Jenny Lou Carson - I'll Keep Smiling (1944).

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Channel: mrblindfreddy9999 · 2011 · Music

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(Written by Jenny Lou Carson).

Issued Originally on 16" World Transcription Disc 34 B for Radio Stations Only.
Also Issued on SINGLE Decca 46099 A (November 1944).

Recorded 30 October 1944 [13:05-19:34, Chicago, IL -- prob. the WLS Rangers: Ozzie Wesley [gt], Jesse Colvard [steel gt], Clyde Moffet [bass], Harry Sims [fiddle], August Klein [accordion].

Born Virginia Lucille Overstake in Decatur ILLINOIS (1915 - 1978)..aka Lucille Lee...WOW What a CV...First Woman to write a No.1  Country Hit....Wrote "Jealous Heart" & "You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often" for Tex Ritter... Co - Wrote "Let  Me Go Lover"...and many many  others... Married and Divorced 4 times ...Her Sister Eva Married Red Foley in 1933 ...PHEW...Inducted into Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1971....Jenny Lou Performed with her Sisters Eva & Evelyn as "Three Little Maids" And "The Little Country Girls"...I Have Posted Medley Transcriptions under "The Overstake Sisters"

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