KITTY WELLS - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 4274
Price: $180.00
KITTY WELLS
Black and white publicity photograph of Kitty Wells wearing Western
attire leaning on her elbow.
Photograph signed: "Sincerely/Kitty Wells". B/w,8x10
overall, image 7¼x8¾ (one surface). Kitty Wells (1919-2012), who is known as
"The Queen of Country Music", was the first woman country singer to sell a
million records and have a number one recording ("It Wasn't God Who Made
Honky Tonk Angels", 1952). Wells, born Ellen Muriel Deason, who had began
performing in 1935 with her sisters and a cousin as the Deason sisters, became a
member of the Grand Ole Opry in 1952, and had a string of 23 Top Ten
hits into the early 1970s. Wells, who had also performed with her husband,
Johnnie Wright, as Wells and Wright and later as Johnnie Wright & the
Harmony Girls, was also a popular concert attraction. She was inducted into the
Country Music Association's Hall of Fame in 1976, received the
Governor's Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Recording Industry
from the National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences in 1981, was
honored with the Academy of Country Music's Pioneer Award in 1985 and was
presented with a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award in 1991. Fine
condition.
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