Dorothy Marie "Dottie" West (October 11, 1932 – September 4, 1991) was an American country music singer and songwriter. Along with her friends and fellow recording artists Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn, she is considered one of the genre's most influential and groundbreaking female artists. Dottie West's career started in the 1960s, with her Top 10 hit, "Here Comes My Baby Back Again", which won her the first Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance in 1965. In the 1960s, West was one of the few female country singers working in what was then a male-dominated industry, influencing other female country singers like Lynn Anderson, Crystal Gayle, Barbara Mandrell, Dolly Parton, and Tammy Wynette. Throughout the 1960s, West had Top 10 and Top 20 hits on the country music charts.
In the early 1970s, West wrote a popular commercial for the Coca-Cola company, titled "Country Sunshine", which reached No. 2 on Billboard's Hot Country Singles in 1973. In the late-70s, she teamed up with country pop superstar, Kenny Rogers for a series of duets which took her career to new highs, earning Platinum selling albums and No. 1 records for the very first time. Her duet recordings with Rogers, "Every Time Two Fools Collide", "All I Ever Need Is You", and "What Are We Doin' In Love", became country music standards. In the mid-1970s, her image and music underwent a metamorphosis, bringing her to the very peak of her popularity as a solo act, and reaching No. 1 for the very first time on her own in 1980 with "A Lesson in Leavin'".
Actors: Kenny Rogers (actor), Kris Kristofferson (actor), Loretta Lynn (actress), Dolly Parton (actress), Willie Nelson (actor), Michele Lee (actress), David Dwyer (actor), J. Don Ferguson (actor), William Russ (actor), Rhoda Griffis (actress), Tom Nowicki (actor), Larry Gatlin (actor), David James Elliott (actor), Chet Atkins (actor), Ben Browder (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama, Music,Ever since the day we first met I been thinking thoughts
I can't forget
Like you and me forever and yet one day of week is all I
ever get
Cause it's me today and her tomorrow that's the way you
want to live
I want to give you me forever but one day a week is all
you want to give
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