In Fall 2003, Seely released a new album, which was marketed towards Bluegrass music titled Life's Highway, which received high critical acclaim.
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She served as an opening act for Willie Nelson's road show, and also appeared in his film Honeysuckle Rose, and also recorded for the soundtrack, which eventually received a "Platinum" rating by the RIAA.
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She played "Miss Mona" in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas play as well as playing Jean Shepard's daughter and Lorrie Morgan's mother in the Country music musical Takin' It Home.
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Today, Seely greatly misses West, and she was played by Cathy Worthington in the TV-movie about West's life in 1995, titled Big Dreams and Broken Hearts: The Dottie West Story, starring Michele Lee.
Named after the first fallen WWII soldier from the City of West Orange, it has been used for graduations, city meetings, board meetings, and performances (including one mid-1970s concert by celebrities Jack Greene and Jeannie Seely), until 2003, when West Orange-Cove declared it unusable due to damages from age.
However Burgess' versions of both "Don't Touch Me" and "Misty Blue" were both overshadowed, the first by the concurrent release of a more successful version of "Don't Touch Me" by Jeannie Seely - for whom Hank Cochran (then Seely's husband) had written the song.
I Dream of Jeannie | John Seely Brown | Jeannie Seely | J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone | Jeannie C. Riley | Jeannie Carson | Jeannie Baliles | Jeannie Blaylock | Tim Seely | Seely | Jeannie Longo | Jeannie Linero | Jeannie Leavitt | Jeannie Hopkirk | David Seely | Clinton B. Seely |
Since moving to Nashville in 1987, Marion has toured with the likes of Steven Curtis Chapman, Tony Elenburg, Shenandoah, Beth Moore and Jeannie Seely of the Grand Ole Opry.
In 2002, Howard made her acting debut with a small role in the feature film Changing Hearts starring Faye Dunaway, which also featured Howard's friend and country singer, Jeannie Seely.
Many other artists have covered the song, including Bobby Bare (1964), Merle Haggard (1967), Jeannie Seely (1968), Connie Smith (1969), Doug Jernigan (1970), Rattlesnake Annie (1981), The Grateful Dead (1982) and Barb Jungr (2005).