All photos uploaded successfully, click on the Done button to see the photos in the gallery. 27. She, along with Johnnie and Bobby, joined producers Randall Franks and Alan Autry for the In the Heat of the Night CD “Christmas Time’s A Comin’” performing “Jingle Bells” with the cast on the CD released on Sonlite and MGM/UA for one of the most popular Christmas releases of 1991 and 1992 with Southern retailers.
Johnnie Wright chose the name from a folk song called “Sweet Kitty Wells”. Thank you for fulfilling this photo request.
Acuff advised Wright not to make his wife his show’s headliner, because he thought women could not sell country music records. In 1993, Wells appeared on Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette’s collabotation, Honky Tonk Angels, joining in on their recording of the title track. “I just thought it was another song.” “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels” was an answer song to Hank Thompson’s “The Wild Side of Life”, and its lyrical treatment of seductive, wayward women. 7 on the Billboard Country Chart. 1 on the Billboard Country Chart, and became her second chart-topper. Wells recorded for RCA Victor in 1949, but all of her major hits were made after that for the Decca label and several of her early records were duets with country stars like Red Foley and Webb Pierce. Born Ellen Muriel Deason, her 1952 hit recording, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels", made her the first female country singer to top the U.S. country charts.
Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com: accessed ), memorial page for Kitty Wells (30 Aug 1919–16 Jul 2012), Find a Grave Memorial no. Ruby recorded an album for the Kapp label, while Bobby recorded albums for both Decca and ABC Dot. The duo didn’t record together again until 1964 with the Top 10 hit, “Finally”.
Her father, Charles, and his brother were musicians, and her mother, Myrtle, was a gospel singer. Some of Wells’ albums peaked within the Top 10 on that chart. In 1962, Wells had three Top 10 hits with “Will Your Lawyer Talk to God”, “Unloved Wanted,” and “We Missed You”. But it wasn't just the city she was born into that was destiny. Are you sure that you want to delete this memorial? In addition, Wells had five siblings: Jewel, William, Orville, Raymond, and Mae. “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels” also crossed over to Billboard’s pop charts, hitting No.
In 1979, at age 60, she was back on the Billboard charts with a modest hit, “I Thank You for the Roses”. Verify and try again.Are you sure that you want to report this flower to administrators as offensive or abusive?This flower has been reported and will not be visible while under review.Quickly see who the memorial is for and when they lived and died and where they are buried.For memorials with more than one photo, additional photos will appear here or on the photos tab.All photos appear on this tab and here you can update the sort order of photos on memorials you manage. Johnnie died 33 days before their 74th wedding anniversary. She became the first female country star to have her own syndicated television show, but the program could not compete against shows starring more contemporary male artists like Porter Wagoner and Bill Anderson and only ran for one year. She has published more than 60 songs.She continued to put much of herself into her songs throughout her career, inspiring other female country singers to record risky material as well. She died at her home from complications of a stroke. An exhibit honoring Wells at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville ran from August 2008 through June 2009.
Wells’ sound changed slightly due to Bradley’s influence, incorporating some of the new Nashville sound into her material. lang’s “Honky Tonk Angels Medley”, nominated for a Grammy award in 1989. 15 on CMT’s 40 Greatest Women of Country Music in 2002. Owen Bradley took over as Wells’ producer in the 1960s. She released her first studio album in 1957 with Winner of Your Heart. That same year, her singles began to return to the Top 10 with “This White Circle on My Finger” and “Password”, both of which peaked at No. In 1953, Wells had two Top 10 hits with “Hey Joe” and “Cheatin’s A Sin”. Mrs. Kitty Allen, 79, of Distant, passed away December 25, 1964 in the Armstrong County Memorial Hospital, where she had been a patient for eight days.
At the age of 18 she married Johnnie Wright, a cabinet-maker who aspired to country-music stardom (which he’d eventually achieve as half of the duo Johnnie & Jack).Wells sang with Wright and his sister Louise Wright; the three toured as Johnnie Right and the Harmony Girls. She and Johnnie also had 8 grandchildren, 12 great grandchildren, and 5 great-great grandchildren. (Certain female country songs, notably Patsy Montana’s million-selling “I Want to Be a Cowboy’s Sweetheart” predate the creation of Billboard’s country chart in 1944.) Wells entered the 1960s on top with songs like “Heartbreak U.S.A.” and “Day into Night”.
93736711, citing Spring Hill Cemetery, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave . The song led to a string of hit singles from the duo within the next two decades, including 1954’s “As Long as I Live”, which peaked at No. The next year, Wells partnered with country star Red Foley for the duet “One By One”, which peaked at No. NBC, in particular, was troubled by the lyric, “It brings back memories of when I was a trustful wife”.
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