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The Closer You Get...

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Track listing
Side A Side B
Personnel
Alabama Additional musicians
Chart performance
Album Singles Certifications
Notes

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| type = Studio
| artist = Alabama
| cover = Closer You Get.jpg
| alt =
| released = March 1983
| recorded = 1981-1982
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Country, country rock
| length = 40:53
| label = RCA Records
| producer = Alabama
Harold Shedd
| prev_title = Mountain Music
| prev_year = 1982
| next_title = Roll On
| next_year = 1984
| misc = {{Singles
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| single1 = Dixieland Delight
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| single2 = The Closer You Get
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| single3 = Lady Down on Love
| single3date = August 5, 1983
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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.^[2]

Track listing

Side A

"The Closer You Get" (J.P. Pennington, Mark Gray) - 4:33
"Lady Down on Love" (Randy Owen) - 4:00
"She Put the Sad in All His Songs" (Robert Byrne, Mac McAnally) - 4:03
"Red River" (Bud McGuire, George Pearce) - 4:20
"What in the Name of Love" (Bill Boling, Chris Deal, Rick Wayne) - 3:54

Side B

"Dixieland Delight" (Ronnie Rogers) - 5:25
"Very Special Love" (Teddy Gentry, Owen) - 4:50
"Dixie Boy" (Jim McBride) - 4:20
"Alabama Sky" (Larry Shell) - 3:21
"Lovin' Man" (Jeff Cook) - 2:33

Personnel

Alabama

Randy Owen: rhythm guitar, lead vocals
Teddy Gentry: bass guitar, vocals, lead vocals on "Red River" and "Alabama Sky"
Jeff Cook: lead guitar, vocals, lead vocals on "What in the Name of Love" and "Lovin' Man"
Mark Herndon: drums, percussion

Additional musicians

William Adair: bass
Hayward Bishop: drums
Jack Eubanks: acoustic guitar
George "Leo" Jackson: acoustic guitar
Shane Keister: keyboards
Dave Kirby: electric guitar
Farrell Morris: percussion
Fred Newell: electric guitar
Larry Paxton: bass
Willie Rainsford: keyboards
Stephen Schaffer: bass
Bruce Watkins: fiddle

Strings by the Nashville String Machine, arranged by Kristin Wilkinson

Chart performance

Album

Chart (1983)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	1
U.S. Billboard 200	10
Canadian RPM Top Albums	17

Singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions
Year	Single	US Country	US	US AC	CAN Country	CAN AC
1983	"Dixieland Delight"	1	—	—	1	—
	"The Closer You Get"	1	38	9	1	1
	"Lady Down on Love"	1	76	18	1	10

Certifications

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Notes

1. ^{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r105289|pure_url=yes}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?content_selector=gold-platinum-searchable-database#|title=Alabama – Gold & Platinum Certifications|publisher=Recording Industry Association of America|accessdate=July 6, 2014|at=If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH}}

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