McClain's albums were beginning to become more successful as well.
In 1981, McClain scored three Top-10 hits off her Surround Me With Love album: the title track, "Sleepin' With the Radio on", and "The Very Best is You". McClain hit #1 on the Country charts in 1981 with "Who's Cheatin' Who." This brought McClain breakthrough success for the 1980s. The Women Get Lonely album followed in 1980, featuring the Top 10 hit "Men," which peaked at #7 in 1980, and the Top-20 duet with Johnny Rodriguez, "I Hate the Way I Love It." However, breakthrough success still eluded McClain. In 1979 McClain released Alone Too Long (1979), which included the Top-20 hits "When A Love Ain't Right" and "You're a Part of Me". She hit country's Top Ten for the first time in 1978 with "That's What You Do to Me," followed by two other Top 25 hits, "Let Me Be Your Baby," and "Take Me Back." McClain's second album, Let Me Be Your Baby, was released in 1978. McClain's initial singles in 19, from her debut album Here's Charly McClain, failed to chart highly on the Country charts. McClain debuted in late 1976 with her first single, "Lay Down," which peaked at #67 on the Billboard Country Chart. Signed to her first recording contract in 1976, McClain's distinct vocal sound provided an edge in recognizability-as did her appearance. Country music career 1976 – 1980: Country beginnings By the age of 17 she was a regular on the club circuit and on the local Memphis show "Mid-South Jamboree" from 1973-1975.
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Her first appearance was on TV in Jackson, Tennessee, local station WBBJ morning show. That inspired her interest in recording and she began her musical career at age 12 with her brother Mike in a band called "Charlotte & The Volunteers" for 6 years. McClain's father, Niles McClain, had tuberculosis when she was eight since she was underage for visitation rights at the hospital, she had to communicate with him through a tape recorder.
Originally named Charlotte, "Charly" was given her masculine nickname by neighborhood friends in Memphis, and she went on to use it when she started playing hotel lounges. 2.3 1990 – present: Current music career status.