RIP Kitty Wells

[Steak Snabler]

Considered the first female superstar of country music. Dead at 92 from a stroke:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/1st-female-superstar-of-country-music-kitty-wells-dies-in-nashville-at-age-92/2012/07/16/gJQAPGLFpW_story.html

God must have needed another Honky Tonk Angel ...

 

[SixToe]

Does this close the latest "Death in Threes" with Wells, Jon Lord of Deep Purple and actress Celeste Holm, or is the music world still looking for No. 3 and Hollywood on edge for two others?

 

[Abe Vigoda]

Don't look at me.

 

[Shoeless Joe]

RIP to a true country legend.
Pretty much every female country artist that hit it big -- Patsy Cline, Loretta, Dolly, God knows anyone today -- followed the trail Kitty Wells blazed.

 

[Football_Bat]

Back in the day, man ... boing.

 

[Zeke12]

On a package show in Buffalo, with us and Kitty Wells and Charlie Pride.
The show was long, and we was just sitting there, and we'd come to play and not just for the ride.
Well we drank a lot of whiskey, so I don't know if we went on that night at all.
And they didn't even miss us, I guess Buffalo ain't geared for me & Paul.

 

[hondo]

Every female singer since then has owed her a debt.

 

[nattering nabob]

Zeke: That's the first thing I thought of, too. A Willie classic.

 

[ifilus]

Zeke: That's the first thing I thought of, too. A Willie classic.

A Willie classic?

 

[Double J]

A legend. RIP.

Also unique in that she was a token "girl singer" who managed to eclipse the male part of the act, one half of which happened to be her husband, yet he seems to have been fairly content to more or less fade into the background and let her be the star.

Coincidentally, their son was a regular cast member on "McHale's Navy," and of course Ernest Borgnine also just died.

 

[BNWriter]

A legend. RIP.

Also unique in that she was a token "girl singer" who managed to eclipse the male part of the act, one half of which happened to be her husband, yet he seems to have been fairly content to more or less fade into the background and let her be the star.

Coincidentally, their son was a regular cast member on "McHale's Navy," and of course Ernest Borgnine also just died.

OK....Now I am really curious: Which McHale's Regular is her son?

 

[Steak Snabler]

http://jimromenesko.com/2012/07/17/todays-unfortunate-post-it-ad-placement/

 

[Zeke12]

Zeke: That's the first thing I thought of, too. A Willie classic.

A Willie classic?

The lyrics I posted from Me & Paul -- a Willie classic -- that namecheck Kitty Wells along with Charlie Pride.

 

[Steak Snabler]

Zeke: That's the first thing I thought of, too. A Willie classic.

A Willie classic?

The lyrics I posted from Me & Paul -- a Willie classic -- that namecheck Kitty Wells along with Charlie Pride.

Great version of that from the VH-1 Storytellers he did with Johnny Cash in the late 90s. You can hear Cash laughing a few times in the background.

 

[Double J]

A legend. RIP.

Also unique in that she was a token "girl singer" who managed to eclipse the male part of the act, one half of which happened to be her husband, yet he seems to have been fairly content to more or less fade into the background and let her be the star.

Coincidentally, their son was a regular cast member on "McHale's Navy," and of course Ernest Borgnine also just died.

OK....Now I am really curious: Which McHale's Regular is her son?

John Wright, who also went by Bobby Wright as a singer. He played Willy Moss on PT 73.

Here he is with his parents and some other guy.

And this picture shows him on "McHale's Navy."