Many of Loretta Lynn’s Most Iconic Songs Pulled From Streaming

This story is developing.
Many of country music legend Loretta Lynn’s most iconic songs have been removed from streaming and download services. While some live, single, and re-recorded versions of the songs may still be available, the original recordings that have become so foundational to the country music catalog are currently coming up blank. The songs that appear to be affected include but may not be limited to:
“Coal Miner’s Daughter”
“You’re Lookin’ At Country”
“When The Tingle Becomes a Chill”
“The Pill”
“Rated ‘X'”
“What Kind of Girl (Do You Think I Am)”
“The Home You’re Tearin’ Down”
“Another Man Loved Me Last Night”
The original version of these songs are no longer available from Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and other streaming service providers. “Coal Miner’s Daughter” is the title track to Loretta Lynn’s legendary 1971 album. On Spotify, the track has been replaced on the album with a single version of the song. On Apple Music and Amazon Music, the track is not available at all. “Another Man Loved Me Last Night” is also missing from the album.
The pulling began to be observed by fans on Monday (4-26). The songs range between a decade of Loretta Lynn’s career from 1965 to 1975, and include songs Loretta Lynn wrote alone, songs she co-wrote with others, and a track written by Betty Sue Perry. Two of the songs—“Rated ‘X'” and “The Pill”—were originally “banned” by some radio stations when they were originally released, but that’s unlikely the reason they have disappeared now.
It comes after Loretta Lynn’s Grammy-winning landmark album Van Lear Rose from 2004 was pulled in early March for undisclosed reasons. At that time, Saving Country Music reached out to the label Interscope Records, as well as The Universal Music Group, Third Man Records, and others about the disappearance with no response. Representatives from Loretta’s current label Sony referred all questions about the Van Lear Rose disappearance to Interscope.
Loretta Lynn signed with Sony’s Legacy imprint in 2015. None of the Sony tracks including songs from her most recent album Still Woman Enough on March 19th seem to be affected.
More information on the missing songs if or when it becomes available.
April 26, 2021 @ 7:54 pm
This is such a weird development in Country Music lately. Is it only happening in Country, or is it happening with other genres as well?
That why I have a basement room full of lps, cds, and a computer with 30,000 songs on it!
April 26, 2021 @ 9:21 pm
I’m sure it’s affecting other genres as well. But with country, it’s been some really high profile artists, albums, and songs. Unfortunately, I feel like we’re starting a new paradigm where this becomes a regular occurrence.
April 27, 2021 @ 12:02 am
Do think we will see music go the way movies have gone with each label having their own streaming service for their catalog. The would be a right clusterfuck. But greed clearly doesn’t mind a clusterfuck.
April 27, 2021 @ 8:17 am
I’d say that’s less likely, but who knows? What I see is music continuing to get bogged down in copyright disputes as everyone tries to squeeze every last dime out of each song.
April 28, 2021 @ 4:01 pm
The clowns of the world, selfish money hungry clowns, This singer is bigger and better than them alday long , People WRITE SONGS about these fools with ugly faces
April 30, 2021 @ 5:16 am
Why are these songs being pulled from the spotty and anything else on here? She is a legend in her time our time and in everybody’s time. Coal Miners Daughter is her life story song. If y’all are gonna do this to someone with class, then you should go in and pull all that vulgar crap apps of all the 95% naked women showing off all their glory holes on these pages. That is so screwed up.
April 26, 2021 @ 7:58 pm
I do not even own a CD or Record player anymore, but saved my CDs and albums for this reason.
These songs are all MCA. I wonder if it is their doing?
April 26, 2021 @ 8:13 pm
this is why I want physical copies of all my media. movies and music. this is happening alot and I do not like it. this really sucks. we the fans should have a choice. look how records made a comeback. the fans loose because of this.
April 27, 2021 @ 12:51 pm
Agreed. My wife thought I was a little crazy for wanting the Criterion Collection blu ray for “The Irishman” when it’s a Netflix movie. Well you know, sometimes the internet doesn’t work right!
April 27, 2021 @ 12:47 am
“This is why I want physical copies of all my media”
Me too!.
April 27, 2021 @ 1:30 am
Here we go, first Dwight Yoakam, now Loretta Lynn. Some kind of weird purge is underway and IF that is the case, a lot of people are gonna regret giving up their physical collection.
