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"Making Believe" is a country music song written by Jimmy Work. Kitty Wells recorded a chart-topping version in 1955. The song is on many lists of all-time greatest country music songs and has been covered by scores of artists over the past fifty years, including Thorleifs, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Don Gibson, Roy Acuff, Lefty Frizzell, Wanda Jackson, Connie Francis, Ray Charles, Anita Carter ...
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.
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 ...
The answer song to Hank Thompson's misogynistic "The Wild Side of Life" is just as sharp — and relevant — 70 years later How Kitty Wells’ ‘It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels ...
Loretta Lynn in Nashville, Tenn., on Feb. 10, 2016. Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner’s daughter who became a pillar of country music, died Oct. 4 at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tenn.
The album features many country standards, including "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" (which features a guest vocal appearance by the song's originator and the original country queen, Kitty Wells), "Wings of a Dove" (a 1960 hit for Ferlin Husky), "I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know" (a 1953 hit for the Davis Sisters), "Put It Off Until Tomorrow" (a 1966 Bill Phillips hit that was ...
The Kitty Wells Story: 1953 "The Things I Might Have Been" — 22 Country Hit Parade "Paying for That Back Street Affair" 6 — "Honky Tonk Waltz" — — Country Heart "I Don't Claim to Be an Angel" — — Country Hit Parade "Hey Joe" 8 — Kitty Wells' Golden Favorites "Cheatin's a Sin" 9 — Country Hit Parade: 1954 "Release Me" 8 — "You ...
List of music videos, showing year released and directors Title Year Director(s) Ref. "Honky Tonk Angels Medley" (k.d. lang with Brenda Lee, Loretta Lynn, and Kitty Wells) 1987 David Hogan [32] [33] "Silver Threads and Golden Needles" (with Dolly Parton and Tammy Wynette) 1993 Deaton-Flanigen [34] "We Need to Make More Memories" 1994 Kenny ...