Loretta Lynn biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Loretta Lynn

Author Name:

Loretta Lynn

Born As:

Loretta Webb

Other Names:

The Coal Miner's Daughter - The First Lady of Country Music - The Decca Doll - The Queen of Country Music.

Born:

14 Apr 1935

Died:





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Country Singer                          
Selected Works - 

1960 -  Honky Tonk Girl
1963 -  Loretta Lynn Sings
1964 -  Before I'm Over You
1965 -  Songs from My Heart
1965 -  Hymns
1965 -  Blue Kentucky Girl
1965 -  Mr. & Mrs. Used to Be, with Ernest Tubb
1966 -  I Like 'em Country
1966 -  A Country Christmas
1966 -  You Ain't Woman Enough
1967 -  Don't Come Home a Drinkin', With Lovin' on Your Mind, US Gold
1967 -  Ernest Tubb & Loretta Lynn Singin' Again, with Ernest Tubb
1967 -  Singin' With Feelin'
1968 -  Fist City
1968 -  Who Says God Is Dead!
1969 -  Your Squaw Is on the Warpath
1969 -  If We Put Our Heads Together, with Ernest Tubb
1969 -  Woman of the World / To Make a Man
1970 -  Wings Upon Your Horns
1970 -  Loretta Lynn Writes 'em & Sings 'em
1970 -  Coal Miner's Daughter, US Gold
1971 -  I Wanna Be Free
1971 -  We Only Make Believe, with Conway Twitty, US Gold
1971 -  You're Lookin' At Country
1972 -  Lead Me On, with Conway Twitty, US Gold
1972 -  One's on the Way
1972 -  Here I Am Again
1973 -  Entertainer of the Year - Loretta
1973 -  Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man, with Conway Twitty
1973 -  Love Is the Foundation
1974 -  They Don't Make 'em Like My Daddy
1974 -  Country Partners, with Conway Twitty
1975 -  Back to the Country
1975 -  Feelin's, with Conway Twitty
1975 -  Home
1976 -  When the Tingle Becomes a Chill
1976 -  United Talent, with Conway Twitty
1976 -  Somebody, Somewhere
1977 -  I Remember Patsy
1977 -  Dynamic Duo, with Conway Twitty
1978 -  Out of My Head and Back in Bed
1978 -  Honky Tonk Heroes, with Conway Twitty
1979 -  We've Come a Long Way Baby
1979 -  Diamond Duet, with Conway Twitty
1980 -  Loretta
1980 -  Lookin' Good
1981 -  Two's a Party, with Conway Twitty
1981 -  I Lie
1982 -  Making Love from Memory
1983 -  Lyin', Cheatin', Woman Chasin', Honky Tonkin', Whiskey Drinkin' You
1985 -  Just a Woman
1988 -  Who Was That Stranger
1989 -  Makin' Believe, with Conway Twitty
1993 -  Honky Tonk Angels, Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, US Gold
1994 -  Making More Memories
1997 -  All Time Gospel Favorites
2000 -  Still Country
2004 -  Van Lear Rose                          
Mother Clara Marie Ramey
Father Melvin Webb, eight children.
Husband Oliver Vanetta Lynn, when Loretta was fourteen/fifteen years old, six children.                          
                          
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loretta_Lynn

She often claimed to have been married when she was 13 years old. She was actually married when she was 15, which was not unusual in the South at the time.

At the height of her popularity, Lynn was subject to much controversy. She possibly had more banned songs than any other artist in the history of country music, including "Rated "X"," about the double standards divorced women face, "Wings Upon Your Horns," about the loss of teenage virginity, and "The Pill", lyrics by T.D. Bayless, about a wife and mother becoming liberated via the birth control pill. Her song, "Dear Uncle Sam", released in 1966 during the Vietnam War, describes a wife's anguish at the loss of a husband to war. It has been included in live performances during the Iraq War.