# Pal Rakes

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{{short description|American country music singer}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name              = Pal Rakes
| image             = Pal Rakes.jpg
| alt               = 
| caption           = Rakes in 1977
| image_size        = 
| birth_name        = Palmer Crawford Rakes III<ref name="allmusic"/>
| origin            = [Tampa, Florida](/source/Tampa%2C_Florida), U.S.
| genre             = [Country](/source/Country_music)
| occupation        = Singer-songwriter
| years_active      = 1977–1989
| label             = [Warner Bros.](/source/Warner_Bros._Records), [Atlantic](/source/Atlantic_Records)
}}
'''Palmer Crawford "Pal" Rakes III''' (born in [Tampa, Florida](/source/Tampa%2C_Florida)) is an American [country music](/source/country_music) singer. He recorded for [Warner Bros. Records](/source/Warner_Bros._Records) between 1977 and 1979, and for [Atlantic Records](/source/Atlantic_Records) between 1988 and 1989. During his tenure on Warner, he charted in the Top 40 of [Hot Country Songs](/source/Hot_Country_Songs) with "That's When the Lyin' Stops (And the Lovin' Starts)" and "[Till I Can't Take It Anymore](/source/Till_I_Can't_Take_It_Anymore)".<ref name="whitburn">{{cite book|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|title=Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008|publisher=Record Research, Inc|year=2008|page=338|isbn=978-0-89820-177-2}}</ref> Rakes also released one album for Atlantic, ''Midnight Rain''. One of Rakes's songs appeared on [Neal McCoy](/source/Neal_McCoy)'s debut album ''[At This Moment](/source/At_This_Moment_(album))''.<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web |url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p1776|pure_url=yes}} |title=Pal Rakes biography |last=Bush |first=John |work=[Allmusic](/source/Allmusic) |accessdate=8 October 2010}}</ref>

==Discography==

===Albums===
{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Album information
|- 
| 1988
| '''''Midnight Rain'''''
*<small>Label: [Atlantic Records](/source/Atlantic_Records) No.&nbsp;90964</small>
*<small>Released: 1988</small>
|}

===Singles===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!rowspan="2"|Year
!rowspan="2"|Single
!colspan="2"|Chart Positions
!rowspan="2"|Album
|-
!width="50"|<small>[US Country](/source/Hot_Country_Songs)</small><ref name="whitburn"/>
!width="50"|<small>CAN Country</small><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.5556&type=1&interval=20&PHPSESSID=3jinovi8u1vb03701hth5h0po4 |title=RPM Country Tracks for March 4, 1978 |work=[RPM](/source/RPM_(magazine)) |accessdate=8 October 2010}}</ref>
|- 
|rowspan=2|1977
|"That's When the Lyin' Stops (And the Lovin' Starts)"
|align=center|24
|align=center|—
|rowspan=5|non-album songs
|-
|"[Till I Can't Take It Anymore](/source/Till_I_Can't_Take_It_Anymore)"
|align=center|31
|align=center|—
|-
|rowspan=2|1978
|"If I Ever Come Back"
|align=center|46
|align=center|50
|-
|"Till Then"
|align=center|81
|align=center|—
|-
|1979
|"You and Me and the Green Grass"
|align=center|92
|align=center|—
|-
|1988
|"I'm Only Lonely for You"
|align=center|71
|align=center|—
|rowspan=3|''Midnight Rain''
|-
|rowspan=2|1989
|"All You're Takin' Is My Love"
|align=center|73
|align=center|—
|-
|"We Did It Once (We Can Do It Again)"
|align=center|66
|align=center|—
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rakes, Pal}}
Category:American country singer-songwriters
Category:Atlantic Records artists
Category:Living people
Category:Musicians from Tampa, Florida
Category:Warner Records artists
Category:Singer-songwriters from Florida
Category:Country musicians from Florida
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)

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