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. 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