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After Dark (Kitty Wells Album)
''After Dark'' is an album recorded by Kitty Wells and released in 1959 on the Decca label (DL 8888). On its release, ''Billboard'' praised the "haunting nasal quality" of her voice and called the album another "great collection of ballads having to do with the seamy and sinful sides of life, sung as only Kitty Wells can sing them." Track listing ;Side 1 # "After Dark" (Kitty Wells) - 2:48 # "Your Wild Life's Gonna Get You Down" (Bob Gallion) - 2:38 # "You're Not That Easy to Forget" (Henry Davis, Wilbur Jones) - 2:36 # "I Heard the Jukebox Playing" (Kitty Wells, Linda Bagget, Webb Pierce Michael Webb Pierce (August 8, 1921 – February 24, 1991) was an American honky-tonk vocalist, songwriter and guitarist of the 1950s, one of the most popular of the genre, charting more number one hits than any other country artist during the ...) - 2:12 # "Lonely Side of Town" (Roy Botkin) - 2:37 # "My Used to Be Darling" (Billy Wallace, Vic McAlpin) - 2:23 ;Side 2 # "He's Married to Me" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kitty Wells
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 to 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 country superstar. “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels” would also be her first of several pop crossover hits. Wells is the only artist to be awarded top female vocalist awards for 14 consecutive years. Her chart-topping hits continued until the mid 1960s, paving the way for and 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 the '' Billboard'' country charts, according to historian Joel Whitburn's book ''The Top 40 Country Hits''. In 1976, she was inducted into the Countr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
