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13 de dic. de 2019 · At KWKH [1994] - Johnnie & Jack With Kitty Wells - YouTube. Take's Early Country Album Channel. 5.5K subscribers. 48. 2.6K views 4 years ago. Label: Bear Family Records - BCD 15808-AH...
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17 de ene. de 2007 · Johnnie & Jack (plus Johnnie's wife, Kitty Wells), went to KWKH, Shreveport, in 1948. Part of their income came from 15-minute sponsored radio shows and a few were recorded onto acetate. Miraculously, they've survived, and they're complete here. Songs include Orange Blossom Special, Singing Waterfall, My Bucket's Got A Hole In it ...
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Louisiana Hayride was a radio and later television country music show broadcast from the Shreveport Municipal Memorial Auditorium in Shreveport, Louisiana, that during its heyday from 1948 to 1960 helped to launch the careers of some of the greatest names in American country and western music. Created by KWKH station manager Henry Clay, the ...
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Early life
Wells was born Ellen Muriel Deason on August 30, 1919 as one of six children of Charles Cary Deason and his wife, Myrtle, in Nashville, Tennessee. (She is one of the few well known country performers to have been born in Nashville.) Wells began singing as a child, learning guitar from her father, who was a brakeman on the Tennessee Central Railroad. Her father and his brother were musicians, and her mother, Myrtle, was a gospel singer.As a teenager, Wells sang with her sisters, who performed...
Music career
Wells sang with Wright and his sister Louise Wright; the three toured as Johnnie Right and the Harmony Girls. Soon, Wright met Jack Anglin (who married Johnnie's sister Louise), and they became the duo Johnnie & Jack. Their band became known first as the Tennessee Hillbillies and then the Tennessee Mountain Boys. At this time, Wells adopted "Kitty Wells" as her stage name. Johnnie Wright chose the name from a folk song called "Sweet Kitty Wells". Wells toured with the pair, occasionally perfo...
Personal life
Wells married Johnnie Wright in 1937. She was widowed 33 days before their 74th wedding anniversary when Johnnie died in 2011, aged 97. Kitty and Johnnie had three children, Ruby, Bobby, and Carol Sue, eight grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren, and seven great-great-grandchildren. Carol Sue released a single with Wells in the mid '50s, titled "How Far Is Heaven", which peaked at No. 11 on the Billboard Country Chart.While two of Wells' children pursued music careers, Carol Sue did not, but...
First solo female country artist to have a number 1 record on the chartsFirst female country artist to sell one million recordsFirst woman to headline a major tourFirst woman to headline a syndicated television variety showAt KWKH: JOHNNY & JACK with KITTY WELLS: Amazon.es: CDs y vinilos} Saltar al contenido principal.es. Hola Elige tu dirección ...
Wells caught the attention of Paul Cohen, head of country recording for Decca, and Owen Bradley, leader on Cohen’s sessions. The two men considered J. D. Miller’s “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels,” a good choice for Wells to answer Hank Thompson’s chart-topping “Wild Side of Life,” which blamed party-loving women for ...
