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Jeannie Seely
1940 - 2025
Jeannie Seely
1940 - 2025
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BORN
1940
DIED
2025
Jeannie Seely Obituary
She won a Grammy Award for her 1966 country music hit, "Don't Touch Me," and she sang popular duets with Jack Greene, including "Wish I Didn't Have to Miss You."
Seely is being remembered as a member of the Grand Ole Opry for more than 50 years – she was also the first woman ever to host a segment on the Opry.
By Legacy News Staff
(Image: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
4 Entries
Amy Clifton
Earlier today
I am heartbroken to hear of you passing. I love your music and I know you will reunite with your Opry family in the sky where you all will continue singing. Love you Jeannie!
Donald Ewert
Yesterday
I Loved Jeannie. Some of my favorite songs of hers are "Anyone Who Knows What Love Is" "Lucky Ladies" "Can I Sleep In Your Arms" "Farm In Pensyltucky" and her duets with Jack Greene. Jeannie & Jack had one of the Best shows on the road at one time. R.I.P. Jeannie. Donald Ewert Milwaukee
Stacy Harris
Yesterday
Jeannie Seely broke barriers for women in country music and was always supportive of us. During her only appearance on a local Nashville TV call-in show, a few years back (championing the Grand Ole Opry Trust Fund), I called in to express how kind and patient she had been with me the first time I interviewed her (over a half-century before).
I knew next to nothing about country music at the time and likely asked her a lot of stock questions. (The was well before the advent of the Internet and the Country Music Foundation Library had nowhere near the resources it has today).
Jeannie responded by complimenting me and noting that she had kept up with my career advances and accomplishments, as I had hers. Jeannie wanted to make sure the program emcee and the audience knew that she was not alone in making contributions to, and fighting the misogyny of, Music Row.
I will miss, but always be grateful for, time spent with Jeannie backstage at the Grand Ole Opry. There wasn't a time she didn't teach me by example.
Howard and Darlene Linton
Yesterday
We are fans from Saint John NB Canada and we met Jeannie a few times as we were visiting Nashville. She was a wonderful lady and so friendly to us. We enjoyed her pictures each day of the Cumberland River and we would listen to Sunday's with Seely. We are going to miss this remarkable lady. Until we meet again. Howard and Darlene Linton.
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