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She continued to play the Grand Ole Opry as well, frequently teaming in later years with Roy Acuff.
During her career, Colley recorded a half-dozen albums and about twice as many singles with such labels as Bullet, King, RCA, Everest, and Starday. When she did sing, she exaggerated the flaws in her voice. The decidedly down-home Minnie is the alter ego of Sarah Colley Cannon, a refined and educated native of Centerville, Tennessee.
Her trademark price tag became a part of the act quite by chance, when she literally forgot to cut the tag off some plastic flowers she had added to her straw hat. A breast cancer survivor and spokeswoman since 1985, her cancer later returned, claiming her life on March 4, 1996, at her Nashville Home.[1]
A museum erected outside of the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, Tennessee, tells the story of one of America's most beloved and remembered entertainers.
8005, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville and county clerk offices from various counties; FHL microfilm 2,074,637. The final inspiration for Minnie Pearl came from a mother of sixteen who lived in a cabin on Brenlee Mountain in Alabama. After a prolonged period of poor health, she spent much of her time in a Nashville nursing home, passing away on March 4, 1996.
Recommended Listening
Howdee: The Gal from Grinder’s Switch (Starday 1963)
America's Beloved Minnie Pearl (Starday 1965)
Grandpa Jones & Minnie Pearl - Grand Ole Opry Stars (RCA 1974)
Queen of the Grand Ole Opry (Legacy 1994)
You are now leaving Country Music Hall of Fame
Frequent Appearances on Television
Following a 1957 appearance on NBC-TV’s top-rated This Is Your Life, hosted by Ralph Edwards, Colley began making more appearances as her Minnie Pearl character on NBC-TV shows hosted by Tennessee Ernie Ford and Dinah Shore as well as The Tonight Show.
She taught dancing for a few years then throughout most of the 1930s she toured the South organising amateur musicals and dramatic productions for the Atlanta-based Sewell Company. She auditioned ‘Minnie’ for the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville later that year. A flair for comedy had taken root by that time, quite against her will.
Because of the War, the job for the theatrical production company ceased and she returned home to Centerville in 1940 unemployed. Throughout her entire career, the character known as ‘Minnie Pearl’ lived her private life, the epitome of middle-class southern womanhood, as Mrs. Henry Cannon, the wife of a successful Nashville businessman. I'm just so proud to be here" in her straw hat adorned with flowers and a $1.98 price tag.
It did not reflect her usual comedic style, and, although it became a #10 hit in 1966, she rarely mentioned it.
Colley performed her last public show in Joliet, Illinois, on June 15, 1991. The minute I look at a joke, it comes back to me."
Minnie Pearl was nominated to the Country Music Hall of Fame fourteen times before she was finally inducted in 1975.
She's great.
Sources
- ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #4498
- Minnie Pearl in Wikipedia
- Wikidata: Item Q437015
- "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MN5L-9MZ : accessed 25 November 2017), Ophelia Colley in household of Frances Colley, Centerville, Hickman, Tennessee, United States; citing ED 51, sheet 5B, line 55, family 93, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1745; FHL microfilm 1,821,745.
There, she reached a wider audience than ever in her various continuing roles as a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse, a house mother in a girl’s dormitory, editor of TheGrinder’s Switch Gazette, and the tough-to-get-along-with passenger in the “Driving Miss Minnie” segments. "They're all old.