Career
1 1953 hit, "I Let the Stars Get In My Eyes". Along with Kitty Wells, she helped set the standard for later women in country music Hill was born in Karnes City, Texas in 1933, a small town southeast of San Antonio.
She was the sister of singer Tommy Hill.
She performed on Louisiana Hayride. She had a contract with Decca Records.
Her first single, "Why To Talk to My Heart", was released in 1952. Hill recorded the song "I Let the Stars Get In My Eyes" the same year.
In 1954, she followed up with two hit duets with singer Justin Tubb, son of Ernest Tubb.
In the early 1960s, she recorded two albums for Decca Records. She made a short-lived comeback in the late 1960s on the label Epic Records under the name Goldie Hill Smith. On February 24, 2005, Hill died from complications of cancer.
She was 72 years old.