KITTY WELLS - DOCUMENT SIGNED 10/14/1968 CO-SIGNED BY: JOE C. CARR, JOHNNIE WRIGHT - HFSID 66126
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KITTY WELLS, JOHNNIE WRIGHT and JOE C. CARR
Charter of Incorporation of Kitty Wells Publications (1968), with
notarized signatures of Wells (with her legal name of Muriel Wright), and
of her husband Johnnie R. Wright, Jr. and father-in-law, Johnnie R. Wright. Also
signed twice by Tennessee's Secretary of State.
Document signed "Muriel D. Wright", "Johnnie R. Wright, Jr."
and twice: "Joe C. Carr" as Secretary of State, 4p. 8½x14,
cover 9¼x14½. Also signed"Johnnie R. Wright" [the
musician's father] and by Notary Public "Grant W. Smith". Tennessee
Department of State, Nashville, Tennessee, 1968 October 14. State of
Tennessee Charter of Incorporation of Kitty Wells Publications, Inc. Signed by
Carr on front as authorizing official, and also on verso for receipt of $10
filing fee. Large gold seal of the State of Tennessee affixed in lower right
front. The purpose of the corporation was to publish musical compositions and
arrangements, sheet music, songbooks, cookbooks. KITTY WELLS (1919-2012),
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 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 (who gave her the name Kitty Wells), 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. Singer/songwriter JOHNNIE
WRIGHT (1914-2011), who married Wells in 1937, started his career on radio
and is best known for being half of the duo of Johnny & Jack (with
Jack Anglin), named Best Duo of the Year from 1953-1956 and had a
big hit in 1958 with "Stop the World (And Let Me Off). Wright and Wells
performed on radio's Louisiana Hayride before returning to Nashville in
1952, joining the Grand Ole Opry at that time. On December 31, 2002,
after 60 years of performing, the couple gave a "farewell concert" at the
Nashville Night Life club. Wells was at the peak of her popularity in
1968, hence the anticipated demand for cookbooks and songbooks, etc. The
couple had a big country hit that year, "We'll Stick Together", a an accurate
prediction as the couple celebrate 72 years of marriage in 2009. JOSEPH
CORDELL CARR (1907-1981) was Tennessee's Secretary of State 1941-1944,
1945-1949 and 1957-1977. (In Tennessee, the Secretary of State is chosen by the
legislature, not by popular vote.) When Carr volunteered for military service in
1944, he wife, Mary Carr, took his place, becoming the first woman to hold a
state constitutional office in Tennessee. As the official in charge of
Tennessee's elections, Joe Carr was named as defendant in the landmark Supreme
Court case of Baker v. Carr (1962), in which the majority of a bitterly
divided court ruled that legislative districting was not a purely political
question over which courts had no jurisdiction. This opened the door to
subsequent cases in which the Court established the one person - one vote
principle of legislative district apportionment. (Carr, of course, had not drawn
the district boundaries; the Tennessee legislature had done that.) When he
retired in 1977, Carr was honored with a bust unveiled in the state capital.
Kitty Wells (b. 1919), the long reigning "Queen of Country Music"
Horizontal fold creases. Cover creased and soiled at edges. One staple center
top. Otherwise, fine condition.
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