Chanteuse Country Canadienne née Myrna Lorraine Petrunka, le 6 Août 1940 à Cloud Bay (Ontario).

Myrna Lorrie is something of a fixture in Canadian country music, but she never made serious inroads in the American market. Nevertheless, she racked up several Canadian number ones in the '60s -- "I Can't Live with Him," "Tell Me Not to Go," "Turn Down the Music" -- and regularly performed in person and on radio and television, building up a reputation that led to her induction into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 1989.
There was a time when she attempted to break into the U.S. market, though. It was early in her career, just after her homeland fame was beginning to build. Born in Cloud Bay, Ontario on August 6, 1940, she sang regularly as a child, eventually winding up on local radio programs when she was in her early teens. She came to the attention of Don Grashey, a songwriter who asked her to be Buddy DeVal's duet partner on "Are You Mine." The single was released on Abbott Records in late 1954 and wound up charting in January 1955, climbing all the way to number six on the Billboard country charts (Grashey had simultaneously released another version of "Are You Mine" recorded by Ginny Wright and Tom Tall on his own label; it peaked at number two).
"Are You Mine" pushed Lorrie into the spotlight and she appeared with Hank Snow at the Grand Ole Opry, then cut several more singles for Abbott before moving to RCA in 1957. None of these singles wound up turning into a big hits, and then in 1960 she married and started a family. By the mid-'60s she had returned to her native Canada and was hosting her own television program, The Myrna Lorrie Show, while recording singles for the Canadian market on the Gaity and Musicor imprints; this is where her aforementioned streak of number ones began.
Once the singles dried up -- her last charting single was 1971's "Bringing Mary Home," which scraped the Top 40 at 37 -- she devoted herself to hosting television programs. She was on Countrytime between 1970 and 1974 and Nashville Swing between 1977 and 1981. She played live regularly throughout the '80s, sometimes letting a young singer, Eileen Twain, sing on-stage with her (Twain came to stardom as Shania), and then in 1989 Lorrie had her last hit with "Blue Blue Me." That year she also was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame. She continued to perform and occasionally record throughout the '90s but she slowly wound down her career after that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrna_Lorrie

http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/story/index.php?id=13488

Talents : Vocals, Guitar, Songwriter

Style musical : Country Boogie, Honky Tonk, Rockabilly

https://youtu.be/g0zj9vX0GAg

Are You Mine (1954) (& Buddy Deval)

Life's Changing Scene (1955)

That's What Sweethearts Do (1957)

Hello Baby (1958)

BASHFUL BILLY (1968)

Years in activity :

1910 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 2000 10 20

78 t., Singles & EP

11/1954 78 t. ABBOTT 172 (US) . Are You Mine (Myrna LORRIE & Buddy DEVAL) / You Bet I Kissed Him (Myrna LORRIE)
11/1954 SP ABBOTT 172-45 (US) . Are You Mine (Myrna LORRIE & Buddy DEVAL) / You Bet I Kissed Him (Myrna LORRIE)
12/1954 78 t. QUALITY 1318 (CAN) . Are You Mine (Myrna LORRIE & Buddy DEVAL) / You Bet I Kissed Him (Myrna LORRIE)
12/1954 SP QUALITY K1318 (CAN) . Are You Mine (Myrna LORRIE & Buddy DEVAL) / You Bet I Kissed Him (Myrna LORRIE)
03/1955 78 t. ABBOTT 177 (US) . I'm Your Man (Myrna LORRIE & Buddy DEVAL) / Underway (Myrna LORRIE)
03/1955 SP ABBOTT 177-45 (US) . I'm Your Man (Myrna LORRIE & Buddy DEVAL) / Underway (Myrna LORRIE)
03/1955 78 t. QUALITY 1362 (CAN) . I'm Your Man (Myrna LORRIE & Buddy DEVAL) / Underway (Myrna LORRIE)
03/1955 SP QUALITY K1362 (CAN) . I'm Your Man (Myrna LORRIE & Buddy DEVAL) / Underway (Myrna LORRIE)
10/1955 78 t. ABBOTT 185 (US)  . Life's Changing Scene / Listen To My Heartstrings
10/1955 SP ABBOTT 185-45 (US) .

Life's Changing Scene / Listen To My Heartstrings

10/1955 78 t. QUALITY 1432 (CAN) . Life's Changing Scene / Listen To My Heartstrings
10/1955 SP QUALITY K1432 (CAN) . Life's Changing Scene / Listen To My Heartstrings
07/1956 78 t. ABBOTT 187 (US)  .

Tears Amid The Laughter (Of The Crowd) / Moon Shy

07/1956 SP ABBOTT 187-45 (US) .

Tears Amid The Laughter (Of The Crowd) / Moon Shy

07/1956 78 t. QUALITY 1520 (CAN) . Tears Amid The Laughter (Of The Crowd) / Moon Shy
07/1956 SP QUALITY K1520 (CAN) . Tears Amid The Laughter (Of The Crowd) / Moon Shy
02/1957 78 t. RCA VICTOR 20-6807 (CAN) . Die, I Thought I Would / That's What Sweethearts Do
02/1957 SP RCA VICTOR 47-6807 (CAN) .

Die, I Thought I Would / That's What Sweethearts Do

1957 EP RCA VICTOR DJ-65 (CAN) (promo) .

Myrna Lorrie : Die, I Thought I Would / That's What Sweethearts Do / The Rhythm Rockers featuring Chet Atkins : Tricky / Peanut Vendor

05/1957 78 t. RCA VICTOR 20-6909 (CAN) . Teenager‘s Breakup / Just Released
05/1957 SP RCA VICTOR 47-6909 (CAN) .

