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00:04Now I'm a honky-tonk girl
00:08She was the original honky-tonk girl
00:11Thank you
00:12She was born a coal miner's daughter
00:14But she has become a country music legend
00:17Miss Loretta Lynn
00:21She was the first one that came out with the songs
00:24That pretty much told a man which way to stand
00:27She really changed what women could sing about
00:29You set this chicken your last time
00:32Cause now I've got the pill
00:34She was just mad as she could be
00:37And I thought, I've got to play her
00:41Loretta Lynn, now on Biography
00:50Without further ado, I'd like to introduce
00:52A woman that I think is the greatest female singer-songwriter of the 20th century
00:56Miss Loretta Lynn
01:01April 2004, Nashville, Tennessee
01:04And the world of country music is celebrating a new album by an all-time legend
01:10Loretta Lynn
01:19I was sitting there listening to her thinking, I haven't heard music like this in years, and I didn't even
01:30realize it
01:31I love her, she's one of our true treasures
01:35Ever since you left me, I've done nothing but wrong
01:41From her very first hit record more than 40 years ago to today
01:45Few singers have connected with their fans more than Loretta Lynn
01:55Because they know that each and every one of her songs contains a piece of her life and theirs
02:01All my fans share their life with me, I share mine with them
02:04And we talk about our lives to each other
02:08And that's where a lot of my songs come from
02:10She brings you in and speaks to you as if she's known you all her life and all your life
02:16And it's an amazing gift
02:21Loretta Lynn
02:22Loretta Lynn's been inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame
02:25She was the first woman to be named Entertainer of the Year
02:28She's had an amazing 16 number one hits
02:32You've set this chicken your last time
02:35Cause now I've got the pill
02:39She is a fearless songwriter
02:41Whose controversial lyrics broke down barriers
02:43And spoke to women everywhere
02:46Loretta was the first hillbilly feminist
02:49Look at her songs
02:51The Pill
02:51Don't Come Home A-Drinking With Loving On Your Mind
02:54Fizz City
02:55You Aren't Woman Enough To Take My Man
02:57But as famous as she is
02:59There's a part of Loretta Lynn
03:01That will never leave the remote hills of eastern Kentucky
03:04And the gritty life she lived in Butcher Hollow
03:09She was born Loretta Webb
03:11On April 14, 1935
03:14In a one-room tar paper cabin
03:16Miles from the nearest town
03:18Her mother named her after a movie star
03:21Whose picture was pasted on the wall
03:23To keep the wind from whistling through the cracks
03:26She had Betty Davis and Claudetta Colbert
03:28And Loretta Young papered up
03:31And it was the day before I was born
03:33And she said, I laid down across the bed
03:34And I looked up at them three girls
03:36And I thought, if this baby is a little girl
03:39I'm going to name her after one of these women
03:41And she said, there's nobody as pretty as Loretta Young
03:44So I'll name her after her
03:47Music was a part of Loretta's life
03:49From the day she was born
03:51Dad played the fiddle a little bit
03:54Grandpa, he played the banjo
03:57Mom sang
03:58Matter of fact, she had a twin sister
03:59When they were younger
04:01They traveled around in different churches
04:03And they did a duet
04:04And so I think we got our singing from Mom, actually
04:09Dad played in the evening
04:10Sang the songs that they wrote
04:12Of course, us kids would be playing around
04:15And dancing around while they were singing
04:17And telling their big stories, you know
04:21Loretta, she always sang
04:22Mom taught her to sing very young, too
04:25I'm sure that she rocked me and Peggy
04:28And all of us kids to sleep singing
04:30Yeah, you could hear it for a mile around
04:32She'd get out on the front porch and swing
04:34And all the neighbors could hear
04:38Loretta was born in the middle of the Depression
04:40And was six by the time the Second World War began
04:43She grew up in a large family
04:45The second of eight brothers and sisters
04:48Their mother, Clara Webb
04:50Supported the family by taking in laundry
04:53And washing it by hand
04:55She had big blue eyes and dark complexion
04:57And had long, black, straight hair
04:59And she was Indian all the way
05:01She made her own medicine
05:02If we got sick, she knew how to take care of us
05:05During the Depression
05:07Loretta's father, Melvin
05:08Built roads for Franklin Roosevelt's
05:11Works Progress Administration
05:13After the war, he supported the family
05:16By working the coal mines
05:18He worked on his hands and knees
05:20In a coal track that was three feet high
05:22He'd come home late at night
05:24With bloodied knees and a soot-covered face
05:27Like many coal miners
05:29He suffered from black lung
05:31A condition where the lungs become choked with coal dust
05:36Loretta had a short childhood
05:38She met her husband-to-be at a pie social
05:40At the local schoolhouse
05:42She was only 11 years old
05:44He'd come in from the Army
05:46And he was ready to go over to Germany, I guess
05:49The hollers split off
05:50And he went
05:51He lived up in one holler
05:53And I lived up in another one
05:54And I watched him walk all the way up the hill
05:56I thought he looked like a little toy soldier
05:58That night I went in the house humming
06:01And Mommy said
06:02Loretta, who brought you home tonight?
