Whispering Sea

Album: Here's Loretta Lynn (1960)
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Songfacts®:

  • In 1960 Loretta Lynn signed her first record contract with Zero Records, which released her debut single, "I'm a Honky Tonk Girl." This song was its B-side.
  • This was the first song Loretta Lynn ever wrote. She recalled to Mojo: "My husband was fishing and I was sitting way up in the top of a tree with my line in the water and I started singing (sings) 'Whispering Sea rolling by!'"

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