Kitty Wells Greatest Hits

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Ellen Muriel Deason (August 30, 1919 – July 16, 2012), known professionally as Kitty Wells, was an American pioneering female country music singer. She broke down a female barrier in country music with her 1952 hit recording, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" which also made her the first female country singer to top the U.S. country charts, and turned her into the first female country star. Her Top 10 hits continued until the mid-1960s, inspiring a long list of female country singers who came to prominence in the 1960s.

Wells ranks as the sixth most successful female vocalist in the history of Billboard's country charts, according to historian Joel Whitburn's book The Top 40 Country Hits, behind Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Reba McEntire, Tammy Wynette, and Tanya Tucker. In 1976, she was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. In 1991, she became the third country music artist, after Roy Acuff and Hank Williams, and the eighth woman to receive the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Her accomplishments earned her the nickname "Queen of Country Music".

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty_Wells

[WhiskeyX]

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[onona]

I love Kitty Wells ! Thanks for posting

[Fiji Hill]

Kitty Wells' hit It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels was her answer to Hank Thompson's hit The Wild Side of Life (1952). Lonnie Smith, in turn, answered Kitty Wells with You're My Honky Tonk Angel (1953).

[matthew fuller]

I think that she is great, thanks for posting, but I have been there before, and even recorded some of the records (with Sound Recorder). Here is her website-

http://www.kittywells.com/

[Jagdgewehr]

Thank you for posting this. It certainly is a wonderful distraction. I’ve loved her music for as long as I could remember.

[SuperLuminal]

Thanks...I really miss country music...

[vetvetdoug]

She was married to Johnny Wright who was a partner in the duo, Johnny and Jack, that had several hits in Country and Western category.