Ep. 63 - DICKEY LEE ("She Thinks I Still Care")
b'Dickey Lee\\u2019s early artist career found him scoring pop and R&B hits in the 1960s with songs such as \\u201cPatches\\u201d and the self-penned single \\u201cI Saw Linda Yesterday.\\u201d He went on to record seventeen Top 40 country singles, including the major hits \\u201c9,999,999 Tears\\u201d and \\u201cRocky,\\u201d which hit #1 in 1975. Lee is best known, however, for writing \\u201cShe Thinks I Still Care,\\u201d which George Jones took to the #1 spot on the Billboard country chart in 1962. The song has since been covered by artists as diverse as Elvis Presley, Little Willie John, Connie Francis, Merle Haggard, James Taylor, Harry Connick, Jr., Cher, Anne Murray, and Garth Brooks. Dickey has written an additional half dozen #1 country hits, including \\u201cI\\u2019ll Be Leaving Alone\\u201d for Charley Pride, \\u201cYou\\u2019re The First Time I\\u2019ve Thought About Leaving\\u201d for Reba McEntire, \\u201cLet\\u2019s Fall to Pieces Together\\u201d for George Strait, and \\u201cIn a Different Light\\u201d for Doug Stone. His long list of additional hits includes Emmylou Harris\\u2019 \\u201cSomeone Like You\\u201d and Tracy Byrd\\u2019s \\u201cKeeper of the Stars,\\u201d which won the Academy of Country Music\\u2019s Song of the Year award. Other artists who\\u2019ve recorded his songs include Ernest Tubb, Eddy Arnold, Marty Robbins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Conway Twitty, Don Williams, Glen Campbell, John Fogerty, Waylon Jennings, Joe Cocker, Vince Gill, Patty Loveless, Jamey Johnson, and Keb\\u2019 Mo\\u2019. Ten of Dickey\\u2019s songs have earned BMI Performance Awards, and he was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1995.'