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Lynn was born Loretta Webb in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, on April 14, 1932. [3] She was the oldest daughter and second child born to Clara Marie "Clary" (née Ramey; May 5, 1912 – November 24, 1981) and Melvin Theodore "Ted" Webb (June 6, 1906 – February 22, 1959).
Oliver Vanetta Lynn Jr. was born August 27, 1926, in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky to Angie “Sissie” Webb Lynn (1903–1990) and Oliver Vanetta "Red" Lynn Sr (1897–1981) as the oldest of seven. Of Irish descent, born in Butcher Hollow , near Paintsville, Kentucky in Johnson County , Oliver Lynn was an uneducated resident of a town based around ...
Thanks in part to the success of this hit, Lynn became the first female Country entertainer to win the CMA Awards' "Female Vocalist of the Year" award in late 1967. In 1970 "Don't Come Home A-Drinkin" was certified by the RIAA as a gold album making Loretta Lynn the first woman in country music to receive such an honor.
Loretta Lynn in Nashville, Tenn., on Feb. 10, 2016. Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner’s daughter who became a pillar of country music, died Oct. 4 at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tenn. She was 90.
Loretta Lynn had written the music and lyrics to "Portland Oregon" years prior to its recording date. The song was based on a true event, during a time when Lynn pretended to have a love affair with her guitarist, Cal Smith.
"Loretta’s mother was played by a wonderful, well-known mountain singer named Phyllis Boyens, who has passed away also," Spacek remembered in 2018. She also got to collaborate with Lynn's actual ...
Conway Twitty covered the song on his 1970 album 'Fifteen Years Ago'. 2 years later, he covered the song again as a duet with Loretta Lynn on their second studio album Lead Me On, released on February 7, 1972 by Decca Records. John Prine covered the song on his 1999 album In Spite of Ourselves.
"The Pill", written by Lorene Allen, Don McHan, T. D. Bayless, and Loretta Lynn, is a comic-tinged song about birth control.The song tells a story of a wife who is upset about her husband getting her pregnant year after year, but is now happy because she can control her own reproductive choices because she has "the pill" (which had been introduced in 1960).