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Dottie West was one of country music's greatest female stars for 30 years. Her career began in 1959 when she made her first recording for Starday Records. She first made the national charts in 1963 and the following year had a blockbuster country hit with "Here Comes My Baby Back Again" which would earn her the Best Country Female Vocal Grammy Award. Her hits continued through the rest of the 1960's and into the 1970's, a highpoint being her song "Country Sunshine" in 1973 which earned her two more Grammy nominations and was used in an iconic Coca-Cola commercial.
In 1978 she recorded a duet album with pop/country superstar Kenny Rogers that brought her even greater fame and many awards, and launched Dottie's solo career to even new heights including three number records and her hits crossing over to chart on the pop/rock charts as well. This new music super-stardom for Dottie led to multiple appearances on all the major variety and talk shows of the era as well as acting gigs on "The Dukes of Hazard", "The Fall Guy" and "The Love Boat".
Dottie's career began to recede by 1985 with the last of her hits and fewer television appearances. She died in 1991 from injuries in a car accident at age 58 but will always be remembered as one of the great queens of country music.- Rod Brasfield was born on 22 August 1910 in Smithville, Mississippi, USA. He was an actor, known for A Face in the Crowd (1957), Country Music Holiday (1958) and Country Style, U.S.A. (1957). He died on 12 September 1958 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
- Shannon Breckenridge was born on 5 March 1980 in Smithville, Missouri, USA. She is an actress, known for Paterno (2018). She was previously married to Jason Ray.
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Blues guitarist Sonny Rhodes was born Clarence Smith in Smithville, TX, in 1940. He learned to play the guitar and bass as a young man. Joining the US Navy in 1957, he served one hitch and after his discharge he got work playing bass for such musicians as Freddie King and Albert Collins. In 1963 he left Texas for Califonia, settling in Oakland. He hooked up with a musician named L.C. Robinson (aka "Good Rockin' Robinson") who played the steel Hawaiian lap guitar. Robinson taught Rhodes how to play the instrument, which Rhodes had first heard played by Hop Wilson years before in Texas.
His proficiency on that instrument got him recording deals with a few small labels, but nothing really broke for him. While touring Europe in the late 1970s he recorded a pair of albums, "I Don't Want My Blues Colored Bright" and "Live in Europe". The next year he came out with "Forever and a Day", an album on which he was backed by the Paris National Symphony Orchestra. He has since recorded several more albums and has toured in both the US and Europe, where he has a very large fan base. He has also headlined at various blues festivals all over the US.- Soundtrack
Bessie Jones was born on 8 February 1902 in Smithville, Georgia, USA. She was married to George Jones. She died on 4 September 1984 in Brunswick, Georgia, USA.- Frances Irene Reels was born on 29 September 1892 in Smithville, Mississippi, USA. Frances Irene was a writer, known for The Song of Life (1922), Her Code of Honor (1919) and The Woman in His House (1920). Frances Irene was married to John M. Stahl. Frances Irene died on 10 November 1926 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Evohn Keyes was born on 3 October 1923 in Smithville, Texas, USA. She was an actress, known for Rio Grande (1949). She was married to William George Moore, Jr.. She died on 12 November 1987 in Travis County, Texas, USA.