06:05And I said
06:05Do little Lynn
06:06Mommy said
06:07Don't you ever let me hear
06:10Of that ever happening again
06:11He's too old
06:12And he's too wild for you
06:15But it happened
06:16Despite her parents' objections
06:18Loretta married do little Lynn
06:20When she was just 13
06:22But right from their wedding night
06:24Their marriage was troubled
06:26He threw all my meals out
06:28Everything I'd cook, he'd throw out
06:29No matter how good they were
06:31He'd just throw them out
06:32But he had another girlfriend
06:33He wasn't fooling me
06:34When Loretta was three months pregnant
06:36With her first child
06:38Do little left her for another woman
06:41Loretta returned to her parents' home
06:44In Butcher Hollow
06:45We stayed separated
06:46Until I was almost seven months pregnant
06:48Every night I'd cry myself to sleep
06:50And every day I'd find
06:52Every four-leaf clover I could
06:53And Mommy would always say
06:55If you put four-leaf clovers in the Bible
06:58Where it says
06:58And this shall come to pass
07:00If you open up the Bible
07:01And it says that
07:02And you put your four-leaf clover in there
07:04It'll come to pass
07:05So the Bible was stuck
07:08Full of four-leaf clovers
07:10Two months before the baby
07:12Was to be born
07:13Do little begged Loretta
07:14To come back
07:15He was determined
07:17Not to follow
07:18In their father's footsteps
07:19Down into the coal mines
07:20So he hitchhiked
07:22To Washington State
07:23Where he found a job
07:24On a farm
07:26When Do sent for Loretta
07:27She sadly packed her things
07:30Preparing to leave Butcher Hollow
07:31For the first time in her life
07:33I can remember
07:34I was about three or four years old
07:37I was at the foot of the bed
07:38And Daddy was going to have to
07:39Take Loretta out
07:41To meet the train
07:43There I said
07:44And she was packing her things
07:46And for a while
07:47I thought she was going to pack mine
07:48And take me with her
07:50Loretta arrived at the farm in Washington
07:53Only to find Do little running
07:55A moonshine operation on the side
07:57He was so successful at it
07:59That he was given the nickname Mooney
08:01While he peddled home brewed whiskey
08:04Loretta cooked and cleaned
08:05For the farm hands
08:07I worked and cleaned house for people
08:09And I picked strawberries
08:11And I worked for the Green Brothers
08:14So that we got to live there for nothing
08:17There was 36 ranch hands that they had
08:19So there ain't lived with them
08:21And I'd help her cook
08:22In 1949
08:24Loretta gave birth to her first child
08:26She was still a child herself
08:29Only 14 years old
08:32I'd bathe her
08:33And I'd change her clothes
08:34It was like me playing with a little dog
08:38The second one come along
08:39And it's got a little rougher
08:40And then the next one
08:42And the next one
08:43I knew then it wasn't no game
08:44In fact
08:45By the time Loretta was 18
08:47She had four children
08:49She and Doolittle constantly struggled
08:51To support their new family
08:53And he didn't make it any easier
08:55By drinking, carousing with women
08:57And even hitting Loretta
08:59He never hit me one time
09:00That I didn't hit him back twice
09:03Loretta's memories
09:04Loretta's memories
09:04Both good and bad
09:05Would become the inspiration for her songs
09:08But at age 18
09:09She had no thought about becoming a singer
09:12Until one day
09:13When Dew came home with a birthday present
09:16That would change her life
09:17And country music forever
09:22As an 18-year-old mother of four
09:24A career in country music
09:26Was the furthest thing
09:28From Loretta Lynn's mind
09:29But her husband Dew
09:30Saw something special in her
09:33When I started singing
09:36Dew had never really heard me
09:37Sing a song all the way through
09:38He just told me
09:40He thought I could sing
09:41As good as anybody
09:42That's out there making money
09:43When I'd come home
09:44She'd say
09:45Honey, listen to this song
09:46I wrote today
09:48And she'd sang me this song
09:49That she wrote, you know
09:50Didn't have no guitar or anything
09:53So I thought it sounded real good to me
09:55And so I was going into town
09:59Bellingham, Washington
10:00And I was looking in a pawn shop
10:03And I seen this guitar in there
10:04And I went and bought the guitar
10:06And brought it to her
10:08But it wasn't until Loretta
10:09Was in her mid-twenties
10:11That Dew pushed her
10:12To take the next step
10:14He said, I'm going to have you sing
10:16We'll make enough money
10:17You need to buy us a new home
10:18And then you can quit
10:19You know, it don't work that way
10:24Loretta struggled to teach herself
10:26How to play the guitar better
10:27By following a mail-order correspondence course
10:30After only two months
10:32Dew arranged an audition
10:34With a local group
10:35They were so impressed
10:37By her raw talent
10:38And taken by her youth and shyness
10:40That they offered her a job
10:42Performing with them
10:43At the Grange Hall
10:44In Linden, Washington
10:45They had a show every Saturday night
10:48And they gave her $5 a night
10:50To sing with them
10:51So she was starting out pretty good
10:53I mean, getting a little money
10:55That was pretty big to her
10:56At that time, I'm sure
11:01Word spread quickly
