West earned her first Top 40 hit in 1963 with “Let Me Off at the Corner.” One year later, her hit “Love Is No Excuse,” a duet with Jim Reeves, made it to the Top 10.
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She won her first Grammy Award with the song “Here Comes My Baby”. This song made her the first female country artist to win a Grammy. In 1965, she would release her biggest hit yet, “Would You Hold It Against Me.”
She eventually teamed up with Don Gibson, for a few duets in 1968.
She eventually left her first husband and married drummer Bryan Metcalf in 1972. She immediately began to change her image and began to wear far less conservative attire. Her career was gaining momentum after the 1973 success of the crossover smash “Country Sunshine,” originally written for a Coca-Cola commercial.
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Over the next few years, West had many Top 40 songs, such as “Last Time I Saw Him,” “When It’s Ju