In 1952, Kitty Wells forever transformed the way women would be seen in the country music world. It was shortly after fellow country star Hank Thompson sang about a cheating fiancé (an ungodly “honky ...

Jeannie Seely was a 12-year-old girl in rural Pennsylvania when she first heard Kitty Wells’ song “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels.” It was 1952, and Wells’ unlikely hit was climbing the ...

NASHVILLE -- Before Kitty Wells, men didn’t just rule the roost in country music, they owned it. It wasn’t until her 1952 hit, “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels,” that a solo female country ...

The singer's career spanned eight decades, with hits including "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels," a retort to Hank Thompson’s “The Wild Side of Life.” By Erik Pedersen Kitty Wells - H 2012 ...

Kitty Wells, the long-reigning “Queen of Country Music” and the first woman to reach No. 1 on the country chart with her attitude-changing hit “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels,” died Monday ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Kitty Wells, whose achievements as a solo artist broke barriers to country-music stardom for women, has died. She was 92. The singer's family said she died peacefully at home after ...

NASHVILLE (Reuters) – Kitty Wells, the “Queen of Country Music,” died this morning at her home in Nashville surrounded by family members, of complications from a stroke. She was 92. Among those ...

Kitty Wells, a country singer with a piercing nasal twang who became one of the first female headliners in her profession and whose repertoire of tear-jerking songs about adultery and broken homes ...