1. John Wayne Conlee was born on August 11,1946 and is an American country music singer.
10 Facts About John Conlee
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Between 1978 and 2004, Conlee charted a total of 32 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, and recorded 11 studio albums.
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John Conlee has been a member of the Grand Ole Opry since 1981.
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John Conlee was born on a tobacco farm in Versailles, Kentucky.
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John Conlee did not immediately take up a musical career, instead becoming a licensed mortician, employed by Duell-Clark Funeral Chapel, and later a disc jockey at radio stations WQXE in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, and at WLAC in Nashville.
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In pursuit of a music career, John Conlee moved to Nashville, Tennessee, by 1971.
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The 1981 album, With Love, accounted for yet another hit with "Miss Emily's Picture", which John Conlee performed live on Hee Haw on January 3,1981.
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In 2005, John Conlee donated his concert performance of "Rose Colored Glasses" at the Wildhorse Saloon in Nashville, to benefit the Lymphatic Research Foundation in New York.
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John Conlee sang his signature song and auctioned off a pair of "rose-colored glasses" with the proceeds going to LRF.
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John Conlee has appeared on Larry's Country Diner and Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting via RFD-TV and Country Road TV.