Updated 05-May-2020.
Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about BARBARA MANDRELL!
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My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Barbara Ann Mandrell (born December 25, 1948) is an american country music singer, musician, and actress . she is known for a long series of country hits in the 1970s and 1980s as well as her own prime mandrell was the first performer to win the country music association award twice . she also won the academy of country music award for Entertainer of the Year in 1980 . her first Billboard number-one hit was 1978 “I Was Country When Country Wasn’t Cool” and “‘Till You’re Gone” all hit number one between 1981 and 1983 . her mother was a homemaker and musician hailing from rural Wayne County, the eldest daughter of the musical family, Barbara mandrell was already reading music and playing accordion when her sisters were infants . her talents caught the attention of RCA Records producer and session musician Chet Atkins her network TV debut came on the NBC-TV series five star jubilee in 1961 . while growing up, she learned to play the pedal steel and lap steel guitars . she also played guitar for Joe Maphis mandrell and her sisters Louise and Irlene, as well as her parents, founded the Mandrel Family Band . they toured across the united states and Asia . their drummer, Ken Dudney, her producer at the time was Billy Sherrill . after signing with Columbia in 1969, she notched her first chart hit . in 1970, Mandrell scored the first of many top-40 hits with “Playin’ mandrell’s first big breakthrough with fans came in 1973 with the single “the Midnight Oil” her early hits included 1970s “After Closing Time” and 1971’s “Tonight My Baby’s Comin sherrill kept mandrell with the label until 1975 . she scored her first Billboard number one with 1978’s “Sleeping Single in a Double Bed” “(If Loving You Is W During the 1980s, Mandrell had more hits, including “Crackers” and “Wish You Were Here” three more singles hit number one: “I Was Country When Country Wasn’t Cool”, in 1980, she became the third woman to win the “Entertainer of the Year” award . in 1981, she repeated this in 1981 by winning the award for the second time . this began the huge array of awards that a collection of duets with Lee Greenwood, Meant for Each Other, followed in 1984 . from this album, Greenwood and mandrell had two hits on the country chart spanning 1984 and 1985 . also after a year and a half of rehabilitation, mandrell returned to recording and performing . after the crash, she needed to collect on her insurance to pay for medical bills . she also needed to keep her touring band paid mandrell’s career recovered in the mid-1980s . she continued to chart top-40 country hits consistently until 1989 . “i’m not blaming the public,” she says . in 1997, she retired from performing and touring . she now spends her time gardening, painting, and caring for her family and many pets . in addition to hosts Barbara, Louise, and Irlene, the show featured musical in 1983, she premiered the Lady Is a Champ, a Las Vegas stage show . she had the starring role in Burning Rage alongside Tom Wopat in 1984 . later, she had guest-star roles in the late 1990s, she had a recurring role on Aaron Spelling’s daytime drama, Sunset Beach . many of these performances can be seen on late-night television or on DVD box sets . in 1990, in prime time, she appeared on The Tonight Show, The Lawrence Welk Show and Nashville Now . she even “rapped” during one of her three arsenio visits . dudney had been the drummer in Barbara Mandrell’s former mansion, Fontanel, has been turned into a tourist attraction . her daughter, Jaime, was the human resources manager of the mansion until February 2017 . on June 25, New York: Bantam Books, 1990.