11:02About the new local singer
11:03Soon the Grange Hall
11:05Was so packed
11:06That it couldn't contain
11:08All her fans
11:09Doolittle decided
11:10That it was time
11:11To take the act on the road
11:13Hand made me
11:14A handmade sign
11:15To put out in front
11:16It said
11:17Loretta Lynn and the Trailblazers
11:19We named the band
11:20And we put it out on the road
11:22Pretty soon
11:22We was working there
11:24Six days a week
11:25Loretta's reputation
11:26Reached across the Canadian border
11:28Where a wealthy lumberman
11:30Named Norm Burley
11:31Saw her on a TV show
11:33He came to see her play in person
11:36And her performance
11:37Of Whispering Sea
11:38Touched him so deeply
11:40That he vowed to share
11:41Loretta's extraordinary talent
11:43With the world
11:44He lost his wife
11:47And he'd go out at night
11:49And sit by the sea
11:50On a big rock
11:52And he said
11:52He'd always talk to his wife
11:53And that reminded him
11:55Of his wife
11:55And he wanted me to record that
11:58He said that he wanted
11:59To start a label
12:01And he wanted to know
12:02If I'd be interested in it
12:03And I told him sure
12:05He gave me some money
12:06And a couple of credit cards
12:08And told me to go to California
12:10And make a record
12:13In 1960
12:14Loretta and Doolittle
12:15Packed a few changes of clothes
12:17And headed for California
12:19When they got to Los Angeles
12:21They began knocking on studio doors
12:24Most wouldn't give the young couple
12:25From Kentucky
12:26The time of day
12:27I went to several studios
12:30And they wasn't interested
12:31In anything
12:32You know
12:33Because you know
12:33They were busy
12:34And they didn't care
12:35About making it
12:35So finally
12:36Went to this one studio
12:37And I told that old boy
12:39In there
12:40And he said
12:40There was a guy back there
12:41Might be interested
12:42And he was talking
12:43About Speedy West
12:45Once Speedy West
12:47A well-known producer
12:48Heard Loretta sing
12:50He knew that
12:51Fate had delivered
12:52Something very special
12:53To his doorstep
12:55Keeping her word
12:56To Norm Burley
12:57She recorded
12:58Whispering Sea
12:59But for the flip side
13:00She chose another song
13:02That she had written
13:03I'm a honky-tonk girl
13:09Ever since you left me
13:13I've done nothing but wrong
13:16Many nights I've laid awake and cried
13:23We once were happy
13:26My heart was in a world
13:30But now I'm a honky-tonk girl
13:36Norm Burley was so happy
13:38With Loretta's success
13:39That he offered to pay
13:41For a promotional trip
13:42Across the country
13:43Loretta and Du
13:44Left their children
13:45With relatives
13:46And set out to promote
13:48Her new record to DJs
13:49All over the United States
13:53As they entered each new town
13:55They'd flip the radio dial
13:57Until they found
13:58The local country station
13:59Next they'd spot the tower
14:01And follow it to the source
14:04Loretta would slip her way
14:05Past the receptionist
14:06And head right for the DJ
14:09Yeah I met Loretta
14:10She came to town
14:11I was a disc jockey
14:12In a little town
14:13Named Coolidge, Arizona
14:15And she looked like
14:16She was about 12 years old
14:18You just wanted to shut up
14:20And listen to her talk
14:21She had that little
14:22Kentucky accent
14:23And she wasn't bigger
14:24Than a nickel
14:25I said hello
14:26My name is Loretta Lynn
14:27And I brought me
14:28I've got a record here
14:29Called Honky Tonk Girl
14:30It's on a zero label
14:32And I brought you a picture too
14:33My husband took the picture
14:34And I brought you a card
14:36I've even wrote a card for you
14:38She was really shy
14:40And it took her
14:41It took her a little while
14:42She said
14:42That she'd cut this record
14:45And she acted like
14:47She thought I was going
14:48To give it back to her
14:48And tell her to go on her way
14:50You know
14:50He looked at me like
14:52Well here's a nut
14:53But I didn't let that stop me
14:55You know
14:56I couldn't let that stop me
14:57From peddling my record
15:01Loretta and Dew
15:02Would drive all day
15:03At night
15:04They would sleep in a cheap hotel
15:05Or in the car
15:07To save money
15:07They stopped at every radio station
15:10In their path
15:11No matter how small
15:13Loretta was determined
15:14To get her song
15:15On the airwaves
15:16The time we got back home
15:18And the record was
15:1814 on the charts
15:20And billboard
15:21I didn't really know
15:22What that meant
15:23And when I got home
15:25The boys in the workforce
15:27There in that joint
15:28They come running out
15:29And they said
15:30You know you're 14 in billboard
15:32You're 14 in billboard
15:33And I said
15:33Well I said
15:34That good
15:35That means
15:35That means it's good
15:36Sadly though
15:38Loretta's father
15:39Had not lived long enough
15:41To enjoy her good fortune
15:42He had died the year before
15:45Of a stroke
15:47But the success of
15:48I'm a honky tonk girl
15:50Inspired Loretta
15:51To pursue even bigger dreams
15:53She decided to head
15:55For the home
15:55Of country music itself
15:57The Grand Ole Opry
15:58I'd tell all the disc jockeys
16:00I'm going to Nashville
16:01I'm going to be on
16:02The Grand Ole Opry
16:03And they laughed at me
16:03And I wondered
16:04Why they laughed
16:06Loretta tell us
