Today in Music History for Aug. 30:

In 1919, "The Queen of Country Music" Kitty Wells was born Ellen Muriel Deason in Nashville. She took her stage name from an old folk song, "Sweet Kitty Wells." She was THE pioneer, the first female singer with enough spunk and fire to get noticed in the male-dominated world of country music. In 1952, she scored the first country No. 1 hit by a solo female artist with "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels." Her solo recording career lasted from 1952 to the late 1970s, with approximately 50 albums and 25 top-10 country hits. She made concert tours from the late 1930s until 2000, when she announced she was quitting the road, although she performed occasionally in Nashville and elsewhere afterward. After her induction into the Country Music Hall of Fam

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