Title: Singer-Songwriter Holly Dunn Dies at 59 | CMT
Headings: Singer-Songwriter Holly Dunn Dies at 59
Singer-Songwriter Holly Dunn Dies at 59
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Content: She subsequently worked as an air personality at radio station WWWW in Detroit and then switched from music to painting. Of her 21 charted singles, Dunn wrote or co-wrote 13, including her two No. 1’s — “Are You Ever Gonna Love Me” (1989) and “You Really Had Me Going” (1990). Two of her chart records were duets — “A Face in the Crowd” (with Michael Martin Murphey in 1987) and “Maybe” (with Kenny Rogers in 1990.) Dunn switched from MTM to Warner Bros. Records in 1989. It was here that she aroused some criticism with her self-penned single, “Maybe I Mean Yes,” which came out in 1991, just as the subject of date rape and the slogan “No means no” were gaining currency. The refrain of the song was, “When I say no, I mean maybe, or maybe I mean yes.” Some music critics and many radio programmers maintained that the lyrics were implicitly offensive. Even so, the song went to No. 48 before her record label stopped promoting the track.