16:07A little something
16:07About yourself if you will
16:09Where were you performing
16:09Before you came to the Opry
16:11I had a little band
16:12Of my own
16:12Up in the state of Washington
16:14A little place
16:15Called Blaine Washington
16:16And we played there
16:17Six nights a week
16:19And my brother
16:21Played lead guitar
16:23And about six months ago
16:24We moved back here
16:25This is my first time
16:26On the Grand Ole Opry
16:27I can't remember anything
16:28Patting my foot
16:29And then running off stage
16:30And hugging do
16:32You know
16:32And telling him
16:33I'd sung on the Grand Ole Opry
16:34That's the biggest
16:35You can get
16:36Loretta was so popular
16:38That the Opry
16:39Kept asking her back
16:40For a total of
16:4118 consecutive weeks
16:43The Grand Ole Opry show
16:45Introduced Loretta Lynn
16:47To millions of new fans
16:48And now with her
16:50First hit record
16:51She had taken a giant step
16:53On the long road
16:54To national fame
16:58By 1960
16:59Loretta Lynn's career
17:01Was taking off
17:02She had a hit record
17:04I'm a honky tonk girl
17:05She had performed
17:07On the Grand Ole Opry
17:08Yet even with her success
17:10Loretta was still
17:11Without a record deal
17:12Loretta's managers
17:14Doyle and Teddy Wilburn
17:16Hope to sign her
17:17With Decca Records
17:18But Decca producer
17:20Owen Bradley
17:21Was more impressed
17:22With Loretta's songwriting
17:23Than her singing
17:24The Wilburn brothers
17:25Were kind of pressuring me
17:27To take an act
17:28And they played me this song
17:30And I needed a song
17:31For Brenda Lee
17:31I said
17:32Why don't you
17:33Give me that song
17:34And Owen said
17:35I'll take that one song
17:37Called Fool Number One
17:39And Doyle said
17:39I'm not here to push
17:40A song
17:41I'm here to push an artist
17:43Owen says
17:44Well I'll tell you what Doyle
17:45We'll make a trade here
17:46Give me Fool Number One
17:47For Brenda Lee
17:48And I'll record Loretta
17:50And he said
17:51That was the best trade
17:52He ever made
17:52Loretta's popularity
17:54Grew so quickly
17:55That in 1961
17:56She was named
17:58The most promising
17:59Female artist
18:00By the country
18:01Western disc jockey pole
18:03No don't come home
18:05With drinking
18:06With loving on your mind
18:09Just stay out there
18:10On the town
18:12And see what you can find
18:14Loretta wrote songs
18:15About what she knew best
18:17Her hard life
18:18Growing up in Kentucky
18:19Her family
18:20And most of all
18:22Her troubled marriage
18:23To the hard drinking
18:25Womanizing
18:25Doolittle Lynn
18:27He did all that
18:28Thank you
18:29You ain't willing to take my man
18:30Squalls on the warpath
18:31Don't come home a-drinking
18:32You know
18:33She wrote all them songs
18:35About him
18:35Cause if you want
18:37That kind of love
18:38But you don't need
18:39None of mine
18:40So don't come home
18:42Don't come home
18:43Drinking
18:43You'll have it on your mouth
18:45I thought that was great
18:46Every man in the world
18:47Has come home
18:48In some kind of shape
18:49You know
18:49And thinking
18:49Ah
18:50Here I am
18:51The lover of the world
18:53You know
18:55You've been waiting
18:56All this time for me
18:57I know I've done that
18:59Men are a mess
19:00And she told us about it
19:02She was the first one
19:04That came out with the songs
19:05That you know
19:05Pretty much told a man
19:08Which way to stand
19:10Loretta wrote songs
19:11For women everywhere
19:13She challenged convention
19:15And confronted social taboos
19:17In a string of number one hits
19:19Like Rated X
19:21They thought
19:22Since it was going to be Rated X
19:23It had to be real bad
19:24And it was taken up
19:25For the girl
19:26Unless she'd been married
19:27You know
19:28It started out
19:29Well if you've been
19:29A married woman
19:31Things didn't seem to work out
19:33Divorce is the key
19:34To being loose and free
19:35So you're going to be
19:36Talked about
19:37So it was taken up
19:39For the divorced lady
19:40Not one thing in there
19:41Was bad
19:42But they got a lot
19:44Of belly aching about it
19:45But it was still
19:45A hit for me
19:47As Loretta's fame grew
19:48So did the controversy
19:50Over her songs
19:51Some were condemned
19:52By religious groups
19:53Others were banned
19:54By radio stations
19:55But none caused
19:57A bigger uproar
19:58Than her song
19:59About birth control
20:00The pill
20:01Several years
20:02I stayed at home
20:04While you had
20:05All your fun
20:07Every year that's gone by
20:10Another baby's come
20:12There's gonna be
20:14Some changes made
20:15Right here on
20:16Nursery Hill
20:17You set this chicken
20:20Your last time
20:21Cause now I've got
20:23The pill
20:23People were complaining
20:25About how in the world
20:26Can you sing a song
20:27Like that on the air
20:29You know you just
20:30Can't have
20:31You can't talk
20:32About things like that
20:33When they told her
20:34You know that she
20:34Shouldn't be talking
20:35About the pill
20:35I mean she'd get on
20:36Carson or whatever
20:37And she'd say
20:38Well why
20:38I take it
20:39Don't you
20:40The preacher would preach
20:41A bite on Sunday
20:42And then the women
20:43Go out and bite
20:43To see how bad it was
20:44I never dreamed
20:45That women would
20:46Take this
