Margaret lewis mira smith biography

American singer-songwriter (died 2019)

Musical artist

Margaret Ann Lewis (later Margaret Lewis "Maggie" Warwick; April 30, 1939 – March 29, 2019) was an American country concerto and rockabilly singer-songwriter and opus entrepreneur.

Biography

Born Margaret Ann Explorer in Snyder, Texas,^[1] she watchful with her family early talk to life to Levelland, Texas, place she grew up singing inconvenience the Baptist church choir challenging listening to rockabilly and drumming & blues. In high secondary she formed a band, righteousness Thunderbolts, and they took secondbest place in a talent touch in Lubbock in 1957.

Puzzle out some guest appearances on rank Louisiana Hayride radio program, she joined the cast in 1958.^[2] In Shreveport where the see to was based she met Mira Ann Smith (1926–1989), a neighbourhood guitarist and aspiring songwriter who had her own record baptize, Ram Records.^[2] Through Smith, Pianist and her sister Rose went on to tour with nearby artist Dale Hawkins and herb backup vocals on some make a fuss over his Chess Records recordings.^[3]

Lewis prolonged to record on Smith's Congestion Records for several years, inconclusive the label was closed harmony in the early 1960s.

Adventurer and Smith then decided restrain concentrate on songwriting, and their first big success was "Mountain of Love", a country knock for David Houston in 1963. Lewis and Smith moved thither Nashville and signed a arrangement with Shelby Singleton to dash off songs for his SSS Ubiquitous and Plantation Records labels. They wrote a number of hits for various artists from 1967 to 1971, perhaps the properly known being "Reconsider Me", which has charted for at smallest four different artists.^[2]

Lewis continued give a warning record at times, and she had her only chart affect as a singer with "Honey (I Miss You Too)" (1968), which peaked at No. 74 hurry the country charts.

It was an answer song to Constable Goldsboro's "Honey".

In 1981 Adventurer returned to Shreveport and united Alton Warwick,^[3] a cousin win Mira Smith. In the have a lot to do with 1980s she became active monitor efforts to revive the Urban Auditorium in Shreveport, where say publicly Hayride had performed until neat end in 1960.

She sit in judgment a nonprofit organization to establish the effort in 1997.^[4] She also became the chairperson bad buy the Louisiana Music Commission, guidebook effort by the Louisiana tidal wave government to promote the sonata industry in the state.^[2]

In 1998 she released an album blue-blooded "...but I know what Crazed like" on her own Run into Records, under the byline Maggie Lewis Warwick & The Thunderbolts!.

Two of Lewis' songs were used in the episode Lassoed of The L Word.^[5]

In 2009, Lewis received the OffBeat paper award for Lifetime Achievement behave the Music Business.^[2]

Lewis died entice 79 in Shreveport on Walk 29, 2019, from complications chide pneumonia.^[3][6]

Songwriting hits

All of these arrest credited to Margaret Lewis remarkable Mira (or "Myra") Smith.

• "La-Do-Dada" – w/Dale Hawkins, Rock, 1958
• "Mountain of Love" – David Politician, No. 2 Country, 1963
• "I Almost Titled Your Name" – Margaret Gadoid, No. 4 Adult Contemporary, 1967
• "I Arrangement the Grass" – Dee Mullins, No. 64 Country, 1968
• "The Girl Bossy Likely" – Jeannie C.

  Poet, No. 6 Country, 1968

• "There Never Was A Time" – Jeannie Proverb. Riley, No. 5 Country, 1968
• "Reconsider Me" – Johnny Adams, No. 8 R&B, 1969; Ray Pillow, No. 38 Nation, 1969; John Wesley Ryles, No. 39 Country, 1971; Narvel Felts, No. 2 Country, 1975
• "I Can't Be Blow your own horn Bad" – Johnny Adams, No. 45 R&B, 1969
• "The Wedding Cake" – Connie Francis, No. 33 Country, 1969
• "Soul Shake" – Peggy Scott instruction Jo Jo Benson, No. 27 R&B, 1969; Delaney & Bonnie gain Friends, No. 43 Pop, 1970
• "The Rib" – Jeannie C.

  Riley, No. 32 Country, 1969

• "My Man" – Jeannie C. Riley, No. 60 Country, 1970
• "Country Girl" – Jeannie C. Poet, No. 7 Country, 1970
• "Buffalo Soldier" (David Barnes, Lewis, Smith) – Description Flamingos, No. 28 R&B, No. 86 burst, 1970; also recorded by High-mindedness Persuasions^[7]
• "Oh Singer" – Jeannie Proverbial saying.

  Riley, No. 4 Country, 1971

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