Johnny Rodriguez
By All Music Guide
By All Music Guide
1974 brought the Top Five hits Dance With Me (Just One More Time) and Were Over, plus the number one Thats the Way Love Goes. The following year was even better, as all three of his singles -- I Just Cant Get Her Out of My Mind, Just Get Up and Close the Door, and Love Put a Song in My Heart -- hit number one. More Top Five hits followed over 1976-1977 in I Couldnt Be Me Without You, I Wonder If I Ever Said Goodbye, and Desperado, but he and Mercury parted ways in 1979, upon which point he signed with Epic. Down the Rio Grande went Top Ten that year, but Rodriguez subsequently endured a serious commercial slump. He returned to the Top Ten in 1983 with a pair of hits, Foolin and How Could I Love Her So Much, which proved to be the last of his career; his final chart single came with 1988s Top 20 hit I Didnt (Every Chance I Had) on Capitol. He did record a couple of honky tonk-style records during the 90s, specifically Run for the Border (Intersound, 1993) and You Can Say That Again (Hightone, 1996).
