Kitty Wells, the ‘Queen of Country Music,’ dies
Kitty Wells, country music’s first female superstar, will be best remembered as the first female singer topping the country music charts with ‘It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels’ in 1952. She was born Ellen Muriel Deason on August 30, 1919 in Nashville, Tennessee. During the 1950s and ’60s she was one of the best-known country singers. In 1976 she was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, the second female vocalist, following only Patsy Cline.