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Lynn, Loretta

LC control no.n 50039081
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationML420.L947 Biography
Personal name headingLynn, Loretta
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Variant(s)Webb, Loretta
LocatedHurricane Mills (Tenn.)
Birth date1932-04-14
Death date2022-10-04
Place of birthButcher Hollow (Ky.)
Place of deathHurricane Mills (Tenn.)
Field of activityCountry music
Profession or occupationCountry musicians Singers Composers
Found inHer Loretta Lynn : my own story, c1976.
New Grove dict. of Amer. mus. (Lynn (née Webb), Loretta; b. Apr. 14, 1935, Butcher Hollow, near Van Lear, KY; country-music singer, songwriter, and guitarist)
U.S. copyright file, July 1, 2004 (Lynn, Loretta, 1935- )
The Boot, May 21, 2012 (Country music legend Loretta Lynn is three years older than she has led people to believe; Loretta Webb was born on April 14, 1932, in Johnson County, Kentucky)
   <http://www.theboot.com/2012/05/19/loretta-lynn-three-years-older-age/>
Washington post WWW site, viewed October 4, 2022 (in obituary dated October 4, 2022: Loretta Lynn, a singer and songwriter whose rise from dire poverty in Kentucky coal country to the pinnacle of country music was chronicled in the best-selling memoir and movie "Coal Miner's Daughter," and whose candid songs gave voice to the daily struggles of working-class women, died Oct. 4 at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tenn. She was 90. Marriage to Oliver "Doolittle" Lynn; Loretta Webb was born in Butcher Hollow, Ky., on April 14, 1932)
Associated languageeng