What's Forever For
Michael Murphey
1982
Annual listening list: initial release cycle, with recent carryovers; not an original-release-date field. Release chronology remains partly unverified.
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About Michael Martin Murphey
Song-specific inspiration or recording background is not established for this entry. This sourced artist profile provides career context.
Michael Martin Murphey developed through the Texas folk scene and later recording work in Los Angeles, Colorado and Nashville. His catalog ranges across country, pop, bluegrass and the music of the American West. Geronimo's Cadillac and Blue Sky - Night Thunder introduced familiar repertoire including Wildfire and Carolina in the Pines. Cowboy Songs and the later Buckaroo Blue Grass projects expanded those interests, while other performers recorded his songwriting.
Artist background sources
Michael Martin Murphey - official career biography
Read official career biography for Texas and recording centers, musical range, early albums/repertoire and cowboy/bluegrass projects. Omit inaccurate chart-topper shorthand, awards, quoted praise and competing movement-origin claims. | Retrieved 2026-10-19
Profile reviewed: 2026-10-19. Artist background does not establish a song's creative origin or release date.
Retained annual-list context
What's Forever For by Michael Murphey appears at number 93 in the reviewed U.S. year-end table for 1982. No reliable song-specific account of its inspiration was established in this review.
Annual-list context only; songwriting inspiration remains unestablished
Billboard year-end 1982 table (Wikipedia transcription)
Secondary chart transcription reviewed for title, artist and annual association. Not proof of release date, genre or inspiration.
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Billboard year-end 1982 table (Wikipedia transcription)
Secondary chart transcription reviewed for title, artist and annual association. Not proof of release date, genre or inspiration.
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