• Ann Margaret
  http://wn.com/Ann_Margaret
• Barbara Mandrell
  Barbara Ann Mandrell (born December 25, 1948) is an American country music singer best-known for a 1970s–1980s series of Top 10 hits and TV shows that helped her become one of country's most successful female vocalists of the 1970s and 1980s. She is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
  http://wn.com/Barbara_Mandrell
• 
  Bob Mackie
  Robert Gordon Mackie (born March 24, 1940 in Monterey Park, California) is an American fashion designer, best known for his costuming for entertainment icons such as Cher, Diana Ross, Whitney Houston, Tina Turner, and Mitzi Gaynor. He was the costume designer for The Carol Burnett Show during its entire 11 year run and designed the costumes for the 1993 television adaptation of Gypsy.
  http://wn.com/Bob_Mackie
• 
  Carol Burnett
  Carol Creighton Burnett (born April 26, 1933) is an American actress, comedienne, singer, dancer and writer. Burnett started her career in New York. After becoming a hit on Broadway, she debuted on television. After successful appearances on The Garry Moore Show, Carol moved to Los Angeles and began an eleven-year run on The Carol Burnett Show which was aired on CBS television from 1967 to 1978. With roots in vaudeville, The Carol Burnett Show was a variety show combining comedy sketches, song, and dance. The comedy sketches ranged from film parodies to character pieces which featured the many talents of Burnett herself who created and played several well-known and distinctive characters.
  http://wn.com/Carol_Burnett
• 
  Cher
  Cher (; born Cherilyn Sarkisian on May 20, 1946) is an American recording artist, actress, director and record producer. Referred to as the Goddess of Pop, she has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globes, a Cannes Film Festival Award and a People's Choice Award for her work in film, music and television.
  http://wn.com/Cher
• 
  Chet Atkins
  Chester Burton Atkins (June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001), better known as Chet Atkins, was an American guitarist and record producer who created, along with Owen Bradley, the smoother country music style known as the Nashville sound, which expanded country's appeal to adult pop music fans as well.
  http://wn.com/Chet_Atkins
• 
  Connie Smith
  Connie Smith (born Constance June Meador; August 14, 1941) is an American country music artist. She began her career in 1963 after winning a local talent contest near Columbus, Ohio, which attracted the attention of country songwriter Bill Anderson. After recording several demos for Anderson to pitch to other artists, Smith was offered a contract by RCA Victor Records in 1964.
  http://wn.com/Connie_Smith
• Cowboy Copas
  Lloyd Estel Copas (July 15, 1913 – March 5, 1963), known by his stage name Cowboy Copas, was an American country music singer popular from the 1940s until his death in the 1963 plane crash that also killed country stars Patsy Cline and Hawkshaw Hawkins. He was a member of the Grand Ole Opry.
  http://wn.com/Cowboy_Copas
• David Frizzell
  David Frizzell (born September 26, 1941) is an American country music singer. He is the younger brother of country music legend Lefty Frizzell. His career first started in the late 1950s, but his biggest success came in the '80s, 30 years into his career.
  http://wn.com/David_Frizzell
• 
  Dolly Parton
  Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and philanthropist, best-known for her work in country music.
  http://wn.com/Dolly_Parton
• Don Gibson
  Donald Eugene Gibson (April 3, 1928–November 17, 2003) was an American songwriter and country musician. A Country Music Hall of Fame inductee, Gibson penned such country standards as "Sweet Dreams" and "I Can't Stop Loving You", and enjoyed a string of country hits from 1957 into the early 1970s.
  http://wn.com/Don_Gibson
• 
  Emmylou Harris
  Emmylou Harris (born April 2, 1947 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other artists including Linda Ronstadt, Elvis Costello and Dolly Parton.
  http://wn.com/Emmylou_Harris
• George H.W. Bush
  http://wn.com/George_HW_Bush
• Hank Cochran
  Garland Perry "Hank" Cochran (August 2, 1935 – July 15, 2010) was an American country music singer and songwriter. Starting in the 1960s, Cochran has been a prolific songwriter in the genre, including major hits by Patsy Cline, Ray Price, Eddy Arnold and others. Cochran was also a recording artist between 1962 and 1980, charting seven times on the Billboard country charts, with his highest solo peak being the #20 "Sally Was a Good Old Girl."
  http://wn.com/Hank_Cochran
• Harlan Howard
  Harlan Perry Howard (September 8, 1927–March 3, 2002) was a prolific American songwriter, principally in country music. In a career spanning six decades, Howard wrote a large number of popular and enduring songs, recorded by a variety of different artists. Howard was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1997.
  http://wn.com/Harlan_Howard
• Hawkshaw Hawkins
  Harold Franklin Hawkins (December 22, 1921–March 5, 1963), better known as Hawkshaw Hawkins, was an American country music singer popular from the 1950s into the early 60s known for his rich, smooth vocals and music drawn from blues, boogie and honky tonk. At 6 ft 5 inches tall, he had an imposing stage presence, and his tasteful Western suits set him apart from the rhinestone gaudiness of other male country singers. Hawkins died in the 1963 plane crash that also killed country stars Patsy Cline and Cowboy Copas. He was a member of the Grand Ole Opry and was married to country star Jean Shepard.
  http://wn.com/Hawkshaw_Hawkins
• Jim Reeves
  James Travis Reeves (August 20, 1923 – July 31, 1964) was an American country and pop music singer-songwriter popular in the 1950s and 1960s who also gained a wide international following for his pioneering smooth Nashville sound. Known as Gentleman Jim, his songs continued to chart for years following his death at age 40 in a private airplane crash. He was a member of the Country Music and Texas Country Music Halls of Fame.
  http://wn.com/Jim_Reeves
• Jimmy Dean
  Jimmy Ray Dean (August 10, 1928 – June 13, 2010) was an American country music singer, television host, actor and businessman. Although he may be best known today as the creator of the Jimmy Dean Sausage brand, he became a national television personality starting in 1957, rising to fame for his 1961 country crossover hit "Big Bad John". His acting career included a supporting role in the 1971 James Bond movie, Diamonds Are Forever. He lived near Richmond, Virginia and was nominated for the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2010, although he was formally inducted posthumously.
