Of Your Mind

Theme From Judas

1978, 12", House Top Records,

The Lady Is A Child

1978, LP, Album, Gat, Greentree Records

Yesterday -- Today

1978, 2xLP, Album, ScrimShaw Records

1978, LP, Album, House Top Records,

One Beautiful Morning

1978, LP, House Top Records,

1978, LP, Mid-Land Records

Love Songs Just For You

1978, 7", Century 21 Records (2)

Thurmon McKinney

Once I Wrote A Song

1978, LP, Album, Music City Workshop,

Country/Folk/Honky Tonk

Nu Ser Jag Himlen / Mest Önskade 2

Cristy Lane Is The Name

The Bill Gaither Trio

Pilgrim's Progress

Religious/Gospel

He Who Is Without Funk Cast The First Stone

Steve Fromholz*

Jus' Playin' Along

Billie Jo Spears

Love Ain't Gonna Wait For Us

Let's Shake Hands And Come Out Lovin'

Country/Country Rock

The Oak Ridge Boys

Old Fashioned Love

Rose Colored Glasses

You Can't Stand Up Alone

Old Flames (Can't Hold A Candle To You)

What's The Name Of That Song?

I Bow My Head (When They Say Grace)

Tonight's The Night

Pop Rock/Country

1977, LP, Album, House Top Records,

Vocal/Religious

1977, LP, Comp, ABC Records

1977, LP, Album, Impact (7)

1977, LP, Holy Kiss Records

It's A Love Song

1977, LP, Album, House Top Records

1977, LP, Album, Milk & Honey

1977, 8-Trk, Album, Blu, ABC Records,

The Best Of Moe Bandy, Volume I

H-e-e-ere's Johnny!

Hargus "Pig" Robbins*

Country Instrumentalist Of The Year

Country/Soft Rock/Country Rock

The Oak Ridge Boys

Y'All Come Back Saloon

Allting Annorlunda

Country/Religious

David Allan Coe

Tommy Overstreet

Henry And Hazel Slaughter*

Tillbaka I Nashville

Dave Dudley's Greatest Hits - Chrome & Polish

Miss Randy Crawford

Rhythm & Blues/Soul/Funk

Vera Lynn In Nashville

Oh Yeah! (Banjos, Boisterous Ballads, And Buck)

Billy Crash Craddock*

Country/Rockabilly/Country Rock

Gary S. Paxton*

More From The Astonishing, Outrageous, Amazing, Incredible, Unbelievable, Gary S. Paxton

Religious/Contemporary/Gospel/Pop Rock/Country/Funk

The Good Brothers

Pretty Ain't Good Enuff

Country/Bluegrass/Classic Rock

Scott Wesley Brown

I Am A Christian

1976, LP, Newpax,

1976, LP, Album, Greentree Records,

Soft Rock/Ballad/Religious

Little David Wilkins

King Of All The Taverns

1976, LP, MCA Records

1976, LP, Casino Records (2)

1976, LP, Album, Word,

Gospel/Easy Listening/Religious

Meisburg & Walters

Just Like A Recurring Dream

1976, LP, Album, Parchment Records,

What Little Bit That's Left

1976, LP, Erastus Records

1976, LP, Album, Calvary Records, Calvary Records, Calvary Records

Heaven's Just A Sin Away

Del Reeves & Billie Jo Spears

By Request: Del And Billie Jo

Country/Bluegrass

Lone Star Beer And Bob Wills Music

Matthews*, Taylor* And Johnson*

Matthews, Taylor And Johnson

Dave Dudley Presents

Take It To The Limit

Pop Rock/Blues Rock/Funk

Freddie Hart And The Heartbeats

That Look In Her Eyes

Country/Honky Tonk

Soft Rock/Country Rock

Meisburg & Walters

Just Like A Recurring Dream

Folk Rock/Country Rock/Soft Rock

David Allan Coe

Longhaired Redneck

The Sweetest Thing

Barbara Mandrell

This Is Barbara Mandrell

The Artist / The Riddle

Country Rock/Country

Without A Doubt

Sonny Burnette, Hal Rugg, Weldon Myrick

Steel Guitars Of The Grand Ole Opry

1975, LP, Mega (2)

On The Wings Of A Dove

1975, LP, Chapel,

Rose Lee & Joe Maphis*

Let Your Love Show

1975, LP, Album, Outreach Records Inc.,

Meisburg & Walters

See The Morning Breaking

1975, LP, Album, Parchment Records,

NASCAR Goes Country

1975, LP, Album, Glo, MCA Records

The Local Entertainer

1975, LP, Count Records (5),

Country/Honky Tonk

Sunshine In My Soul

1975, LP, Album, Broadman Records,

Melba Montgomery

The Greatest Gift Of All

Here Comes Johnny Russell

Carolina Cousins

Melba Montgomery

Don't Let The Good Times Fool You

Plays The 30's At The Hammond Organ

The Classic Style Of Lefty Frizzell

Water Glass Full Of Whiskey

Everything Leads Back To You

The Sonlight Orchestra

Love Songs And Other Greats

Eyes To The Sky

NASCAR Goes Country

Billy 'Crash' Craddock

Still Thinkin' About You

Love, You're The Teacher

1974, 2xLP, Comp, Smplr, San, Capricorn Records,

Blues Rock/Country Rock/Southern Rock

Songs Of The Oil Field

1974, LP, Album, House Of Michael,

Derric Johnson 's Re'Generation

Gospel Truth . . . Nashville Style

1974, LP, Album, Impact (7),

The Soul Of Walt Mills

1974, LP, Album, Impact (7),

Soft Rock/Country

Welcome Stranger

Hank Williams Jr.

Country/Country Rock

Peace, Joy And Love

Religious/Gospel/Soft Rock

The Bill Gaither Trio

Thanks For Sunshine

David Allan Coe

The Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy

Rick Powell Choir Book

That's The Way Love Should Be

Please Don't Tell (That Sweet Ole Lady Of Mine)

Sweet Honky Tonk

1973, LP, Album, Ter, ABC Records,

Country/Honky Tonk

Dinsmore* / Payne*

1973, LP, Album, United Artists Records,

Southern Rock/Blues Rock

Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose

Country/Country Rock

Sammy Hall Singers

Redemption Draweth Nigh

Tie A Yellow Ribbon Around The Old Oak Tree

My Tennessee Mountain Home

The Fastest Harp In The South

Country Rock/Country

Sings Lullabys, Legends And Lies

The Legendary Lefty Frizzell

The Toast Of '45

30 California Women

Danny Davis & The Nashville Brass

O.B. McClinton*

O.B. McClinton Country

1972, LP, Enterprise,

Jerry Glenn Ward

Focus:Jerry Glenn Ward

Folk Rock/Acoustic/Country

Something Old, Something New, Something Blue

Billy 'Crash' Craddock

Knock Three Times

Always Have Always Will / Easy To Please

7", Car, Columbia

Little Jimmy Dempsey*

LP, Album, Plantation Records

7", Single, Promo, Vista (10),

I'd Rather Be Sorry

LP, Album, Celestial

CD, Album, Metro Records, Inc. (2),

Brian McCullough

Echoes Of Goodbye

CD, Album, WTF Records (4),

7", Stargem Records, Stargem Records,

If Love Had A Face

20 Great Truck Hits

Kjell Samuelson & Samuelsons

På Sångens Vingar

Schlager/Country

24 Original Number One Country Hits Vol. 2