Loretta Lynn - part III

Coal Miner's Daughter


Don't Come Home A Drinkin'


Take me Home, Country Roads


Honky Tonk Girl, LIVE

Loretta Lynn - part II

Discography:

Solo studio Album
1963 Loreta Lynn Sings
1964 Before I’m Over You
1965 Songs from My Heart
1965 Blue Kentucky Girl
1966 I like’em Country
1966 You Ain’t Woman Enough
1967 Don’t Come a Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind)
1967 Singin’ With Feelin’
1968 Fisrt City
1969 Your Squaw Is on the Warpath
1969 Woman of the World / To Make a Man
1970 Wings Upon Your Horns
1970 Loretta Lynn Writes’em & Sings’em
1971 Coal MIner’s Daughter
1971 I Wanna Be Free
1971 You’re Lookin’ At Country
1971 One’s on the Way
1972 Here I Am Again
1973 Entertainer of the Year – Loretta
1973 Love Is the Foundation
1974 They Don’t Make’em Like My Daddy
1975 Back to Country
1975 Home
1976 When the Tingle Becomes a Chill
1976 Somebody Somewhere
1977 I Remember Patsy
1978 Out of My Head and Back in My Bed
1979 We’ve Come a Long Way Baby
1980 Loretta
1980 Lookin’ Good
1981 I Lie
1982 Making Love from Memory
1983 Lyin’, Cheatin’, Woman Chasin’, Honky Tonkin’, Whiskey Drinkin’
1985 Just a Woman
1988 Who Was That Stranger
2000 Still Country
2004 Van Lear Rose

Collaboration studio albums
1965 Mr. & Mrs. Used to Be
1967 Ernest Tubb & Loretta Lynn Singin' Again
1968 If We Put Our Heads Together
1971 We Only Make Believe
1971 Lead Me On
1973 Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man
1974 Country Partners
1975 Feelin's
1976 United Talent
1977 Dynamic Duo
1978 Honky Tonk Heroes
1979 Diamond Duet
1981 Two's a Party
1989 Makin' Believe
1993 Honky Tonk Angels

Compilation Ambums
1965 Hymns
1966 A Country Christmas
1968 Loretta Lynn's Greatest Hits
1968 Who Says God Is Dead!
1972 Alone With You
1972 God Bless America Again
1973 Story
1974 Loretta Lynn's Greatest Hits Vol. 2
1976 Blue-Eyed Kentucky Girl
1979 The Very Best of Loretta Lynn & Conway Twitty
1988 20 Greatest Hits
1991 Country Music Hall of Fame Series
1994 Honky Tonk Girl - The Loretta Lynn Collection
1998 All Time Gospel Favorites
1999 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection
2004 All Time Gospel Favorites
2004 The Very Best of Loretta Lynn
2005 The Definitive Collection
2005 20th Century Masters - The Christmas Collection
2006 Gold
2006 Chronicles
2007 Number 1s

Singles
1960 I'm a Honky Tonk Girl"
1960 New Rainbow
1960 Darkest Day
1962 Success
1963 The Other Woman
1963 Before I'm Over You
1964 Wine, Women, and Song
1964 Mr. and Mrs. Used to Be
1964 Happy Birthday
1965 Blue Kentucky Girl
1965 Our Hearts Are Holding Hands
1965 The Home You're Tearing Down
1966 Dear Uncle Sam
1966 You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man)
1966 Don't Come Home A' Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)
1967 Sweet Thang
1967 If You're Not Gone Too Long
1967 A Man I Hardly Know
1967 What Kind of a Girl (Do You Think I Am)
1968 Fist City 1968
1968 You've Just Stepped In (From Stepping Out oN Me)
1968 Your Squaw Is on the Warpath
1969 Woman of the World (Leave My World Alone)
1969 To Make a Man (Feel Like a Man)
1969 Who's Gonna Take the Garbage Out
1969 Wings Upon Your Horns
1970 I Know How
1970 You Wanna Give Me a Lift
1970 Coal Miner's Daughter
1971 After the Fire Is Gone
1971 I Wanna Be Free
1971 You're Lookin' At Country
1971 Lead Me On
1971 One's on the Way
1972 Here I Am Again
1972 Rated
1973 Love Is the Foundation
1973 Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man
1973 Hey Loretta
1974 They Don't Make 'em Like My Daddy
1974 As Soon as I Hang Up the Phone
1974 Trouble In Paradise
1975 The Pill
1975 Feelin's
1975 Home
1975 When the Tingle Becomes a Chill
1976 Red, White, and Blue
1976 The Letter
1976 Somebody, Somewhere
1977 She's Got You
1977 I Can't Love You Enough
1977 Why Can't He Be You
1977 Out of My Head and Back In My Bed
1978 Spring Fever
1978 From Seven Till Ten
1978 You're the Reason Our Kids Are Ugly
1978 We've Come a Long Way Baby
1979 I Can't Feel You Anymore
1979 I've Got a Picture of Us on My Mind
1979 You Know Just What I'd Do
1979 The Sadness of It All
1980 Pregnant Again
1980 It's True Love
1980 Naked In the Rain
1980 Cheatin' on a Cheater
1981 Lovin' What Your Lovin' Does to Me
1981 Somebody Led Me Away
1981 I Still Believe In Waltzes
1982 I Lie
1982 Making Love From Memory
1983 Breakin' It
1983 There's All Kinds of Smoke (In the Barroom)
1983 Lyin', Cheatin', Women, Chasin', Honky Tonkin', and Whiskey Drinkin' Too
1983 Walking With My Memories
1985 Heart Don't Do This to Me
1985 Woudln't It Be Great
1986 Just a Woman
1987 Honky Tonk Angels Medley
1988 Who Was That Stranger
1988 Fly Away
1988 Makin' Believe
1993 Silver Threads and Golden Needles
2000 Country In My Genes
2004 Miss Being Mrs.
2004 Portland, Oregon

Loretta Lynn - part I

     Few day ago I watch one movie about life of famous country singer, Loretta Lynn. The name of that was Coal Miner's Daughter.

