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BIG DREAMS AND BROKEN HEARTS: THE DOTTIE WEST STORY is a 1995 TV movie biopic of country music queen Dottie West, a beloved star in the industry who was a major country star for nearly thirty years, racking up 16 Grammy nominations including the first win for a country female vocalist in 1964.

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Dottie West led a life that was straight from rags to riches, and back to rags again. Not to forget, she looks fabulous, sexy & totally different from her character in Knots Landing. Michele brought her to me !

Her voice lacks the flavor of Dottie's often brilliant vocals but she's quite good. In 1995 a television movie, Big Dreams and Broken Hearts: The Dottie West Story, starring Michelle Lee as Dottie, premiered on CBS-TV. She had 3 troubled marriages, 4 kids, world-wide fame, fortune, and terrible luck. For a time she lived in a parking lot on her tour bus, but even that had to be sold.

A Grand Ole Opry member since 1964, she got her 81-year-old neighbour to drive her to a Friday night Opry appearance September 1, 1991.

There, she and her husband fell in with a group of aspiring songwriters like Willie Nelson, Roger Miller, Hank Cochran and Harlan Howard. In 1959, she and Bill auditioned for Starday’s Don Pierce, and were immediately offered a contract. I would think after all the years of working together and building a friendship, there would have been more of a "connection" there.

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She was raped by her father, who later went to prison for it. One thing I didn't like was the bad handling of the "Oui affair", when Dottie posed for the men's nudie magazine. Dottie began appearing on local radio just shy of her 13th birthday, and went on to study music at Tennessee Tech, where she also sang in a band and met her future husband, Bill West, a budding steel guitarist who was studying engineering.

After graduation, the Wests and their two children moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where Dottie began appearing on the television programme Landmark Jamboree as one half of a country-pop vocal duo called the Kay-Dots alongside partner Kathy Dee.

At the same time, Dottie made numerous trips to Nashville in the hope of landing a recording deal. She moved across to the small independent Permian Records, but failed to score any more major chart hits after a top 20 duet of Together Again with Kenny Rogers in 1984. I like the fact that she is wise enough to sing West's hits "naturally", not with an affected southern accent.

One of the most successful, and controversial, performers to rise to popularity during the Nashville Sound era, like her friend and mentor Patsy Cline, West’s battles for identity and respect within the male-dominated country music hierarchy were instrumental in enabling other female artists to gain control over the directions of their careers. The oldest of ten children, she was born Dorothy Marie Marsh on October 11, 1932 just outside of McMinnville, Tennessee.

The songwriting initially proved more profitable, when Jim Reeves took her song Is This Me? into the charts in 1963.