Just a year before that record-breaking run, Smith was a 22-year-old homemaker. In August 1963, she entered a talent contest at Frontier Ranch, a country music park outside Columbus, Ohio, singing Jean Shepard's "I Thought of You."
"This little girl, with a guitar bigger than she was, came out on stage and just blew me away with her voice," Anderson told American Songwriter in 2018. "She won the contest and I went backstage and told her if she ever wanted to come to Nashville I'd like to help her. I thought she was terrific."
He helped her sign with RCA Records, where producer Chet Atkins had another job for Anderson.
Anderson wrote her a song about a woman who can't quite let go of an old love, but has at least gotten her crying down to just "once a day."
With that hit, Smith became the first woman in country music to send a debut single to number one. Nobody else matched it for nearly 30 years, until Trisha Yearwood did it in 1991 with "She's in Love with the Boy."
She never topped the charts again, but her career kept rolling. Over the next several years, she racked up 19 more top 10 hits.
Related: Congratulations Pouring in for Country Star Bill Anderson's Opry Milestone
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