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The Kitty Wells Family Gospel Sing is a gospel music album recorded by Kitty Wells and released in 1965 on the Decca label (DL 4679). [1] Thom Owens of Allmusic called it "a good, but unremarkable, country gospel LP."
Dust on the Bible is an album recorded by Kitty Wells and released in 1959 on the Decca label (DL 8858). The Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music called it "a classic of country-style gospel." The Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music called it "a classic of country-style gospel."
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 barrier for women 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 ...
In 1979, Wells and her husband formed the label Rubocca Records, and Wells issued her final studio albums in 1979 and 1981 on Rubocca respectively. [ clarification needed ] [ 8 ] Hopefully one day all of Kitty Wells later Decca/Mca recordings from the 1960’s and 1970’s will be on CD discography on compact disc as of 2024 is selective.
Especially for You is an album recorded by Kitty Wells and released in 1964 on the Decca label (DL 4493). [2] The album included three hit singles: "Unloved Unwanted", "Will Your Lawyer Talk to God", and "We Missed You". Thom Owens of Allmusic called the album "an exceptional mid-'60s LP." [3]
Singing on Sunday is a gospel album recorded by Kitty Wells and released in 1962 on the Decca label (DL 4270). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Thom Owens of Allmusic called it "enjoyable but unexeptional." [ 2 ]
Prior to the 1940s, divorce was a taboo topic in popular music. "Will Your Lawyer Talk To God" was one of the early songs to address the topic explicitly, along with Hank Snow's "Married by the Bible, Divorced by the Law". [4] The song explored the contrasting approaches to divorce by "manmade laws" and "the final judgment" of God.
Wells made a cameo guest-vocalist appearance on a cover version recorded by Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette, for the album Honky Tonk Angels. [16] Early in her career, a then little known Parton also recorded a solo version of the song, including it on a 1963 Kitty Wells/Patsy Cline tribute album.