Connie Smith

Connie Smith is best known for her 1964 hit song Once a Day, which spent 8 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard's Country music charts, the longest of any female country music artist in history.

In less than a year, Connie Smith moved from being a small-town Ohio housewife to country stardom with a number one single to her credit. Perhaps overly compared to and identified with Patsy Cline, Smith is still considered by many to be one of the best and most underrated vocalists in country history.

Although she never achieved the level of commercial success as some of her contemporaries, she is often hailed by music critics as one of the finest voices in country music, voted in 2001 by fellow artists and members of the Country Music industry as number 9 of the 40 Greatest Women of Country Music of all time.

Connie Smith

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