Calgary Herald

Rose Garden topped the charts

- KRISTIN M. HALL

NASHVILLE Lynn Anderson, whose strong, husky voice carried her to the top of the charts with (I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden, has died. She was 67.

A statement from the family said she passed away at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, on Thursday. Her publicist said the cause of death was cardiac arrest.

Anderson first soaked up the national spotlight as a young singer on The Lawrence Welk Show between 1967 and 1969.

Although she was signed to an independen­t label, the exposure helped her nab a deal with Columbia Records in Nashville.

And it was Rose Garden that sealed her country music legacy, earning her a Grammy and Country Music Associatio­n’s female vocalist of the year award in 1971.

“It was popular because it touched on emotions,” she told the AP. “It was perfectly timed. It was out just as we came out of the Vietnam years and a lot of people were trying to recover.

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