Chick Rains is one of Oklahoma’s most successful country music songwriters with several 31 and Top 10 hits in the 1980s and 1990s. After attending Muskogee Public Schools, Chick rambled through NEO A&M, Muskogee Junior College, and NSU before heading west to California in 1965 where he parlayed club shows in Los Angeles and San Francisco into a record contract with Capitol. After a U.S. Army stint where he served in Vietnam in 1969 and 1970, he returned to Los Angeles and was signed by MGM Records and RCA. Chick’s first major songwriting breaks came when Eddy Arnold recorded one of Rains’ tunes in 1974, and then when the Oak Ridge Boys recorded Rains’ “Easy” in 1977. Bolstered by these successes, Chick moved to Nashville in 1978 where he immediately crashed the scene with Mickey Gilley who took Rains’ “A Headache Tomorrow or a Heartbreak Tonight” to #1. Rains scored several #1 hits in the 1980s: Johnny Lee “One in a Million” (1980), Janie Fricke “Down to my Last Broken Heart” (1981), Reba McEntire “Somebody Should Leave” (1984), Holly Dunn “That’s What Your Love Does to Me” (1988). With these successes that included two Top 20 hits for Michael Martin Murphy, Rains moved to New Mexico where he played in Murphy’s band for about three years, and then in 199 moved back to Nashville. Back in Music City, Rains’ skills bore more fruit with #1 hits for Wade Hayes “Old Enough to Know Better” and “I’m Still Dancin with You” and Top 5 hits for Mark Collie “Born to Love You” and Laurie White “Now I Know”. Rains has written with many of country music’s biggest talents, to include Harlan Howard, Don Cook, Marty Stewart, Keith Whitley, Kix Brooks, Wade Hayes, and Mike Settle. Chick’s songs have been recorded by a who’s who of country music. Along with the already-mentioned artists, add Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, George Jones, Roy Clark, and Lone Star to the mix. Rains currently resides at home in Muskogee spending time with family and writing songs.