April 27, 2021 @ 5:28 am
Big Pete, have dan + shay hired hackers to do this purge so their garbage songs look better? hag and the possum, you’re next. 🙂
April 28, 2021 @ 6:41 am
I have heard worse from me . Love to lay you down
You never been this far before just few of Conway an I love Conway. An most definitely with our new breed of what is called country music. Some of which is just to far away from country don’t know what to call it. LORETTA LYNN is with out a dout pure country
April 27, 2021 @ 2:51 am
Getting ready to sell the song catalog? Like Dylan and Nicks?
April 27, 2021 @ 9:09 am
Perhaps. But with all the recent catalog sales, they weren’t preceded with songs getting pulled.
April 27, 2021 @ 3:21 am
This stinks. It lessens the ability of new fans to find her music (and those of other artists as the large spreads). One of the cool things about streaming is that it allows younger people to more easily discover old music.
April 27, 2021 @ 9:09 am
Very true. Even if you have something on vinyl, it doesn’t help that 17 year old that connects with classic country.
April 30, 2021 @ 5:33 am
I’d rather listen to the older country music. Don’t get me wrong, alit of the new country artist like Jessica Lynn and Jess Lee as great, but they’re not Loretta, Reba, Dolly, George, Conway, Will, Patsy or anybody else in the era.
April 27, 2021 @ 3:52 am
If this becomes the norm and the younger generation gets burned with having their media disappear, it could lead to a resurgence in physical media. Never trust the longevity of digital. What’s available today could disappear tomorrow!
April 27, 2021 @ 6:12 am
I don’t trust the integrity of the purveyors of digital music
What could go wrong when you rely exclusively on a handful of oligarchs for important parts of your life?
April 27, 2021 @ 8:09 am
Imagine what is being actively memory-holed by Amazon right now. I know that they have made certain books unavailable and/or insanely expensive. Ditto numerous videos, lectures, and speeches on youtube. Just smoke your pot, eat a Ding Dong, and place some foosball bets from your iPhone. Don’t worry about what we’re doing over here.
May 1, 2021 @ 6:12 am
With books, you OWN a physical book but an “e-book” is just a license to use, with all kinds of restrictions. I don’t know music streaming very well but I suspect there’s something similar going on there.
April 27, 2021 @ 6:08 am
I have 3,000-4,000 CD’s
I have duplicate copies of each of them
I’ll probably make 2-3 more copies of them and keep at least 2 copies in different locations
I’m afraid this will become a trend
Screw MCA
Every artist is happy when they end their indentured servitude with MCA (e.g. Jimmy Buffet)
April 27, 2021 @ 6:43 am
Agree. As annoyimg as it may seem to have stacks of Cds, keep em. Box em up and throw em in the attic or basement if necessary, but keep em. Upload everything first of course and back them up on a seperate hard drive. Of course the Cd sounds waaay better than compressed MP3s. Lossless is the way to go.
And thats not even getting into my vinyl collection. Thats another level entirely. But its my preferred format.
April 27, 2021 @ 12:54 pm
I’m not sure about that one Chris, MCA has been good to George Strait. He seems happy with the label
April 27, 2021 @ 10:58 am
Sort of on topic, where can I stream country music’s dead by Baumann and the moonpies? It’s not on Amazon music and was wondering if it was on any other streaming platforms besides just YouTube.
April 27, 2021 @ 12:12 pm
I’ve got it on Apple Music streaming…for one…
April 27, 2021 @ 11:02 am
Keep it up record labels, this is a great way to get people back to pirating the songs like it’s 2003.
April 27, 2021 @ 11:12 am
I’m glad I can play everything I like myself. Not the same – but it’ll get me through if it all goes to shit…
April 27, 2021 @ 2:18 pm
Greed, probably on the part of the copyright holder, or Spotify, or both.
Honestly, the selection on Spotify is pretty incredible. I suspect it won’t last.
When newspapers first went online it was an all you can eat buffet. Now you’re lucky to read an article a month before you meet the paywall.
Similarly, Netflix when it first got big had a great package deal with a large streaming library plus a dvd by mail. The selection was basically “everything.” Now it’s just streaming for that price and the amount of content has shrunk considerably.
It’s a shame, but that’s the way it tends to go.
