Goldie Hill Discography

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  Country Gentleman`s Lady Sings Her Favorites
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  Country Hit Parade
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  Goldie Hill
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  Lonely Heartaches

The Texas-born singer Goldie Hill might have very well had a long and lengthy career in Country Music if she stuck with it long enough. This was quite a shame to some people, because according to some music critics Goldie Hill had a strong and twangy voice that can be heard in some other Country singers of the 1960s, like Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette. With the success of the Kitty Wells and her massive 1952 hit "It Wasn`t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels", Goldie Hill was able to pursue her own career in Country Music after record companies realized from the success of Wells` hit that women can indeed sell records. Goldie Hill also helped them realize this.

Goldie Hill was born Argolda Voncile Hill in Karnes City, Texas in 1933, which was a small town southeast of San Antonio, Texas. She was the sister of singer Tommy Hill. Goldie played a big role in the Hill family. During her early years, she would pick cotton in the fields by her house, along with her family. Soon Goldie`s older brothers, Ken and Tommy left cotton-picking to become Country singers. Within only a couple years, the two were backing up such Country singers as Johnny Horton, Webb Pierce, and Hank Williams. Goldie was determined to also make it as a Country singer, after seeing the success her brothers had. At age 19, in 1952, Goldie got her big chance performing on the show Louisiana Hayride.

Goldie Hill was soon performing on Louisiana Hayride as part of her brother, Tommie`s band. On the show, she was dubbed as "The Golden Hillbilly", and the name stuck with Hill for the rest of her career in the music business. Louisiana Hayride opened even more doors for Hill. Being part of the show led to a once-in-a-lifetime chance to sign with Decca Records, the future home of Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn. Her first single she released "Why To Talk to My Heart", released in 1952, brought no success for Hill at all.

Hill soon recorded the song "I Let the Stars Get In My Eyes" that same year. The song was an answer song to the Perry Como Pop Music hit "Don`t Let the Stars Get In Your Eyes". "Don`t Let the Stars Get In Your Eyes" was also a hit for two Country singers, Slim Willet and Skeets McDonald. Slim Willett helped with Goldie`s brother, Tommie write the song, as well as writing "I Let the Stars Get In My Eyes". The song song was originally intended for Kitty Wells, but Hill picked it up first. The song was a big hit in 1953, making it to #1 on the Country charts, proving that women could indeed sell a number of records and achieve a #1 hit. Goldie Hill was one of the few women in Country Music at the time, which helped open many doors for other female singers. Overnight, Hill was one of Country Music`s most popular singers. In 1954, she followed her big hit up with a couple of hit duets with singer Justin Tubb, who was the son of Ernest Tubb. Among their hits together are "Looking Back to See" and "Sure Fire Kisses". As a solo artist, she continued to record on her own as well, like the song "I`m Beginning to Feel Mistreated".

In the early 1960s, she recorded a couple of albums for Decca Records, but her singles failed to chart.

Her musical career had plenty of life in it, when she turned it all down in 1957, when she married Country singer Carl Smith. Carl Smith had previously been married to June Carter. She then retired to living life on their horse farm south of Nashville, raising her children. She did make a short-lived comeback in the