ROOTS of Country Music

The Professional Work of Lynn Anderson

(born Sep. 26, 1947)

Career Highlights

Grand Ole Opry Member

Film, Night Club, Radio & TV

• Austin City Limits, 4
• Billy Bob's Texas, 2
• Ernest Tubb’s  Midnight Jamboree, 3
• Gilley’s Club, 2
• Hee Haw, 4
• Nashville Now, 4
• Pop Goes the Country, 4
• Starsky & Hutch, 4
• The Lawrence Welk Show, 4
• The Porter Wagoner Show, 4
• The Statler Brothers Show, 4
• The Tonight Show, 4

1-Film, 2-Night Club, 3-Radio, 4-TV 

Billboard Chart Data 

• No. 1 Singles: 5
• Top-10 Singles: 18
• Crossover Singles:
• Charted Singles: 1
• Chart Years Active: (1966-1989)

Awards

Billboard

• Artist of the Decade (1970 - 1980)

Country Music Association

• Female Vocalist of the Year -1971

Academy of Country Music

• Top Female Vocalist 1968, 1970

Grammy - Best Female Country Vocal Performance - 1971

Career Labels:

• Chart Records (1966-1970)
• Columbia Records (1970-1980)
• Permain (1983)
• Mercury Records (1986-1989)

Billboard Top-10 Singles

1. If I Kiss You (Will You Go Away) 1967
2. Promises, Promises
3. No Other Time -1968
4. That's a No, No -1969
5. Stay There 'Til I Get There -1970
6. Rose Garden*#1
7. You're My Man* 1971
8. How Can I Unlove You*
9. Cry -1972
10. Listen to a Country Song
11. Fool Me
12. Keep Me in Mind* 1973
13. Top of the World
14. Sing About Love
15. Talkin' to the Wall -1974
16. What a Man My Man Is*
17. Isn't It Always Love -1979
18. You're Welcome Tonight, 2 -1983

*-No. 1 Chart Single

#-Biggest Chart Single

1-Crossover Chart Single 

2-With Gary Morris

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Rose Garden: The Lynn Anderson Story

Lynn Anderson was the first female country artist to do the Tonight Show circuit, as well as the first to headline and sellout Madison Square Garden in 1974.

Anderson, who was born in Grand Forks, North Dakota is a country music singer and equestrian known for a string of hits throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, most notably her Grammy Award winning, worldwide mega-hit, Rose Garden.

Helped by her regular exposure on national television, Anderson was one of the most popular and successful female country singers of the 1970s. Lynn Anderson has charted more than 50 top-40 hits.

Anderson made her chart debut in 1966, at the age of 19 and had her first major hit with with a song written by her mother, Ride, Ride, Ride,  and secured a residency on The Lawrence Welk Show. After a series of top-10 hit singles on the country charts during the later half of the 1960s, Anderson went on to sign with the upscale Columbia Records in 1970.

The combination of her stunning looks, a powerful major label (Columbia) and the catchy Joe South song Rose Garden, catapulted her to stardom in 1971. That year, she won the CMA female vocalist trophy (on her fifth nomination) and the song won her a Grammy. 

Throughout the 1970s, Anderson made frequent guest appearances on many television specials, talk shows and variety shows. Because of her crossover appeal, she often appeared on shows on which country artists were not regularly seen.

Anderson had a starring role in an episode of Starsky & Hutch. She made several appearances on The Tonight Show and appeared on three Bob Hope television specials. Anderson frequently guest-starred on various Dean Martin television specials. She also hosted her own television special in 1977, with guest star Tina Turner.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Researched, written and compiled by Richard Bell. Roots of Country Music. Feb., 15, 2012.