  http://wn.com/Jimmy_Dean
• 
  Jo Dee Messina
  Jo Dee Marie Messina (born August 25, 1970, in Framingham, Massachusetts), known professionally as Jo Dee Messina, is an American country music artist. She has charted nine Number One singles on the Billboard country music charts. She has been honored by the Country Music Association, the Academy of Country Music and has been nominated for a Grammy Award. She was the first female country artist to score three multiple-week Number One songs from the same album. To date, she has two Platinum and three Gold-certified albums by the RIAA.
  http://wn.com/Jo_Dee_Messina
• 
  Johnny Cash
  John R. "Johnny" Cash (February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003), born J. R. Cash, was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Although he is primarily remembered as a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll—especially early in his career—as well as blues, folk, and gospel. Late in his career, Cash covered songs by several rock artists, among them the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails and the synthpop band Depeche Mode.
  http://wn.com/Johnny_Cash
• June Carter
  http://wn.com/June_Carter
• June Carter Cash
  Valerie June Carter Cash (June 23, 1929 – May 15, 2003) was a singer, dancer, songwriter, actress, comedienne and author who was a member of the Carter Family and the second wife of singer Johnny Cash. She played the guitar, banjo, harmonica, and autoharp and acted in several films and television shows.
  http://wn.com/June_Carter_Cash
• 
  Kenny Rogers
  Kenneth Donald Rogers, better known as Kenny Rogers (born August 21, 1938) is an American country music singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor and entrepreneur. He has charted more than 120 hit singles across various music genres and topping the country and pop album charts for more than 200 individual weeks in the United States alone.
  http://wn.com/Kenny_Rogers
• Larry Gatlin
  Larry Wayne Gatlin (born May 2, 1948 in Seminole, Texas) is an American country music singer/songwriter. He is best-known for teaming up with his brothers Steve and Rudy in the late 1970s, where they became one of country music's most successful acts of the 1970s and 1980s. Gatlin has won a total of 33 Top 40 singles, including both his solo recordings and those with his brothers. As their fame grew, the band became known as Larry Gatlin & the Gatlin Brothers.
  http://wn.com/Larry_Gatlin
• Lynn Anderson
  Lynn Rene Anderson (born September 26, 1947 in Grand Forks, North Dakota) is an American country music singer and equestrian, best known for her Grammy Award-winning, country crossover mega-hit, "(I Never Promised You A) Rose Garden." Helped by her regular exposure on national television, Anderson was one of the most popular female country singers of the 1970s. She has scored eleven No.1, eighteen Top-10, and over fifty Top-40 hits. She was the first female country artist to win an American Music Award in 1974, as well as the first to headline and sellout Madison Square Garden that same year. Anderson was named Billboard's "Artist of the Decade" (1970–80).
  http://wn.com/Lynn_Anderson
• Michele Lee
  Michele Lee (born June 24, 1942) is an American singer, dancer, actress, producer, director and frequent game show panelist of the 1970s. She is best-known for her role as Karen Cooper Fairgate MacKenzie on the 1980s prime-time soap opera, Knots Landing. She also co-starred with Dean Jones in the 1968 Disney film, The Love Bug.
  http://wn.com/Michele_Lee
• 
  Patsy Cline
  Patsy Cline (September 8, 1932 – March 5, 1963), born Virginia Patterson Hensley, was an American country music singer who enjoyed pop music crossover success during the era of the Nashville sound in the early 1960s. Since her death in 1963 at age 30 in a private airplane crash at the height of her career, she has been considered one of the most influential, successful, and acclaimed female vocalists of the 20th century.
  http://wn.com/Patsy_Cline
• 
  Roger Miller
  Roger Dean Miller (January 2, 1936 – October 25, 1992) was an American singer, songwriter, musician and actor, best known for his honky tonk-influenced novelty songs. His most recognized tunes included the chart-topping country/pop hits "King of the Road", "Dang Me" and "England Swings", all from the mid-1960s Nashville sound era.
  http://wn.com/Roger_Miller
• Shelly West
  Shelly West (born May 23, 1958, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American country music singer. Her mother was the country music star Dottie West, whose career spanned three decades. Shelly West is best-known for having hit duets with David Frizzell, and for their #1 hit "You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma". She also was a successful solo artist, having her own #1 hit, "Jose Cuervo" in 1983.
  http://wn.com/Shelly_West
• Skeeter Davis
  Mary Frances Penick (December 30, 1931 – September 19, 2004), better known as Skeeter Davis, was an American country music singer best known for crossover pop music songs of the early 1960s. She started out as part of The Davis Sisters in the early 1950s. In the late '50s and early '60s, she became a solo star. Her best known hit was the song "The End of the World" in 1963.
  http://wn.com/Skeeter_Davis
• 
  Tammy Wynette
  Virginia Wynette Pugh, known professionally as Tammy Wynette (May 5, 1942 – April 6, 1998), was an American country music singer-songwriter and one of country music's best-known artists and biggest-selling female vocalists.
  http://wn.com/Tammy_Wynette
• Tanya Tucker
  Tanya Denise Tucker (born October 10, 1958, in Seminole, Texas) is an American country music artist who had her first hit, "Delta Dawn", in 1972 at the age of 13. Over the succeeding decades, Tucker became one of the few child performers to mature into adulthood without losing her audience, and during the course of her career, she notched a streak of Top 10 and Top 40 hits.
  http://wn.com/Tanya_Tucker
• 
  Tina Turner
  Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939) is an American singer and actress whose career has spanned more than 50 years. She has won numerous awards and her achievements in the rock music genre have earned her the title '''The Queen of Rock 'n' Roll'''.
  http://wn.com/Tina_Turner
• 
  Willie Nelson
  Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 30, 1933) is an American country singer-songwriter, author, poet, actor and activist. He reached his greatest fame during the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, and remains iconic, especially in American popular culture.
  http://wn.com/Willie_Nelson

