Dottie West – born Dorothy Marsh on October 11, 1932, in Frog Pond, Tennessee -
was an influential country music singer-songwriter who achieved her greatest
chart successes later in her career. Influenced by country music at a young age,
she married and moved to Ohio where she began making appearances on local TV in
the late 1950s. Signing to Starday Records in 1959, her family moved to
Nashville, Tennessee, but did not achieve success with the label. Dottie West
signed to RCA Victor in 1963 and by the following year, she scored a Top 10
country hit with “Here Comes My Baby,” whi...