During her lifetime,Loretta Lynnamassed a net worth of $65 million, as estimated byCelebrity Net Worth.
Instead, she went on to become one of country music’s most iconic singers.
Despite the financial struggles, Lynn speaks of her childhood on good terms.
That belief would be hard to shove out the door.
Doo was my security, my safety net" (via The Washington Post).
She and Doolittle traveled around the country to promote the song,asking different radio stations to play it.
Eventually, this self-promotion worked, and “I’m a Honky Tonk Girl” reached No.
14 on the 1960 country music charts, according to the Country Music Hall of Fame.
… She told me that her husband had left her for another woman.
She’d sit there and cry.
She picked strawberries with me during the time when strawberries were ripe.
And when strawberry picking was over, she kept coming to the club and crying."
Loretta Lynn Sings reached No.
At this point, her career was beginning to pick up.
“Loretta Lynn Sings” ultimately ended up as the No.
2 album on the country charts.
Though she was well known by this point, her most popular songs weren’t her self-penned ones.
However, it was important to Lynn to be known as a songwriter.
In an interview withAmerican Songwriter, she said she’d rather be remembered as a songwriter than a singer.
“Way before I started singing, I was trying to write,” she said.
“I lived out in the state of Washington and I had my four babies out there.
I was trying to write everyday and I didn’t know how.
Despite the controversy, the song was a success.
It was Lynn’s her first No.
1 single on the Billboard country chart, perWide Open Country.
And they should just sit down and write what they know.”
And that’s exactly what she did.
She toldAmerican Songwriter, “Everything that I put in that song was true.
I lived all of it.
I’ve lived a lot of stuff that I wrote.”
The song became a No.
1 Billboard hit, and its legacy has lived on to this day.
“Rolling Stoneranked it on their list of “500 Greatest Songs of All Time.”
Throughout her career, Lynn had a whopping 14 songs banned from the radio, according toTaste of Country.
But the funny thing about these banned songs?
They often became No.1 hits.
And then [radio] would have to play them.
If they had listeners, they’d have to play the one that was banned.”
Lynn didn’t intend to be revolutionary or particularly controversial she was just being herself and speaking her mind.
As the singer once explained, “I wasn’t the first woman in country music.
The rest were afraid to” (viaEsquire).
“You go to places you’ve never been and meet people you may never have known.”
She also shared that her mom influenced the autobiographical way she wrote her songs.
“The biggest influence on my writing has been story songs,” she said.
“Mommy used to sing those and I thought they were great.
The best songs I ever wrote tell a story.”
“I used to read on the tour bus to keep from missing my family.
Now I read at night.
I live way out and it gets real quiet,” she told The New York Times in 2020.
Another source of income was Crisco.
In addition to starring in commercials, Lynn was in a TV show for a short time.
The3,500-acre ranchfeatures multiple museums, an amusement park, and RV, cabin, and tent lodging.
It remains open to the public.
The ranch has also hosted the yearly AMA Amateur National Motocross Championship since 1982, perCountry Living.
As one could imagine, having her own tourist destination no doubt added to her fortune.
Released in 1980, it was directed by Michael Apted and starredSissy Spacek.
The film, though fictionalized, follows Lynn’s story from childhood into adulthood, and then into fame.
When I met her, it was like meeting a long-lost friend."
Overall, the film was a success for all involved, including Lynn.
“Van Lear Rose” was Lynn’s “country-est” album, as she toldAmerican Songwriter."
Lynn told American Songwriter, “Anything [White] did I thought was cool.”
What happened to her fortune upon her death?
And Lynn had a lot to show for it including her$65 million fortune.