• Cleveland, Ohio
  http://wn.com/Cleveland_Ohio
• 
  Grand Ole Opry
  The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly country music stage concert in Nashville, Tennessee that has presented the biggest stars of the genre since 1925. It is also among the longest-running broadcasts in history since its beginnings as a one-hour radio "barn dance" on WSM-AM. Dedicated to honoring country music and its history, the Opry showcases a mix of legends and contemporary chart-toppers performing country, bluegrass, folk, comedy, and gospel. Considered an American icon, it attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world and millions of radio and Internet listeners. The Opry, today part of the American landscape, is "the show that made country music famous" and has been called the "home of American music" and "country’s most famous stage."
  http://wn.com/Grand_Ole_Opry
• 
  Kansas City, Kansas
  Kansas City is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas and is the county seat of Wyandotte County. It is a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri and is the third largest city in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, a region of over two million people. The city is part of the "Unified Government" which also includes the cities of Bonner Springs and Edwardsville. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 146,867. The city is situated at Kaw Point, which is the junction of the Missouri and Kansas rivers.
  http://wn.com/Kansas_City_Kansas
• 
  Los Angeles
  Los Angeles ( ; , Spanish for "The Angels") is the second most populous city in the United States, the most populous city in the state of California and the western United States, with a population of 3.83 million within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Los Angeles extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of over 14.8 million and it is the 14th largest urban area in the world, affording it megacity status. The metropolitan statistical area (MSA) is home to nearly 12.9 million residents while the broader Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside combined statistical area (CSA) contains nearly 17.8 million people. Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated and one of the most multicultural counties in the United States. The city's inhabitants are referred to as "Angelenos" ().
  http://wn.com/Los_Angeles
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  Nashville, Tennessee
  Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, music, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home to a large number of colleges and universities.
  http://wn.com/Nashville_Tennessee
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  Norway
  Norway (; Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk)), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe occupying the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, as well as Jan Mayen and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.8 million. It is one of the most sparsely populated countries in Europe. The majority of the country shares a border to the east with Sweden; its northernmost region is bordered by Finland to the south and Russia to the east; and Denmark lies south of its southern tip across the Skagerrak Strait. The capital city of Norway is Oslo. Norway's extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea, is home to its famous fjords.
  http://wn.com/Norway
• 
  White House
  The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical style. It has been the residence of every U.S. President since John Adams. When Thomas Jefferson moved into the house in 1801, he (with architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe) expanded the building outward, creating two colonnades that were meant to conceal stables and storage.
  http://wn.com/White_House