20:49The wrong way
20:49And they didn't
20:50They bought enough
20:51Of them to make
20:51Number one
20:52The song was blacklisted
20:54By radio stations
20:55From Boston to Tulsa
20:57But that didn't
20:58Stop the pill
20:59From soaring straight
21:01To the top of the charts
21:02It resonated
21:03With all of us
21:05And I'd be in my
21:0857 Chevy
21:09Going to the
21:10Grocery store
21:11And I'd be going
21:13Amen sister
21:14Tell it
21:14Tell it
21:14Tell it
21:15Well you know
21:15I never even thought
21:16About the feminist deal
21:18And all this kind of stuff
21:18When I put out the pill
21:20And put out ones on the way
21:21And the underground papers
21:23Began coming out
21:26They wanted to know
21:27If I was woman's lip
21:29And I said
21:30Hey you know
21:31I believe in
21:32If a woman does a man's job
21:33She ought to get paid
21:34The same price he does
21:35But I ain't going down the street
21:37Burning my bra
21:38If that's what you're talking about
21:40I need that thing
21:44Loretta had become
21:45An outspoken headliner
21:47Who could write
21:47Number one songs
21:48With the best of them
21:49In the male dominated world
21:51Of country music
21:52She was busting down barriers
21:54She really changed
21:56What women could sing about
21:57And did it very
22:00Straightforwardly
22:01With no apologies
22:02And really kicked down
22:05A lot of doors
22:05For the rest of us
22:07Through it all
22:08I think we've come through
22:09And I think we're making
22:09A big statement now
22:11There's a lot of women
22:12Out there
22:12That are selling out
22:14The concert halls
22:14And a lot of women
22:16That are running record labels
22:17And television production
22:19And I think it's about time
22:20I'm glad to see it
22:21Go girls
22:24By the time she was 29
22:26Loretta Lynn was one of the most
22:28Popular country music performers
22:30In America
22:31In 1964
22:33She was voted
22:34Favorite Female Artist
22:36By Billboard Magazine
22:37During the 60s and 70s
22:39Music City News
22:41Named her
22:41Female Artist of the Year
22:43An incredible 12 years in a row
22:45I don't think she ever thought
22:47She could make money doing it
22:48I know I didn't
22:49I just wanted to do it
22:50It was just a love for music
22:51When we started working
22:53And making some money
22:54I mean it was just
22:55What a thrill
22:56To be able to do
22:57What you've always dreamed
22:58Of doing
22:59And make money doing that
23:00But as Loretta's career
23:02Blossomed
23:03She was spending
23:04Less and less time
23:05At home with her children
23:07It only became more difficult
23:09When in 1964
23:11She gave birth to
23:12Twin girls
23:13Named Patsy
23:14And Peggy
23:15When we were growing up
23:16We did not have her
23:18Very few times
23:20I can actually remember
23:22Her being home
23:23And it
23:25Being
23:25You know
23:25Feeling like you had
23:26A mother there
23:28Due
23:28Stayed home
23:29And really did a great job
23:31With the twins
23:32And I used to get so sorry
23:33For Loretta
23:34Because she would say
23:34My oldest four kids
23:36Know me
23:37And I'm
23:38I'm mommy
23:39But to the twins
23:40She said
23:40It's so hard
23:41Because I haven't been around them
23:42While they were little
23:43Nearly as much as she was
23:44The other one
23:45And they just considered
23:46Do mommy and daddy
23:47For a while
23:48And that really
23:48Put Loretta on a guilt trip
23:51So it went against
23:52All of her
23:54Raising
23:55To do what she did
23:57Loretta worked hard
23:59Barely ever taking a day off
24:01She performed each evening
24:03Often doing two shows
24:05Back to back
24:06She would travel to a new city
24:08After the show each night
24:10Sleeping in the back of the bus
24:18The demanding schedule
24:19Soon took its toll
24:21On Loretta's health
24:22I've been with her
24:23When she's been
24:24Very sick
24:25Where she's had
24:26To be on stage
24:27And she's actually
24:29I mean had to leave stage
24:31And I remember
24:32I was just there
24:33And she pushes me out
24:34And goes sing a few songs
24:36And this was way before
24:37I even started
24:39Loretta suffered from migraines
24:41And then had to fight off
24:42A dependence on pills
24:44That were prescribed
24:45For the pain
24:46She was hospitalized
24:47Over and over
24:48For exhaustion
24:49Try to get her to quit
24:52And not do so much
24:53On the road and stuff
24:54And so
24:55We'd knock off for a month
24:57And hell
24:58She'd get itchy
24:59You know
25:00She'd want to go
25:00She'd want to know
25:02How the boys are eating
25:03And how everybody's doing
25:04And she wanted to get back
25:05On the road
25:05And she did
25:07Loretta knew
25:07How much she owed
25:08To her career
25:09She lived in a 14 room
25:12Mansion in Tennessee
25:13She had become
25:14The first female millionaire
25:16In country music
25:17Yet she never forgot
25:19Her childhood
25:19As a poor coal miner's daughter
25:21My early childhood memories
25:25Probably are some of my best
25:27They stuck with me more
25:29Because they taught me more
25:30And I think if they didn't
25:33I would be who I was today
25:34Because if you don't remember
25:36Who you are
25:38And where you come from
25:38You get lost in the shuffle
25:40As you grow older
25:42Loretta turned
25:43Those childhood memories
