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MELBA MONTGOMERY

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Melba Montgomery (born October 14, 1938 in Iron City, Tennessee) is an United States|American country music singer. She is best known for duet (music)|duet hit recordings in the 1960s, with legendary country music singer, George Jones.

However, Melba Montgomery was a successful solo (music)|solo artist in her own right in the 1970s. Her best-known solo hit is the #1 hit "No Charge".

Early life
Childhood
Born October 14, 1938, in Iron City, TN, and raised in Florence, Alabama, Montgomery gained her first exposure to music through her father, a fiddler and guitarist who taught vocal lessons at the town's Methodist church. At the age of ten, she was given her own guitar.<ref name="bio">[http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:fifexql5ldde~T1 Melba Montgomery biography] at All Music Guide</ref> Music became a very important part of Montgomery's life and she soon had serious dreams about achieving success in the country music industry.

Rise to fame
At age twenty, she and her brother won an amateur talent contest held at Nashville radio station WSM's Studio C, which then housed the Grand Ole Opry. Montgomery's performance so impressed contest judge Roy Acuff that he asked the young singer to replace his departing lead vocalist June Webb; she accepted and toured with Acuff for the next four years.<ref name="bio&q... read all