Happy Birthday to Opry vocalist Carol Lee Cooper. The Carol Lee Singers provided vocal backup for almost all the Grand Ole Opry acts beginning in the 1960s. Often without sheet music to work from and no time for a rehearsal, she devised a special system of hand signals for conducting the singers. She is the only daughter of Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper. #CarolLee | GatorRock

On February 7, 1921, Wilma Lee Leary was born in Valley Head, West Virginia. Along with husband Stoney Cooper, she became a Grand Ole Opry member, and they scored four Top 10 hits from 1958-1961. Wilma Lee Cooper passed away September 13, 2011 at age 90. The Cooper's daughter, Carol Lee, went on to form a vocal group, backing up almost all the Grand Ole Opry acts from 1972 to 2012. | GatorRock

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Anita Kerr, one of the Nashville Sound’s most influential background vocalists and arrangers, died Monday, October 10, 2022, in Geneva, Switzerland. She was three days shy of her ninety-fifth birthday. During the 1950s and 1960s, she and her namesake group, the Anita Kerr Singers, provided the background vocals on thousands of country and country-pop recordings and helped broaden country music’s appeal in the face of the commercial threat posed by rock & roll. Born into an Italian-immigrant fami

Today is Sylvia Hutton's Birthday! Sylvia is an incredibly talented singer and a great friend of Ray's. Here she is talking with Ray before performing her hit song "Nobody" live on CabaRay Nashville. The song was originally released in 1982 and reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart as well as number 15 on the Billboard Hot 100. #HappyBirthday Sylvia! #raystevens #sylvia #sylviahutton #nobody #cabaray #cabaraynashville #nashville #liveperformance #number1hit #numberonehit #cla