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1	'''Hubert Neal [=McGaughey=] Jr.''' (1958-), better known as '''Neal [=McCoy=]''', is a CountryMusic singer from Jacksonville, Texas whose career flourished in TheNineties.
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3	He won a talent contest in 1981 which led to an opening gig for his musical idol, Music/CharleyPride. Shortening his name to the phonetic spelling of [=McGoy=], he first recorded for the independent 16th Avenue label (for which Pride was also recording at the time) before said label closed. He then moved to Creator/AtlanticRecords where he began recording as Neal [=McCoy=].
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5	While his first two Atlantic albums had little success, he would go on to have a commercial peak between 1994 and 1996 with the albums ''No Doubt About It'', ''You Gotta Love That!'', and ''Neal [=McCoy=]''. These albums established his musical persona, mixing lightweight uptempo material and impassioned ballads while also finding a calling as an energetic stage performer. Among his best-known songs in the 1990s were the uptempo "Wink" and the smooth ballad "No Doubt About It".
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7	Despite diminishing radio success later in the decade, [=McCoy=] has continued to record well into the 21st century. He had a momentary return to radio success with "Billy's Got His Beer Goggles On" in 2005, and achieved media attention in 2017 for his patriotic ProtestSong "Take a Knee, My Ass (I Won't Take a Knee)".
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9	[=McCoy=] also has an unusual heritage for a country musician, being of Philippine and Irish ancestry.
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11	From 2005 to 2007, [=McCoy=] owned the independent 903 Music label, whose talent roster also included the Drew Davis Band and Darryl Worley.
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13	!Albums
14	* ''At This Moment'' (1990)
15	* ''Where Forever Begins'' (1992)
16	* ''No Doubt About It'' (1994)
17	* ''You Gotta Love That!'' (1995)
18	* ''Neal [=McCoy=]'' (1996)
19	* ''Greatest Hits'' (1997)
20	* ''Be Good at It'' (1997)
21	* ''The Life of the Party'' (1999)
22	* ''24-7-365'' (2000)
23	* ''The Luckiest Man in the World'' (unreleased; was slated for a 2003 release)
24	* ''That's Life'' (2005)
25	* ''XII'' (2012)
26	* ''Pride: A Tribute to Charley Pride'' (2013)
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28	!Tropes present in his work:
29	* TheAlcoholic: The subject of "If I Was a Drinkin' Man" is about a recovering alcoholic and the emotions he feels after his drinking destroyed his relationship.
30	* BeerGoggles: The subject of "Billy's Got His Beer Goggles On" is a man who loses all inhibitions when intoxicated.
31	* ChronologicalAlbumTitle: ''XII''
32	* TheCityVsTheCountry: "The City Put the Country Back in Me". The country boy moves to the city, but gains a newfound appreciation for his upbringing when he realizes that city folks listen to country music, too.
33	* CountryRap: He was known to rap the theme to ''Series/TheBeverlyHillbillies'' in concert. This later became the "Hillbilly Rap" on his SelfTitledAlbum.
34	* DaysOfTheWeekSong: "Forever Works for Me (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) has the line "I can see you Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday / How 'bout Friday night?"
35	* HappyRain: "Now I Pray for Rain": the rain is both a metaphor for him escaping a bad relationship for a good one, and a literal reason for his lover to stay inside and make love.
36	* HowManyFingers: Spoken at the end of "Billy's Got His Beer Goggles On".
37	* ListingCities: "The Shake":
38	-->Gary, Indiana; Mobile, Alabama\
39	Phoenix, Arizona; Bismarck, North Dakota\
40	New York, LA, Houston, Tampa Bay\
41	London, Tokyo, everywhere you go...
42	* ThePowerOfLove: "Love Happens Like That":
43	-->In the blink of an eye at the drop of a hat\
44	We went from zero to love in nothing flat\
45	And you smiled at me and before I knew\
46	I was head over heels over you\
47	Love happens like that...
48	* SpellMyNameWithAnS: His original stage name, [=McGoy=], is a phonetic spelling of his birth name [=McGaughey=]. Due to fans interpreting this as the more common [=McCoy=], he chose to adopt this as his name upon moving to Atlantic.
49	* StuffyOldSongsAboutTheButtocks: "The Shake" is about various women turning men on by shaking their butts.
50	* TruckDriversGearChange:
51	** "Love Happens Like That" shifts from F to G at the last chorus.
52	** "I Was" shifts from G to A at the chorus, and then back down for the verses.

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