Lorrie Morgan appeared on the Bemus Bay Pops floating stage on August 5, 2016. After her show she posed in the Italian Fisherman with Dan Dalpra for this fun photo.
Loretta Lynn Morgan is an American country music singer and was born June 27, 1959. She is the daughter of the late, George Morgan who was also a country music artist. George was a long-time member of the Grand Ole Opry, a connection that enabled Lorrie to grow up around a troupe of famous role models. It's only a coincidence, though, that Morgan has the same name as "the Coal Miner's Daughter." Morgan was born and named in 1959, a year before the other Loretta first surfaced on radio and then on the Opry.
George Morgan, who died in 1975 and was inducted in the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1998, was best known from bringing smooth pop stylings to his country hits such as Candy Kisses, Room Full of Roses and Almost. Indeed, he was brought to the Opry after another crooner, Eddy Arnold, departed the show.
Morgan has been active as a singer since the age of 13 and charted her first single in 1979 with Two People in Love. That single made it only to No. 75 and it would be 11 years and four different record labels until she scored her first No. 1 hit with Five Minutes on RCA. She achieved her greatest success between 1988 and 1999 recording for RCA Records Nashville. Her first two RCA albums, Leave the Light On and Something Red were certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. Trainwreck of Emotion, written by Jon Vezner and Alan Rhody was recorded by Lorrie. It was released in December 1988 as the first single from the album Leave the Light On. The song reached No. 20 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. Reflections: Greatest Hits was her best-selling album. Lorrie is a member of the Grand Old Opry. Her musical style is defined largely by country pop influences and her dramatic singing voice with frequent stylistic comparisons to the late Tammy Wynette.
From 1990 through 1997 she turned out a steady stream of No. 1s and Top 5s among them We Both Walk, Watch Me, Out of Her Shoes, He Talks to Me, What Part of No, Except for Monday, I didn't Know My Own Strength and Good As I Was to You.
In 1993, she and Willie Nelson were the only country acts to record with Frank Sinatra on his Duets II album. She and Sinatra paired on the medley How Do You Keep the Music Playing and My Funny Valentine.
Morgan continues to tour and to appear on the Grand Ole Opry where she has been a member since 1984. Her most recent album, a collaboration with Pam Tillis titled Come See Me and Come Lonely was released in 2017.
Lorrie is one of the few country stars actually born in Nashville.
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