After watching her show, performed with Jimmy Dean, Elvis invited them both over to his suite for dinner.
Dottie said: ‘He sent Priscilla home to bring the baby over…she came flying into the room, a precious little girl, she said “Daddy I’ve brought you a surprise”, she was fumbling trying to open this little purse and she gave him a great bubblegum “your favourite Daddy” she said.’
Country music singer and songwriter Dottie West enjoyed one of the longest hit-making careers of any woman of her generation.
At the seventh annual Grammy awards in 1964 she became the first female country singer to win Best Country & Western Vocal Performance for her recording of her self-penned song “Here Comes My Baby,”
West was also a modern country pioneer in writing advertising jingles (including Coca-Cola’s famous “Country Sunshine” campaign of the 1970s) and a wide-ranging duet singer who recorded with Jim Reeves, Don Gibson, Jimmy Dean, and Kenny Rogers.
Dottie West October 11, 1932 – September 4, 1991
