Holly Suzette Dunn (August 22, 1957 – November 14, 2016) was
an American country music singer and songwriter.
One of the most popular female country singers of the late
'80s, Holly Dunn was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1957 and was the sister of
future country songwriting pro Chris Waters. In high school, she performed with
a group called the Freedom Folk, which toured the South and performed at the
White House bicentennial celebration.
While attending Abilene Christian
University, she sang with the school's Hilltop Singers touring choir, and also
co-wrote a song with her brother called "Out of Sight, Not Out of
Mind." It was recorded by Cristy Lane, which convinced Dunn to try her
luck in Nashville after graduation.
While in Nashville, Dunn worked as a demo singer for a time
before joining her brother as a staff songwriter at CBS. In 1984, she moved
over to MTM and penned material for several different singers, including Louise
Mandrell, who made "I'm Not Through Loving You Yet" a Top Ten hit. In
the wake of its success, Dunn landed a record contract in her own right, and
released her first single in 1985.
Her self-titled debut album appeared the following year and
produced her first Top Ten hit, "Daddy's Hands." Arriving in 1987,
Cornerstone contained two Top Five singles in "Love Someone Like Me"
and "Only When I Love," and Dunn produced its 1988 follow-up, Across
the Rio Grande, herself, resulting in the hits "Strangers Again" and
"(It's Always Gonna Be) Someday."
MTM subsequently went bankrupt, and Dunn signed with Warner
Bros. for 1989's The Blue Rose of Texas, which produced her first-ever number
one single, "Are You Ever Gonna Love Me," as well as the Top Five
"There Goes My Heart Again."
Dunn's second Warner Bros. album, Heart Full of Love, was
released in 1990. Although its lead single "My Anniversary for Being a
Fool" failed to make the top 40, the followup "You Really Had Me
Going" became her second and final number-one hit, while the title track
was a top-20 hit. Warner followed it with the hits compilation Milestones in
1991.
Dunn's popularity took a hit with 1992's Getting It Dunn,
and she subsequently parted ways with Warner. She resurfaced in 1995 on the
smaller River North label with Life and Love and All the Stages, and was back
on a major (A&M) for 1997's Leave One Bridge Standing.
In 2003, Dunn announced her retirement from her musical
career and released her final album, Full Circle, which was her one and only
gospel album, to devote full-time to her other passion, art. Her paintings deal
primarily with subjects from the South-western United States, and are available
through the Peña+Dunn Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
She died of ovarian cancer in Albuquerque, New Mexico in
November 2016 at the age of 59.
(Compiled and edited from All Music & Wikipedia)
Here's Holly performing on the old Statler Brothers show, circa early '90's.
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For “Holly Dunn – Greatest Hits” go here:
http://www81.zippyshare.com/v/RrOKYClH/file.html
01 Daddy's Hands
02 Only When I Love
03 (It's Always Gonna Be) Someday
04 Love Someone Like Me
05 A Face In The Crowd
06 Strangers Again
07 Maybe I Mean Yes
08 There Goes My Heart Again
09 Are You Gonna Love Me
10 No One Takes The Train Anymore
11 You Really Had Me Going
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Great post. Thank you Bob.
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