Helen Cornelius

Helen Cornelius was recognized to nation music fans being a singer/songwriter, but she also danced, acted, and played many instruments. She was created Helen Lorene Johnson in Monroe Town, MO, and was raised on a plantation with old brothers who performed in rings. She and her sisters Judy and Sharon produced a trio, and their supportive dad took girls with their gigs. Ultimately Cornelius still left her sisters and started touring with her back-up music group, the Crossroads. After graduating from senior high school, Cornelius wedded and worked being a secretary. She came back to touring through the ’60s and became a songwriter, attaining identification in 1970 when she was agreed upon being a article writer to Columbia/Display screen Gems Music after submitting a demonstration tape. Following the firm folded, Cornelius delivered a tape to Jerry Crutchfield and started doing work for MCA Music; he afterwards helped her indication with Columbia Information. In 1973, she found Nashville and documented two unsuccessful singles, afterwards putting your signature on to RCA. She released her initial one for the label in 1975; neither it nor its follow-up charted. The main element to success became Ferguson’s pairing of Cornelius with Jim Ed Dark brown. The duo debuted in 1976 with “I Don’t Want to Marry You,” which shortly became a significant hit. She once again tried a single single, “ALMOST ALWAYS THERE IS a Goodbye,” nonetheless it do nothing. She got no other strikes until her duet with Dark brown on “Stating Hello, Saying I REALLY LIKE You, Stating Goodbye” became a high Three success. Later on in 1976, both began appearing frequently on it series Nashville on the highway. Cornelius went on tour with Brown’s street show and in addition produced her debut for the Grand Ole Opry. In 1978, she and Dark brown had more graph achievement with two Best 15 duet singles, “I’ll Hardly ever Be Free of charge” and “If the Globe Went Out of Like Tonight,” and Cornelius have scored a solo strike with “What Cha Doin’ After Midnight Baby.” The Cornelius/Dark brown hit streak continuing until 1981, when Cornelius, feeling as if she was shedding her identity being a performer, made a decision to split up the duo. She after that released “Appreciate Never Shows up Easy,” which managed to get to the very best 50. Her following hit emerged in 1983, the entire year she also proved helpful being a spokesperson for the Cystic Fibrosis Base. In 1984, Cornelius transformed directions and became a member of the street revival of Annie GET A Weapon, also touring using the Statler Brothers. She released a self-titled recording in 1985, and 3 years later on, she joined Brownish for the Reunited Tour ’88. The 1990s noticed the grand starting of Helen Cornelius’ Nashville South, situated in the heavy of Gatlinburg, TN, a flourishing entertainment area. The facility presented live nation entertainment by Cornelius and her music group nightly, and saddles for stools in the cocktail lounge. 2002 and 2003 discovered Cornelius performing in the Jim Stafford theatre in Branson, MO, like a rotating area of the women-in-country entertainment creation Us Girls!.