Melba Montgomery
Melba Montgomery ( born October 14, 1938 Melba Joyce Montgomery in Iron City, Tennessee) is an American country music singer who became famous in the 1960s by her duet with George Jones.
Melba Montgomery grew up in rural Tennessee. She began her musical career as a singer in the church choir. At a talent competition in 1958 Roy Acuff noticed her and offered her a job in his backing. They remained four years at the " King of Country Music ". During this time she accompanied him on several international tours and has played countless gigs at the Grand Ole Opry. When small nugget label they recorded two singles, but were not too successful.
Career
In 1962 she separated from Acuff and signed a record contract with Capitol label. Here she began a successful collaboration with George Jones. In 1963 she took up with him her self-composed song We Must Have Been Out Of Our Minds, reaching number three on the country charts. Her solo recordings, Hall of Shame and The Greatest One of All was not quite as successful. See the following duets with Jones managed only rarely in the top 20th
In 1965, the head of United Artists Records (a subsidiary of the film studio United Artists ), Pappy Daily, his own label, Musicor, and took Jones and Montgomery. First she played with the pop singer Gene Pitney a an album from which the single Baby Is not That Fine was decoupled, which reached number 15. Then records were published with Jones again.
In 1969 she moved to the Capitol label where they (of the Louvin Brothers) formed a duo with Charlie Louvin, which stayed together until 1973. Their most successful song was Something To Brag About, who made it to the top 20. Your own productions sold still not very good. Only after a change to the Elektra label in 1974 she succeeded with the decoupled from the eponymous album Single No Charge breakthrough as a soloist. The song reached No. 1 on the country charts and placed himself in the pop charts.
However, this success could not be repeated. She returned once more to United Artists and was occasionally with George Jones on the stage. Then the big record companies lost interest in her. For smaller label, she released a few albums, but could not place in the charts themselves. But you still had appearances and composed songs.