| LC control no. | n 95116879 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Anderson, Liz |
| Variant(s) | Haaby, Elizabeth Jane Anderson, Liz, 1927-2011 Anderson, Liz, 1930-2011 |
| Birth date | [1927-01-13, 1930-03-13] |
| Death date | 2011-10-31 |
| Place of birth | Roseau (Minn.) |
| Place of death | Nashville (Tenn.) |
| Profession or occupation | Singers Composers Lyricists |
| Found in | Country boy and country girl, p1976: label (Liz Anderson) New York times WWW site, Nov. 3, 2011 (in obituary published Nov. 2: Liz Anderson; b. Elizabeth Jane Haaby, Mar. 13, 1930, Roseau, Minn.; m. Casey Anderson, 1946; d. Monday [Oct. 31, 2011], Nashville, aged 81; wrote breakthrough hits for Merle Haggard and other country singers and recorded songs of her own about faithless men and beleaguered women) Find A Grave, via WWW, January 30, 2020 (Liz Anderson; born 13 January 1927 in Roseau, Roseau County, Minnesota; died 31 October 2011 in Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee; singer, songwriter, noted vocalist; she also penned hits for several country stars including her daughter Lynn Anderson; born Elizabeth Jane Haaby, she was initially raised in Minnesota then at 13 moved with her family to Grand Forks, North Dakota; married at 16 to Clarence Selmer “Casey” Anderson (1926-2018) she had her only child Lynn a year later then in the 1950s attended business college in Redwood City, California, and subsequently worked as a secretary; moving to Sacramento in 1957 Liz began a career that saw her publish roughly 260 songs and garner five BMI Awards; the writer of several of Merle Haggard's early successes including the BMI-winner "(All My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers" and the 1966 #1 "Fugitive", she also produced works for Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Charley Pride, Kitty Wells, Brenda Lee, and others; signed as a performer by RCA Records in 1965 she had a hit with "Husband Hunting" and in 1967 received Grammy nominations for the single "Mamma Spank" and for the album "The Game of Triangles"; retiring after 1974, she sang and wrote occasionally and in the mid 1990s started her own Showboat Records) Wikipedia, Jnauary 30, 2020 (Liz Anderson; Elizabeth Jane Anderson was an American country music singer-songwriter; born Elizabeth Jane Haaby in Roseau, Minnesota on January 13, 1927 or on March 13, 1930; at the age of 16, Liz was married to Casey Anderson and then had her daughter Lynn Anderson (1947-2015), a country music singer, a year later; Liz died on October 31, 2011, in Nashville, Tennessee) |
| Associated language | eng |
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