Loretta Lynn COAL MINER’S DAUGHTER 45 rpm Gold Award (21″ x 15″ Shadow)

UPDATE (October 4, 2022): Loretta passed this morning at 90 at her home. She was the FIRST woman to be named “Entertainer of the Year” at the CMA (Country Music Awards). She took Nashville under siege when she arrived and never looked back. What a story. What a legend. R.I.P. Loretta Lynn – Dave StraubPrevious Description of Coal Miner’s Daughter GOLD record award:Some people say she’s just the “First Lady of Country Music.” Others say she’s earned the crown and she’s now the “QUEEN” of Country. Whatever Loretta Lynn is, she has paid her dues to be certain. From the Great Depression in the Kentucky hills and hollows (…which she called the “hollers”), Loretta WAS a “Coal Miner’s Daughter” and proud of it. Like Dolly’s “Coat of Many Colors,” her Coal Miner’s Daughter is the penultimate autobiography of a country legend, and what most every major publication from Rolling Stone and Billboard to TIME Magazine calls the greatest personal story of any music legend in music history. Coal Miner’s Daughter was written word-for-word by Loretta and most people don’t know it, but far more lyrics than you’ve heard. Her original song contained more lines than Marty Robbins’ El Paso which was one of the longest playing records on radio. Loretta’s producer, the great Owen Bradley said to Loretta, “…Honey, there’s already an “El Paso,” and you’ve got to cut some of those lines out or the stations won’t play it.” Loretta said she cried and cried when she started scratching out her story from her song and even today she says, “…I’ve lost them and I can’t remember them. I wish I had saved them because they were my life as I could only remember it way back then.” As I list this iconic gold record which my father designed and made for DECCA, and which Loretta “signed off on,” I can only imagine what it was like for him to work with her. He (Ken Kittinger) was the premier gold & platinum awards maker for 50 years on Music Row and the first night he took me backstage at the Opry, he made sure Loretta came over to meet me and my family. Our story is in the package you’ll receive with this award. I found him after searching for him for decades after returning from Vietnam. A miracle father-son reunion after 42 years. As a former country DJ and later a CNN anchor and network reporter, we discovered the first night we met that since I had been backstage many times at the Old Ryman and the New Opry House, we had to have passed one another many times and didn’t know it. At 45 after searching for decades – I found him and we shared a quarter century together with my ever-growing family and his (only late in life knowing) grandchildren and great grandchildren. This 21 X 15 X 1” shadow frame award is from my father’s estate. He passed at 91 in 2016 after his five decades in the music business leaving more than 5,000 items of memorabilia including hundreds and hundreds of “overstocked” gold & platinum awards ordered by every major record label over the years. On the COA is a photo of him and Ernest Tubb back when Pop sold records for DECCA in the 50’s before he began his career as an awards maker. No one of any reknown DID NOT know him or vice versa. Packaged with care in a custom box with lots of bubble wrap and Styrofoam. Check out some of the other awards and memorabilia from his estate at my store (Davestraub47) or Google: Ken Kittinger Gold Records for more about Pop.