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AboutBest known for her work in conjunction with mentor Buck Owens,
singer Susan Raye was born October 8, 1944, in Eugene, OR. She
first began singing with a high-school rock group, but after the band
called it quits, she auditioned for a local country station. Not only did
she begin performing on the radio, she also landed work as a disc
jockey, eventually becoming the host of a Portland TV program
called Hoedown.

It was at one of Raye's performances at an area nightclub where
she met Jack McFadden, Owens' manager. McFadden was so
impressed with her vocal talents that he persuaded Owens to fly
her to his home in Bakersfield, CA, for an audition. Owens
immediately offered Raye a slot on an upcoming tour, and in
1969, she cut her first record, "Maybe If I Close My Eyes (It'll
Go Away)." Her next record, a cover of Jackie DeShannon's pop
smash "Put a Little Love in Your Heart," was also her first Top 30
hit. At about the same time, she began a nine-year stint as a
featured performer on the program Hee Haw.

Raye issued her first solo LP, One Night Stand, in 1970; the single
"Willy Jones" became her first Top Ten hit, lending its name to the
title of her follow-up album the next year. Also in 1970, she
released two duet records with Owens, We're Gonna Get Together
and The Great White Horse. Her biggest year as a solo artist came
in 1971, when she issued three consecutive Top Ten hits — "L.A.
International Airport," "Pitty, Pitty, Patter," and "(I've Got A)
Happy Heart." The title track of 1972's My Heart Has a Mind of
Its Own also reached the Top Ten.

After hitting number nine in 1974 with "Whatcha Gonna Do With a
Dog Like That" and scoring a success with Owens on a cover of the
Mickey & Sylvia classic "Love Is Strange," Raye's hitmaking days
were largely over; after issuing the 1976 LP Honey, Toast and
Sunshine, she left Owens' tutelage to release a self-titled album
in 1977. A year later, she retired in order to raise her six kids and
returned to college to pursue a degree in psychology. In 1985, she
came out of exile to release the album Susan Raye: There and
Back, which generated the minor hit single "I Just Can't Take the
Leaving Anymore."

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