DEF: Michael Martin Murphey “Never Givin’ Up on Love”
Dallas-born musician Michael Martin Murphey hit the Top 40 on Billboard‘s Hot Country Songs chart twenty times, including with nineteen consecutive songs between 1982 and 1989. Twelve of those twenty hits reached the Top 10, including his last Top 40 hit, “Never Givin’ Up on Love,” which on this date in 1989 climbed to a peak position of number 9. “Never Givin’ Up on Love” by Michael Martin Murphey is today’s Daily Eighties Flashback.