DOTTIE WEST - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 279970

DOTTIE WEST
Vintage b/w publicity photo of Dottie west in a white blouse, signed "Thanks". This photo was taken during West's conservative phase and long before she sexed up her image and her songs.
Photograph signed "Thanks/Dottie West". B/w, 8x10 overall, 7¼x8¾ image, one surface. Photo by RCA Victor Records and Moeller Talent, Inc. Captioned: "Dottie West". West (1932-1991, born Dorothy Marie Marsh in McMinnville, Tennessee) is one of the most controversial women singers during Nashville sound era in country music, as well as the first woman country performer to win a Grammy, for her song Here Comes My Baby Back Again (1964). West started singing on a local radio station just before her 13th birthday and on the TV show Landmark Jamboree after graduating from Tennessee Tech, where she studied music. She started recording in 1959 and scored her first hit in 1963, Let Me Off at the Corner, which peaked at No. 29 on Billboard's Country Singles Charts. West's career and her plaintive songs took off after that. She appeared on the Grand Ole Opry and put 14 songs in the Country Singles Top 10 between 1964 and 1981, including the chart-toppers Every Time Two Fools Collide (1978); All I Ever Need Is You (1979); A Lesson in Leaving (1980); Are You Happy Baby? (1981); and What Are We Doin' In Love (1981), which also peaked at No. 7 on the Adult Contemporary charts and cracked the Top 20 on the Pop Singles Charts. West is controversial because of her abrupt image change in 1972, after marrying second husband Byron Metcalf. Both her songs and her onstage costumes became more provocative, with an accompanying increase in her commercial success. This culminated with a photo spread in the men's magazine Oui and a role in a touring production of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas in the 1980s. Lightly toned, creased and bowed. Light scratches and impressions on image (not visible head-on). Otherwise in fine condition.