Updated 05-May-2020.
Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about KEITH WHITLEY!
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Jackie Keith Whitley (July 1, 1954 – May 9, 1989) was an American country music singer . he only recorded two albums but charted 12 singles on the Billboard country charts . Whitley only recorded he died of alcohol intoxication in 1989 at his Goodlettsville home at the age of 34 . his later two singles, “I Wonder Do You Think of Me” and “It Ain’t Nothin the Whitley family has lived in the Elliot County area since the 1840s . he was in a car whose driver attempted to round a curve at 120 mph . the car wrecked, he drove his car off a 120-foot cliff into a frozen river, escaping with only a broken collar bone . he lost his brother Randy in an October 1983 motorcycle accident, and his father Elmer Ralph Stanley was 45 minutes late for a show due to a flat tire . Stanley opened the door of the club and heard what he thought were the Stanley Brothers . Whitley became lead singer for Stanley in 1974 . he also played with J.D. Crowe & the New South in the mid-1970s . he moved to Nashville in 1983 to pursue a country music career . critics regarded the album as too erratic . Whitley honed his sound within the next few years for his next album, L.A. to Miami . the album also included “On the Other Hand” the song was pitched to Whitley before Randy Travis released it as a single . he began a romantic relationship with country singer Lorrie Morgan . they had their only child, a son, Jesse Keith Whitley, the new album, titled Don’t Close Your Eyes, was released in 1988 . the album contained one of the many songs that Whitley had a hand in writing . also on the album was a remake of Left “I’m No Stranger to the Rain” earned Whitley his first and only Country music association award as a solo artist . in early 1989, Whitley approached Sony Music Nashville chairman Joe Galante with the intention of releasing the official cause of death was determined to be acute ethanolism (alcohol poisoning) his blood alcohol level was 0.47 (the equivalent of 20 1-ounce shots of 100-proof whiskey) he was pronounced dead at the day after his death, Music Row was lined with black ribbons in memory of Whitley . his gravestone reads “Forever yours faithfully” and “His being was my reason” album produced two more No. 1 hits, with the title track and “It Ain’t Nothin'” “I’m Over You” also saw the Top 5 in early 1990, reaching No. 3. two new songs were added to “Greatest Hits”: “Tell Lorrie I Love Her” and “‘Til a Tear Becomes a Rose” Lorrie Morgan recorded her voice alongside Whitley’s RCA also released a compilation of performance clips, interviews, and previously unreleased material . the album produced hits for Whitley as well, including a duet with Earl Thomas Conley . in 1994, Whitley’ the album also included four previously unreleased tracks recorded by Whitley in 1987 . it also included two original songs: “Little Boy Lost” and “A Voice Still Rings True” in 1995, the album Wherever You the album and single of the same name brought “Super Hits” and “The Essential Keith Whitley” in 1996 . in 2004, songwriter Jeff Swope began writing a film treatment for a biographical film concerning Whitley “Kentucky Bluebird” was to star writer/actor/director David Keith . the project was in development hell for several years, and was halted in late 2006 . this project was also halt in late “Keith Whitley”. – The Encyclopedia of Country Music: The Ultimate Guide to the Music. – First Edition. . Paul Kingsbury, editor. ; New York: Oxford University Press. – pp. 583–584.