[3] Morris, a good athlete, played four sports at Richland High School, which led to a scholarship with Cisco Junior College in Texas.

[2] In the audience was Nashville country music producer Norro Wilson, to whom Morris later gave a demo tape.

[2] Although he rarely saw any success outside country music, many of Morris' hit songs were in the pop-country vein during the height of his career.

Morris later opened a music publishing office in Nashville, with one of his employees being future star Faith Hill.

Gary Morris performed two songs featured on Juice Newton's album Duets: Friends & Memories, which was released in October 2010.

[2] The full symphonic recording of Les Misérables is a platinum-selling, Grammy Award-winning album and features Morris' vocals throughout in the role of Valjean,[2] including his version of the song "Bring Him Home".

[6] Morris has also appeared in a production of Puccini's opera La Boheme with fellow country/pop singer Linda Ronstadt.

[2] In the 1980s, he did a stint on The Colbys as blind country music singer Wayne Masterson,[2] signed to Dominique Deveraux's label.

In the 1990s, he spent a great deal of time working on music projects, such as the PBS special concert production, in Moscow, Russia, in the Tretyakov Gallery.