CINCINNATI (AP) – Bonnie Lou, a pioneering country music artist and rock ‘n’ roll singer, has died. She was 91. Her husband, Milton Okum, says she died in a Cincinnati nursing home early Tuesday. Born in Towanda, Illinois, Lou began singing on local radio stations in the Midwest at age 16. A year later she was part of a musical group that could be heard nationwide. She had Top 10 country hits with “Tennessee Wig Walk” and “Seven Lonely Days.” Her first rock ‘n’ roll record, “Daddy-O,” rose to No. 14 on the Billboard chart. She later became co-host of a Cincinnati TV show and performed on the television version of a country and western show that boosted her career as a young radio singer. Lou performed in public occasionally into her 80s.
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