The "first birthday party" of legend Loretta Lynn (at the age of 87)



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Loretta Lynn's six decades of revolutionary country music and the film adaptation of her life in 1980, "Coal Miner's Daughter," led her from Kentucky's poverty to American legend. But for all those years, she says she's never organized a birthday party … until now. In early April, superstars and 12,000 fans gathered to celebrate his life and musical legacy in Nashville. Jeffrey Brown reports.

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