Urban Cowboy

Urban Cowboy is a 1980 movie starring John Travolta and Debra Winger about the love-hate relationship between Travolta's character Bud and Winger's character Sissy.

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The movie's screenplay was adapted from a article in a mens' magazine on Western nightlife written by Aaron Latham, by Latham and James Bridges. The movie was directed by Bridges. The movie spawned a hit soundtrack album featuring such songs as Johnny Lee's "Looking for Love", "Devil went down to Georgia" sung by the Charlie Daniels Band, the mega Anne Murray hit "Could I Have This Dance"(#3 A/C) and the top 5 hit "Love The World Away" by country superstar Kenny Rogers. The film is said to have started the 80's boom in country music appeal. It has been claimed that the film fared poorly at the box office, but in fact it grossed almost $54 million in the United States alone, more than Saturday Night Fever (plus a further $24,000,000 in video rentals).

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Aaron Latham - Charlie Daniels Band - Anne Murray - Kenny Rogers - Saturday Night Fever

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