Featured Artist Country Music Legend Margie Singleton

Margie Singleton was born  in 1935 in Coushatta, Louisiana. As a young child, she was influenced by country, blues and gospel music. In 1949, at the age of 13, she married Shelby Singleton. They worked at a munitions plant near Shreveport, Louisiana during the Korean War. She began to play guitar and write songs as a teenager after the birth of her first child, Stephen Singleton, in 1950. She had her second son, Sidney Singleton, in 1955. In 1957, She signed with Starday Records, and released her first single that same year called "One step (Nearer To You)." The flip side of the single was called "Not What He's Got." Both of these songs were self-penned. In 1958, she made her radio and professional debut on the Louisiana Hayride. During her tenure on the Hayride, she met fellow artist Benny Barnes who recorded Singleton's song "Mine All Mine." 

Duets Country Style (with George Jones)1965Cryin' Time1967Sings Country Music With Soul1968Harper Valley PTA1969New Brand of Country (with Leon Ashley)Ode to Billie JoeYou Gave Me a Mountain