15 Facts About Bonnie Guitar

Bonnie Buckingham, better known as Bonnie Guitar, was an American singer, musician, producer, and businesswoman.

Bonnie Guitar was best known for her 1957 country-pop crossover hit "Dark Moon".

Bonnie Guitar became one of the first female country music singers to have hit songs cross over from the country charts to the pop charts.

Bonnie Guitar co-founded the record company Dolton Records in the late 1950s, that launched the careers of The Fleetwoods and The Ventures.

Bonnie Guitar began performing at age 16, having taken up playing the guitar as a teenager, which led to her stage name, Bonnie Guitar.

Unfortunately, like Patsy Cline, Bonnie Guitar was unable to replicate her crossover appeal.

Bonnie Guitar however decided she would form her very own record label called Dolphin Records which she co-founded with refrigerator salesman Bob Reisdorff.

However, Bonnie Guitar thought it was time she would get her own music career back on foot.

Bonnie Guitar soon left Dolton, and went back to Dot Records where she recorded a series of country albums throughout the 1960s.

Bonnie Guitar teamed up with Buddy Killen, and together they had a minor hit duet with "A Truer Love You'll Never Find " which was issued in 1969 at a time when Bonnie Guitar's chart success was starting to fade.

Bonnie Guitar charted for the first time in many years in 1980 with the single "Honey On the Moon".

Bonnie Guitar later continued performing and playing until she announced she was retiring in 1996.

Bonnie Guitar lived in Soap Lake, Washington, and in 2014 started producing and writing music and still performed on weekends at the age of 92 with her band.

Bonnie Guitar raised cattle and quarter horses in Orting, Washington, with her second husband, Mario DePiano, whom she married in 1969.

Bonnie Guitar died in Soap Lake, Washington on January 12,2019, at the age of 95.