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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 ...
Kitty Wells and Johnnie Wright were married on October 30, 1937. [1] Together they had three children, Ruby (1939–2009), Bobby., [4] and Carol Sue. Each of their children enjoyed minor success individually as recording artists.
Wright with Roy Acuff, her parents, Kitty Wells and Johnnie Wright, and her uncle, Jack Anglin, as they played the RKO Palace in New York in 1955. Ruby Wright (October 27, 1939 – September 27, 2009) [1] was an American country music singer-songwriter. Wright was the daughter of country singers Kitty Wells and Johnnie Wright. [1]
Wright appeared with his parents and sisters, Ruby and Carol Sue, on the Kitty Wells Family Show a syndicated television show in the early 1960s. He also toured with his parents from the 1960s until Johnnie and Kitty retired from the road in 2007.
Along with Kitty Wells, her back-to-back hits made Shepard one of the first solo female country artists to make the US country top ten. [27] Shepard's success led to her induction into the cast of the Grand Ole Opry. The induction took place on her birthday in November 1955 [31] and she would remain a member for 60 consecutive years. [18]
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The Kitty Wells Show is a live album recorded at a concert by Kitty Wells, her son Bobby Wright, her husband Johnny Wright, singer Bill Phillips, and musicians Tommy Jackson, Paul Yandell and Odell Martin.
The couple went on to welcome two more children together, sons Stephen in 1946 and Carey in 1949, before separating in January 1953 and divorcing in 1954, per the San Bernardino County Sun.