Jenny Lou Carson
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Jenny Lou Carson, (January 13, 1915 - December 16, 1978) was an American county singer/songwriter.
Born Virginia Lucille Overstake in Decatur, Illinois, Carson began her professional music career at age 17 in 1932, performing with her sisters Evelyn and Eva Overstake as the ‘’Three Little Maids’’ on the WLS (AM) National Barn Dance show in Chicago. She was also briefly a part of the trio “Winnie, Lou, and Sally (WLS).
Later in the 1940’s she began writing songs and during World War II wrote popular songs about soldier boys and home. She was know as the “Radio Chin-Up Girl” and received lots of letters from servicemen and their families.
Carson wrote a great many songs for a number of country music stars such as Roy Acuff, Eddy Arnold, and Ernest Tubb. Carson wrote songs for her brother-in-law Red Foley and co-wrote with Al Hill, the 1954 popular hit "Let Me Go, Lover!” performed by Joan Weber and subsequently recorded by Hank Snow, Teresa Brewer, Peggy Lee, Patti Page, and Sunny Gale.
She also authored "Jealous Heart" for Tex Ritter, a song that stayed on the hit charts for twenty three weeks in 1945, and “You Two-Timed Me Once Two Often”, which stayed at #1 on the country charts for eleven weeks in 1945.
In 1971 she was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.
