Biografia Cresciuta in una famiglia di artisti musicali, Melba Montgomery firmò un contratto discografico con la United Artists Records nel 1962 grazie all'aiuto di Roy Acuff. Negli anni '60 trovò successo duettando con George Jones, Gene Pitney e Charlie Louvin: con il primo incise il disco What's in Our Heart, arrivato alla 3ª posizione della Top Country Albums stilata da Billboard. Nel 1973 firmò per la Elektra Records, intensificando la propria carriera solista. Continuò quindi a registrare album e singoli di successo, in particolare No Charge, arrivato in vetta alla classifica country statunitense e al 39º posto della Billboard Hot 100.
Nei decenni successivi si concentrò sulla scrittura delle canzoni, scrivendo per George Strait, Reba McEntire, Randy Travis, George Jones, Patty Loveless, Travis Tritt, Tracy Byrd, Terri Clark, John Prine, Jim Lauderdale, Sara Evans, Eddy Arnold, Connie Smith, Leon Russell, J.D. Souther e Rhonda Vincent.
Discografia Album in studio 1963 – What's in Our Heart (con George Jones) 1964 – America's No. One Country and Western Girl Singer 1964 – Bluegrass Hootenanny (con George Jones) 1964 – Down Home 1965 – I Can't Get Used to Being Lonely 1965 – Being Together (con Gene Pitney) 1966 – Hallelujah Road 1966 – Country Girl 1966 – Close Together (con George Jones) 1967 – Melba Toast 1967 – Don't Keep Me Lonely Too Long 1967 – Party Pickin (con George Jones) 1967 – I'm Just Living 1969 – The Big Beautiful Country World of Melba Montgomery 1970 – Don't Keep Me Lonely Too Long 1971 – Something to Brag About (con Charlie Louvin) 1971 – Baby You've Got What It Takes (con Charlie Louvin) 1973 – Melba Montgomery 1974 – No Charge 1975 – Don't Let the Good Times Fool You 1975 – The Greatest Gift of All 1977 – Melba Montgomery 1982 – I Still Care 1983 – Audiograph Alive 1986 – No Charge 1992 – Do You Know Where Your Man Is 1997 – This Time Around 2008 – Studio 102 Essentials 2010 – Things That Keep You Going
Raccolte 1964 – A King & Two Queens (con George Jones e Judy Lynn) 1965 – Queens of Country Music (con Dottie West) 1966 – Famous Country Duets (con George Jones e Gene Pitney) 1966 – Blue Moon of Kentucky (con Gene Pitney) 1967 – The Mood I'm In 1972 – The Only Duets Ever Recorded (con Gene Pitney) 1974 – Aching Breaking Heart 1994 – George Jones and Melba Montgomery (con George Jones) 1996 – Vintage Collections: George Jones and Melba Montgomery (con George Jones) 1998 – First Ladies of Country (con Norma Jean) 2002 – Golden Moments
Singoli 1962 – Shoe Old Ranger 1962 – I'm No Longer in Your Heart 1962 – Your Picture (Keeps Smiling Back at Me) 1963 – Hall of Shame 1963 – The Greatest One of All 1963 – We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds (con George Jones) 1963 – Let's Invite Them Over (con George Jones) 1964 – The Face 1964 – Big Big Heartaches 1964 – Suppose Tonight Would Be Our Last (con George Jones) 1964 – Please Be My New Love (con George Jones) 1964 – Multiply the Heartaches (con George Jones) 1965 – I Can't Get Used to Being Lonely 1965 – I Saw It 1965 – I'll Wait Till Seven 1965 – Constantly 1965 – House of Gold (con George Jones) 1965 – I Let You Go (con George Jones) 1965 – Blue Moon of Kentucky (con George Jones) 1965 – Baby Ain't That Fine (con Gene Pitney) 1966 – Don't Keep Me Lonely Too Long 1966 – Crossing Over Jordan 1966 – My Tiny Music Box 1966 – Won't Take Long 1966 – Being Together (con Gene Pitney) 1966 – Close Together (As You and Me) (con George Jones) 1967 – What Can I Tell the Folks Back Home 1967 – Twilight Years 1967 – Party Pickin''' (con George Jones) 1968 – You Put Me Here 1968 – Our Little Man (con Judy Lynn) 1968 – Hallelujah Road 1969 – What's to Become of What's Left Me 1969 – As Far as My Forgetting's Got 1970 – The Closer She Gets 1970 – Eloy Crossing 1970 – Something to Brag About (con Charlie Louvin) 1971 – He's My Man 1971 – Did You Ever (con Charlie Louvin) 1971 – Baby You've Got What It Takes (con Charlie Louvin) 1971 – I'm Gonna Leave You (con Charlie Louvin) 1972 – Hope I Never Love That Way Again 1972 – Baby What's Wrong with Us (con Charlie Louvin) 1972 – A Man Likes Things Like That (con Charlie Louvin) 1973 – Wrap Your Love Around Me 1974 – He'll Come Home 1974 – No Charge 1974 – Your Pretty Roses Came Too Late 1974 – If You Want the Rainbow 1975 – Don't Let the Good Times Fool You 1975 – Searchin' (For Someone Like You) 1975 – He Loved You Right Out of My Mind 1975 – Love Was the Wind 1977 – Never Ending Love Affair 1977 – Before the Pain Comes 1977 – Angel of the Morning 1978 – Leavin' Me in Your Mind 1980 – The Star 1986 – Straight Talkin 1987 – Almost Over the Line (con Lee Dillard) 1990 – The Key's in the Mailbox 1992 – Your Heart Turned Left''
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