• Adult Contemporary
• alcoholism
• Allmusic
• Amazing Grace
• Ann Margaret
• Are You Happy Baby
• Atlantic Records
• Barbara Mandrell
• Best Country Song
• Billboard magazine
• Bob Mackie
• Bring it on Home
• Carol Burnett
• CBS
• Cher
• Chet Atkins
• child abuse
• child molestation
• Cleveland, Ohio
• Clio
• CMT
• Coca-Cola
• Connie Smith
• corporal punishment
• Country pop
• country-pop
• Cowboy Copas
• Crystal Gayle
• David Frizzell
• Dolly Parton
• Don Gibson
• Dottie and Don
• dysfunction
• Emmylou Harris
• eviction
• Family Feud
• George H.W. Bush
• gingham
• Grammy Award
• Grand Ole Opry
• Hank Cochran
• Harlan Howard
• Hawkshaw Hawkins
• It's High Time
• Jean Shepherd
• Jim Reeves
• Jimmy Dean
• Jo Dee Messina
• Johnny Cash
• Jose Cuervo (song)
• June Carter
• June Carter Cash
• Just Dottie Again
• Kansas City, Kansas
• Kenny Rogers
• Kris Kristofferson
• Larry Gatlin
• liver
• Loretta Lynn
• Los Angeles
• lye
• Lynn Anderson
• made-for-TV
• Melissa Raccoon
• Michele Lee
• Nashville, Tennessee
• Norway
• Oui (magazine)
• Paper Mansions
• Patsy Cline
• public auction
• RCA Records
• Rings of Gold
• Roger Miller
• science fiction
• sexual revolution
• Shelly West
• Skeeter Davis
• spandex
• spleen
• Starday Records
• Suffer Time
• Tammy Wynette
• Tanya Tucker
• The Aurora Encounter
• The Raccoons
• Tina Turner
• White House
• Wild West
• Wild West (album)
• Willie Nelson

