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Rose Lee Maphis (born Doris Helen Schetrompf; December 29, 1922 – October 26, 2021) was an American country singer and musician. She performed as a harmony singer and rhythm guitarist as a duo with her husband Joe Maphis. They were pioneers of the Bakersfield sound that developed in the mid-1950s. [1]
Otis Wilson "Joe" Maphis [1] (/ ˈ m eɪ f ɪ s / MAY-fis; May 12, 1921 – June 27, 1986), [2] was an American country music guitarist. He married singer Rose Lee Maphis in 1953 and they performed together. One of the flashiest country guitarists of the 1950s and 1960s, Joe Maphis was known as "The King of the Strings". [3]
It was originally recorded in December 1952 by the bluegrass duo Flatt & Scruggs, and later released by Joe & Rose Lee Maphis in 1953 as a single. Joe Maphis said he started the song after moving from barn dance shows in Virginia and Chicago to playing in a honky-tonk in Bakersfield, California, in a band that included Buck Owens on back-up ...
"Love Is the Look You're Looking For" is a single written by American country music artist Rose Lee Maphis for American country music artist Connie Smith. Released in December 1972, the song reached #8 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. The song was issued onto Smith's 1973 compilation of the same name.
Among these 1972 top ten songs was "Love Is the Look You're Looking For", composed by Rose Lee Maphis. The song would eventually serve as the name to Smith's 1973 RCA Victor compilation. By 1973, Smith had chosen not to renew her contract with RCA, believing that the label failed to give her the musical attention she previously received. [3]
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Writes Jonny Whiteside in LA Weekly, "They churned a slow but steady series of albums by out-of-fashion geniuses, like Merle Travis, Joe and Rose Lee Maphis and Grandpa Jones, carving out a corner of the market for marginalized and ignored country stars (much the way his mentor Pierce did at Starday Records in the 1960s)." [2]