In August of 1978, Barbara Mandrell released “Sleeping Single in a Double Bed,” her first #1 hit and the leadoff single from her star-signaling album "Moods." Many of Mandrell's 1970s hits focused on complicated matters of the heart, including frank cheating songs “The Midnight Oil,” “Married but Not to Each Other,” and “Woman to Woman.” “Sleeping Single in a Double Bed,” penned by Kye Fleming and Dennis Morgan, offered a blunt study of lovelorn regret, packaged within alternately bouncy and mou

Barbara Mandrell: Country Music Icon's Journey