West, Dottie Filmography

• Opry Video Classics: Queens (2007)
• Kenny Rogers: The Journey (2006)
• Best of Country Live! (2006)
• CMT: 100 Greatest Duets Concert (2005)
• Best of Dottie West (2003)
• CMT: 40 Greatest Women of Country Music (2002)
• The Life and Times of Dottie West (1996)
• The Women of Country (1993)
• This Is Your Life (1987)
• America: The Great Mississippi (1987)
• 20th Annual Music City News Awards (1986)
• The Aurora Encounter (1986)
• Grand Ole Opry (1985)
• Orange Bowl Parade (1985)
• Orange Bowl Parade (1985)
• (1986-10-24) (1984)
• (1983-05-07) (1983)
• (1983-08-27) (1983)
• Hits and Missus/Return of Annabelle/Just Plain Folks Medicine/Caught in the Act/The Real Thing/Do Not Disturb/Lulu & Kenny (Country Music Jamboree): Part 1 (1983)
• Circus of the Stars #8 (1983)
• Hits and Missus/Return of Annabelle/Just Plain Folks Medicine/Caught in the Act/The Real Thing/Do Not Disturb/Lulu & Kenny (Country Music Jamboree): Part 2 (1983)
• The Raccoons and the Lost Star (1983)
• Pirates of Nashville (1983)
• Stars Over Texas (1982)
• Full Circle (1982)
• (1982-01-09) (1982)
• (#9.23) (1981)
• (1983-10-24) (1981)
• (1981-01-17) (1981)
• By-Line, Daisy Duke (1981)
• (1982-06-24) (1981)
• (#1.10) (1980)
• 14th Annual Music City News Awards (1980)
• Johnny Cash: The First 25 Years (1980)
• Nashville Remembers Elvis on His Birthday (1980)
• The 22nd Annual Grammy Awards (1980)
• (#1.41) (1980)
• (1980-10-04) (1980)
• (1981-02-25) (1980)
• (1982-03-26) (1980)
• Country Superstars of the 70s (1979)
• The 21st Annual Grammy Awards (1979)
• Skinflint: A Country Christmas Carol (1979)
• (1979-02-24) (1978)
• 12th Annual Music City News Awards (1978)
• (#6.22) (1978)
• Dottie West (1977)
• (1977-12-03) (1977)
• (1977-02-19) (1976)
• (1976-09-18) (1976)
• (1976-10-30) (1976)
• Dottie West/Floyd Cramer (1975)
• That Good Ole Nashville Music (1970)
• (#1.25) (1969)
• (#1.20) (1969)
• (#1.15) (1969)
• (1971-01-03) (1969)
• (#5.6) (1969)
• (#6.6) (1969)
• (#9.5) (1969)
• The Road to Nashville (1967)
• Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar (1966)
• (1979-11-05) (1965)
• (1980-01-20) (1962)
• (1981-03-30) (1962)
• (1979-08-10) (1962)
• (1979-10-05) (1961)
• (1981-02-25) (1961)

• Make Us a Plan
• Are You Happy Baby?
• What Are We Doin' in Love?
• Right or Wrong
• Choosin' Means Loosin'
• Goodbye
• I'm Gonna) Put You Baack on the Rack
• Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word
• Please Remember Me
• I Wish That I Could Hurt That Way Again

• My Mind's Gone to Memphis
• You Take Me Home, Honey
• We Had It All
• My Love
• Desperado
• Jesse
• The Lady
• Country Sunshine
• Help Me
• It's Been a Long Time Since Atlanta

• It's Dawned on Me You're Gone
• As Long as I Love
• Love's Farewell
• I'm Only Human
• Today I Started Loving You Again
• Left Over Feelings
• I'm So Afraid of Losing You Again
• Tomorrow Never Comes
• You've Destroyed Me
• I Stayed Long Enough
• Loving You Has Meant Everything to Me

• When It's Just You And Me
• Every Word I Write
• Tonight You Belong To Me
• Every Time Two Fools Collide
• Come See Me And Come Lonely
• Anyone Who Isn't Me Tonight
• Reaching Out To Hold You
• All I Ever Need Is You
• 'Til I Make It On My Own
• You Pick Me Up (And Put Me Down)
• A Lesson In Leavin'
• Leavin's For Unbelievers
• Are You Happy Baby?
• What Are We Doin' In Love
• (I'm Gonna) Put You Back On The Rack
• It's High Time
• You're Not Easy To Forget
• She Can't Get My Love Off The Bed
• Tulsa Ballroom
• Together Again

• Anytime
• I Love You So Much It Hurts
• Make the World Go Away
• I'll Hold You in My Heart
• I Really Don't Want to Know
• Last Word in Lonesome Is Me
• It's a Sin
• You Don't Know Me
• It Makes No Difference Now
• Cattle Call
• They Don't Make Love Like They Used To

• Love Is No Excuse
• Here Comes My BAby
• Would You Hold It Against Me
• What's Come Over My Baby
• Me Today and Her Tomorrow
• Mommy, Can I Still Call Him Daddy
• Paper Mansions
• His Eye Is On the Sparrow
• Like a Fool
• Childhood Places
• Country Girl
• Reno
• Rings of Gold
• There's a Story (Goin' Round)
• Forever Yours
• Slowly
• Six Weeks Every Summer (Christmas Every Other Year)
• Country Sunshine
• House of Love
• Last Time I Saw Him

Born: 1932-10-11

Died: 1991-09-04