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Earl Thomas Conley (born October 17, 1941, in Portsmouth, Ohio) is an American country music singer and composer. Between 1980 and 2003, he recorded ten studio albums, including seven for the RCA Records label. In the 1980s and into the 1990s, Conley also charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, of which eighteen reached Number One. When Conley was 14, his father lost his job, forcing the young boy to move in with his older sister.[citation needed] He was offered a scholarship to an art school, but rejected it in favor of joining the U.S. Army.[citation needed] After being honorably discharged from the military, he began playing in clubs in Nashville, Tennessee, at night, supporting himself working blue-collar jobs during the day.