Mary Jean Shurtz

Country: United States
IPI: 00028597940 2 works
Affiliation: BMI
Comments: Mary Jean Shurtz was a housewife living in Newcomerstown, Ohio. She was a regular listener to many day time country music shows including those on WWVA, based in nearby Wheeling, West Virginia. She wrote poems that were read on these radio shows and some were put to music and recorded. She also became a country music journalist.

Songs written by Mary Jean Shurtz

Title	Written by	Originally by	Original date	Covered by
Before You Break My Heart	Mary Jean Shurtz, Shorty Warren, Chaw Mank	"Skeets" Yaney and The Ozark Champions	1947	Covered by (2 artists)
Down in Nashville, Tennessee	Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart, Cowboy Copas, Mary Jean Shurtz, Charles Mank	Cowboy Copas	November 1947	Covered by (2 artists)
There Stands the Glass	Webb Pierce, Russ E. Hull, Mary Jean Shurtz	Blaine Smith	September 1952	Covered by (34 artists)