Jean Chapel

Jean Chapel, born as Opal Jean Amburgey, left her Neon, KY, home at 13 to perform daily with her sisters in the Sunshine Sister Band at Lexington, KY's WLAP in 1938. Even at such a young age, Chapel's personality and star potential came shining through as she sang lead on most songs. She had started in the band at age 11, after her father sold some of his carpentry tools to buy her a banjo. At 15, she began writing songs and would record and publish more than 170 before her death in 1995, songs that were recorded by the likes of Rosemary Clooney, Dean Martin, Patsy Cline, Roy ...