April 27, 2021 @ 3:59 pm
This does not surprise me in the least. The corporate music cabal’s ultimate goal is to take every alternative away from the public so they will have no choice to listen to what they push on us. If beating you with a stick does not work, there will be no carrots. Just bigger sticks.
April 27, 2021 @ 5:29 pm
I went to listen to Travis Meadow’s Killin’ Uncle Buzzy recently on Spotify, and all but one track had been pulled. I keep checking, and the other day another song was back up, the rest are still MIA.
I’m guessing it’s publishing issues with Travis, since he’s an indie artist. With Loretta and the others, it’s likely publishing and label battles. And naturally, behind it all is the big green monster, greed.
April 27, 2021 @ 6:50 pm
Loretta Lynn has been a voice for women everywhere. Many just suffer in silence and crying in their pillows a night. Their nightmare went on for years. No one spoke for these lost soul. Until she had the fortitude, courage, heart and det÷rmination to bring it to the light of day. Removing these songs is a slap in the face to our womanhood
April 27, 2021 @ 7:11 pm
This is a shame these songs have been around as long as i can remember. What is the problem with them. There is nothing in them that would hurt anyone.
April 27, 2021 @ 8:32 pm
Ms. Powell,
Unfortunately, there are major problems. Loretta misgenered, subgendered, bigendered, regendered, trigendered, quasigendered, fauxgendered, antigendered, doublegendered, opengendered, closegendered, assgendered, twatgendered, protogendered, biogendered, etc. Worse yet, she claimed to have been married to a man. We all know that these creatures have been completely canceled and no longer exist and/or should no longer exist. This is incredibly problematic. Please tell this old, privileged bag that she is too white to live, her day has passed, we don’t listen to that shit anymore, and she needs to die post haste.
May 2, 2021 @ 10:31 am
I just checked my apple music subscription and everything plays
April 28, 2021 @ 7:24 am
This makes me livid! We spend for monthly music subscription services for what!? To have all our favorite artists taken off! First it was Garth now it’s Loretta now we know Garths music was taken off per his asking because of grade and him morning everyone to buy his albums, but I would never have took Loretta for that kind of person considering she grew up poor in butcher holler. It’s going to get to work the faithful music subscribers in their subscription services because it does them no good anymore. On another note it may not bring as much benefit to the artist either as they like it to because if we have to go to such measures to find their music maybe we shouldn’t have to buy it. It’s all greed believe that there is no other explanation and artist would do this.
April 28, 2021 @ 2:29 pm
Garth never removed his music from any service. He simply refused to allow any platform to use it (which is his right). He did try and come to terms with Apple at one point, but the terms didn’t suit him (I’m guessing money and the ego-boost weren’t enough). In the end he started his own streaming service, then made a deal with Amazon.
Unlike Garth, Loretta does not own her masters, so she had nothing to do with this. Most artists don’t own their masters, and therefore they have no control over these situations. So getting yourself worked up and mad at the artist is fruitless and misguided. The greed, if that is the case here, would have nothing to do with Lynn.
April 28, 2021 @ 5:41 pm
What planet is mad Powell from?
April 29, 2021 @ 9:24 am
This story is FAKE NEWS! All these tracks are available for streaming. Maybe the writer’s computer or phone wasn’t working that day or the writer needed a sensational story to attract attention.
April 29, 2021 @ 9:55 am
No, it’s not. You think someone who have caught it after three days if it was.
April 29, 2021 @ 3:51 pm
Interesting… I have a bunch of Loretta albums set to stream on iTunes. A few songs are not available (“What Kind of Girl [Do You Think I Am?],” ” Another Man Loved Me Last Night”). On the Coal Miner’s Daughter album the title track is swapped out for the version from the Ken Burns documentary and plays just fine (the year on it says 1997, but it sounds like the original to me and not a K-Tel rerecording). And “Rated X” was not available yesterday, but is today…
May 2, 2021 @ 4:41 am
Loretta Lynn has alway been my favorite female country singer. I’m glad I bought a complete CD collection of her music years ago. I still listen to it. I love her duets with Conway Twitty.
May 3, 2021 @ 2:03 pm
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
The corporate music cabal will not stop!! Ever!!! They will not stop until they erase anything and everything they find is not in lock step with their business model. According to them, you have no choice but to accept whatever they put out now.