Happy Birthday (Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year)!

@FourWalls (86910)
United States
April 14, 2022 9:18pm CST
April 14, 1932 was probably an unremarkable day in the world. The Depression was well underway. Poor people in eastern Kentucky probably had no clue that there was a stock market crash. It was in this world that Loretta Webb was born on this day. Today we know her as Loretta Lynn. And today she’s 90. Loretta is one of our few remaining country legends. Her career began sixty years ago. She wasn’t the only woman to write songs (Cindy Walker was primarily a songwriter for a good 15 years before Loretta came on the scene), but she was one of the first to write and record them. She became featured as the “girl singer” on the Wilburn Brothers’ syndicated TV show (the clip below is from that, with Doyle [to her right] and Teddy [to her left] helping her on the song) as her career took off. And off and off. As popular as she was, the 1980 biopic Coal Miner’s Daughter solidified her place in American popular culture. She’s won Grammy awards, induction into the Country Music, Nashville Songwriters, AND Songwriters Halls of Fame, Kennedy Center Honors recognition, a 2010 Lifetime Achievement Grammy, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Not bad for a poor girl from Butcher Holler, Kentucky. God bless you, Loretta! Here she is singing “Happy Birthday” to herself
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@DaddyEvil (174749)
• United States
15 Apr 22
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@BarBaraPrz (51839)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
15 Apr 22
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Four Walls
@FourWalls (86910)
• United States
15 Apr 22
That’s weird, because it works on mine. I think we’re having a Police album tonight: ghosts in the machine!
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@DaddyEvil (174749)
• United States
15 Apr 22
@BarBaraPrz Sometimes links from Bing work and sometimes they don't. I have no clue why.
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rebelann1949
@rebelann (117281)
• El Paso, Texas
15 Apr 22
Surprisingly I actually like some of her songs. I read about her and the crap she's taken from that hubby of hers. I didn't stick around long after the first altercation with my ex thankfully.
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rebelann1949
@rebelann (117281)
• El Paso, Texas
15 Apr 22
I wonder why she put up with him.
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Four Walls
@FourWalls (86910)
• United States
16 Apr 22
@rebelann — I think she really loved him, even with his faults.
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Four Walls
@FourWalls (86910)
• United States
15 Apr 22
Yeah, it’s amazing what she’d take off of him. She’d tell a floozy he was seeing “You Ain’t Woman Enough (To Take My Man)” then tell him “Don’t Come Home a-Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind).”
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RasmaSandra
@RasmaSandra (98158)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
19 Apr 22
I love her country singing style, I really enjoy the movie about other with Sissy Spacek,
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Four Walls
@FourWalls (86910)
• United States
20 Apr 22
Sissy really deserved the Oscar for that!
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Ruby Hawk
@RubyHawk (99367)
• Atlanta, Georgia
15 Apr 22
Loretta Lynn was my favorite country singers . I love Coal miners Daughter. She was always the same country girl. I loved her songs about her husband . I can’t remember what she called him now.
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Four Walls
@FourWalls (86910)
• United States
15 Apr 22
She called him Doolittle.
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Four Walls
@FourWalls (86910)
• United States
16 Apr 22
@RubyHawk — was it “Fist City”? Or was that one written when she looked out and saw Doo’s girlfriend in the audience at a show? (What a sleaze he was. )
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Ruby Hawk
@RubyHawk (99367)
• Atlanta, Georgia
15 Apr 22
@FourWalls Yes she did. I recalled the word as quick as I saw it. Do you remember the song she wrote when she found him cuddled up with a woman in a car? I loved all her songs. I’d love to hear them again.
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@dgobucks226 (37621)
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23 Apr 22
Nice tribute! What a Country superstar Heck, a non-country boy like me even knows who she is. Of course, watching the movie about her life "Coal Miner's Daughter" didn't hurt. So, said another way, not too shabby for a "Honky Tonk Girl."
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Four Walls
@FourWalls (86910)
• United States
23 Apr 22
Why thank you! She’s so deserving of all the accolades we can give her. I think her performing career has ended after that significant stroke she had a few years ago. That makes me even more grateful that I saw her live.
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CarolDM
@CarolDM (203396)
• Nashville, Tennessee
15 Apr 22
Such a down to earth and classy lady for sure. Happy Birthday to her.
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Four Walls
@FourWalls (86910)
• United States
16 Apr 22
She’s one of our musical national treasures!
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CarolDM
@CarolDM (203396)
• Nashville, Tennessee
16 Apr 22
@FourWalls I know and it was so sad what happened at her ranch. I recently rad this in our local news... .."Loretta Lynn’s 90th birthday will be marked by Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry with an edition of Opry Country Classics on Thursday (14) in honor of one of its most distinguished members. The show will include performances by Lynn’s sister and fellow Opry member Crystal Gayle, the Gatlin Brothers, Elizabeth Cook, and Maggie Rose, as well as featuring the Opry debut of duo Twitty and Lynn. Tayla Lynn and Tre Twitty are the grandchildren of Lynn and her frequent singing partner Conway Twitty. They perform their own tribute show to the duo, who are known to them as “Memaw” and “Poppy.” More names are to be announced for the tribute bill."
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
15 Apr 22
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Four Walls
@FourWalls (86910)
• United States
15 Apr 22
Such a classic tune!
marguicha
@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
15 Apr 22
I have listened and liked Coal Miner´s Daughter. Happy birthday!
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Four Walls
@FourWalls (86910)
• United States
15 Apr 22
Yes, I wish her happy birthday as well, and many more!
Marlina
@marlina (154103)
• Canada
15 Apr 22
Not bad at all!
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Four Walls
@FourWalls (86910)
• United States
15 Apr 22
I’m glad you enjoyed it. She’s such a treasure. And, God willing, one of Canada’s great singer/songwriter legends will be turning 90 in 18 months: the great Ian Tyson.
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George B Vieto
@Deepizzaguy (122367)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
15 Apr 22
That explains the title of the movie called "Coal Miner's Daughter." Loretta is indeed a musician icon.
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Four Walls
@FourWalls (86910)
• United States
15 Apr 22
“Coal Miner’s Daughter” is the title of her very autobiographical song from 1971, and when she wrote her first autobiography she also titled it Coal Miner’s Daughter. As all biopics do, the film took liberties with the truth but was generally based on her book.
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LindaOH
@LindaOHio (222898)
• United States
15 Apr 22
I thought she started singing much younger than 30. At least the movie alludes to that fact.
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Four Walls
@FourWalls (86910)
• United States
15 Apr 22
She was. Remember, though, she got married at 14 and wasn’t at the point of pursuing things that strongly at first. She was burning singing, though.
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