Bonnie Owens (1932 - 2006)

Bonnie Owens (October 1, 1932 – April 24, 2006) was an American country music singer. She was moderately successful both as a solo artist and together with her former husbands, Buck Owens and Merle Haggard. 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will take you to a full 1932 calendar). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... October 1 is the 274th day of the year (275th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will take you to a full 1932 calendar). ... April 24 is the 114th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (115th in leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In popular music, Country music, also called country and western music or country-western, is an amalgam of popular musical forms developed in the Southern United States, with roots in traditional folk music, Celtic Music, Blues, Gospel music, and Old-time music that began to develop rapidly [1] in the... Buck Owens and the Buckaroos in a 1960s-era promotional postcard Alvis Edgar Buck Owens, Jr. ... Merle Haggard Merle Ronald Haggard (April 6, 1937 in Bakersfield, California) is an American country music singer, guitarist, and songwriter. ...

Born Bonnie Campbell on October 1, 1932, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to a pair of sharecroppers—one of eight children—she first met Buck Owens in the mid-1940s, when he had a daily, 15-minute local radio show. Once Owens learned that Bonnie could sing, he helped her get a job with him on another radio show in 1947. The following January, Buck and Bonnie were married, but the union was short-lived; by 1951, after giving birth to two sons, Bonnie's marriage to Buck was over. Since neither could afford a divorce, they stayed legally married, but separated, for several years. Bonnie and the two boys left for Bakersfield, California, where she worked as a cocktail waitress. It was during this period that Bonnie met Fuzzy Owen and guitarist Roy Nichols, who would be instrumental in shaping Haggard's career. October 1 is the 274th day of the year (275th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will take you to a full 1932 calendar). ... Nickname: Capital of the New Century Official website: http://www. ... City nickname:Californias Country Music Capital County Kern County, California Area  - Total  - Water 296. ... Roy Nichols (October 21, 1932 – July 3, 2001) was a United States country music guitarist best known as the lead guitarist for Merle Haggard for more than two decades. ...

By the late 1950s, Bonnie was recording on the Mar-Vel label with Owen and his band, the Sun Valley Playboys. She cut a well-received duet album with Owen (her sometime boyfriend) on Tally Records, which later would be rereleased on Capitol Records as Just Between the Two of Us. In 1961, Owens saw Haggard singing for the first time at a Lefty Frizzell concert; by 1964, Fuzzy was managing Haggard, and suggested the duo rerecord the title track. Taking Fuzzy's advice paid off when the song briefly hit the top of the country charts, replaced a short time later by Haggard's breakthrough single, "(My Friends are Gonna Be) Strangers".

In 1965, Haggard signed with Capitol Records, married Bonnie, and signed the Strangers (including his new bride) with a booking agency owned in part by Buck Owens (who had since moved to Bakersfield). Bonnie's marriage to Haggard lasted until 1978, but the two already had separated in 1975. Eventually, Bonnie resumed touring with the Strangers in the late 1970s, and later was married for the final time to Fred McMillen. Though Owens, still using her original married name, released a half-dozen albums and numerous singles with Capitol Records in the mid- to late- 1960s, she remained satisfied singing backup as a member of the Strangers.

The McMillens moved to Missouri in the 1980s, but Bonnie continued touring with Haggard and his band, taking a break from 1991 to 1994, then continuing her road work until the late 1990s. She moved back to Bakersfield a short time later, following her diagnosis with Alzheimer's disease. Official language(s) none, English most common Capital Jefferson City Largest city Kansas City Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 21st 69,709 mi²; 180,693 km² 240 mi; 385 km 300 mi; 480 km 1. ...

Owens died in a hospice in Bakersfield on April 24, 2006, at age 76.^[1] April 24 is the 114th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (115th in leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Albums

• 1965 – Don't Take Advantage of Me
• 1966 – Just Between The Two Of Us (with Merle Haggard)
• 1967 – All of Me Belongs to You
• 1968 – Somewhere Between
• 1969 – Hi-Fi To Cry By
• 1969 – Lead Me On
• 1970 – Mother's Favorite Hymns
• 1999 – The Best of Bonnie Owens

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Footnotes

April 25 is the 115th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (116th in leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External Links

• Bonnie Owens at CMT.com