Barbara Mandrell: Sleeping Single In A Double Bed

She looked like a pretty Bonnie Tyler.

Her and her sisters rocked. Check out this choreography!

Will someone answer my question?

It is a very fun catchy song, as was a lot of her songs. Crackers is even better.

I recall this woman being interviewed on the Johnny Carson show, she boasted about hitting her children with wooden spoons.

Should have not posted a legit question on the DL.

It was not a white trash anthem

No, OP, the song was not a 'white trash anthem.' You may be thinking of one of the Loretta Lynn or Tammy Wynette tunes like "Don't Come Home from Drinkin' with Lovin' on Your Mind" or "D-I-v-o-r-c-e" and lots of others that don't come to mind right now. What are you looking for? More information about Barbara Mandrell or examples of white trash anthems? Or just a simple YES or NO? You're really not being very clear.

She probably picked that up from Glen Campbell, r5.

My question was direct and to the point, r8. Fuck off.

Nothing "trashy" about sleeping alone in bed. It means you're NOT a slut, whore, cheap, or in other words, TRASH!

r9, that and crabs.

Not necessarily, you could be sleeping off your whoring.

OP, have we satisfied your curiosity? Did you get the answer you wished?

{quote]My trashy neighbor was singing this song in her front yard yesterday.

You sound like a judgmental asshole. Why do you live among 'trashy neighbors'? Andy why is their choice in music your most important take-away? Your neighbor is keeping her property clean. Who cares what she's singing?

1. No, this song isn’t a white trash anthem by Barbara Mandrell.

2. However, this one is:

Is she dead?

The crackers in the bed song is way more white trash than Sleeping Single in a Double Bed.

She's one of the few celebrities who decided she didn't want to be a singer anymore and said peace out and don't call me.

She works retail now?

Drying Out on My Waterbed was the trash anthem.

I always hated her when she sang I Was Country, When Country wasn't Cool. I thought, wow, sniff her!

Was that not a jokey title? She was poppier than straight country, as that Crackers song demonstrates.

And this one, r16.

R16 hard to call it a white trash anthem when it was a cover of an R&B hit by Luther Ingram.

^^^^ Not really, you racist asshole. Careful, your bias is peeking out from underneath your Klan robe.

When was country ever cool?

I like Double Anal In A Double Bed

R26 Damn you are an idiot. Saying that it is inappropriate to consider a song that was originally sung by a black man, written by Stax records songwriters, not to mention being used as the title of a Tyler Perry soap opera isn't a "white trash" anthem, doesn't make me a racist. Also, sleeping with a married man isn't unique to "white trash," it happens across all racial and class lines. Many people on this board brag about having sex with married men, are they all white trash?

^^^ Yes dear, they are.

R30 And what if the person doing the cheating isn't white? It might be trashy, but it isn't limited to "white trash," dear.

R2 “Her and her sisters”

Oh Dear.

While Mandrell was at the peak of her popularity, she had a major setback when she was involved in a serious automobile crash on September 11, 1984. According to Toni Reinhold in Redbook, the singer "sustained multiple fractures in her right leg, including a broken thigh bone, knee, and ankle. She also suffered lacerations and abrasions and a severe concussion that caused temporary memory loss, confusion, and speech difficulties." After a year and a half of rehabilitation, she recovered and returned to recording and performing. Mandrell told interviewers that the crash made her reassess her priorities. Mandrell is now a confirmed seat belt advocate, especially because prior to the crash, neither she nor her two oldest children Matthew and Jaime (also involved in the crash) were normally seat belt wearers. Mandrell saw a station wagon in front of her with the tailgate down and children not being restrained in the back, and felt the need to tell her children to buckle up just before the crash.[8]

During the recuperation period, Mandrell was unable to work, so she needed to collect on her insurance to pay for medical bills and to keep her touring band paid. On the Ralph Emery on the Record show, Mandrell explained that the only problem was that, under Tennessee law, she had to go through the formality of filing a lawsuit against survivors of the dead driver who had caused the accident, 19-year-old college student Mark White, to collect from her own insurance company.[9]

Mandrell further stated that she instructed her attorneys to phone White's family and tell them that she wanted no money from them and was only taking such action to get her own insurance company to pay for her medical costs, but most of her fans never knew about that or about Tennessee's insurance law. They saw only the headlines about the lawsuit against the family who had lost a son. Before the case went to trial, she adds, her insurance company filed for bankruptcy. Her record and ticket sales fell off "in a big way", Mandrell says.

"I'm not blaming the public", she told Emery, adding that, given the information most of them got through the media, "I would have felt the way they felt."

Mandrell's career recovered in the mid-1980s and, despite the neotraditional country boom and an overall loss in interest in country-pop artists during that period, continued to chart top-40 country hits consistently until 1989. Her last top-10 hit was a cover version of the 1960 song "I Wish I Could Fall in Love Today", which peaked at number 5 on the country charts; her last top-40 country hit, "My Train of Thought", peaked at number 19. Subsequent albums and singles failed to chart as country music largely abandoned many established stars in favor of newer acts in the early 1990s.

R33 Yeah, that was an unfortunate incident. The rules and laws concerning insurance can be stupid. I knew a family where the mother accidentally drove over the son, he didn't die but required a lot of medical care. The father was informed he had to sue the mother, for the insurance to pay out, even though it was their joint policy.

R33 Boo hoo. BM made millions before the accident & had rich friends & other millionaire relatives to help he out.

She is a big time republican who adores (her own words in describing him) Rush Limbaugh as well as Reagan & the 700 Club.. That's all the DL needs to know about her.

Why some self hating members of the DL keeps shoving these right wing celebs like Mandrell, Connie Francis, Kenny Rogers & Little Richard upon the rest of us I'll never know.

R17 Barbara Mandrell is still alive but her career is dead.

R17 Barbara Mandrell is still alive but her career is dead.

R36 R37 It is remarkable, but her career is dead because she chose to kill it. She walked away from performing. She could have easily stopped touring and still performed at the Opry or to have done some sort of residency in Vegas or Branson, but she completely stopped. She and Bobbie Gentry are the only ones I can think of who just walked away, of their own accord, though Barbara had the bigger career to walk away from.

Her ass was super famous in the late 70s and early 80s.

She could even rap!

Why do I always get her confused with Morgan Fairchild?

R41 She did do a soap. She was on Sunset Beach, after retiring from singing. Apparently, Aaron Spelling was a huge fan of hers and wanted to put her on one of his shows.

Get To The Heart, People!

R42 It just dawned on me that Spelling obviously had a type. Mandrell and Candy Spelling favored, though BM was better looking.

BM is a funny sounding set of initials.

Bowel movement

According to Cathy O'Brien, she is a CIA mind controlled MK Ultra agent.

Her severe auto "accident" years ago was to keep her in line after she started questioning her programming.

R47 according to her basically every country music star is.

When I was a kid we watched BM every Sat night on NBC

I wonder if she was ever programmed to service Boxcar Willie or Gerald "Porn King" Ford?