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Nominated for a Grammy Award for her ballad "(I Wish I Was A) Single Girl Again." Throughout the 1960s and 1970s she appeared regularly in Las Vegas, and performed at fairs and rodeos with such country performers as Johnny Cash.

Among the singing stars who squired her around during her 1950s peak were Elvis Presley and Tommy Sands.

Opened a dinner club in Oceanside, California called Molly Bee's in the early 1990s.

Fell victim to drug addiction and had to take several years off to rebuild her life. She re-emerged in 1975 with "Good Golly Ms. Molly," this time on the Granite Records label. Her comeback was successful, producing two charting singles: "She Kept On Talking" and "Right Or Left at Oak Street." In 1982 she released her final album, "Sounds Fine to Me," and remained a popular concert draw.

Over the last decade before her death, she fought non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Married at least five times, she called herself "the Zsa Zsa Gabor of the country music set." Her marriage to country singer Ira Allen lasted 10 years. After divorcing Allen, she married businessman Bob Muncy and in 1986 moved her family to Oceanside, California, where Muncy operated "Jerry's Club".

At age 10 she was discovered by singing cowboy Rex Allen. On his radio show she won over audiences with her performance of the Hank Williams classic "Lovesick Blues.".

Credited as an inspiration in Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention's debut album "Freak Out!".

Singer, actor, and ex-husband Ken Miller (aka Kenny Miller), in his 2006 autobiography "Hollywood Inside & Out: The Kenny Miller Story" speaks candidly about his brief marriage to Molly, the circumstances that precipitated it, and its quick demise; however, he avoids issues about his sexuality.

A classmate, Jimmy Boyd, also recorded "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus", and the two duetted on Ed Sullivan's variety show in late 1952.

Raised in Bell Buckle, Tennessee, she didn't start singing until her family moved to Tucson, Arizona.

Survived by three children: Lia Genn, Michael Allen, and Bobbi Carey.

Her family moved to Los Angeles, California when she was 11. She graduated from Hollywood Professional High School.

Molly's radio jingle for the Stanley Chevrolet auto dealership in Norwalk, California, which she recorded when she was still relatively unknown, ran for many years in the Los Angeles area, well into the 1970s. It ran, in part, "Stanley, Stanley, Stanley Chevrolet/Two blocks off the Santa Ana Freeway/1-1-9-8-0 East Firestone/Stanley Chevrolet." In 1981, when the dealership changed its name to Dial Chevrolet, a Molly Bee sound-alike sang the same jingle incorporating the new name.

Country music singer and former vocal prodigy who had a huge recording hit at age 13 after signing with Capitol Records, with the Christmas novelty song "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" then found TV teen idol success on the 1950s variety shows Hometown Jamboree (1949) and The Pinky Lee Show (1950).

As a little girl she wanted to be a ballerina.