release for the label was the single "Makin' the Best of a Bad Situation", which made it to the Top 15. These three records also crossed to the Billboard Hot 100 or Bubbling Under The Top 100, and Easy Listening Top 50. She continued writing songs and playing guitar on the records of other contemporary artists, such as Jerry Jeff Walker, Guy Clark, and Mike Auldridge. At the same time, she also made some more of her own recordings. In 1975, she had her last chart entry as a performer, with the song "Uncle Hiram and His Homemade Beer", which made it to the Top 50. She teamed up with Jerry Reed to write songs for the Smokey and the Bandit soundtrack in 1977, with Reed's vocal of "East Bound and Down" reaching No. 2 on the U.S. country chart. Her first overseas tour was made in 1980, and, the next year, she played with The Kelvin Henderson Band and Country Couples in England, Scotland, and the Netherlands. In 1981, John Denver recorded a country pop hit with her "Some Days Are Diamonds (Some Days Are Stone)", which Bobby Bare had previously recorded. Together with Don Schlitz, she composed songs for the movies Smokey and The Bandit 3 and Alamo Bay. For several years after, she wrote and toured with Lewis Grizzard as opening attraction for the Evening With Lewis Grizzard stage show. She wrote songs and backed Grizzard on 1991's Don't Believe I'da Told That (billed by Grizzard as "the Dick Feller Trio"), and also co-produced Grizzard's 1994 album Alimony: The Bill You Get, for the Thrill You Got. She wrote many songs with Sheb Wooley on the album Kickin' Asphalt, which was released in November 1999. Del Reeves performed another Feller–Wooley composition on the same album. Through the years, she has also written and performed a number of commercials for different companies and products, such as the Dodge television commercials "Do You Like Trucks?" and "Little Boy's Dream" and the Pepsi jingle "By Any Other Name". She has also made commercials for AT&T calling cards, Beech-Nut tobacco, Colgate-Palmolive, and Ponderosa Steakhouse. Gender transition In 2014, Rose published an autobiography, Some Days Are Diamonds, in which she came out publicly as a trans woman and adopted the name Deena Kaye Rose. Her book was rejected by the Nashville library system in 2019. Awards Five of Rose's songs have won