Loretta Lynn / I'm A Honky Tonk Girl / Her 1st release / 1960 Rare ZERO 45 / NM+
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Loretta Lynn / I'm A Honky Tonk Girl / Her 1st release! / 1961 Mega Rare ZERO 45rpm / NM+
Songs: I'm A Honky Tonk Girl & Whispering Sea
Original Zero Records 1960 45rpm super rare pressing of "I'm A Honky Tonk Girl" by Loretta Lynn at age 28. This was Loretta's hard to find first release. This 45 is in NM+ condition. Great sound and super glossy, with stamped Matrix numbers. Very hard to find in this great condition (see photos).
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About the song "I'm A Honky Tonk Girl":
- Lynn wrote this song on a guitar bought by her husband Doolittle Lynn. She recalled: "When I wrote this song, I didn't think anybody would ever hear this song. Doo bought me this little ol' $17 guitar. I thought it was the greatest thing I ever had, you know? It probably was. I wrote this song in about twenty minutes. I never dreamed that song would be heard, but then it was a single." In her 2012 book Honky Tonk Girl: My Life in Lyrics, Lynn explained how a distraught friend inspired the song: "A girl I had picked strawberries with started coming in the little club where I worked. She would sit in the same booth every night. She never had drunk before, so after about two or three beers she would start to cry. One night on my ten-minute break I got down offstage and asked her why she was coming to the club alone and drinking. She told me her husband had left her and their seven children about three months ago for a younger woman who didn't live too far from where she lived. Then we both cried. That night I wrote this song about her."
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