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Podcast: Success Made to Last Legends
Episode: Success Made to Last Legends with Country Western Singer Jeannie Seeley
Description: “Miss Country Soul” Jeannie Seely was one of the premier female singers of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Known for her big heart, emotion-packed voice, and salty wisecracks on stage – “Of course I want you for your body. I’ve got a mind of my own;” “An ex-husband is one mistake you don’t have to live with;” and others – she blazed a nonconformist trail in Nashville, sporting a miniskirt her first time onstage at the Grand Ole Opry and a sassy attitude wherever she went. The youngest of four children, petite, blonde Seely was never a stranger to work – or to country mus...