Shirley Collie Nelson

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Shirley Angelina Simpson, born Shirley Angelina Simpson, 1931-1931) was an American country music and rockabilly singer, yodeler, guitarist, and songwriter.

Willie Nelson's second wife appeared on television from 1963 to 1971.

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Life and career

Alice (née Davis) and Henry Simpson, a child of Chillicothe, Missouri, performed at local war bond rallies during WWII, and she made a guest appearance on KFEQ-AM in St. Joseph, Missouri. Simpson replaced "Sue" on the weekday morning Millie and Sue show in Kansas City, and the pair appeared on the station's Brush Creek Follies barn dance show in 1945. She bought her Little Martin guitar from the previous Sue, which she'll use for the remainder of her life. She was 15 years old at the time, but not until she was 19 years old.

Simpson went to Texas in 1950 to perform with Bob Wills, Johnnie Lee Wills, and other Texas bands. She remained in Corpus Christi and appeared on ABC-TV's Ozark Jubilee in Springfield, Missouri, before she was thrown into a regular role on ABC-TV's Ozark Jubilee in Springfield, Missouri, where she began to perform on ABC-TV's Ozark Jubilee in 1955. She then signed a recording contract with ABC-Paramount. Shirley Caddell, who used to be a comedian on The Eddy Arnold Show in 1956, released her first singles on the label under her Jubilee stage name Shirley Caddell, as well as a guest appearance on The Eddy Arnold Show. She appeared on Columbia Records in two singles as well as two solo numbers in 1957.

Hiram "Biff" Collie, a country music disc jockey on KFOX-AM in Long Beach, California, left Springfield, Tennessee, where she met the show's manager and emcee, Hiram "Biff" Collie, a country music disc jockey. They married and moved to Hollywood, where she appeared on KABC-TV as a Country America girl. Both were regulars on KTTV-TV's Town Hall Party, and Collie appeared on NBC-TV's You Bet Your Life in 1960.

Collie began releasing singles on the Liberty Records label with Floyd Tillman, Bob Wills, and The Texas Playboys and Clyde Beavers beginning in 1960. She made her chart debut with Harlan Howard's "Dime a Dozen," which soared to No. 1 in 1961. On the Billboard world map, 25 countries are represented. "Why Baby Why," Warren Smith's duet with Warren Smith, reached No. 1 last year. 23. Joe Allison, a young record producer, approached Willie Nelson, who previous singers were unable to sing harmony due to his style. The 1962 duet, "Willingly," soared to No. No. 1 in the United States. It was his first chart hit, but it didn't take him long to establish him as a celebrity.

Collie was offered the role of semi-regular character Pearl Bodine on the CBS-TV series The Beverly Hillbillies in 1962, but he began touring with Nelson, playing bass guitar in his band. In 1963, the two married in Las Vegas. Nelson's career flourished, he advised her to remain in Ridgetop, Tennessee, where she helped raise his three children by Martha's first marriage. The couple co-wrote his 1968 album "Little Things," and she has been credited with writing his singles "I Hope So" (1969) and "Once More With Feeling" (1970).

Nelson's mother, Connie Koepke, who would become his third wife, died in 1971 after she learned that she had fathered a daughter. She would appear and yodel with Nelson when he retired in Missouri, and the two couples worked on her 2009 book Memoir: Memoir and Many Others.

Nelson worked with the state of Missouri, who was physically impaired, from 1987 to 1989. She continued to perform in Branson, Missouri, and was given a lifetime achievement award from KMBZ in 1996.

Nelson died in Springfield, Missouri, aged 78, following a long illness, and was buried at White Chapel Memorial Gardens in Springfield. She was helped by her husband, Ed Melton, and a sister, Mary Lou Ritchie.

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