Zero Records She came to the attention of local record executives while playing local clubs, which led to her signing her very first recording contract with Zero Records in January 1960. Within months she had recorded her first single, "I'm a Honky Tonk Girl".

Though they share the same biological father, Gayle and Lynn had very different upbringings. Gayle was born in the Kentucky mining town, but after 1955 was raised in Wabash, Indiana. When she was 16, Gayle began touring with Lynn's show. Her connection to Lynn helped Gayle get a contract with Decca records in 1970.

Loretta Webb and Oliver "Doolittle" Lynn famously married when she was between 13 and 16, and he was 21. Loretta gave birth to the first of their six children a year later, and had three more kids by the time she was edging on 20. The were together until Doolittle's death in 1996.

Doo died in 1996 at age 69 of complications from diabetes and heart failure. This past January, the singer paid tribute to her late husband on their anniversary with a sweet post on Instagram. "74 years ago, my life changed forever when I married Doolittle," she wrote.

Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville On April 9, 1860, 17 years before Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, Parisian inventor Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville made a recording on a "phonautograph," which worked by tracing sound waves onto paper blackened by smoke.

An anonymous vocalist sings "Au Clair De La Lune" to Parisian inventor Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville, who makes the first known and oldest surviving recording of the human voice.

Gayle is the sister of country singer Loretta Lynn. They maintained a close relationship despite their nearly nineteen year age difference and having never lived at home together.

Many of Loretta's siblings have passed away over the years, and she's survived by her three younger sisters.

At just 16 years old, Loretta welcomed her first child, daughter Betty, on Nov. 26, 1948. Much like her mom, Betty became a phenomenal songwriter.

In her 1976 autobiography, Coal Miner's Daughter, Lynn said that she was married at the age of 13 and a mother of four by the time she turned 18. The AP's revelation would mean that she nearly 16 at the time – still shockingly young, but not a crime in Kentucky at the time, as marrying a girl under the age of 14 was.

Marriage. Lynn was married to Oliver Vanetta "Doolittle" Lynn (1926–1996) almost 50 years until her husband died at age 69. In her 2002 autobiography, Still Woman Enough, and in an interview with CBS News the same year, she recounted how her husband cheated on her regularly and once left her while she was giving birth.

Prior to becoming a country music trailblazer in the 1960s, Lynn raised four children in rural Kentucky. When she died, Lynn had a net worth of $65 million, according to CelebrityNetWorth.com.

But for the title of oldest extant song, most historians point to “Hurrian Hymn No. 6,” an ode to the goddess Nikkal that was composed in cuneiform by the ancient Hurrians sometime around the 14th century B.C.

The Hurrian Hymn was discovered in the 1950s on a clay tablet inscribed with Cuneiform text. It's the oldest surviving melody and is over 3,400 years old. The hymn was discovered on a clay tablet in Ugarit, now part of modern-day Syria, and is dedicated the Hurrians' goddess of the orchards Nikkal.

Patsy Cline We lost Loretta Lynn recently and many people don't know what great friends she was with Patsy Cline. Cline was almost back home in Nashville when the little plane crashed, just 2.5 miles north of Camden in 1963. Loretta was new to Nashville and became very close to Cline, who was her mentor and best pal.

Born as a coal miner's daughter in Kentucky, Lynn's performing arts career catapulted her out of poverty and into stardom. Prior to becoming a country music trailblazer in the 1960s, Lynn raised four children in rural Kentucky. When she died, Lynn had a net worth of $65 million, according to CelebrityNetWorth.com.