She was born in small village Butcher Hollow in Kentucky, April 14, 1934 to family of coal miner Melvin "Ted" Webb and his wife Clara Marie (Ramey) Webb. Her own name was Loretta Young. She was the second of eight children. She grew up in same village. Maybe somebody didn't know, she is also from one side Indian, because her mother was of Scots-Irish and Cherokee ancestry.

     She was married in January 10, 1948 to Oliver Vanetta Lynn, who was known as "Doolittle," "Doo,". Yes, you see right. Only in her 13 years old. Very young. Her husband had to promise to her father two things: 1., he has never beat her, 2., he has never taken Loretta far away from her family house.

The wedding day was very poor, only few people. She hadn't any experiences of married life and houses works, as she said she was uneducated. Doo worked, she was housewife. But without any knowledges of cooking, of housekeeping. Maybe that's why Doo was angry with her and bagged he. She returned home, to parent's house. In that time she was pregnant but she didn't know it.

Doo decided to leave Kentucky and went to Washington. When he got to know about pregnant we changed decision and stayed with Loretta in Butcher Hollow. To her 17 years old, she had already 4 children (Betty Sue, Ernest Ray, Jack Benny, Doo - I hope I write right). In 1951 they left to Custer, Washington. There she was full time mother.

She started to sing as child in church, but after wedding she stopped it. Again she started to sing from her children and around their house. Doo liked it and that's why he bought her guitar, although she wasn't able to play on it. Loretta learned to play during cooking, during many house works.

One day Doo invited her to pub and there she began singing in local club - Grace Hall. The first embarrassment went away and Loretta had great success. From that time she sang more time but Doo had other plans. Next step was recording single named I'm A Honky Tonk Girl and Doo sent it with her photo to many radios.

It looks her life is on right way, and suddenly hard blow, her father died (1959). Loretta taxed herself with her leaving to Washington.

New plans - open her sing career. Her children stayed with grand mother in Kentucky and Loretta with Doo started to visit all radios, where they sent her single. They took Regional Record Reports and started. The first step was to play her song. In radio they wasn't put it, but Loretta was relentless and it was well.

     The brake point came when she got 14 of full-state hitparade. In that time Doo decided the time is right to come out in Grand Ole Opry. Loretta had never hoped to be there, but it was in Ernest Tubb show. In white hat and in own sewn dress, Loretta was light point of this show. Step by step her fame was growing up and she was in Tubb's show next week again.

After that the success show changed success show.

One day she sang song especially for Patsy Cline, who had car accident. Patsy's husband Charlie Dick invite Loretta to Patsy's room in hospital where she was. Both women found affinity and the friendship started. Loretta went with Patsy on Patsy's tour. Doo went with them.

Loretta became famous, her husband started to go back and it wasn't what he wanted. He drunk, to be aggressive.He still love her and that's why he made decision - Loretta continued in tour, he went home.

Loretta is pregnant again. Patsy make plans but she died during returning from benefit concert(at the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall, Kansas City, Kansas) at plane crash in March 5, 1963 near Camden, Tennessee. Patsy Cline was 30 years old. Loretta was broken-hearted.

The pregnant was ended by childbirth of twin girls. As soon as possible she returned to concert's activity.

     Again she was busy, she traveled on tours, recorded albums, showed on concerts. She became the most favourite country singer, especially The first Country Lady.

The concerts were very strenuous, Loretta slept more in bus as in normal bed in house and she started to have headache. She have taken medicaments, more and more. Tempo is hard, on next tour Lorette was traveled with her husband Doo, but problems of her health has deepen. She didn't remember song words, she is run-down and in the end she flaked out direct on podium.

Later she spent time on their Ranch with her husband and her children. Doo decided to build new house.

The free time was very important for her, she returned to the light of reflector, with new vitality, with new songs.

During the movie, I thought: Yes, it was very long time ago, it was normal, it was in 19-teen century. It can happened only in that time. And after movie? Stop, it was in 20-teen. Loretta is still the first country lady. And she is good example that when man wants something and work on himself, he can have success. REMEMBER IT.

     All information was from movie Coal Miner's Daughter.
(Direction: Michael Apted, Script: Loretta Lynn, Thomas Rickman, George Vecsey, Actors: Sissy Spacek (Loretta Webb / Lynn), Tommy Lee Jones (Doolittle 'Mooney' Lynn aka 'Doo'), Levon Helm (Ted Webb), Phyllis Boyens (Clara 'Clary' Webb), Bill Anderson Jr. (Webb child), Foister Dickerson (Webb child), Malla McCown (Webb child), Pamela McCown (Webb child)).