25:44Into the song
25:45That became her signature
25:47Coal miner's daughter
25:48Well I was born to coal miner's daughter
25:54In a cabin
25:56On a hill in butcher holler
26:00We were poor
26:02But we had love
26:03That's the one thing
26:05That daddy made sure of
26:07He shoveled coal
26:09To make a poor man's dollar
26:11The album featuring coal miner's daughter
26:15Sold more than a million copies
26:17Despite Loretta's struggle
26:19With exhaustion and illness
26:20Her success was at a peak
26:22And in 1972
26:24Loretta was selected to receive
26:26One of the most prestigious honors
26:28In country music
26:30The country music entertainer
26:32Of the year
26:33Is
26:35Loretta Lynn
27:01I'd like to say that
27:03I've won a lot of awards
27:06And
27:08This is one that I have
27:10Been nominated for
27:12But I never did get
27:14And
27:15This I think is the only one
27:18That I haven't gotten
27:20The only thing
27:21I'm real happy
27:21But the only thing
27:22That I'm kind of sad about
27:24Is my husband
27:25Is gone hunting
27:26He couldn't make it back in
27:28To share my happiness with me
27:31Thank you
27:33America couldn't get enough
27:35Of Loretta's
27:36Rags to riches story
27:37She even became
27:38The first country star
27:40To make the cover of Newsweek
27:41New York Times columnist
27:44George Vesey
27:44Became so fascinated
27:46With Loretta
27:47That he offered
27:48To help write her autobiography
27:49I really didn't want
27:51To write a book
27:51Because I felt
27:52I was too young
27:53To write about my life
27:54I hadn't lived
27:55When I was 15
27:57I was 35
27:57When I was 35
27:58I was 15
27:59But
28:00George Vesey
28:01Was a good writer
28:02And he taught me
28:03Into doing it
28:04There really are
28:04No secrets
28:05With Loretta
28:06That what people saw
28:07What they thought
28:08They saw on stage
28:09Or the interview
28:09That she'd give
28:10In some small town
28:11Or the way she'd be
28:11On television
28:12Was exactly the way
28:13She was
28:14But in fact
28:15Her life was
28:15An open book
28:16Before we did the book
28:18The book
28:19Appropriately titled
28:21Coal Miner's Daughter
28:22Was a huge success
28:24Spending 20 weeks
28:25On the bestseller list
28:26Loretta hoped the book
28:28Would finally quell
28:29The public's curiosity
28:30About her private life
28:32But interest in her story
28:34Only exploded
28:35And Hollywood
28:36Came knocking on her door
28:41By the late 1970s
28:43Loretta Lynn
28:44The coal miner's daughter
28:45From Kentucky
28:46Was already
28:47A country music legend
28:49So it was no wonder
28:51That her bestselling
28:52Autobiography
28:53Caught the interest
28:54Of Hollywood
28:54Loretta signed a contract
28:56With Universal Pictures
28:58And handpicked
28:59Sissy Spacek
29:00To play her
29:02I was handed
29:03A big stack
29:04Of pictures
29:07Probably a foot deep
29:08I got about
29:09Halfway down
29:10That stack
29:11And it was
29:12Blonde headed girl
29:13Long blonde
29:14And freckled faced
29:15And it was
29:16A glamour picture
29:16I just threw it out
29:18And I said
29:19This is the coal miner's daughter
29:20And she decided
29:21I was going to do it
29:23And nobody else
29:24And
29:25She started saying
29:27On television
29:27Little sissy Spacek
29:29She's going to play me
29:30And I
29:30I just couldn't
29:32Believe that this woman
29:34Was going on
29:36National television
29:37Telling the world
29:38That I was going to
29:38Do her movie
29:39When I hadn't
29:40Accepted it yet
29:41So I was mortified
29:43And
29:45Was determined
29:46Not to do it
29:47I saw her
29:48For the first time
29:49And
29:49All of her
29:51Band members
29:52And her
29:52Managers
29:53And agents
29:54Were all
29:55Behind her
29:56Like little ducks
29:58Following her
29:59She had on
30:00A flaming red dress
30:01And I remember
30:01She was just
30:02Mad
30:03As she could be
30:04And she was going
30:05Bam, bam, bam
30:06Bam, bam, bam
30:07I couldn't hear
30:08Nothing but them
30:08Dead burn drums
30:10Beating in my ear
30:10And I thought
30:12I've got to play her
30:13While Tommy Lee Jones
30:15Prepared for the role
30:16Of Loretta's husband
30:17Doolittle
30:18Sissy took on
30:19The awesome task
30:20Of filling
30:21Loretta's shoes
30:22She watched
30:23Loretta at work
30:24To learn how to
30:25Act and sing
30:26Like her
30:27She was with me
30:28Off and on
30:28For the whole year
30:29It liked to kill me
30:30Because I was doing
30:30Two shows a night
30:31And then I'd work
30:32Almost the rest
30:33Of the night
30:34With Sissy
30:35We knew each other
30:36Inside and out
30:38I knew as much
30:39About her
30:39As she did
30:39About me
30:40And I felt
30:40That was the way
30:41It had to be
30:42Coal Miner's daughter
30:43Premiered in March
30:451980
30:45To critical acclaim
30:47And Sissy Spacek
30:49Won an Oscar
30:49For best actress
30:51I feel like
30:53I'm on a fight
30:54Well that's where
30:55You're supposed to feel
30:55When you're not
30:56The book and the movie
30:58Was a big career move
31:01For my sister
31:02But you know
31:03It was perfect
31:04Because that is my sister
31:06And I just
31:07I think it put her
31:09In a place where
31:09They really saw my sister
31:11You know
31:11She's the coal miner's daughter
31:13Loretta attended
31:14The movie's premiere
