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Country music singer and songwriter Liz Anderson passes away

Country music singer and songwriter Liz Anderson passes away

THE country music singer and songwriter Liz Anderson has passed away. She was 81.

Ms. Anderson enjoyed a number of top 40 hits as a singer, but it was as a songwriter for other performers that she will probably be best remembered.

Her songs became hits for a number of singers including Merle Haggard, Bonnie Owens, Waylon Jennings and her own daughter, Lynn Anderson.

She had her first number one in 1966 with the song I’m A Lonesome Fugitive, which was co-written with her husband, Casey Anderson, and was recorded by Merle Haggard.

The year before, Haggard had notched-up his first top 10 hit with Ms. Anderson’s song, (My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers. 

Her success as a singer included a top 10 hit with Mama Spank (1967), Husband Hunting (1970), see below, and It Don’t Do No Good To Be A Good Girl (1971).

Ms. Anderson was one of the founding members of the Nashville Songwriters’ Association International.

To hear Liz Anderson sing her hit Husband Hunting click here.

 

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