{"id":16255,"date":"2019-06-27T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1808539"},"modified":"2019-06-27T06:00:47","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T12:00:47","slug":"as-lorrie-morgan-turns-60-we-remember-her-pop-contributions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/as-lorrie-morgan-turns-60-we-remember-her-pop-contributions\/","title":{"rendered":"As Lorrie Morgan Turns 60, We Remember Her Pop Contributions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:677278?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/morrise\/\" title=\"Posts by Edward Morris\" rel=\"author\">Edward Morris<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">5h ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vwat_z0RzL4?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vwat_z0RzL4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/lorrie-morgan\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Loretta Lynn \u201cLorrie\u201d Morgan<\/a> is one of the few country stars actually born in Nashville.<\/p>\n<p>More to the point, though, her father, George Morgan, was a long-time member of the Grand Ole Opry, a connection that enabled her to grow up around a troupe of famous role models.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s only a coincidence, though, that Morgan, who turns 60 on Thursday (June 27), has the same name as \u201cthe Coal Miner\u2019s Daughter.\u201d Morgan was born and named in 1959, a year before the other Loretta first surfaced on radio and then on the Opry.<\/p>\n<p>George Morgan, who died in 1975 and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1998, was best known from bringing smooth pop stylings to such of his country hits as \u201cCandy Kisses,\u201d \u201cRoom Full of Roses\u201d and \u201cAlmost.\u201d Indeed, he was brought to the Opry after another crooner, Eddy Arnold, departed the show.<\/p>\n<p>Lorrie Morgan made her own Opry debut as a singer when she was 13. She first charted in 1979 with \u201cTwo People in Love.\u201d That single made it only to No. 75, and it would be 11 years and four different record labels until she scored her first No. 1 \u2014 \u201cFive Minutes\u201d \u2014 on RCA.<\/p>\n<p>From 1990 through 1997, she turned out a steady stream of No. 1s and Top 5s, among them \u201cWe Both Walk,\u201d \u201cWatch Me,\u201d \u201cOut of Her Shoes,\u201d \u201cHe Talks to Me,\u201d \u201cWhat Part of No,\u201d \u201cExcept for Monday,\u201d \u201cI Didn\u2019t Know My Own Strength\u201d and \u201cGood As I Was to You.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Throughout her country successes, it was apparent that Morgan\u2019s voice and nuanced delivery was, like her father\u2019s, also eminently suited to pop music. In 1993, she and Willie Nelson were the only country acts to record with Frank Sinatra on his <em>Duets II<\/em> album. She and Sinatra paired on the medley \u201cHow Do You Keep the Music Playing\u201d and \u201cMy Funny Valentine.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hu6vFxlWE70?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hu6vFxlWE70?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>Then, in 1998, with her country hits trailing off, Morgan released a pure pop album, <em>Secret Love<\/em>, which she dedicated to her father. Even though it gave her no chart traction, it was a tremendously impressive collection. In it, she interpreted 11 classics from the Great American Songbook, including \u201cOnce Upon a Time,\u201d \u201cI Wish You Love,\u201d \u201cMy Foolish Heart,\u201d \u201cThey Can\u2019t Take That Away From Me\u201d and the Sinatra standby, \u201cFly Me to The Moon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As one critic observed, \u201cSecret Love makes a great accompaniment to candlelight and dinner for two.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Morgan was married to fellow RCA artist Keith Whitley from 1986 until his death from alcohol poisoning in 1989. In 1990, the two were united electronically for the single \u201c\u2019Til a Tear Becomes a Rose,\u201d which won the Country Music Association\u2019s vocal event of the year award.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lbVmXr2NYYc?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lbVmXr2NYYc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>Morgan continues to tour and to appear on the Grand Ole Opry, where she has been a member since 1984. Her most recent album, a collaboration with Pam Tillis titled <em>Come See Me and Come Lonely<\/em>, was released in 2017.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\">Edward Morris is a veteran of country music journalism. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and is a frequent contributor to CMT.com.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1808539\/as-lorrie-morgan-turns-60-we-remember-her-pop-contributions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Edward Morris 5h ago Embedded from www.youtube.com. [embedded content] Loretta Lynn \u201cLorrie\u201d Morgan is one of the few country stars actually born in Nashville. More to the point, though, her father, George Morgan, was a long-time member of the Grand Ole Opry, a connection that enabled her to grow up around a troupe of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 09:31:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}