| Jeff Knight | |
| Alias: | T. J. Knight |
| Birth Name: | Thomas Jeff Knight |
| Birth Date: | Thomas Jeff Knight |
| Origin: | El Paso, Texas, U.S. |
| Instrument: | Vocals |
| Genre: | Country |
| Occupation: | Singer-songwriter |
| Years Active: | 1992-1996 |
| Label: | Mercury |
Thomas Jeff Knight is an American country music artist, sometimes credited as T.J. Knight. Born in El Paso, Texas, he later moved to the Allegheny Mountains region of Pennsylvania;[1] after finding work as a truck driver, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where he signed to a publishing contract with a publishing company known as Music of the World. Among the artists who cut his songs are Pirates of the Mississippi, Johnny Cash, Clay Walker, and Vince Gill.[1]
Knight was signed to a recording contract with Polygram Records/Mercury Records in 1992.[1] He released two albums for the label and released four singles. He also wrote Daryle Singletary's 1996 single "Too Much Fun", for which Knight won a BMI award.
| Title | Album details | |
|---|---|---|
| They've Been Talkin' About Me |
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| Easy Street |
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| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Album | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash Box Country | ||||
| 1992 | "They've Been Talkin' About Me"[2] | 46 | They've Been Talkin' About Me | |
| "I Wish She Didn't Know Me"[3] | — | |||
| "Someone Like You"[4] | — | |||
| 1993 | "Easy Street"[5] | — | Easy Street | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | ||||
| Year | Video | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | "They've Been Talkin' About Me" | ||
| "Someone Like You" | Thom Oliphant | ||
| 1993 | "Easy Street"[6] | L. J. Kreussling |
The following is a list of Jeff Knight compositions that were chart hits.
| Year | Title | Recording artist | Chart positions | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Billboard Country | RPM Country | |||||||
| 1995 | Too Much Fun co-written with Curtis Wright | Daryle Singletary | 4 | 10 | ||||
| 2003 | You Can't Take It With You When You Go co-written with Curtis Wright | Rhonda Vincent | 58 | |||||