2015 will mark the 24th year since Dottie West passed away, but she hasn't been forgotten. There's a movement to get her inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, fronted by Billboard and Steve Wariner.
The Country HOF has an interesting induction system that requires selections from three different categories, including one for "veterans" from an older era.
West contributed a lot of great music in her career, but she never notched a solo No. 1 country album (though she managed to snag the top spot with Kenny Rogers on 1978's Every Time Two Fools Collide).
Her plight is similar to 2014 inductee Mac Wiseman, who was picked in the Veterans category despite never having a No. 1 single.
Billboard championed West's accolades in a story Sunday.
"It's time that the Country Music Hall of Fame needs to take a look at a native Tennesseean who made history several times over -- as a writer first, and then as a performer," the site wrote. "She won award after award; charted duets with some of the biggest stars of all time; performed some of the biggest commercial jingles of the 1970s, which you'll read about in just a few seconds; and along with Kenny Rogers and the Oak Ridge Boys, was part of one of country music's first arena tours."
Country great Steve Wariner added his two cents.
"You can ask Hall of Famer and legendary artist Kenny Rogers," Wariner said. "He'll tell you Dottie West should be in the Hall of Fame. After all, she is the first female country artist to win a Grammy Award -- and she wrote the song! 'Here Comes My Baby.'"
Check out one of West's finest moments below:
