On July 16, 2012 country music singing star Kitty Wells passed away in Madison, Tennessee at age ninety-two. Kitty Wells was the first female country music megastar and the one who paved the way for all the female country headliners who followed. In 1952 Kitty Wells was the first female recording artist ever to score a national number-one hit single, and she went on to place an astonishing 81 hit singles on the national top 100 country music popularity charts during a singing career that extended over six decades. This week Joel Najman’s My Place program celebrates the life in music of Kitty Wells, "The Queen Of Country Music".
Kitty Wells, “The Queen Of Country Music” 1919-2012
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Playlist:
8:04 pm
- Searching (For Someone Like You)
- Artist Name: Kitty Wells
- CD/Album: no album name - 45rpm single
- Record co./Cat #: Decca 29956
8:08 pm
- Death At The Bar
- Artist Name: Kity Wells
- CD/Album: no album name - 78rpm single
- Record co./Cat #: RCA Victor 21-0032
8:12 pm
- How Far Is Heaven
- Artist Name: Kitty Wells
- CD/Album: no album name - 45rpm single
- Record co./Cat #: RCA Victor 48-0384
8:16 pm
- The Wild Side Of Life
- Artist Name: Hank Thompson And His Brazos Valley Boys
- CD/Album: no album name - 45rpm single
- Record co./Cat #: Capitol F1942
8:20 pm
- It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
- Artist Name: Kitty Wells
- CD/Album: no album name - 45rpm single
- Record co./Cat #: Decca 9-28232
8:24 pm
- Back Street Affair
- Artist Name: Webb Pierce
- CD/Album: no album name - 45rpm single
- Record co./Cat #: Decca 9-28369
8:28 pm
- Paying For That Back Street Affair
- Artist Name: Kitty Wells
- CD/Album: no album name - 45rpm single
- Record co./Cat #: Decca 28578
8:32 pm
- Cheatin's A Sin
- Artist Name: Kitty Wells
- CD/Album: no album name - 45rpm single
- Record co./Cat #: Decca 28931
8:36 pm
- One By One
- Artist Name: Kitty Wells & Red Foley
- CD/Album: no album name - 45rpm single
- Record co./Cat #: Decca 29065
8:40 pm
- Makin' Believe
- Artist Name: Kitty Wells
- CD/Album: no album name - 45rpm single
- Record co./Cat #: Decca 29419
8:44 pm
- Whose Shoulder Will You Cry On
- Artist Name: Kitty Wells
- CD/Album: no album name - 45rpm single
- Record co./Cat #: Decca 29419
8:48 pm
- Amigo's Guitar
- Artist Name: Kitty Wells
- CD/Album: no album name - 45rpm single
- Record co./Cat #: Decca 30987
8:50 pm
- Heartbreak U.S.A.
- Artist Name: Kitty Wells
- CD/Album: no album name - 45rpm single
- Record co./Cat #: Decca 31246
8:52 pm
- Will Your Lawyer Talk To God
- Artist Name: Kitty Wells
- CD/Album: no album name - 45rpm single
- Record co./Cat #: Decca 31349
8:54 pm
- My Loved Ones Are Waitin' For Me
- Artist Name: Kitty Wells
- CD/Album: Dust On The Bible
- Record co./Cat #: Decca DL7 8858
8:56 pm
- This White Circle On My Finger
- Artist Name: Kitty Wells
- CD/Album: no album name - 45rpm single
- Record co./Cat #: Decca 31580