Biography
25 December 1948, Houston, Texas, USA. Raised in Oceanside, near Los Angeles, California, Mandrell comes from a musical family: her father, Irby, sang and played guitar and her mother, Mary, played piano and taught music. At the age of 12, Mandrell demonstrated the steel guitar at a national convention and then worked in Las Vegas with Joe Maphis and Tex Ritter. By her teens, she also played saxophone, guitar, banjo and bass. Her parents formed the Mandrells with herself and two boys, one of whom, drummer Ken Dudney, became her husband in 1967. Their extensive touring schedule included forces bases in Vietnam. Mandrell first recorded in 1966 for the small Mosrite label, and her sobbing "Queen For A Day", with Glen Campbell on guitar, was reissued with a revised accompaniment in 1984. Mandrell signed with Columbia Records in 1969, and, for a time, she concentrated on country versions of soul hits - "I've Been Loving You Too Long", "Treat Him Right", "Show Me" and...
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