"We had many wonderful laughs together, cried over certain things together and she will be missed," the musician's friend Dolly Parton wrote in a statement.

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.

Soulful country music star Jeannie Seely, of the Grammy-winning hit 'Don't Touch Me', has died at the age of 85. As reported by foreign media, singer-songwriter Jeannie Seely, best identified for her contributions to country music,