Country Legend Morgan Dee Has Died
Legendary country music star Morgan Dee has died. He was 86. Dee started singing in bars on the hillbilly circuit around the Midwest when he was sixteen and released he first Platinum-reaching album at the age of eighteen. He was married eight times. His last ex-wife claimed Dee woke her up repeatedly in the middle of the night singing loudly. That marriage lasted only a month, but that wasn’t his shortest one. Dee recorded more than 75 albums, many with other country stars and singing legends. His passion was collecting salt and pepper shakers and amassed the world’s largest collections appraised at more than $25M with more than 8,000 pieces. Dee was also an ordained minister and married more than 1,000 couples over the years. Dee was also the owner-operator of Nashville-based Country Car Wash, a chain of hand-wash car wash services where all employees wear “Daisy Dukes”—even the men. Morgan Dee will be buried in his custom-built Cadillac Escalade along with all of his recordings, ex-wives, his car wash employees, and shaker collection in an Egyptian-style tomb on his large estate in Nashville.