31:15With her mother Clara
31:16It was one of the last
31:18Happy times
31:19They would spend together
31:20In public
31:21On Thanksgiving day
31:23In 1982
31:24Clara passed away
31:26I went to Kentucky
31:27When her mom died
31:28And that was a
31:30Very terrible experience
31:32And Loretta sang
31:34All night
31:35We stayed there all night
31:37And the one thing
31:37That she would sing
31:38All night long
31:39Was
31:39If I could hear
31:40My mother pray again
31:42Beautiful
31:43Beautiful song
31:44And that seemed
31:45To help her get over
31:47The grief
31:47She would just sing
31:49And think of her mom
31:50And she'd laugh
31:52And tell stories
31:52About her mom
31:54For Loretta
31:55It seemed there was sadness
31:57Around every corner
31:58In July 1984
32:00She had a seizure
32:02While touring
32:02And had to be hospitalized
32:04She had no idea
32:06That at the exact same time
32:08She was losing her eldest son
32:1034 year old
32:12Jack Benny Lynn
32:13An experienced rider
32:15Drowned
32:16While crossing a river
32:17On horseback
32:18When you lose a child
32:20That's something
32:21You don't ever think
32:21Of ever doing
32:22And it leaves
32:24A hole in your heart
32:25That never is refilled
32:26It's still there
32:29And
32:30At night
32:31I just asked God
32:32To hold him for me
32:33Until I get there
32:34In times of crisis
32:36Loretta would always rely
32:38On her husband
32:39Due
32:39For support
32:40To outsiders
32:42Their marriage
32:43Was a puzzle
32:43How could someone
32:45Whose songs
32:46Were all about
32:46Strong
32:47Independent women
32:48Stay with a man
32:49Who drank heavily
32:50And had affairs
32:52Something happened
32:53That I would write a song
32:55And I could say it to him
32:56In a song
32:56Where I couldn't just
32:57Stand up and say it to him
32:58You know without a fact
33:00And it always helped me
33:01I felt that it did
33:03Daddy worshipped her
33:05Beyond anything
33:06He worshipped her
33:07And she did daddy
33:08I don't care what people think
33:10Or what they say
33:11Their love was
33:13A special
33:14As Due got older
33:16He seemed to mellow
33:17But the drinking
33:18Never got better
33:19I felt sometimes
33:20It was better
33:21To be on the bus
33:22Than it was
33:22To be home
33:23Because he was
33:23Drinking so much
33:24You know
33:25Due wouldn't go
33:26After a while
33:27Because he did not
33:28Want the public
33:29To see him drink
33:30And I understand
33:32Because he
33:33He had this problem
33:34And he
33:35It's a disease
33:36By the early 1990s
33:38Due was seriously ill
33:40With heart failure
33:41And diabetes
33:43Both of his legs
33:44Had to be amputated
33:46Loretta largely
33:47Put her career
33:47On hold
33:48To take care of him
33:50And it was
33:51In a sense
33:52Killing mom
33:53I mean it was
33:54Literally killing her
33:55Watching it
33:57And sitting with him
33:58And it was
33:59It was the most
34:01Awful
34:02Four years
34:03And she was
34:19At the age of 69
34:21They loved each other dearly
34:23And you know
34:24Think about it
34:25They stayed together
34:2648 years
34:27And they would be together
34:29Today if he was alive
34:30I loved Due
34:31All of his life
34:32I've loved him
34:32And I miss him today
34:34I love him still today
34:35To this day
34:37No matter how hard
34:38We got along
34:39And no matter
34:39What kind of life
34:40We had
34:41He was still
34:42The man in my life
34:44Crushed by Due's death
34:46Loretta withdrew from public
34:48For months
34:49She didn't tour
34:51Or record
34:52My mother grieved
34:53That you go through
34:54These stages
34:56There's the angry stage
34:58You know
34:59Why
35:00I'm alone
35:00You know
35:01Why did he leave me alone
35:02If he wouldn't have drank
35:03All those years
35:03He wouldn't have
35:04You know
35:05For a long time
35:06She was real depressed
35:08You know
35:08Like we didn't work
35:09For a while
35:10We just stayed on the ranch
35:11And stuff
35:12And then she just said
35:13Hell with it
35:14We're going to work
35:14And we just left
35:17Just as she had
35:18So many times
35:19During her life
35:20Loretta Lynn
35:21Had found the strength
35:22To bounce back
35:23And now
35:24As she was entering
35:25Her fifth decade
35:26As a singer
35:27She was about to show
35:28Her fans
35:29A whole new side
35:30Of her life
35:31And her music
35:32That ain't all
35:34I lost my mind
35:40Loretta Lynn
35:41Is one of the most
35:42Celebrated artists
35:43In country music history
35:45With more than
35:4650 top 10 hits
35:47She's received
35:48More country music
35:50Association nominations
35:51Than anyone
35:52For all that
35:54She was inducted
35:55Into the country music
35:56Hall of fame
35:57In 1988
36:01I would have dressed up
36:02If I'd have known this
36:04Many told me
36:06That I might get this
36:06And I said
36:07No way Jose
36:08And she said
36:10She bet me five dollars
36:11And now I've lost five dollars
36:15And 15 years later
36:16Her remarkable career
36:18Was celebrated
36:19At the prestigious
36:20Kennedy Center Honors
36:21Before a crowd
36:23That included
36:23President and Mrs. Bush
36:25But Loretta was never
36:27One to rest on her laurels
36:31More than 40 years
36:32After she first sang
36:34I'm a honky tonk girl
36:35On the Grand Ole Opry
36:37She was still playing
36:38To sold out crowds
