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Jeannie Seely
12+ albums
country80ssinger-songwriters70sfemale vocalists
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Jeannie Seely (born Marilyn Jeanne Seeley on 6 July 1940; died 1 August 2025) was an American singer, songwriter, producer, actor and author primarily identified with country music remembered for her success with the Grammy Award-winning song "Don't Touch Me" in 1966. Seely’s mother has said that she was just four when she learned to tune her family’s radio to 650 WSM and keep it there. Seely herself remembered sitting in the family’s Ford listening to the Opry on Saturday nights while her parents played cards at friends’ houses. By age 11, she was performing on a weekly radio show in nearby Meadville and a few years later turned up on TV in Erie, Pennsylvania. Years of playing auditoriums, small clubs, and country music parks followed. Moving to California, she worked as a secretary with Liberty and Imperial Records in Hollywood before moving to Nashville in 1965 at the urging of Opry member Dottie West. A recording contract with Monument Records gave Seely her first hit in 1966 with the bluesy Hank Cochran tune “Don’t Touch Me,” which went to the top of the charts and earned her a Grammy Award. One year later, the singer who became famous as “Miss Country Soul” fulfilled her childhood dream by becoming a member of the Opry cast. Other hits followed—“I’ll Love You More (Than You Need),” “Can I Sleep in Your Arms,” and “Lucky Ladies.” Jeannie briefly worked as duet partner of Porter Wagoner and had a successful touring and recording partnership with fellow Opry membe
