Voni Morrison
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Songwriter
Voni Morrison was a female vocalist and songwriting partner active in the Buck Owens orbit in the early 1960s, best remembered as the co-credited writer on “Act Naturally” — the Johnny Russell song she pitched to Owens, who made it his first No. 1 country single in 1963 and that the Beatles covered in 1965.
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- Knew and worked with Buck Owens, who was building his Bakersfield empire in the early 1960s.
- Co-credited with Johnny Russell on “Act Naturally” after Russell agreed to share royalties with her in exchange for placing the song with Owens.
- Buck Owens’s 1963 recording of “Act Naturally” became his first No. 1 country single and his commercial breakthrough.
- The Beatles cut “Act Naturally” in 1965 as the B-side of “Yesterday,” with Ringo Starr on lead vocal — the cover that turned the song into a worldwide standard.
