Melba Montgomery
While a successful singer in her own right, Melba Montgomery is perhaps best remembered in tandem with her string of duet recordings with the likes of George Jones, Charlie Louvin, and Gene Pitney. Born October 14, 1938, in Iron City, TN, and raised in Florence, AL, Montgomery gained her first exposure to music through her father, a fiddler and guitarist who taught vocal lessons at the town's Methodist church. At the age of ten, she was given her own guitar, and a decade later, she and her brother won an amateur talent contest held at Nashville radio station WSM's Studio C, which then housed the Grand Ole Opry. Montgomery's performance so impressed contest judge Roy Acuff that he asked the young singer to replace his departing lead vocalist June Webb; she accepted and toured with Acuff for the next four years.
After going solo in 1962, Montgomery released a self-titled LP and then teamed for a series of duets with Jones. Their first joint effort, a rendition of Montgomery's self-penned "We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds," reached the Top Three in 1963, and the follow-up, "What's in Our Heart"/"Let's Invite Them Over," was a two-sided Top 20 hit. Between 1963 and 1967, the Jones-Montgomery team generated a total of five Top 40 hits and two LPs (1966's Close Together and 1967's Let's Get Together), and while Montgomery maintained a successful solo career during the same period, she remained best known as a duet singer and so recorded an album of collaborations with Pitney titled Being Together in 1966.
After a few minor solo hits in the late '60s, in 1970 Montgomery found new partners in Louvin and producer Pete Drake. The duo's first hit, "Something to Brag About," was also their biggest, and after a string of singles and a 1971 album -- also titled Something to Brag About -- she and Louvin parted ways, although Montgomery did continue on with Drake. In 1974, he produced her lone number one hit, a rendition of Harlan Howard's "No Charge," culled from the LP No Charge. While she continued to record throughout the decade, subsequent albums like Don't Let the Good Times Fool You and Aching Breaking Heart found little commercial success, and by the 1980s Montgomery focused largely on touring and appearing at festivals. In 1988, she even published a cookbook of family recipes.
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21 Album, -en • Geordnet nach Bestseller
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Singing What's In Our Hearts
George Jones, Melba Montgomery
Country - Erschienen bei EMI Music Nashville (ERN) am 01.01.1963
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Golden Moments
Country - Erschienen bei CLASSIC WORLD ENTERTAINMENT am 30.01.2001
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Vintage Collections
George Jones, Melba Montgomery
Country - Erschienen bei Capitol Nashville am 01.01.1996
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Melba Montgomery: Studio 102 Essentials
Country - Erschienen bei Suite 102 am 27.05.2008
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Bluegrass Hootenanny
George Jones, Melba Montgomery
Country - Erschienen bei EMI Music Nashville (ERN) am 31.05.2019
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American Portraits: Melba Montgomery
Country - Erschienen bei Dockland Music am 31.07.2020
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Jambalaya (On The Bayou) & Other Favorites
Country - Erschienen bei CW Music - EMG am 06.11.2012
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Melba Montgomery Country Legends
Country - Erschienen bei StreamWorld Entertainment Classics am 02.01.2001
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Things That Keep You Going
Country - Erschienen bei RPM Music am 14.12.2010
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Wrap Your Love Around Me
Country - Erschienen bei Country Harvest am 01.01.1991
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Miss Country Music
Country - Erschienen bei Pickwick am 31.12.1899
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I Still Care
Country - Erschienen bei Good Time Records am 08.07.2022
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America's No.One Country and Western Girl Singer
Country - Erschienen bei Old Stars am 09.06.2017
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I Still Care (Digitally Remastered)
Country - Erschienen bei Essential Media Group am 08.07.2022
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America's Number One Country and Western Girl Singer (Hd Remastered)
Country - Erschienen bei Reborn recordings am 26.06.2019
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Down Home (Hd Remastered)
Country - Erschienen bei Reborn recordings am 26.06.2019
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Bluegrass Hootenanny (Hq Remastered)
George Jones, Melba Montgomery
Jazz - Erschienen bei Vintage Recordings am 08.11.2021
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Down Home (Hq Remastered)
Jazz - Erschienen bei Vintage Recordings am 29.11.2021
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America's No One Country & Western Girl Singer (Hq remastered)
Jazz - Erschienen bei Vintage Recordings am 02.06.2022
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Signature Series (Remastered Version) (Doxy Collection)
Country - Erschienen bei Doxy Records am 19.06.2019
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