Born: 14 April 1932
Died: 4 October 2022 (aged 90)
Birth name: Loretta Webb
Loretta was born in a coal mining community called Butcher Holler which is in Johnson Country in Kentucky. It is located about 190 miles south east of Cincinatti. She was the oldest of 8 children with the youngest in the family being her sister Crystal Gayle. Loretta would get married to Oliver Lynn when she was only 15 and they would move to a place called Custer in Washington state. Here she would buy and teach herself guitar. She would start a band called Loretta & The Trailblazers and they would play in local venues. Her first recording was ‘I’m A Honky Tonk Girl’ which she recorded in 1960. It would peak at 14 on the US Country Singles chart. She would go on to manage 65 hits on those charts with 16 number 1’s to her name. On the main Hot 100 she scored 3 hits with 1975’s ‘The Pill’ giving her a best peak of 70. In 1980 her biography, Coal Miner’s Daughter’, was made into a film starring Sissey Spacek as Lynn.
| Date of entry | Song | Peak (weeks at 1) | Weeks |
| 02-Feb-1975 | As Soon As I Hang Up The Telephone | 1 (5) | 16 |
| Total hits | 1 | ||
| Total weeks | 16 |
| Biggest climber awards | 1 |
| Star rater climbs | 1 |
| Biggest fallers | 0 |
| Weeks with oldest in the charts | 1 |
| Longest run in the charts (weeks) | 16 |
| Weeks with more than 1 in the charts | 0 |
| Biggest gap between hits (weeks) | 0 |
| Top 30 points ranking | =397 |
| Top 20 points ranking | =305 |
| Top 30 points | 424 |
| Top 20 points | 264 |
‘As Soon As I Hang Up The Telephone’ was a duet with Conway Twitty.
SA Singles Charts 