GREENWOOD, LEE
(*1942)
GREENWOOD, LEE (b. Melvin L. G., near Sacramento, Calif., October 27, 1942) One of the last of the glitzy Nashville singers, smoky-voiced Greenwood had his biggest success in the early-to-mid-1980s with a series of ballads culminating in the patriotic showstopper God Bless the U.S.A. Raised by his grandparents on a chicken farm outside of Sacramento, Lee was already playing sax and piano as a youngster in a local band called My Moonbeams. By 1958 he was performing with local country artist…