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Personal Data Given Name: Aaron Dupree Tippin
Nickname: Tip
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 170 lbs.
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Black
Birthdate: July 3, 1958
Birthplace: Pensacola, Florida;
Raised in Greenville, South Carolina
Hometown: Travelers Rest, near Greenville, S.C., in a moonshine-
making area called the "Dark Corner"
of Appalachia
Residence: 325-acre farm near Smithville in Dekalb County, TN
Instruments: rhythm guitar, banjo, harmonica
Early Musical Interest: AGE 9; his father bought a $30 piano which Aaron wrote his first song, "Three O-Clock in the Morning"
Early Influences: Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams Sr., Hank Thompson, Lefty Frizzell, Faron Young, Dean Martin, and Frank Sinatra
Career Choice: secured a song publishing deal and competed on TNN's You Can Be A Star TV talent contest
Career Highlight: 1990, he was the first singer to entertain troops in
Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War
Arrival In Nashville: 1987, in a beat-up 1975 Toyota Corolla lovingly dubbed "Dazee"
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Family:
DAD: Willis Emory, a retired Air
Force pilot
MOM: Mary, a retired nurse
STEPMOM: Tempe
SISTERS: Kathy & Cora, Connie
Robinson (half-sister)
BROTHER: Emory (deceased);
WIFE: Theadora (Thea) Corontzos
(married July 15, 1995)
DAUGHTER: Charla (born October
23, 1977)
SONS: Theodore (Teddy) Emory
(born December 14, 1997)
and Thomas Aaron (born
December 1, 2000)
DOG: Buddy, a purebred
weimaraner
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Personal Data Childhood Activity: Boy Scouts
Education: Graduated high school in 1976
Hobbies: Body-building, golf, airplanes, construction, shooting, hunting
Collects: big machines such as bulldozers, tractors, and dump trucks
Favorite Color: Blue
Favorite Foods: Chili, pasta, pinto beans
Favorite Drink: Ice cold water
Favorite TV Show: Wings (On the DISCOVERY channel)
Favorite Actors: Arnold Schwarznegger, Bruce Willis, Humphrey Bogart
Favorite Actress Katherine Hepburn
Favorite Movies The African Queen starring Bogart and Hepburn; Predator starring Arnold Schwarznegger
Favorite Way to Relax: Working on his farm
Favorite Vacation Spot: Alaska
Pet Peeve: Tardiness
Other Businesses/Interests: Two gun shops: Aaron Tippin Outdoors & Aaron Tippin Firearms, one run by his father in NC; a repair shop on his farm that specializes in heavy equipment, big rigs, and buses |
Recording Career Record Label:
Formerly: RCA Records; signed in 1990
Currently: Lyric Street; signed in 1998
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Albums
You've Got to Stand For Something
Read Between the Lines
Call of the Wild
Lookin' Back At Myself
Tool Box
Greatest Hits...and Then Some
What This Country Needs
People Like Us |
Release Date
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1997
1998
2000 |
Status
Gold
Platinum
Gold
Gold
Gold
Gold
Gold
Gold
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Singles
"You've Got to Stand For Something"
"I Wonder How Far It Is Over You"
"She Made A Memory Out of Me"
"There Ain't Nothin' Wrong With the Radio"
"I Wouldn't Have It Any Other Way"
"I Was Born With A Broken Heart"
"My Blue Angel"
"Working Man's Ph.D."
"Call of the Wild"
"I Got It Honest"
"Lookin' Back At Myself"
"She Feels Like A Brand New Man Tonight"
"That's As Close As I'll Get to Loving You"
"Without Your Love"
"How's the Radio Know"
"That's What Happens When I Hold You"
"For You I Will"
"What This Country Needs"
"Kiss This"
"People Like Us" |
Stats
Spent 6 weeks in Top 10; Peaked at #6
Peaked at #1
Peaked at #5
Peaked at #7
Peaked at #7
Peaked at #8
Peaked at #1
Peaked at #1
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TV Highlights
Bob Hope All-Star Salute to the Troops
Bob Hope's Christmas Special
Today Show
Donahue
Joan Rivers
Vicki
CBS This Morning
CNN's Showbiz Today
Presenter on TNN/Music City News and ACM Awards Shows
Entertainment Tonight
Inside Edition
The Maury Povich Show
Hee Haw
Nashville Now
Crook & Chase
Video Morning
Video PM
On-Stage
Crook & Chase
Prime Time Country
more...
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