Margie Bowes
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| Margie Bowes | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Margie Bowes |
| Born | March 18, 1941 |
| Origin | Roxboro, North Carolina |
| Genre(s) | Country Music |
| Occupation(s) | Singer |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals |
| Years active | 1958–Present |
| Label(s) | Hickory, Decca |
| Associated acts | Kitty Wells, Jean Shepard, Connie Hall |
Margie Bowes (born March 18, 1941 in Roxboro, North Carolina) is an American Country Music singer. She was most popular in the late 50s for her Top Ten Country Hit "Poor Old Heartsick Me". For a period of a time as well, she was briefly married to Doyle Wilburn of the Wilburn Brothers.
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[edit] Early life and rise to success
Margie Bowes was one of the Pet Milk Company's many singers that won their talent show contest in the late 1950s and became famous shortly afterwards. She was not the first to launch a Country Music career after winning a talent competition. Legendary Country singer Patsy Cline won Arthur Godfrey's Talen Scouts program in 1957 after performing the song "Walkin' After Midnight" on his TV show. She soon turned the song into a national Country Pop hit in 1957.
Bowes was born in North Carolina in 1941. She began singing in elementary school. By the time the singer was 13 years old, she was appearing regularly on TV programs, like WDVA (Danville) Virginia Barn Dance, WRXO Roxboro, as well as other radio programs all over North Carolina. In 1958, Bowes, appeared on the Pet Milk's nationwide talent search. She entered the contest in Nashville, Tennessee and won the competition later that year.
[edit] Recording career
By late 1958, Bowes had already won the Pet Milk's nationwide talent competition. She was soon signed to Hickory Records after winning the competition. She released her first single in 1958, which was a two-sided single called "Won'cha Come Back to Me"/"One Broken Heart". The singles gained some attention, but failed to chart and as a result failed to gain any success for Bowes or her record company, Hickory. Her next two-sided single called "One Time Too Many"/"Violets and Cheap Perfume" also failed to chart and gain success. However, that year, she made her debut on the Grand Ole Opry. However, the year, 1959 proved to be a better year, as well as a year of great change for Margie Bowes and her record company. That year, she released her third single called "Poor Old Heartsick Me". The song proved very successful for Bowes, and it just made the Country Top Ten that year. "Poor Old Heartsick Me" remained her signature tune.
In 1959, she released her follow-up to her big hit that year called "My Love and Little Me". The song made the Country Top 20 and proved almost as successful for Bowes as did her previous single. She proved to the public that she was more than just a One-hit wonder. Between 1959 and 1960, Bowes released three more single, onon of them gained any further success. In 1961, Bowes moved to Mercury Records and released a single from the record company that year called "Little Miss Belong to Me". The song just missed the Top Twenty spot, making it only a minor hit for Bowes, however, this single was more successful than other singles in the past. No other singles for Mercury Records were successful for Bowes. By 1963, she moved onto Decca Records and again started releasing singles that year. She had two singles that made the Top 40 under Decca. By 1969, Bowes left the reecord label and recorded one more time for Stop Records in the early 70s but didn't have any major success under the label at all.
[edit] Later life and life today
Around this time, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, she appeared on TV shows like Jubilee USA and also in a movie called Golden Guitar. In 1995, Bowes was injured badly in an automobile accident. Bowes had underwent several operations and to this day, she continues to recover from the accident. At last report, she lived in Brentwood, Tennessee and was involved in the medical field.[1]
[edit] Discography
[edit] Hit Singles
| Year | Single | U.S. Country | Album |
| 1959 | "Poor Old Heartsick Me" | 10 | K-tel Presents a Spotlight on Country Women Vol. 3 |
| 1959 | "My Love and Little Me" | 15 | K-tel Presents a Spotlight on Country Women Vol. 3 |
