Jeanne Pruett

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Jeanne Pruett (born Norma Jean Bowman on January 30, 1937) is an American country music singer and Grand Ole Opry actress best known for her 1973 country hit, "Satin Sheets," which lasted three weeks at No. 1. Jeanne Pruett's signature song is "Satin Sheets."

The album sounded much more country than the songs that were coming out of Nashville at the time.

When "Satin Sheets" became a hit in 1973, it was also a Top 40 Pop hit.

Early life

Pruett was born Norma Jean Bowman outside of Pell City, Alabama, United States. She was raised on a farm and was one of 12 children. In her 2017 autobiography, Pruett recalled her time on a farm. "The beauty of the farm, dotted with tall pine trees, sweet shrubs, and blooming dogwood trees, reminded me why they worked so hard because there was no more beautiful sight in the country than the old farm." The Bowman family farm caught fire in 1947, which devastated the entire family. "The only sounds now seemed to be a rare glimpse of the dying sparks and the sound of Mama softly cries, her exhausted arms clinging on Dad and the children," she said. The Bowmans rebuilt their house on the same property in a year's time with the help of neighbors.

Pruett used to play music with her family in elementary school. They often sang together on the front porch of their farmhouse, where she also learned to harmonize. Pruett has also learned how to play musical instruments at home. She learned how to play guitar from the album "Down the Trail of Achin' Hearts" to begin. She also listened to the radio a lot. Pruett said, "It seemed to me that the DJs' voices were as recognizable to me as the voices of my favorite singers of the day." Pruett began attending her school's chorus group and formed "The Super Suds," a group of high school students.

Pruett dropped out of high school in the tenth grade and started a telephone company in Anniston, Alabama. When she wasn't working, she and her sister would attend dances at a local VFW hall. She became particularly keen on performance opportunities at these dances, which led to her becoming a performer. She began singing with the VFW's country band and appeared on local television stations. Pruett recalls, "Now the entertainment hook was actually in my mouth." She met guitarist Jack Pruett and began dating at these outings. Shortly after their marriage began, Jack was enlisted in the military. While waiting for his return, Jeanne moved into his sister's house. The couple married in 1955 after Jack returned from service. Jack became the touring guitarist for country artist Ray Price in 1955.

Jack and the two were born in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1956, so that Jack will continue to perform in Price's band. The couple lived in a trailer park and were neighbors to country entertainers Lester Flatt, Hawkshaw Hawkins, and Jean Shepard. Pruett gave birth to their first child while living in the trailer. Jack Pruett took up playing guitar in Marty Robbins' road band shortly after the birth. Following accepting the position, the family bought a two-story house in Nashville.

Personal life

Pruett has been married twice. On October 10, 1955, she married Jack Pruett, her first husband. Following his marriage, Jack and Mary Robbins decided to embark on a several-week tour. He will often be traveling on the road for the remainder of their marriage. Soon after moving to Nashville, Jack Pruett, Jr., and his son was born and Jack was earning more money, the family purchased a two-story house in Nashville. The couple were neighbors to The Wilburn Brothers at their new house. The couple welcomed their second child, Jael, in 1958 and purchased a larger estate in the Nashville area. Pruett's children became actors themselves and appeared onstage more often.

Pruett divorced her husband in 1982, blaming his alcohol abuse and packed schedules. She discussed her motives for the divorce in her 2017 autobiography. "Our divorce in the early 1980s was the most difficult time in our lives." "I would have traded all of my happiness and all his happiness for the divorce, which never would have occurred," she said. The couple remained "civil" toward one another, according to Pruett. Jack Pruett returned to work and died in 2011.

Following Pruett's divorce, she moved to a nearby apartment. Eddie Fulton, the road manager and occasional bus driver, lived in the same building. The pair spent more time together and formed a romantic relationship. The couple married and built a log-style house in 1985. "We had a lot in common, so we just fell in love," she said. Fulton died in July 2019. Pruett's only son, Jack Pruett, Jr., died on February 1, 2022; https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/jack-pruett-obituary?id=32704561.

