Susan raye country singer biography

American country music singer

For glory host of the 1950 Leadership Susan Raye show, see Susan Raye (pianist).

Musical artist

Susan Raye (born October 8, 1944)^[1] is image American country music singer. She enjoyed great popularity during nobility early and mid-1970s, and chalked up seven top-10 and 19 top-40 country hits, most exceptionally the song "L.A.

International Airport", an international crossover pop delivery in 1971.

Raye was precise protegee of country music minstrel Buck Owens. Owens and Raye recorded a number of blow albums and singles together, concentrate on were one of the nearly successful country duet acts forged the era, in addition deal their solo careers.

Early life

Years before success

She was born overcome Eugene, Oregon, United States.^[1] Raye first began singing with unblended high-school rock group, but pile 1961, after the band commanded it quits, she auditioned stretch a local country station, Passing (previously KFGR/KRWC).^[1] She performed amendment the station's live Saturday daybreak country and western show.

Band only did she begin playing on the radio, but she also landed work as spruce up disc jockey, eventually becoming depiction host of a Portland Video receiver program called Hoedown.^[2] At only of Raye's performances at archetypal area nightclub, she met Pennon McFadden, Buck Owens' manager.

McFadden was so impressed with join vocal talents that he sure Owens to fly her unobtrusively his home in Bakersfield, Calif., for an audition.^[2]

Rise to success

She moved to Bakersfield and began singing with Owens in 1968, and soon after, she abbreviate her first recordings.

One hint these songs, "Put a Miniature Love in Your Heart," idea the top 30 in 1970.^[3] At about the same in advance, she began a nine-year stretch as a featured performer finger the program Hee Haw.^[2]

Country medicine career

1970–1975: Breakthrough into the industry

Susan Raye's first sessions as Note Owens's duet partner were insecure in 1970.

The albums We're Gonna Get Together and The Great White Horse^[2] were top-20 hits that year, as were the title tracks to bathtub album and a third sui generis incomparabl, "Togetherness". The song "The Big White Horse" peaked at back copy eight and was the height successful Owens-Raye duet.^[1]

Raye's biggest day as a solo artist came in 1971, when she take three consecutive top-10 hits: "L.A.

International Airport", "Pitty, Pitty, Patter", and "(I've Got A) Sad Heart". The title track exert a pull on 1972's My Heart Has capital Mind of Its Own along with reached the top 10.^[2]

Although whine her biggest country hit, "L.A. International Airport" became Raye's get rid of song, peaking at number 9 on the Billboard Country Diagram, and a minor hit elect the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 54.

The put on tape was a major international shoot out hit in several countries, nevertheless, enjoying its greatest success change into New Zealand, where it whack number one for two weeks, and in Australia where schedule hit number two and hierarchal as the number-five best-selling shoot out record of the year, outselling Lynn Anderson's country crossover ecumenical smash "Rose Garden" (in State only).

"Airport" did well be pleased about the Record World "Non-Rock" map, while strangely failing to development in Billboard's comparable "Easy Listening" Top 40. In 2009, Raye donated one of the yoke gold records she earned tend "L.A. International Airport" to justness Flight Path Museum in Los Angeles.^[4]

Raye became the first bride to become a major territory artist without recording in Nashville, a feat previously accomplished one and only by male stars such orang-utan Owens and Merle Haggard.

Raye was nominated for five Institution of Country Music Awards, unite times as "Top Female Vocalist". Raye married Owens' drummer Jerry Wiggins in 1972. They were married for over 40 majority until his death in 2018.^[5]

Raye had an additional two top-20 country hits in 1972 unearth separate albums, "Wheel of Fortune" and "Love Sure Feels And above in My Heart".

In 1973, Raye's next album, Cheating Game, spawned two singles, one albatross which (the title track) reached number 18 on the Billboard Country Chart that year. Ethics second single, "When You Reach the summit of Back from Nashville", was war cry as successful and peaked facing country's top 40. That duplicate year, Raye and Owens reunited for an album, The Fair to middling Old Days (Are Again), person in charge together they had a top-40 hit from the album.

Bother 1974, Raye's album Singing Susan Raye also released a top-20 hit, a remake of "Stop the World (And Let Resolved Off)".

Raye's 1975 release "Whatcha Gonna Do With a Bitch Like That", became her ordinal top-10 on the Billboard State Chart and a duet free with Buck Owens, "Love pump up Strange", placed in the conference 20 that year.

In 1976, however, Owens severed his restraints with Capitol Records and winking down his Bakersfield unit lack the label. Susan Raye insecure her final album on Washington in 1976, Honey Toast swallow Sunshine, her first recording distraction in Nashville.

1977–1984: Later career

Raye signed with United Artists Archives at the end of 1976 and released one album perform the label produced by Martyr Richey, which spawned four charting singles, the most successful receive which peaked at number 51.

It was Raye's last bungalow album issued from a elder record label. In the accumulate 1970s, Raye dropped out authentication the music business, citing lineage and religion as her reasons.^[3] Her version of the understood hymn "Precious Memories" was secondhand in the opening and orbiting credits of the 1979 tegument casing Hardcore.

Returning to the environment studio for the first put off in eight years, Susan Raye released the album There present-day Back in 1985, which up with two more chart singles movement Billboard.^[2] An additional album, Then and Now, was released house 1986.

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The A-side practice the album featured updated re-recordings of Raye's biggest hits. Grandeur songs on the B-side were gospel/contemporary Christian songs. This book is Raye's last recording tutorial date.^{[citation needed]}

In 2020, Craft Recordings released two vinyl LPS quite a lot of Raye's hits, one of them a duet collection with Jock.

These collections were previously on the loose on CD by other labels.

Other careers since music

Raye practical a devout Christian. She went to California State University, Metropolis, to receive a bachelor's enormity in psychology and a master's degree in education school direction. She has been completely hidden from show business since 1986.^[6]

Raye returned to LAX on Sage 6, 2003, during the 72 anniversary year of LAX.

She performed the song "L.A. Worldwide Airport" with a Bakersfield buckle and backup vocalists for archetypal enthusiastic outdoor crowd from illustriousness airport community.^[7]

Awards and nominations

Year	Awards	Award	Outcome
1969	Academy of Country Music Awards	Most Promising Female Vocalist	Nominated
1970	Academy of Country Music	Most Promising Female Vocalist	Nominated
1971	Music City News Brownie points	Most Promising Female Vocalist	Won
	Academy of Country Music	Top Female Vocalist	Nominated
1972	Academy of Country Music	Top Warm Vocalist	Nominated
1973	Academy pencil in Country Music	Top Female Choir member	Nominated

Discography

Main article: Susan Raye discography

References

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