Wednesday, 18 July 2012

Kitty Wells: Pop's Country Godmother

Listening to Kitty Wells on an old Decca LP Kitty Wells' Greatest Hits reissued on tape was a revelation. She sounds tense, mannered, almost intensely even about what's going on . . . It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels was the first No. 1 country

Country singer Kitty Wells, the most successful and influential female country singer of the 1950s and early '60s and one of a handful of women to have significant impact at a time when the music was overwhelmingly dominated by men, died Monday in

Listening to Kitty Wells on an old Decca LP Kitty Wells' Greatest Hits reissued on tape was a revelation. She sounds tense, mannered, almost intensely even about what's going on . . . It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels was the first No. 1 country

Kitty Wells, Country Music's First Female Superstar, Dies at 92. Kitty Wells, best known for her 1952 hit, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels," died today from complications from a stroke. She was 92. Wells released

Kitty Wells, the first female superstar of country music, has died at the age of 92. The singer's family says Wells died at her home Monday after complications from a stroke.


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