Sawyer Brown

Sawyer Brown belong to a rarified class: they parlayed their initial fame as the winners of a televised talent competition into a career that has run successfully for decades. The country band -- as influenced by the Eagles as they were by Merle Haggard -- something of a rarity back in the mid-'80s -- had a burst of hits that coincided with their triumphant appearance on Star Search in 1984. Instead of fading after "Step That Step" reached number one in 1985, the group stuck around in the Billboard Country Top Ten until the dawn of the 21st century, racking up such hits as "Th...