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30 Best Loretta Lynn Facts

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1- In the 1977 Hollywood Walk of Fame, Loretta was the first female ever to earn a star

2- Loretta Lynn owns a ranch in Tennessee which is billed as “The 7th Largest Attraction in Tennessee.”

3- Her Husband gave her first guitar  when she was 18 

 

4- Lynn was the first woman to have over 50 Top 10 Country hits

5- Loretta Lynn  Inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 198

6- Loretta Lynn’s Favourite Parfum is Joy by Jean Patou.

7- She is known for pushing boundaries in country music. She has sung about everything from birth control to double standards for men and women.

8- Loretta Lynn’s first job was picking strawberries.

9- Loretta Lynn became a grandma at the age of 34

10- Loretta Webb and Oliver “Doolittle” Lynn famously married when she was 15 and he was 21

11- Loretta Lynn lost her father, Melvin Theodore “Ted” Webb, just one year before the release of her first single, “I’m a Honky Tonk Girl,” in 1960.

12-  Loretta Lynn loves salt and pepper shakers.

13- Loretta Lynn has six children, 21 grandchildren and 16 great-grandkids.

14- In 1972 Lynn was the first woman named “Entertainer of the Year” by the Country Music Association, and is one of six women to have received CMA’s highest award.

15- Loretta Lynn wrote her first song on a fishing trip.

16- Loretta Lynn is the most awarded female country recording artist

17- She Was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2008.

18- Lynn was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1988 

19- in 2001, “Coal Miner’s Daughter” was named among NPR’s “100 Most Significant Songs of the 20th Century”

20- Her sisters, Peggy Sue and Crystal Gayle, are also professional country singers.

21- In 1980, her best-selling 1976 autobiography Coal Miner’s Daughter was made into an Academy Award-winning film

22- Loretta Lynn I can’t swim.

23- Loretta Lynn’s 14-room ranch in Tennessee was built in 1845 and was used as a hospital in the Civil War.

24- Loretta Lynn never used a computer

25- She was also the recipient of Kennedy Center Honors an award given by the President in 2003

26- She often appeared at Bill’s Tavern in Blaine, Washington, and the Delta Grange Hall in Custer, Washington, with the Pen Brothers’ band and The Westerneers.

27- It’s her own special recipe and it’s called Loretta Lynn’s Crispy Fried Chicken. It’s mentioned in her own cookbook, Cookin’ It Country, where she shares 120 of her favorite recipes

28- Loretta Lynn Was Close Friends With Patsy Cline

29-  Loretta is the second of eight children.

30- In 1994, she received the country music pioneer award by the Academy of Country Music.


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