Linda Hargrove

Linda Hargrove (married name Bartholomew, born Tallahassee, Florida February 3, 1949; died Tallahassee, Florida October 24, 2010) was an American country songwriter and musician. She wrote many country music hits for a variety of artists and had a respectable career for herself in the mid-1970s, as "Linda Hargrove". She was known as "The Blue Jean Country Queen" because she usually performed in jeans and without the elaborate makeup that other female country performers of the time used.^[1] After marrying and undergoing a religious conversion, she made two gospel albums in the 1980s. She put out her final album in 2005.

Songs

• Just Get Up and Close the Door - Johnny Rodriguez took this to #1 in 1975
• "Let It Shine" - the 1975 recording by Olivia Newton-John went to #1 on the Easy Listening chart and #5 on the Country chart.
• I've Never Loved Anyone More (with Michael Nesmith) was the title song of a 1975 Lynn Anderson album and reached #14 on the Country chart.
• Love Was (Once Around the Dance Floor) (1978) was Hargrove's only top 40 hit as a performer ^[2]
• "Tennessee Whiskey" (with Dean Dillon) - recorded by David Allan Coe (#77 in 1981) and George Jones (#2 in 1983)

Discography

Albums

Singles

References

1. ^ http://www.musicrow.com/2010/10/top-songwriter-linda-hargrove-passes/
2. ^ http://www.rocky-52.net/chanteursh/hargrove_linda.htm