"The Pill"is known Loretta Lynn's most controversial single of all time. Released in 1975, the tune finds Lynn singing to her husband about going on birth control to prevent future pregnancies. The song is peppered with humorous lyrics about the subject, but some country music listeners didn'...
She wrote in her autobiography that she was 13 when she got married to Oliver “Mooney” Lynn, but the AP later discovered state records that showed she was 15. Tommy Lee Jones played Mooney Lynn in the biopic. Her husband, whom she called “Doo” or “Doolittle...
She wrote in her autobiography that she was 13 when she got married to Oliver “Mooney” Lynn, but the APlater discovered state recordsthat showed she was 15. Tommy Lee Jones played Mooney Lynn in the biopic. Her husband, whom she called “Doo” or “Doolittle,” urged her to sing...
Lynn's fans love the book, even though nothing in this bestseller will really come as a surprise to them, Lynn has been singing about her troubles for the last 40 years. She says that the songs come from her own life: "But I've never written a song that my husband wasn't in. Eve...
However, she didn’t shy away from more controversial material, as evident with her handling of the Vietnam War in the hit single “Dear Uncle Sam,” singing as the terrified lover of a draftee whom she doesn’t want to see sent to war. Meanwhile, on the home front, Lynn gave birth...
She wrote in her autobiography that she was 13 when she got married to Oliver "Mooney" Lynn, but the AP later discovered state records that showed she was 15. Tommy Lee Jones played Mooney Lynn in the biopic. Her husband, whom she called "Doo" or "Doolittle," urged her to sing profe...
She wrote in her autobiography that she was 13 when she got married to Oliver “Mooney” Lynn, but the APlater discovered state recordsthat showed she was 15. Tommy Lee Jones played Mooney Lynn in the biopic. Her husband, whom she called “Doo” or “Doolittle,” urged her to sing prof...
Country music singer Loretta Lynn embraces her husband, Oliver "Mooney" Lynn, during rehearsal for her New York debut, on Oct. 21, 1982. (Photo: Antonio Carozza, Associated Press) She wrote in her autobiography that she was 13 when she got married to Oliver "Mooney" Lynn, but the APlate...
She wrote in her autobiography that she was 13 when she got married to Oliver "Mooney" Lynn, but the AP later discovered state records that showed she was 15. Tommy Lee Jones played Mooney Lynn in the biopic. Her husband, whom she called "Doo" or "Doolittle," urged her to sing profes...
At the age of twenty-four, her husband, Doo, gave her a guitar as an anniversary present. Soon, she began penning songs and singing in front of honky-tonk audiences, and, through years of hard work, talent, and true grit, eventually made her way to Nashville, the Grand Ole Opry, ...