SHIRLEY CADDELL COLLIE NELSONShirley Caddell Collie Nelson, who died on 27 January, 2010, aged 78, was a country singer best known for her marriage and singing partnership with Willie Nelson.They duetted on Nelson’s first US Country top ten hit, Willingly, in 1962 and wedded the following year after she ended a previous marriage to DJ Biff Collie, another well known country figure.Shirley had already had chart hits in her own right, with Dime a Dozen and Why Baby Why (sang with Warren Smith) entering the Country top thirty in 1961. She was also a cast member of the Ozark Jubilee.She was married to Willie Nelson until 1971 and their partnership was the focus of her 2009 memoir Scrapbooks in My Mind, which carried the quote “I swear it’s all true” from Nelson himself on the cover.
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