Loretta Webb was born on April 14, 1935, in Butcher Hollow,
Johnson County, Kentucky. As a child she sang at church,
*but after marrying and moving to Custer, Washington she
won a talent competition in Tacoma and was discovered by
Buck Owens, who introduced her on his television show.

Her first county hit in 1960 was “I’m a Honky Tonk Girl”.
Eight top ten hits later in 1966 Loretta topped the chart with
her first #1 song, “Don’t Come Home A Drinkin”.
15 # 1 Hits would follow, including “Fist City”,
“Women of The World”, “Coal Miner’s Daughter”,
“One’s On The Way”, “Rated X”, “Love is the
Foundation”, “Trouble in Paradise”, “Somebody Somewhere”,
“She’s Got You” and “Out of My Head and Back in My Bed”.

Teaming up, Loretta and Conway Twitty topped the charts with,
“After the Fire is Gone”, “Lead Me On”, “Louisiana Woman,
Mississippi Man” and “As Soon as I Hang Up the Phone”.

Loretta’s dozens of top five hits included, “Wine Woman and
Song”, “You Ain’t Woman Enough”, “You’ve Just Stepped In”,
“Your Squaw Is On The Warpath”, “To Make A Man”,
“I Wanna Be Free”, “They Don’t Make Em Like My Daddy”
and “When the Tingle Becomes a Chill”.

Loretta Lynn’s autobiography “Coal Miners Daughter” was
made into a film that won Sissy Spacek an Oscar. She was
named Artist Of The Decade by Academy of Country Music in
the Country for the 1970’s, was honored at the Kennedy
Center in 2003 and Entertainer Of The Year by the
Country Music Association.

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