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She was born Rita Francis Cote to Alphonse and Albina Cote in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, the sixth of 11 children.
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Betty Cody
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When still a child she moved to Auburn, Maine. In 1979, Cody was inducted into the Maine Country Music Hall Of Fame. Her main singles were "Tom Tom Yodel" (hit from 1952) and "Please Throw Away The Glass".
In 1940, Betty Cody married Harold Breau, a musician who performed as Hal Lone Pine.
The couple started performing together and she adopted the stage name of Betty Cody. Cody signed a contract with Radio Corporation of America Records in the early 1950s.
In 1952 she had her hit in the United States. country charts with "Tom Tom Yodel". Her 1953 hit single "I Foundation Out More Than You Ever Knew" reached Number.
10 on the Billboard country chart.
Slim Andrews, the chair on the board of directors of the Maine Country Music Hall of Fame called her "the number one country singer to ever go out of the state of Maine."
Betty Cody died at age 92 in Lewiston, Maine, survived by three sons, four stepchildren, five siblings and a large extended family.
