when Connie was still an infant. She grew up listening to country music, especially Ernest Tubb, her daddy’s favorite, and Eddy Arnold, her mother’s. In 1959, she graduated as her high school ...

This year, the live country-music radio broadcast (taking its name ... cast members during the three-hour event. Charlie McCoy, Connie Smith, Mandy Barnett and Craig Morgan also performed, along ...

Dolly Parton once said, “There’s really only three female singers in the world: Streisand, Ronstadt and Connie Smith.” ...