Dottie West (born Dorothy Marie Marsh October 11, 1932 ? September 4, 1991)
was an American country music singer, and was one of Country music's most
influential and groundbreaking female artists. Dottie West's career
started in the early-60s, with her Top 10 Country hit, "Here Comes My Baby
Back Again", which won her the first Grammy Award for Best Female Country
Vocal Performance in 1965. In the 1960s, West was one of the few female
Country singers working in what was then a male-dominated industry,
influencing other female Country singers to come to fame around that time,
like Lynn Anderson, Crystal Gayle, Barbara Mandrell, Dolly Parton, and
Tammy Wynette. Throughout the 60s, West had major Country hits within the
Top 10 and 20.
In the early 1970s, West wrote a popular commercial for the Coca-Cola
company, titled "Country Sunshine", which she nearly brought to the top of
the charts in 1973. In the late-70s, she teamed up
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