Kitty Wells
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Country music pioneer Kitty Wells was born Ellen Deason on August 30, 1919, in Nashville, Tennessee. She broke down many barriers for female country music performers and became the first female artist to top the country music charts. Kitty Wells began releasing singles in 1949 and had her first number 1 hit with âIt Wasnât God Who Made Honky Tonk Angelsâ in 1952. She scored 16 Top 10 hits including âPaying for the Back Street Affairâ (1953), âMaking Believeâ (1955), âSearching (For Someone Like You)â (1956), âI Canât Stop Loving Youâ (1958), âMommy for a Dayâ (1959), âAmigoâs Guitarâ (1959), and âLeft to Rightâ (1960) before scoring another number 1 with 1961âs âHeartbreak USA.â Nine more Top 10 hits followed in the next few years but by 1966, her releases were comfortably making the Top 50 while new country music artists were dominating the charts. Apart from her solo hits, she scored another number 1 with âOne by One,â a duet with Red Foley. Other duet partners through ought her career included Webb Pierce, Johnnie Wright, and Roy Drusky. The first real female country music superstar, Kitty Wells was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1976. She was the third country music artist to be given a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and the eighth woman overall. Kitty Wells died after suffering a stroke on July 16, 2012, at the age of 92.
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- Heartbreak U.S.A.
- It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
- Touch and Go Heart
- We Buried Her Beneath The Willows
- What About You?
- What I Believe Dear (Is All up to You)
- Goodbye Mr Brown
- We'll Stick Together
- Welcome To My World
- When I'm With You
- Whose Shoulder Will You Cry On
- Pan American by Kitty Wells
- Will Your Lawyer Talk To God
- You Can't Conceal A Broken Heart
- You Don't Hear
- You Said You Could Do Without Me
- You and Me
- You're Not Easy to Forget
- Your Wild Life's Gonna Get You Down
- Old Kris Kringle
- Send Me the Pillow That You Dream On by Kitty Wells
- The Church In The Wildwood
- (I'll Always Be Your) Fraulein
- (I've Got My) One-Way Ticket To The Sky
