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Making Love from Memory (1982)

Where the lyrics of Making Love from Memory take you, and where it was really made.

This album is the only one of Loretta Lynn's Decca/MCA-era records that never charted on Billboard's Top Country Albums, even though its title single reached No. 19 on the singles chart.

Key places

Recording location listed as Nashville (1982)

Recording site Nashville — The source lists Music City Music Hall in Nashville as the recording location. The point is placed at city-center level, not at the building. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Making Love from Memory is the 35th solo studio album by American country music singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn
• Released on September 6, 1982, by MCA Records
• Issued during Lynn's time at Decca/MCA
• Lynn's only album from that period to fail to chart on Billboard Top Country Albums
• The title track was also released as the first single

Background

• Lynn is an American country music singer-songwriter, and this record is one of her solo studio albums
• The album marks the 35th solo studio release in her catalog
• It was put out while Lynn was recording for Decca/MCA

Recording

• The source lists Music City Music Hall in Nashville, Tennessee as the recording location
• The mapped point sits at city-center level because the source gives no building-level address
• The personnel section is adapted from album liner notes, but the source text used here lists no individual names

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Early life

• Born Loretta Webb on April 14, 1932, in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, the oldest daughter in a coal miner's family.
• Married Oliver Vanetta "Doolittle" Lynn in 1948 at age 15; the marriage lasted almost 50 years until his death in 1996.
• Began singing in local clubs in the late 1950s and formed her own band, the Trailblazers.

Career

• Signed with Zero Records in 1960; her first release was "Whispering Sea" and "I'm a Honky Tonk Girl".
• Joined Decca Records through the Wilburn Brothers; joined the Grand Ole Opry on September 25, 1962.
• Scored a string of hits from the 1960s, including "You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man)" and "Don't Come Home A-Drinkin'".
• Wrote songs on women's issues such as birth control ("The Pill") and double standards ("Rated 'X'"), many inspired by her own marriage.
• Recorded five No. 1 duets with Conway Twitty between 1971 and 1975.
• Her 1976 autobiography Coal Miner's Daughter became a bestseller and inspired the 1980 Oscar-winning film starring Sissy Spacek.
• Named Artist of the Decade for the 1970s by the Academy of Country Music, the only woman to win this honor.
• Released Van Lear Rose (2004), produced by Jack White, which won the Grammy for Best Country Album.
• Had a stroke in 2017 and broke her hip in 2018, which ended her touring after 57 years.
• Died on October 4, 2022, at age 90, at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• The album did not chart on Billboard Top Country Albums
• The first single, Making Love from Memory, peaked at No. 19 on Billboard Hot Country Songs
• The second single, Breakin' It, peaked at No. 39 on the same singles chart
• The source includes no critic reviews, so this section records chart results only
• The album chart and the singles chart give different results: the album missed, while the lead single charted

Records

• Billboard Top Country Albums: did not chart
• Billboard Hot Country Songs: first single No. 19
• Billboard Hot Country Songs: second single No. 39
• This was Lynn's only album to miss that album chart during her Decca/MCA years
• Release catalogs are listed on Discogs and MusicBrainz

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• This was Lynn's only album to not chart on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart during her time at Decca/MCA.
• Making Love from Memory was Lynn's 35th solo studio album.
• The album was released by MCA Records on September 6, 1982.
• The source lists Music City Music Hall in Nashville as the recording location.
• Release catalogs are listed on Discogs and MusicBrainz.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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