Jenny Lou Carson
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American country music singer-songwriter
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Vinony files it under 1915 births, 1978 deaths and 20th-century American singers.
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Jenny Lou Carson, (January 13, 1915–December 16, 1978), born Virginia Lucille Overstake, was an American country music singer-songwriter and the first woman to write a No. 1 country music hit. From 1945 to 1955 she was one of the most prolific songwriters in country music. The second of six children of Herschel Jewel Overstake and Helen Elizabeth Nalefski, she was born in Decatur, Illinois. She was raised in Decatur in modest surroundings. She learned to work early in life and was expected to d
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Decatur
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- songwriter
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- folk music
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Decca
- Image
- Jenny Lou Carson.jpg
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- Jenny Lou Carson
- date of birth
- 1915-01-13
- date of death
- 1978-12-16
- start of work period
- 1933-00-00
- birth name
- Virginia Lucille Overstake
- pseudonym
- Jenny Lou Carson
- copyright representative
- Broadcast Music, Inc.
- place of burial
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park
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