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Kitty Wells 1964 Album "Country Music Time" released on Decca Records.

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The singles discography of Kitty Wells, an American country artist, consists of ninety singles, nineteen B-sides, and two music videos. In 1949 she was signed to RCA Victor Records, where she released her debut single, "Death at the Bar" also in 1949. Dropped from RCA in 1950, Wells signed with Decca Records and released the single "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" in 1952

Ad featuring Kitty Wells and husband Johnnie Wright's first joint album, We'll Stick Together. It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" was followed by "Paying For That Back Street Affair", a response to Webb Pierce's "Back Street Affair". The single reached number six in the spring of 1953, helping to establish a lasting place at the top of the charts for Wells. Between 1953 and 1955, she was popular on the country charts, and was the only female solo artist at the time to be able to maintain her success. The Music City News Living Legend Award (1993). Native American Music Hall of Fame Inductee (2002). National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress for "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" (2008).

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Kitty Wells was a d wife and mother when her 1952 recording of It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels suddenly made her a star. Birth: August 30, 1919 - Death: July 16, 2012 Birthplace: Nashville, Tennessee. Other female country singers of her day were trying their hands at hard-living, honky-tonk sounds, but it was the intense and piercing style of Kitty Wells, with her gospel-touched vocals and tearful restraint, that resonated with country audiences of the time and broke industry barriers for women. Born Ellen Muriel Deason in Nashville, her country roots ran deep

Wells' first album release was 1956's Country Hit Parade on Decca Records, which compiled her hits during her first four years of recording for the label. Prior to its release, many labels were reluctant to release albums by female country artists until Wells became the first female vocalist to sell records. Following its release, Wells and her label issued three studio albums during the 1950s: Winner of Your Heart (1957), Lonely Street (1958), and Dust on the Bible (1959). In 1963, her fourth compilation album The Kitty Wells Story became her first album to chart among the newly created Billboard Magazine Top Country Albums list, peaking at In 1964, her tenth studio album Especially for You became her first studio album to chart on the same list, peaking at The latter started a string of albums that would.