Before she meant the now-legendary singer-songwriter Willie Nelson, Shirley Collie Nelson hoped to become an actress. When she appeared on ABC's "Ozark Jubilee" variety show in the 1950s, though, those dreams evaporated, only to be replaced by a new goal of becoming a country music star. She soon released three singles with Liberty records, including one with Willie Nelson. According to Heavy, that track took Nelson to the Billboard country charts for the very first time. Clearly, the pair had chemistry professionally — but they must've had romantic chemistry, too, considering they got hitched one year after the song's release.
At the time, Collie Nelson purportedly told Time Magazine that it was "instant love" between the pair (via Heavy). "I saw things in him that give me goosebumps now," she said. For a while, they happily toured and recorded music together. But then things took a turn for the worse.
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