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[[Kitty Wells]] was born Ellen Muriel Deason on August 30th 1919 in Nashville, Tennessee. She was the first female country music star at a time when most country singers were male or at least singing from the male perspective. She started out singing with her husband Johnnie Wright in the forties but she planned to retire from doing this to raise her children.
However Paul Cohen of Decca Records was looking for a female artist to record a song in respinse to a Hank Thompson hit. This becamse her first number one song as a solo artist and was released in 1952. Entitled "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky-Tonk Angels", it was a response to a song by Hank Thompson's song "The Wild Side of Life" about an adulterous woman. Kitty's response song made the point that men also were to blame for adultery. Kitty's song was banned from several stations.
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After the 1970s Kitty's popularity waned although she continued to play minor venues and put out several more albums. She was the second female inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame (the first was Patsy Cline) in 1976.
Kitty Wells and her husband Johnnie Wright performed their final gig in 2000 at the Nashville Nightlife Theatre on New Year's Eve.
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* [[I Just Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: In "I Gave My Wedding Dress Away" the speaker wants her beloved and her younger sister to be happy so she gives her sister her wedding dress.
* [[The Mistress]]: Figures heavily in Kitty's songs. Sometimes she's the villain and sometimes Kitty is pointing out that she isn't the only one to blame.
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