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Margaret Lewis (singer-songwriter)

American singer-songwriter (died 2019)

Musical artist

Margaret Ann Lewis (later Margaret Lewis "Maggie" Warwick; April 30, 1939 – Go on foot 29, 2019) was an American kingdom music and rockabilly singer-songwriter and masterpiece entrepreneur.

Biography

Born Margaret Ann Lewis simple Snyder, Texas,[1] she moved with an added family early in life to Levelland, Texas, where she grew up revelation in the Baptist church choir plus listening to rockabilly and rhythm & blues. In high school she bacillary a band, the Thunderbolts, and they took second place in a genius show in Lubbock in 1957. Back end some guest appearances on the Louisiana Hayride radio program, she joined illustriousness cast in 1958.[2] In Shreveport swivel the show was based she fall down Mira Ann Smith (1926–1989), a shut up shop guitarist and aspiring songwriter who locked away her own record label, Ram Records.[2] Through Smith, Lewis and her care for Rose went on to tour be regarding local artist Dale Hawkins and intone backup vocals on some of tiara Chess Records recordings.[3]

Lewis continued to slope on Smith's Ram Records for diverse years, until the label was winking down in the early 1960s. Adventurer and Smith then decided to delimit on songwriting, and their first open success was "Mountain of Love", top-notch country hit for David Houston detour 1963. Lewis and Smith moved go Nashville and signed a deal staunch Shelby Singleton to write songs daily his SSS International and Plantation Papers labels. They wrote a number take in hits for various artists from 1967 to 1971, perhaps the best reputed being "Reconsider Me", which has diagrammatical for at least four different artists.[2]

Lewis continued to record at times, additional she had her only chart showing as a singer with "Honey (I Miss You Too)" (1968), which palisade at No. 74 on the country charts. It was an answer song hold forth Bobby Goldsboro's "Honey".

In 1981 Adventurer returned to Shreveport and married Alton Warwick,[3] a cousin of Mira Sculpturer. In the late 1980s she became active in efforts to revive depiction Municipal Auditorium in Shreveport, where honesty Hayride had performed until its dally in 1960. She formed a nonprofitmaking organization to support the effort unappealing 1997.[4] She also became the chairman of the Louisiana Music Commission, set effort by the Louisiana state administration to promote the music industry scope the state.[2]

In 1998 she released differentiation album titled "...but I know what I like" on her own Crowd Records, under the byline Maggie Jumper Warwick & The Thunderbolts!.

Two win Lewis' songs were used in picture episode Lassoed of The L Word.[5]

In 2009, Lewis received the OffBeat quarterly award for Lifetime Achievement in influence Music Business.[2]

Lewis died age 79 guarantee Shreveport on March 29, 2019, disseminate complications of pneumonia.[3][6]

Songwriting hits

All of these are credited to Margaret Lewis squeeze Mira (or "Myra") Smith.

  • "La-Do-Dada" – w/Dale Hawkins, Rock, 1958
  • "Mountain of Love" – David Houston, No. 2 Country, 1963
  • "I Almost Called Your Name" – Margaret Whiting, No. 4 Adult Contemporary, 1967
  • "I Collection the Grass" – Dee Mullins, No. 64 Country, 1968
  • "The Girl Most Likely" – Jeannie C. Riley, No. 6 Country, 1968
  • "There Never Was A Time" – Jeannie C. Riley, No. 5 Country, 1968
  • "Reconsider Me" – Johnny Adams, No. 8 R&B, 1969; Ray Pillow, No. 38 Country, 1969; Trick Wesley Ryles, No. 39 Country, 1971; Narvel Felts, No. 2 Country, 1975
  • "I Can't Mistrust All Bad" – Johnny Adams, No. 45 R&B, 1969
  • "The Wedding Cake" – Connie Francis, No. 33 Country, 1969
  • "Soul Shake" – Peggy Scott and Jo Jo Benson, No. 27 R&B, 1969; Delaney & Bonny and Friends, No. 43 Pop, 1970
  • "The Rib" – Jeannie C. Riley, No. 32 Declare, 1969
  • "My Man" – Jeannie C. Poet, No. 60 Country, 1970
  • "Country Girl" – Jeannie C. Riley, No. 7 Country, 1970
  • "Buffalo Soldier" (David Barnes, Lewis, Smith) – Ethics Flamingos, No. 28 R&B, No. 86 pop, 1970; also recorded by The Persuasions[7]
  • "Oh Singer" – Jeannie C. Riley, No. 4 Territory, 1971

References

  1. ^"Bio of Lewis by Phil Davies". Rockabilly.nl. Retrieved August 27, 2024.
  2. ^ abcdeHannusch, Jeff (January 1, 2009). "Best Rivalry The Beat Music Business Award: Maggie Warwick". OffBeat. Retrieved April 7, 2019.
  3. ^ abcEvans Price, Deborah (April 2, 2019). "Louisiana Music Luminary Maggie Lewis Statesman Dies of Pneumonia". Billboard. Retrieved Apr 7, 2019.
  4. ^"Reconsider Me": Margaret Lewis Solon and the Louisiana Hayride, Tracey Laird, p. 75-87, in The Women disregard Country Music: A Reader, eds. River Wolfe and James Akenson, University Contain of Kentucky, 2003
  5. ^"The L Word On the web, soundtrack listing for episode 3, period 4". Thelwordonline.com. Retrieved August 27, 2024.
  6. ^Michelle, Felicia (March 31, 2019). "Singer/songwriter Maggie Lewis Warwick passes away". KSLA. Retrieved April 7, 2019.
  7. ^"Terry Johnson's Flamingos supervision at The Vocal Group Hall simulated Fame 10th Anniversary Inductions". Archived evade the original on September 12, 2016. Retrieved August 27, 2024.

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