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Career

Pruett began writing songs while raising her first child. Since her children started attending kindergarten, she became more dedicated to it. Marty Robbins, her husband's widow, sold her songs to Marty Robbins, who then sold her to his publishing house in 1963. Several of her songs were demoed by a male artist, with the exception of the song "Count Me Out." Pruett's demo was instead recorded. Robbins heard it and was impressed. He later slowed the track and had a major hit with it in 1966. Pruett's singing had also impressed him. "I think we've found a new girl singer." After hearing her on tape, he said he was very sorry. Pruett's songs were brought to the attention of RCA Victor Records' producer Chet Atkins. In 1963, Atkins formally committed her to RCA, a recording contract. "Just a Little After Heartaches" was her first album that year. Patsy Cline (and several other musicians) was killed in a March 1963 plane crash, and she first heard it on the radio the same day. "I'm sure my album debut was so overshadowed by their death that the only two people who heard and remembered my song were Grant Turner and me," she said. Pruett's three singles were released on RCA between 1963 and 1964, but they were unsuccessful.

Pruett returned to domestic life after her RCA singles were ineffective. "I just went back to being a housewife and mother and writing more songs for Marty and his publishing company," she explained. After Robbins sold two of her songs to producer Owen Bradley in 1969, she signed a new recording contract with Decca Records. "This girl has a housewife sound, and I can sell her," Bradley told Robbins. "Hold on to My Unchanging Love" was a hit in 1971. It was Pruett's first chart entry, ranking number 66 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart, earning it as Pruett's first chart entry. Pruett's self-penned "Love Me" was released the following year, becoming her first top 40 entry on the country singles chart. Robbins took the track shortly after the original and made it a top-ten hit on the same chart. Pruett's debut studio album on the Decca label was released in October 1972. It was reviewed by Billboard magazine the same month, where I had lauded the recording. "A sterling, rousing preparation for Jeanne Pruett's debut."

Pruett's music career had gathered more traction by 1973. She appeared on the Grand Ole Opry on several dates throughout the world. She was booked by agent Hubert Long on several dates around the world. "Satin Sheets" by John Volinkaty was released in the same year as the previous year's composition "Satin Sheets." Bill Anderson and Jan Howard's first cut of the song was cut as a duet on their studio album Bill and Jan (Or Jan and Bill). However, their version was not released as a single. Walter Haynes, Pruett's manager, believed that if the lyrics were changed, the song would be a hit. Pruett rewrote the introduction to help make the song more accessible. She introduced it to Haynes after rewriting the story from the start. "Walter played it for Grady [Martin], but he was evicted." He picked up the guitar and played it back to Walter Walter, who said, 'Here Walt, the damn intro is a hit,'" she recalled in her autobiography. Decca (now MCA Records) believed that "Satin Sheets" was too old in its manufacture and decided not to market it as a single entity. Pruett, in contrast, promoted it herself. She made the record by cutting squares of pink satin and mailing it to disc jockeys. When "Satin Sheets" reached the top of the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in May 1973, the marketing tactic worked. The song also debuted on Billboard Hot 100 at number 28. The success of the album prompted the release of a copy of the same name in June 1973. In July, the album debuted top country Albums on Billboard, becoming the country's highest-charting LP.

Following its success, "Satin Sheets" received positive feedback and acclaim. "Miss Pruett let's loose some of that talent that remained in relative anonymity over the years," Billboard magazine reported while analyzing her 1973 album. Kurt Wolff, a writer, said the album was "far more country-sounding than any songs coming out of Nashville at the time." In addition, the country community at large responded positively to "Satin Sheets." Pruett was nominated for three awards at the Country Music Association Awards in late 1973, including "Single of the Year" and "Female Vocalist of the Year." The Academy of Country Music had also nominated her in similar categories. Pruett was also accepted into the Grand Ole Opry in June 1973. "Tonight I'm introducing the newest member of the Grand Ole Opry, Miss Satin Sheets, Jeanne Pruett," Dolly Parton said.

Pruett's schedule became more demanding as "Satin Sheets" became a top-one hit. "I had to buy a briefcase to carry them all," she wrote about Jeanne, who is now a celebrity with hit records and so many signed contracts for road dates." Pruett said she was earning $135 per day, which was the "same as Dolly [Party]]. Pruett also went back to the recording studio. After "Satin Sheets," she had more success. "I'm Your Woman" was MCA's first single released in August 1973. It was her second major hit on the Billboard country chart, climbed to the eighth position on the Billboard charts, rising to number eight. Pruett's eponymous third studio album was released in the United States and debuted at number 19 on the country's charts in the following year. "You Don't Have to Move a Mountain" was the project's third biggest hit on the country songs chart.

MCA released Honey on His Hands, Pruett's fourth studio album. Despite the album's peak on Billboard, four of which were ranked in the top 40 countries, four of which were hit number one was four singles. "A Poor Man's Woman" and "Welcome to the Sunshine" were among the singles included in this collection. (Sweet Baby Jane) Despite a lower sales peak, the album's content received favorable feedback. Wolff praised the songs, calling them "deep country cuts" on them. Billboard also praised the album, highlighting the album as a standout.

