#kitty wells

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Country music pioneer Kitty Wells was #botd in 1919

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Country to City: some of the Grand Ole Opry troupe outside the Palace Theatre, November 2, 1955. From left to right: Irving Berger, manager of the Palace; Roy Acuff; Ruby Wells; Kitty Wells; Johnnie Wright; and Jack Anglin.

Photo: John Lent for the AP

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Honky Tonk Angels' Medley: In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down) / You Nearly Lose Your Mind / Blues Stay Away from Me

Loretta Lynn, Brenda Lee, Kitty Wells, and k.d. lang The medley was recorded in 1988 and appeared on lang's "Shadowland"

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Bobbie Gentry (1942-) solo Songs: "Ode to Billie Joe," "Louisiana Man" Propaganda: "Haunting voice. Incredible songwriting. She was an icon and a trail blazer and an inspiration for women in music, especially country music, to this day. Also. She was a knockout."

Kitty Wells (1919-2012) solo Songs: "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels," "Searching (For Someone Like You)" Propaganda: see visual

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Kitty Wells

Happy birthday Ellen Muriel Deason, aka Kitty Wells!

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Kitty Wells and Red Foley - One by One (1954)

A classic country duet

My plans and hopes have tumbled down

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Is It Really Over? - Kitty Wells

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Married or not, however, a parent has a duty to support a child. And this matters a whole lot more than divvying up summer homes. Ultimately, marriage is for the sake of those children. And a couple who has no children, that's not a family. They are just two friends; friends with benefits and insurance coverage but just friends nonetheless. But divorce lawyers don't care about familial bonds; they are, by definition, in the destruction business. They destroy families. How many of them are least tangentially responsible for teen suicides and serial killers? Like generals who don't have to see the boys they send to war, they feign innocence with blood on their hands.

Bob Dylan • The Philosophy of Modern Song

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Kitty Wells and Johnny Cash together in 1956 - Kitty Wells ( 1919-2012 ) Johnny Cash ( 1932-2003 )

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Happy birthday Kitty Wells

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Kitty Wells- Kitty Wells' Country Hit Parade (Traditional Country, Country, Honky Tonk) Released: 1956 [Decca Records] Producer(s): Paul Cohen

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Kitty Wells

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Kitty Wells - The Winner Of Your Heart

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The silly Wade variants and their favourite feral Peanut variant

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The Queen of Country Music

MANDALIT DEL BARCO: Wells proved to record labels that a female country singer could make hits, and make them with tearjerkers about infidelity, about being a divorced mother, about broken relationships.

EDDIE STUBBS: Kitty talked about things like that, what it was like to be the abused one left at home.

BARCO: Eddie Stubbs is one of the voices of the Grand Ole Opry, and host on an old time country music radio show on Nashville's WSM.

STUBBS: Her songs straight forward. And it was her honesty and her sincerity and her believability, and the way she sang those songs that really put them across.

Michael Ochs

She was born in the city that became the capitol of country music. Muriel Ellen Deason quit high school to work in a Nashville shirt factory and began singing and playing guitar for local dances and radio stations, with her cousin and sisters. Then she eloped with musician Johnnie Wright, with whom she would continue to perform the rest of her life.

[KITTY] WELLS: When I sing a song, I don't consider it, you know, as being part of me or part of my life or anything. Of course, people that know me, they know I never was like that.

STUBBS: She had this proper and unpretentious style that, I think, really helped sort of get over some of the barriers that county music had at the time.

BARCO: Writer Michael McCall is an historian for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.

MICHAEL MCCALL: She had a very plaintive voice that was very clear and kind of piercing. You know, it felt grounded in a good old fashioned style of Americana. You know, she dressed in gingham dresses, and she very clearly, sort of, saw herself as a housewife and a mother, and a singer.

BARCO: And she continued singing into her 80's, giving it her all, as she always had.

WELLS: You just get the feeling and then get out there and sing it with all your heart. You know, put your whole heart into it. Most of them that I sang, I always put a lot of feeling in them.

BARCO: Kitty Wells had 35 Billboard Top 10 hits and was elected into the County Music Hall of Fame in 1976. 

In 1991, Wells became the third country music artist, after Roy Acuff and Hank Williams, and the eighth woman to receive the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Wells' success and influence on country music garnered her the title "Queen of Country Music".