Earl Thomas Conley (October 17, 1941 – April 10, 2019)was an American country music singer-songwriter.

• Between 1980 and 2003, he recorded ten studio albums, including seven for RCA Records.

• In the 1980s and into the 1990s, Conley also charted more than 30 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, of which 18 reached Number One.

• His 18 Billboard Number One country singles during the 1980s were the third most by any artist in any genre during that decade, after Alabama and Ronnie Milsap.

In his early days before fame, Conley worked in a steel mill near Portsmouth, Ohio. Not long afterward, he Conley moved to Huntsville, Alabama where he had ancestral family ties. Working in the steel mills which then materials for the space industry, he met record producer Nelson Larkin, who helped him sign with independent record label GRT in 1974. Who he was selling songs that he had written to other artists, including Conway Twitty and Mel Street, who were having much success with them.