1. Cindy Walker was an American songwriter, as well as a country music singer and dancer.
25 Facts About Cindy Walker
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Cindy Walker wrote many popular and enduring songs recorded by many artists.
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Cindy Walker adopted a craftsman-like approach to her songwriting, often tailoring particular songs to specific artists.
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Cindy Walker had Top 10 hits spread over five decades.
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Cindy Walker was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1997, and the Texas Heritage Songwriters Hall of Fame in March 2011.
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Cindy Walker was born on July 20,1917, on her grandparents' farm near Mart, Texas, the daughter of a cotton-broker.
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From childhood Cindy Walker was fond of poetry and wrote habitually.
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Cindy Walker later recalled: "I had decided that if I ever got to Hollywood, I was going to try to show Bing Crosby a song I had written for him called 'Lone Star Trail'".
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Cindy Walker's father said "You're crazy, girl", but nonetheless stopped the car.
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Cindy Walker went inside the building to pitch her song and emerged shortly afterward to ask her mother to play the piano for her.
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Cindy Walker successfully pitched her songs to Bob Wills and began to regularly contribute compositions for recordings and the movies that Wills made in the 1940s.
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Cindy Walker then wrote the song based on Arnold's idea, with both receiving songwriting credit for their contributions.
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Cindy Walker wrote the song "Dream Baby ", which was recorded by Roy Orbison.
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Cindy Walker's song "In the Misty Moonlight" was a hit for both Jerry Wallace and Dean Martin as well as being recorded by Jim Reeves.
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In 1970 Cindy Walker became a charter member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.
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In September 1997 Cindy Walker was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
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Cindy Walker's speech was followed by a standing ovation and Walker left the stage in tears after softly blowing a kiss.
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In 1998, Cindy Walker was inducted into the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame.
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The women were selected for their contribution to the genre by a survey of hundreds of American artists and music historians and Cindy Walker was ranked No 32.
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Cindy Walker's custom was rising at dawn each day to write songs.
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Cindy Walker typed her lyrics on a pink-trimmed manual typewriter and Oree helped work out melodies for her daughter's words.
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Cindy Walker died near her home, at the Parkview Regional Hospital in Mexia, Texas, on March 23,2006, at age 88.
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Cindy Walker died nine days after Willie Nelson's tribute album to her was released.
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Cindy Walker had been ill for several weeks prior to her death.
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Cindy Walker's family had a custom-designed sculpture created for her gravestone to honor the songwriter and her work.