Michael Martin Murphey closed out a successful decade of recording with the album "Land of Enchantment", which contained "Never Givin' Up on Love", "Got to Pay the Fiddler", "Route 66", and "Land of Enchantment", which became New Mexico's state ballad. Despite the impressive critical and commercial success he achieved throughout the 1980s, Michael Martin Murphey's creative heart and spirit began to focus on the Western music that first captured his imagination as a boy growing up in Texas. As early as 1985, Murphey performed with the New Mexico Symphony in a show called "A Night in the American West", which led to many
The Land Before Time office, as well as beating the Disney film, "Oliver & Company", which was released on the same day, for the #1 spot during its opening weekend. It brought in a box office total of nearly $50 million during its US release, slightly more than Don Bluth's previous film, "An American Tail". While "Oliver & Company" had grossed over its US earnings, "The Land Before Time" grossed nearly $84 million worldwide, which the Disney film did not surpass. However, "Oliver & Company" beat out "The Land Before Time" at the US box office by about $5 million. Attached to the film,