Smith’s success continued through 1960s and mid-1970s with 19 more Top-10 hits. It produced three country charting hits including “Tiny Blue Transistor Radio” and “Then and Only Then” which peaked at No. In March of 1965, Smith’s first self-titled album was released on RCA Victor Records and spent 30 weeks in the Top Country Albums Chart overall with seven weeks at No. “Once a Day” became Smith's biggest hit and was nominated at the Grammy Awards for Best Female Country Vocal Performance. Other additions in the National Recording Registry this year included “The Rainbow Connection” by Kermit the Frog, “Celebration” by Kool & the Gang and “When the Saints Go Marching In” by Louis Armstrong & and his Orchestra.Ī 1962 recording of “Aida,” featuring Laurel native Leontyne Price in her signature role and with her voice in her prime was added. Although the woman explains that she has limited her grieving to “once a day,” it is later found out that she is grieving, “once a day, every day, all day long.” “Once a Day,” written by Bill Anderson, describes a woman who has not gotten over her previous lover. This blesses me, and I am extremely grateful.”ĭolly Parton once said, “There’s really only three female singers in the world: Streisand, Ronstadt and Connie Smith. But, for ‘Once a Day’ to be recognized by the Library of Congress and to have it listed in the nation’s National Recording Registry is indeed the ultimate honor. “In the wake of its success, that recording received many honors and the song has endured. “I never dreamed when I walked into RCA’s Studio B in Nashville on July 16, 1964, to make my first record that a song from that session called 'Once a Day' would become a hit,” Smith said. Smith has been called one of the most underrated vocalists in country music history. Smith’s collaboration with country music legend and Neshoba County native Marty Stuart in the 1990s turned romantic, they married and the last few years the Congress of Country Music downtown in the former Ellis has become a project.

That hit song was one of 25 additions to the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress last month, a prestigious listing that deems treasures worthy of preservation for all time. 1 on the Billboard country singles chart in November 1964 and remained at the top for a record eight weeks, a first then for a female. I had to go and do a lot of touring, so I didn’t see them.Connie Smith’s debut single “Once a Day” reached No. “I was in debt to the IRS in the late 70s. “With Sean and Kimberly, I was on tour a lot,” he explained on Ireland’s The Late Late Show. He once got candid about raising his children, revealing he regrets not spending more time with his older kids. He was like, ‘Dad, I’ve got the internet. “I just told him what he should and shouldn’t do, but he’s on top of it.

“My 15-year-old is dating girls, so I had to give him a sex lesson,” he told the publication. Rod explained to People in November 2021 about trying to give Alastair the sex talk (keyword: trying). Over the years, the entertainer has been pretty open about his role as a father.

Rod and his love expanded his family for the final time when they welcomed son Aiden in 2011. The lovebirds added to the rocker’s brood when the model gave birth to son Alastair in 2005, and they later wed in 2007. Family Photos! Celebrity Kids Out and About With Their Famous Parentsīefore finalizing his divorce to Rachel in 2006, Rod began dating model Penny Lancaster.

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