We had many wonderful laughs together, cried over certain things together, and she will be missed,” Dolly Parton wrote.

NEW YORK -- Jeannie Seely, the soulful country music singer behind such standards like “Don’t Touch Me,” has died. She was 85. Her publicist, Don Murry Grubbs, said she died Friday after succumbing to complications from an intestinal infection.

Jeannie Seely won a Grammy at just 26 for her song Don't Touch Me, which charted highly in the US, and enjoyed an illustrious career which spanned several decades