Background
Brown was born in Campti, Louisiana, but her family moved to a farm near Pine Bluff, Arkansas when she was a toddler.
Brown was born in Campti, Louisiana, but her family moved to a farm near Pine Bluff, Arkansas when she was a toddler.
Brown signed a recording contract in 1954 with Radio Corporation of America Records as half of a duo with younger brother Jim Editor Brown. They earned national recognition and a guest spot on Ernest Tubb"s radio show for their humorous song "Looking Back to See," which hit the top ten and stayed on the charts through the summer of 1954. Their younger sister Bonnie Brown joined them in 1955.
In 1959, The Browns scored their biggest hit when their folk-popular single "The Three Bells" reached Number.
1 on the Billboard Hot 100 popular and country charts. Brown had a brief solo career during the late 1960s, releasing a single and an album for Chart Records titled Sugar Cane County.
Her autobiography, Looking Back to See, was published in 2005 by The University of Arkansas Press. lieutenant delivered a revealing first-hand account of the American country music business in the 1950s and 1960s.
They became members of the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee in 1963, and disbanded in 1967.