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4 Runner
4 Runner was an American country music vocal group founded in 1993 by lead singer Craig Morris, baritone Billy Crittenden, tenor Lee Hilliard, and bass Jim Chapman. Signed to Polydor Records Nashville, the quartet released its self-titled debut album in 1995, It featured four charting singles on Hot Country Songs, the most successful being "Cain's Blood" at No. 26. Billy Simon took Crittenden's place just before a second album for A&M Records, which was not released despite producing a chart single, and the band broke up afterward. Chapman, Hilliard, and Morris reunited with third baritone singer Michael Lusk to release its next album, ''Getaway Car'', on the Fresh label before disbanding a second time.
==Biography==
4 Runner began in 1993, when lead singer Craig Morris (who had previously worked with Ronnie McDowell and Marie Osmond) met Billy Crittenden in Nashville, Tennessee while both singers were working as songwriters.〔(allmusic ((( 4 Runner > Biography ))) )〕 Later, Jim Chapman (the brother-in-law of contemporary Christian music artist Steven Curtis Chapman) and Lee Hilliard joined as well, forming the group. The group then toured throughout the 1990s with Kenny Rogers.〔 In 1994, Diamond Rio had a Top 5 country hit with "Love a Little Stronger", which Billy Crittenden co-wrote, while Morris co-wrote "If I Had Only Known", an album cut for Reba McEntire. The group was signed to Polydor Records, and before releasing any material of their own, they sang backing vocals on then-labelmae Amie Comeaux's late-1994 debut album ''Moving Out''.
4 Runner released its self-titled debut album via Polydor in 1995, with the single "Cain's Blood" (which was co-written by country-pop artist Michael Johnson and former Poco member Jack Sundrud) serving as lead-off single.〔 The single reached a peak of No. 26 on the ''Billboard'' country music charts and No. 14 on the ''RPM'' country charts in Canada. While the album's other three singles failed to make Top 40 on the country charts in the U.S., the second single ("A Heart with 4 Wheel Drive") was also a Top 20 hit in Canada, and the album sold more than 200,000 copies in the United States.〔(Music City Artists signs 4Runner as client )〕
Due to a restructuring of Polydor, 4 Runner was transferred to A&M Records for its second album, ''One for the Ages''. Also at this point, Billy Simon replaced Crittenden on baritone vocals. The lead single was "That Was Him (This Is Now)", written by Keith Urban and Vernon Rust.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Listing for 'That Was Him This Is Now' )〕 Although this song entered the country charts, the album itself was not released due to the closure of Polydor/A&M's Nashville unit.〔 4 Runner soon disbanded, and Chapman returned to working as an art teacher, in addition to singing backing vocals on Chad Brock's 1998 self-titled debut album.
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