Cristy Lane

CRISTY LANE
 
 
Cristy Lane  (born Eleanor Johnston; January 8, 1940) is an American country music and gospel music singer, best known for a number of major country hits in the late 1970s and the early 1980s.  Lane’s career began to take shape in the mid-1970s, after beginning to record for her husband’s record label.  Her first singles, “Trying to Forget About You” and “Sweet Deceiver”, were released in 1977 followed by “Let Me Down Easy”, her first major hit, by the end of the year.  After having a series of Top 10 and 20 country hits, she signed with United Artists Records, and had her biggest hit with “One Day at a Time”, a gospel song, that peaked at No. 1 on the country charts.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 

At the urging of her husband Lee Stoller, Cristy Lane made several attempts to launch a music career from the late 1960’s through the end of the 1970’s, with only minimal success.  After releasing her third album in 1979, Simple Little Words, United Artists Records balked at Cristy Lane’s plans to release a remake of “One Day at a Time”, even though Lena Martell had a No. 1 hit in Great Britain with her version of “One Day at a Time” in 1979.  Instead, Liberty Records released the song and the accompanying album, Ask Me to Dance.  “One Day at a Time” hit #1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles, and the song became the cornerstone of a television and Internet marketing juggernaut for Cristy Lane’s music. 

 

(July 2014)