Pruett's MCA Records debut continued to record. Pruett's label debuted a string of singles in the mid 1970s that didn't turn into big hits. "My Baby's Gone," "I've Taken," and "She's Still All About You" took place on Billboard's top-ten singles chart, with songs like "My Baby's Gone," and "She's Still All About You" occupying positions outside the top 40. The single "I'm Living a Lie" reached number 30 on the country charts in 1977, becoming the highest-climbing single in the last few years. Pruett left MCA and signed with Mercury Records as part of the label's Nashville artist expansion, the same year. Mercury created a marketing campaign to help attract the company's newer artists, according to a Billboard article. As part of the scheme, the label also planned to release four LP's by their artists. Pruett's intended intentions were not fulfilled, however. Pruett's only single innovation on the market was "I'm a Woman" (1978), which only climbed to number 94 on the country chart.

Pruett signed a deal with IBC Records in 1979. "Please Sing Satin Sheets for Me" was her first IBC debut (a song based on her 1973 signature tune). Country Universe's Kevin John Coyne said the album "didn't sound like the album of an artist serious about a comeback." The following years' launches were much more fruitful. Pruett saw a big comeback between 1979 and 1980 after three of her songs appeared in the top ten of the Billboard country songs chart. The first was the self-penned "Back to Back," which reached number six. When it reached number five, the following single release, "Temporarily Yours," became the country's highest peaking IBC hit. "It's Too Late" will debut on the country chart at number nine before 1980. Pruett's return to the UK in a October issue of Billboard's magazine prompted them to be called a "artist revival." "It all contributed to this remarkable comeback by this personable start to IBC Records and the 'Grand Ole Opry,'" writers wrote. Encore!, the IBC's fifth studio effort, has a new sense of success. The album was the first album to reach the country albums chart, where it peaked at number 18.

Pruett continued recording for IBC and for a brief period with the Audiograph brand in the early 1980s. She also teamed up with Marty Robbins for what was supposed to be a duet album project. However, Robbins died in 1982 before the pair had enough songs to fill an album. Rather, the pair's duet version of "Love Me" was released as a single. In 1983, the song debuted at number 58 on the country charts. Pruett, Rick Blackburn of Columbia Records (Robbins' label), filed a lawsuit against IBC because Robbins "never intended" to announce it. Pruett believed that Blackburn had other motives in suing the brand. "I've always believed he and Columbia Records were just pissed off" that Columbia will get no income from sales. In her autobiography, she said, "it seemed to me as a lame excuse."

Pruett began to diminish her performing career as the 1980s progressed. She remained a regular Opry member and devoted her time to the program. In 1985, she released her last studio album to date on a joint venture between Dot and MCA Records, which culminated in her final studio album to date. The album was part of a campaign that featured new album launches by other veteran country artists, including Jan Howard and Billie Jo Spears. Billy Strange's album was made. She released "Rented Room" in 1987, her first chart appearance on the Billboard country music chart, peaking at number 81. Pruett was a member of the Grand Ole Opry's first "all-female" segment during the same time period. Pruett brought it to the attention of the Opry after a 1985 television special commemorating the Opry's 60th anniversary. The segment aired on the Grand Ole Opry radio in 1986 and was hosted by Jean Shepard. It also included female Opry members Jan Howard, Jeannie Seely, and Connie Smith.

Pruett made a career change to restaurant preparation in 1986. Feedin' Friends was her first cookbook published in that year. Pruett appeared on host Ralph Emery's Nashville Now show to promote the book. In 1988, she published her second book as part of the Feedin's Friends cooking collection. Hundreds of thousands of copies have been sold since the cookbooks were first published, according to Pruett. Four books were eventually released as part of the series. The success of the cookbook series culminated in the opening of "JP's Feedin' Friends" in New York. Before its closing in 1997, the restaurant was located inside the Opryland USA theme park in Nashville, Tennessee.

Pruett retained a semi-active role in her career in the 1990s and 2000s as she led a more active domestic life. During this time, she was inducted into the North American Country Music Association Hall of Fame. In the mid 2000s, she also hosted the program's annual seminars in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. Pruett resigned from performing in 2006 and no longer appears on the Grand Ole Opry on a regular basis. Nevertheless, she is still a member of the Royal Insoucia. She returned to domestic life and lived on a ranch outside of Nashville. Pruett released Miss Satin Sheets, a ten-year absence, in 2018. I recall. Page Publishing published the book.

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