Manitoba-born, Vancouver-raised Norm Burley helped kickstart Loretta Lynn’s career
Loretta Lynn may have been a coal miner’s daughter, but her benefactor was a Canadian lumber merchant.
According to Lynn, Burley kickstarted her career. “He was the one who really let everyone know that I sang.”, died on Tuesday at age 90. She was a proudly Kentucky-born country music queen whose forthright songs about the life and the complicated love attached to the rural experience spoke to generations of women and achieved iconic pop-culture status.
They sent out some 3,500 copies of the single to radio stations. On July 25, 1960, the record hit No. 14 on Billboard’s national country music chart. “We were so stupid, we didn’t know what the charts meant,” Lynn later recalled.
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