What Is Dickie Lee The Country Singer Military Service Record?

Dickey Lee

Induction Year: 1995

Nativity Proper name: Royden Dickey Lipscomb

Birth Appointment: 09-21-1936

Identify of Nascence: Memphis, Tennessee

Dickey Lee remembers the first time he heard one of his songs on the radio. "I was at a drive-in movie, with a buddy of mine. We went to meet some thriller or something. I had the radio on and my song came on. Male child, it was like magic!"

The regional success of that song, "Dream Male child," written in 1955 when Lee was fresh out of high school in Memphis, whetted his ambition for a career in music. Despite his father telling him that he "ought to take his guitar and throw it in the Mississippi River and get a task," Lee presently signed a deal with Sunday Records. A few more than regional hits followed, and so in 1962 Lee scored a #6 popular hit with the star-crossed suicide tune "Patches" (produced by Jack Cloudless) on Smash Records.

But while his nascent pop career thrived with "I Saw Linda Yesterday" and another teen tragedy hit, "Laurie," Lee slowly realized that his truthful love was country music. When a vocal he co-wrote, "She Thinks I Yet Intendance," became a #1 country hitting for George Jones and was covered by artists like Eddy Arnold and Faron Young, Lee took that as a sign that Nashville was his destiny. It took him a few years to settle at that place, but when he did, he rode a dual career equally a hit land writer and successful country recording artist, get-go with RCA Records in 1971.

Over the next three decades, he racked up 20 BMI Awards, as his songs were recorded by hundreds of artists, including Elvis Presley, Kenny Rogers, Merle Haggard, Brenda Lee, Don Williams, Marty Robbins, Waylon Jennings, Charley Pride, Randy Travis, James Taylor and Reba McEntire. At the same fourth dimension, he placed nearly 30 songs on the charts himself, including "Never Catastrophe Song of Love," "Rocky," "Angels, Roses and Rain," and "9,999,999 Tears."

In 2010, a TNT network police drama, Memphis Beat, used Lee's song of the same title as its theme song, in a newly recorded version by Keb' Mo'.

Lee remains active as a writer, a leader of music seminars and a performer, touring with stone & coil revival shows, aslope such artists as Fabian, Bobby Vee and the Shirelles.

Of his feelings most beingness inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, Lee is characteristically minor: "I don't deserve it, but I'll take it."