He also inspired many of her songs
In addition to jumpstarting Loretta’s country career, Doo contributed to her success in another way: The troubles in their marriage inspired many of her songs. “I’ve never written a song that my husband wasn’t in. Every song I wrote, but he didn’t know which line he was in,” she has stated.
One Doo-inspired tune was “Fist City.” With it, Loretta was able to address “a real woman in Tennessee who was making eyes at Doolittle while I was a-singing on the stage. I let her know she was gonna get a mouthful of knuckles if she kept it up.” Loretta’s fans found songs like these, with their take on marital difficulties from a woman’s perspective, to be very relatable.
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