Teenager‘s Breakup / Just Released

12/1957 78 t. RCA VICTOR 20-7115 (CAN) . On A Little Bamboo Bridge / I'll Be Lonesome When You're Gone
12/1957 SP RCA VICTOR 47-7115 (CAN) .

On A Little Bamboo Bridge / I'll Be Lonesome When You're Gone

07/1958 78 t. RCA VICTOR 20-7290 (CAN) . Tradewinds / Hello Baby
07/1958 SP RCA VICTOR 47-7290 (CAN) .

Tradewinds / Hello Baby

1964 SP QUALITY 1664X (CAN) .

Do You Wish You Were Free / Well All Right

1965 SP SPARTON 1342R (CAN) .

That's What Hurt Me So / I Can't Live With Him

06/1966 SP GAIETY G 115 (US) Just Count The Tears I'm Gone / Your Special Day
10/1966 SP MUSICOR MU 1207 (US) .

Just Count The Tears I'm Gone / Your Special Day

05/1967 SP MUSICOR MU 1232 (US) .

No Love Like Mine / The Longest Day

05/1967 SP COLUMBIA MU-4-1232 (CAN) . No Love Like Mine / The Longest Day
08/1967 SP MUSICOR MU 1265 (US) .

Tell Me Not To Go / You’re Free To Return To Your Past

08/1967 SP COLUMBIA MU-4-1265 (CAN) . Tell Me Not To Go / You’re Free To Return To Your Past
12/1967 SP MUSICOR MU 1282 (US) .

Turn Down The Music / Go Home, Cheater

12/1967 SP COLUMBIA MU-4-1282 (CAN) .

Turn Down The Music / Go Home, Cheater

1968 SP MUSICOR MU 1293 (US) .

Changing Of The Seasons / Bashful Billy

1968 SP COLUMBIA MU-4-1293 (CAN) .

Changing Of The Seasons / Bashful Billy

03/1971 SP MCA MCA 2012 (CAN) .

Bringing Mary Home / Tell Me Not To Go

1975 SP TEMBO STM 1002 (CAN) .

Don‘t Take Away Your Love (Her Daughter Singing Back Up) / Wreck Of The Old 97

1977 SP RCA VICTOR PB-50348 (CAN) .

It's Too Late (Love Me Now) / River Song

1977 SP RCA VICTOR PB-50393 (CAN) .

Whose Arms Are You In Tonight / See You In The Morning

1989 SP SIBLEY SBR7-001 (CAN) .

Blue Blue Me /  I'm Waiting Up For You

1989 SP SIBLEY SIB7-89002 (CAN) .

Sometime / Lay Down With Trouble

1992 SP LJR LJR 2031 (US) .

If Teardrops Were Pennies / Sing Me A Love Song



 










Albums

1970 LP 12" CBC LM-87 / MCA 7009 (CAN)

...It's Countrytime WITH MYRNA LORRIE, Vic Mullen & The Hickorys - Before I Met You (Hickorys Trio) / Standing On The Corner (Stan Taylor) / Bamboo Bridge (Myrna LORRIE) / Hickory (instr.) (The Hickorys) / Six Days On The Road (Ron NAUGLE) / No One Will Ever Know (Myrna LORRIE) / Tell Me Not To Go (Myrna LORRIE) / Country Music Annie (Ken Meisner, Ron Naugle) / Missing You (Ron NAUGLE) / Heart Over Mind (Stan Taylor, The Hickorys) / Bringin' Mary Home (Myrna LORRIE) / Sparkling Sherry (instr.) (Vic MULLEN)

1971 LP 12" Harmony KHE-90055 (CAN)

Myrna Lorrie - Turn Down The Music / Changing Of The Seasons / Bashful Billy / No Love Like Mine / Go Home Cheater / Your Special Day (Happy Birthday Mom) / Tell Me Not To Go / You're Free To Return  To Your Past / Just Count The Tears I'm Gone / The Longest Day (This Year)

1998 CD EMI 7243 4 95097 2 6 (CAN)

Child To Woman - Are You Mine / I'm Your Man / Underway / You Bet I Kissed Him / Life's Changing Scene / Tears Amid The Laughter / Moonshy / Listen To My Heartstrings / Changing Of The Seasons / Your Special Day / Turn Down The Music / Tell Me Not To Go / No Love Like Mine / The Longest Day This Year / Just Count The Tears I'm Gone / You're Free To Return To Your Past / Bashful Billy / Go Home Cheater

04/2009 CD Unidisc UBK-4170 (CAN)

Child To Woman - Changing Of The Seasons / Your Special Day / Turn Down The Music / Tell Me Not To Go / No Love Like Mine / The Longest Day This Year / Just Count The Tears I'm Gone / You're Free To Return To Your Past / Bashful Billy / Go Home Cheater

07/2012 CD Bear Family BCD 16743 (GER)

Hello Baby - Jukebox Pearls - Hello Baby / You Bet I Kissed Him (re-recording) / That's What Sweethearts Do / Teenager's Breakup / Topsy Turvy Heart / Die, I Thought I Would (double vocal) / I'm Your Man (with Buddy DeVal) / I'll Be Lonesome When You're Gone / Underway / Moon Shy / Just Released / I've Got Somebody New / Tradewinds / Are You Mine (with Buddy DeVal) (re-recording) / Life's Changing Scene / On A Little Bamboo Bridge / Tears Amid The Laughter / Listen To My Heart Strings / Die, I Thought I Would (single vocal) / Are You Mine (with Buddy DeVal) / You Bet I Kissed Him / Life's Changing Scene (slow version) 

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