Own a piece of Rock n Roll and Country music History from 1956!
Cover is VG++ (creasing, discoloration)
Record is G (well played)
Labels are clean
Visually Graded
Tracklist
Side 1
1 Makin' Believe
2 Release Me
3 Cheatin's A Sin
4 There's Poison In Your Heart
5 I've Kissed You My Last Time
6 Whose Shoulder Will You Cry On
Side 2
1 It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
2 The Things I Might Have Been
3 Paying For That Back Street Affair
4 I Don't Claim To Be An Angel
5 I'm Too Lonely To Smile
6 Searching For A Soldier's Grave
She was the first female country singer to release an LP of her own.
Ellen Muriel Deason (August 30, 1919 – July 16, 2012), known professionally as Kitty Wells, was an American pioneering female country music singer. She broke down a female barrier in country music with her 1952 hit recording, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" which also made her the first female country singer to top the U.S. country charts, and turned her into the first female country star. Her Top 10 hits continued until the mid-1960s, inspiring a long list of female country singers who came to prominence in the 1960s.
Wells ranks as the sixth most successful female vocalist in the history of Billboard's country charts, according to historian Joel Whitburn's book The Top 40 Country Hits, behind Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Reba McEntire, Tammy Wynette, and Tanya Tucker. In 1976, she was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. In 1991, she became the third country music artist, after Roy Acuff and Hank Williams, and the eighth woman to receive the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Her accomplishments earned her the nickname "Queen of Country Music".