Trivia

The daughter of Arthur and Tressa Peterson, she grew up in a very musical family. She, her brother Jim and two of his friends formed a small group called the Ja-Da Quartet. They would ride around in the back of a pickup truck singing to people. After many years of traveling around on tours, she was discovered by Bob Sweeney and Aaron Ruben.

As of 1998, was working for the Nevada Film Commission.

Actress and singer, best known for playing Charlene Darling on The Andy Griffith Show (1960). She eventually became a de facto member of Griffith's unofficial repertory of actors, returning to the sitcom and its spin-offs Gomer Pyle: USMC (1964) and Mayberry R.F.D. (1968) as other characters.

The youngest of four children, she was born to Arthur and Tressa Hill Peterson. Her father was a doctor and her mother a homemaker.