Musical Career
Murphy's first recording for MCA Nashville was the song "Just Once", which was included on the soundtrack to the 1994 film 8 Seconds. In 1994, "Just Once" entered the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts, reaching a peak of No. 36. The same year, Murphy began work on his debut album Out with a Bang, released in early 1995. The album produced three hit singles overall, including "Party Crowd", which became the most-played country song of 1995, as well as "Dust on the Bottle", his first and only Number One single. Out with a Bang became the best-selling album for a new male country act in all of 1995, and was certified platinum by the RIAA.
Gettin' Out the Good Stuff was the title of Murphy's second album, released in 1996. Although it produced back-to-back Top 5 singles in "Every Time I Get Around You" and "The Road You Leave Behind", the album did not sell as well as Out With a Bang had; in addition, its third and fourth singles both failed to reach Top 40. "Every Time I Get Around You" was also a No. 2 on the RPM Country Tracks charts in Canada, and was named as that publication's Number One country song for the year 1996.
Murphy's third and final album for MCA, titled We Can't All Be Angels, was released in 1997. In a 1997 interview, Murphy revealed that he had intended for this album to be experimental in nature, saying that he "wanted to create just a whole different tone, sonically. I just wanted a different sounding record." We Can't All Be Angels sold even lower than Out With a Bang had; its two singles, "All Lit up in Love" and "Just Don't Wait Around 'Til She's Leavin'", peaked at No. 25 and No. 37, respectively, on the country charts. By 1998, Murphy was dropped from MCA's roster.
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