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Country Music Time
''Country Music Time'' is an album recorded by Kitty Wells and released in 1962 on the Decca Decca may refer to: Music * Decca Records or Decca Music Group, a record label * Decca Gold, a classical music record label owned by Universal Music Group * Decca Broadway, a musical theater record label * Decca Studios, a recording facility in We ... label (DL 4197). Wells was accompanied on the album by the Jordanaires. The album included two Top 10 country singles: "Password" (No. 4) and "This White Circle on My Finger" (No. 7). Thom Owens of Allmusic called the album "a strong mid-'60s album." Track listing Side A # "I've Thought of Leaving Too" (Lee Emerson) :41# "Begging to You" (Marty Robbins) :10# "B.J. the D.J." (Hugh X. Lewis) :10# "Old Records" (Arthur Thomas, Merle Kilgore) :58# "As Usual" (Alex Zanetis) :10# "Going Through the Motions of Living" (Bob Tubert, Jean Chapel) :14 Side B # "Gonna Find Me a Bluebird" (Marvin Rainwater) :39# "This White Circle on My Finger" ... [...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] |
Country Music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, old-time, and American folk music forms including Appalachian, Cajun, Creole, and the cowboy Western music styles of Hawaiian, New Mexico, Red Dirt, Tejano, and Texas country. Country music often consists of ballads and honky-tonk dance tunes with generally simple form, folk lyrics, and harmonies often accompanied by string instruments such as electric and acoustic guitars, steel guitars (such as pedal steels and dobros), banjos, and fiddles as well as harmonicas. Blues modes have been used extensively throughout its recorded history. The term ''country music'' gained popularity in the 1940s in preference to '' hillbilly music'', with "country music" being used today to describe many styles and subgenres. It came to encomp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Decca Records
Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis (Decca), Edward Lewis. Its U.S. label was established in late 1934 by Lewis, Jack Kapp, American Decca's first president, and Milton Rackmil, who later became American Decca's president. In 1937, anticipating Nazi Germany, Nazi aggression leading to World War II, Lewis sold American Decca and the link between the U.K. and U.S. Decca labels was broken for several decades. The British label was renowned for its development of recording methods, while the American company developed the concept of cast albums in the musical genre. Both wings are now part of the Universal Music Group. The U.S. Decca label was the foundation company that evolved into UMG (Universal Music Group). Label name The name dates back to a portable phonograph, gramophone called the "Decca Dulcephone" patented in 1914 by musical instrument makers Barnett Samuel and Sons. The name "Decca" was coined by Wilfred S. Samuel by merging the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Kitty Wells Story
''The Kitty Wells Story'' is a double album consisting of re-recordings of the greatest hits of Kitty Wells. It was released in 1963 on the Decca label (DXSB 7174). The album peaked at No. 7 on the newly created ''Billboard'' Top Country Albums chart. Reception On the album's release in 1963, music critic Bill Hitch wrote: "Heartbreak is the trademark of this singing and Kitty's simple, plaintive vocalising calls a spade a spade and reduces the problem of love to basic terms." Thom Owens of Allmusic called it "a strong compilation" that "remains entertaining." ''The Rolling Stone Album Guide'' gave the album three stars and cautioned that the collection consisted of "re-recordings that find Wells fully embracing the Nashville Sound, with strings and vocal choruses supplanting the basic band as the dominant texture." Track listing Side 1 # "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" # "I Heard the Juke Box Playing" # "A Wedding Ring Ago" # "Paying for That Back Street Affair" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Especially For You (Kitty Wells Album)
''Especially for You'' is an album recorded by Kitty Wells and released in 1964 on the Decca Decca may refer to: Music * Decca Records or Decca Music Group, a record label * Decca Gold, a classical music record label owned by Universal Music Group * Decca Broadway, a musical theater record label * Decca Studios, a recording facility in We ... label (DL 4493). 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." Track listing Side A # "Act Naturally" # "Guilty" # "Busted" # "We Missed You" # "Ring of Fire " # "Cold and Lonely (Is the Forecast for Tonight)" Side B # "Talk Back Trembling Lips" # " Make the World Go Away" # " Take These Chains from My Heart" # "The Window Up Above" # "Unloved Unwanted" # "Will Your Lawyer Talk to God" References {{Authority control 1964 albums Kitty Wells albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Jordanaires
The Jordanaires were an American vocal quartet that formed as a gospel group in 1948. Over the years, they recorded both sacred and secular music for recording companies such as Capitol Records, RCA Victor, Columbia Records, Decca Records, Vocalion Records, Stop Records, and many other smaller independent labels. In the mid-1950s, they also began lending their vocal talents to other artists as background singers in recording sessions. They are widely known for having provided background vocals for Elvis Presley, in live appearances, recordings, and feature films from 1956 to 1972. The group worked in the recording studio, on stage, and on television with many country, gospel, and rock and roll artists. They also provided background vocals using the name the Merry Melody Singers and the Almanac Singers, sometimes using different personnel. Group history Early years In 1948, Monty and Bill Matthews left. Hawkins switched to baritone, and new lead Neal Matthews was recruited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1964 Albums
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