36:40Across the country
36:41Ever since you left me
36:43I've done nothing but wrong
36:46Every day
36:48Watching her perform
36:51And watching her connect
36:52With an audience
36:53Is still the most amazing
36:55Thing to me
36:56And I can never get
36:57Enough of it
36:58Loretta
36:59And neither could her fans
37:00They not only continued
37:02To flock to her shows
37:03Thank you honey
37:04I hope you enjoy that
37:05Thank you
37:06They made the second volume
37:07Of her autobiography
37:09Still Woman Enough
37:10A national bestseller
37:12I idolize her
37:13I just think she's fabulous
37:15She's such an honest person
37:17From the heart
37:18In 2004
37:20Loretta gave her fans
37:21New reason to cheer
37:23Earning five Grammy nominations
37:25For her most critically acclaimed
37:27Album in years
37:28Van Leer Rose
37:30In an unusual pairing
37:32It was produced
37:33By a hot young rock musician
37:35Jack White
37:36Of the White Stripes
37:37Jack worked his little butt off
37:39On this record
37:40And let me sing it
37:42One time too
37:42I said
37:43Don't we sing it
37:44No more than that
37:44Nope
37:45That was it
37:46So I had my job over
37:48With one take
37:48I've been held here
37:50Every day
37:53Since you've been
37:54Away from me
37:56Loretta wrote
37:57Every song
37:58On the album
37:59Including Miss
38:00Being Mrs
38:01A painful account
38:03Of her life
38:04Without her husband
38:05Due
38:05Oh I miss
38:07Being Mrs
38:10Tonight
38:13To be with him
38:14It was a problem
38:15Now and then
38:16But it's worse
38:17To be without him
38:18After Due's death
38:19Loretta pulled her family
38:21In around her
38:22Off stage
38:23And on
38:24On any given night
38:25Her son
38:26Ernest
38:27Would be playing guitar
38:28And trading barbs
38:29With her
38:30On stage
38:31I'm glad
38:31To whip him
38:32Before he gets home
38:32Too
38:34Any of you young girls
38:35Want to whip me
38:35You know
38:36I'll be high
38:37Get back on your ex
38:40Lord
38:44She wants to get her
38:45On her knees
38:46And pray for you
38:48He needs it honey
38:49That'll work
38:52And Loretta's twin daughters
38:54Patsy and Peggy
38:55Also performed with her
38:56As a duo
38:57Called the Lens
38:58They enjoyed their own
39:00Successful music career
39:01Are you taller than me?
39:04Mother you're the shortest
39:05One in our family
39:06Well thanks
39:07For Loretta
39:08It was a chance
39:09To grow closer
39:10To the children
39:11She so often
39:12Left behind
39:13When they were growing up
39:14And she was on the road
39:15She was happy
39:17To have them near
39:17But bittersweet
39:19About the direction
39:20Their lives had taken
39:21I would have rather
39:22My kids would get
39:23Into any kind
39:24Of business
39:25Except the music business
39:27Because it's not
39:28A very good life
39:29For a person
39:30That wants to be
39:31A homebody
39:32You know
39:33It wasn't for me
39:34I love you more
39:35Than my Irish
39:36As she neared
39:37Her 70th birthday
39:38Loretta was still
39:39Keeping a very active
39:41Tour schedule
39:42But spending more
39:43Time at home
39:44She does better
39:45She enjoys it more
39:46It's not a job
39:48Now you know
39:48I've got to go to work
39:50It's if I want to go
39:51But even at home
39:53Loretta was always
39:55On stage
39:55Her ranch
39:57In Hurricane Mills
39:58Tennessee
39:58Had become one of
39:59The biggest tourist
40:00Attractions in the state
40:02Two million fans
40:03Came every year
40:05To tour her museum
40:06This is what
40:07I come into Nashville
40:08Had it on
40:09A model of her
40:11Childhood house
40:11Even a replica
40:13Of a coal mine
40:14I'm just lucky
40:15You know
40:16I'm a lucky girl
40:16And I think
40:17God's had me
40:17With the hand
40:19To those who
40:20Know her best
40:20Success never
40:22Did change Loretta
40:23She was
40:24And always will be
40:25The coal miner's
40:27Daughter
40:28I watch her
40:29She'll count change
40:29On the back
40:30Of the bus
40:30Going down the road
40:31You know
40:31We're broke
40:33Okay mama
40:33And I've just
40:34Picked up
40:35$150,000
40:36You know
40:36When it's in the
40:37Safe on the bus
40:37But she's counting
40:38Her change
40:39That's the way
40:39She is
40:40Because they live
40:40Poor
40:40You know
40:41In Kentucky
40:44If Loretta Lynn
40:46Never cut another record
40:47If she never played
40:48Another concert
40:49Her legend
40:50Would be secure
40:51She was more than
40:53Just one of the
40:54Best selling artists
40:55Of all time
40:55She was a country music
40:57Original
40:58A pioneer
41:01Loretta Lynn
41:02Still has broad appeal
41:03Across generations
41:04Of music fans
41:05As shown
41:06When Van Lea Rose
41:07Earned two 2004 Grammys
41:09Including
41:10Best country album
41:11Jack White
41:12Was on hand
41:13To accept the awards
41:14With Lynn
41:14As her collaborator
41:16And the album's producer
41:18And in April 2005
41:20Lynn was honored again
41:21This time by
41:22Country music television
41:23With the
41:24Johnny Cash
41:25Visionary award
41:25Though Cash had died
41:27More than a year earlier
41:28It was a resonant echo
41:29To the time Cash's speech
41:30Welcomed Lynn
41:31To join him
41:32In the country music
41:33Hall of fame
41:33And further solidified
41:35Her standing
41:35In the pantheon
41:36Of country music legends