The daughter of country songwriters Casey and Liz Anderson, she started performing at the age of 6. 26, 1947, in Grand Forks, N.D., but raised in Sacramento, Calif. We will miss her and remember her fondly,' Parton said in a statement.

'Lynn is blooming on God's Rose Garden now. 'Always continuing to pave the road for those to follow.' 3 An obituary appeared on the Nashville Funeral and Cremation web site. 'She did so much for the females in country music,' McEntire said in a statement. On January 11, 2018, Netherton's younger brother, Brad Netherton, announced on his Facebook page that the singer had died from pneumonia and the flu on January 7, 2018, at age 70.

She returned briefly to the country Top 10 with a Gary Morris duet in 1983, You're Welcome to Tonight.Ĭountry star Reba McEntire lauded her accomplishments Thursday. She was also in episodes of the TV show Starsky and Hutch and in the 1982 TV movie Country Gold.Īnderson's other hits included Rocky Top (also recorded by the Osborne Brothers), You're My Man, How Can I Unlove You, What a Man, My Man Is and Top of the World (also recorded by the Carpenters). She made television appearances with such stars as Lucille Ball, Bing Crosby, John Wayne and Tom Jones and she performed for presidents Nixon, Ford, Carter and Reagan. It fit me well and I'll be proud to be connected to it until I die.' This song stated that you can make something out of nothing. It was out just as we came out of the Vietnam years and a lot of people were trying to recover. 'It was popular because it touched on emotions,' she told the Associated Press.

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