Buddy Alan
{{short description|American country music artist (born 1948)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2020}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Buddy Alan
| image =
| caption =
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| birth_name = Alan Edgar Owens
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1948|05|23}}{{cite web | last=Brennan | first=Sandra | title=Buddy Alan biography | url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p50856/biography|pure_url=yes}} | publisher=AllMusic | accessdate=May 22, 2009 }}
| birth_place = Mesa, Arizona, United States
| origin =
| instrument = Vocals
| genre = Country
| occupation = Singer
| years_active = 1968–1978
| label = Capitol
| website =
}}
Alan Edgar "Buddy" Owens (born May 23, 1948 in Mesa, Arizona), known professionally as Buddy Alan, is an American country music artist. The son of Buck Owens and Bonnie Owens and stepson of Merle Haggard, Alan recorded four albums for Capitol Records in the 1970s. He also charted eight singles in the Top 40 on the Billboard country charts, including his No. 7 debut single "Let the World Keep On A-Turnin'", a duet with Buck.
Biography
Alan Edgar Owens was born May 22, 1948, in Mesa, Arizona, to country music artist Buck Owens and his then-wife, Bonnie Owens.{{cite book|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|title=The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits|date=March 23, 2024 |publisher=Billboard Books|pages=20|isbn=978-0-8230-8291-9}} He founded a rock band called the Chosen Few at age 14 before turning his interests to country music. When Bonnie Owens divorced Buck and married Merle Haggard, Alan moved to Arizona with his mother and new stepfather.
Crediting himself as Buddy Alan, he charted for the first time in 1968 with "Let the World Keep On A-Turnin'", a duet with Buck Owens that reached Top Ten on the country charts. This was followed by "When I Turn Twenty-One", which Haggard co-wrote. Alan toured with his father (who also worked as his promoter{{cite book|last=Malone|first=Bill C.|title=Country Music USA|year=2002 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/countrymusicusa0000malo/page/292 292]|publisher=University of Texas Press |isbn=0-292-75262-8|url=https://archive.org/details/countrymusicusa0000malo/page/292}}) and released an album entitled Wild, Free and Twenty One, in addition to making appearances on Hee Haw. Later on, he charted again in the Top 20 with "Cowboy Convention", a duet with Owens' guitarist Don Rich,{{cite book|last=Stambler|first=Irwin|author2=Grelun Landon|author3=Lyndon Stambler|title=Country Music: The Encyclopedia|date=July 14, 2000 |pages=402|publisher=Macmillan |isbn=0-312-26487-9}} and earned a Most Promising Male Artist award from the Academy of Country Music. He continued to chart into the 1970s, but retired from the music business in 1978 to attend college. After that, he became a music director at local radio stations, and was voted four times as Billboard Music Director of the Year.
Discography
=Albums=
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left;" |
| rowspan="2"| Year
! rowspan="2"| Album ! colspan="1"| Chart Positions |
|---|
| style="font-size:smaller;"
! width="45"| US Country |
| 1968
| Wild, Free and Twenty-One | align="center"| — |
| 1970
| A Whole Lot of Something | align="center"| — |
| 1971
| We're Real Good Friends (with Don Rich) | align="center"| 36 |
| rowspan="2"| 1972
| Too Old to Cut the Mustard? (with Buck Owens) | align="center"| 35 |
| The Best of Buddy Alan
| align="center"| 43 |
| 1975
| Chains / Another Saturday Night | align="center"| — |
=Singles=
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left;" |
| rowspan="2"| Year
! rowspan="2"| Single ! colspan="2"| Chart Positions ! rowspan="2"| Album |
|---|
| style="font-size:smaller;"
! width="50"| US Country ! width="50"| CAN Country |
| rowspan="2"| 1968
| "Let the World Keep On A-Turnin'" (with Buck Owens) | align="center"| 7 | align="center"| 36 | I've Got You on My Mind Again |
| "When I Turn Twenty-One"
| align="center"| 54 | align="center"| — | rowspan="3"| Wild, Free and Twenty-One |
| 1969
| "Lodi" | align="center"| 23 | align="center"| 19 |
| rowspan="4"| 1970
| "Big Mama's Medicine Show" | align="center"| 23 | align="center"| 9 |
| "Down in New Orleans"
| align="center"| 38 | align="center"| — | rowspan="2"| A Whole Lot of Something |
| "Santo Domingo"
| align="center"| 57 | align="center"| — |
| "Cowboy Convention" (with Don Rich)
| align="center"| 19 | align="center"| — | We're Real Good Friends |
| rowspan="5"| 1971
| align="center"| 37 | align="center"| — | single only |
| "I'm On the Road to Memphis" (with Don Rich)
| align="center"| 54 | align="center"| — | We're Real Good Friends |
| "Fishin' On the Mississippi"
| align="center"| 48 | align="center"| — | rowspan="2"| singles only |
| "I Will Drink Your Wine"
| align="center"| 46 | align="center"| — |
| "Too Old to Cut the Mustard" (with Buck Owens)
| align="center"| 29 | align="center"| 26 | Too Old to Cut the Mustard? |
| rowspan="4"| 1972
| "White Line Fever" | align="center"| 68 | align="center"| — | rowspan="7"| singles only |
| "I'm in Love"
| align="center"| 47 | align="center"| — |
| "Things"
| align="center"| 49 | align="center"| — |
| "Move It On Over"
| align="center"| 60 | align="center"| — |
| rowspan="4"| 1973
| "Why, Because I Love You" | align="center"| 64 | align="center"| — |
| "Caribbean"
| align="center"| 67 | align="center"| 86 |
| "Summer Afternoons"
| align="center"| 68 | align="center"| — |
| "All Around Cowboy of 1964"
| align="center"| 67 | align="center"| — | rowspan="4"| Chains / Another Saturday Night |
| 1974
| "I Never Had It So Good" | align="center"| 70 | align="center"| — |
| rowspan="2"| 1975
| "Chains" | align="center"| 35 | align="center"| — |
| "Another Saturday Night"
| align="center"| 88 | align="center"| — |
Awards and nominations
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!Year !Organization !Award !Nominee/Work !Result |
| 1970
|rowspan=2| Academy of Country Music Awards |rowspan=2| Most Promising Male Vocalist |rowspan=2| Buddy Alan |{{nom}} |
| 1971
|{{won}} |
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Category:Musicians from Mesa, Arizona
Category:American country singer-songwriters
Category:Capitol Records artists