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Vicki Lawrence spent eleven years on The Carol Burnett Show creating characters that included the cantankerous Mama Thelma Harper, later spun off into her own sitcom, Mama's Family. In between, she had an unlikely detour as a one-hit wonder singer: 'The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia' reached number one in the U.S. and Canada in 1973, and was later covered by Reba McEntire.