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George Morgan Little Dutch Girl – by Patrick Ranasinghe   George Thomas Morgan (June 28, 1924 – July 7, 1975) was a mid-20th-century American country music singer. He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame and a former member of the Grand Ole Opry. In 1959 “Little Dutch Girl” charted 20 in US Country chart He is best known for his 1949 hit single “Candy Kisses”. He is also the father of Lorrie Morgan, who is also a country music singer. Morgan was born to Zachariah “Zach” Morgan and Ethel Turner in Waverly, Tennessee, United States, but was raised in Barberton, Ohio. He was, along with a few other contemporaries (most notably Eddy Arnold and Jim Reeves), referred to as a “country crooner;” his singing style being more similar to that of Bing Crosby or Perry Como than that of Ernest Tubb or Lefty Frizzell. Morgan was ...