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Title: Honky Tonk Angel: All The Early Hits And More, 1952-62
Artist: Kitty Wells
Label: Jasmine Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 604988373622
Genre: Country
Release Date: 2025-03-07
Number of Discs: 2

The acknowledged Queen Of Country Music, Kitty Wells was the first solo female singer to top the U.S. Country charts, in 1952, with 'It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels'.She went on to establish herself as Country's first female superstar, and in doing so she took down the barriers on behalf of all the female Country singers who came to prominence in her wake. Her piercing, penetrating voice ached with melancholy and during the 50s and 60s she was unstoppable, with an almost unbroken run of success. This compilation features the fifty-five hits that she racked up on the U.S. Country charts between 1952 and 1962, plus a further half-dozen singles. Several of these sides are surprisingly difficult to find elsewhere on CD, making this a most welcome release.

Tracks:
1.1 Disc One
1.2 It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
1.3 A Wedding Ring Ago
1.4 The Things I Might Have Been
1.5 Paying for That Back Street Affair
1.6 You Said You Could Do Without Me
1.7 I Don't Claim to Be An Angel
1.8 Hey Joe
1.9 Cheatin's a Sin
1.10 Release Me
1.11 One By One (With Red Foley)
1.12 I'm a Stranger in My Home (With Red Foley)
1.13 You're Not Easy to Forget
1.14 Thou Shalt Not Steal
1.15 As Long As I Live (With Red Foley)
1.16 Make Believe (Till We Can Make It Come True) (With Red Foley)
1.17 Makin' Believe
1.18 Whose Shoulder Will You Cry on
1.19 There's Poison in Your Heart
1.20 I'm in Love with You
1.21 I've Kissed You My Last Time
1.22 Lonely Side of Town
1.23 You and Me (With Red Foley)
1.24 How Far Is Heaven (With Carol Sue)
1.25 Goodbye Mr. Brown (With Roy Acuff)
1.26 Searching (For Someone Like You)
1.27 I'd Rather Stay Home
1.28 Repenting
1.29 Oh, So Many Years (With Webb Pierce)
1.30 Three Ways (To Love You)
1.31 (I'll Always Be Your) Fraulein
2.1 One Week Later (With Webb Pierce)
2.2 I Can't Stop Loving You
2.3 She's No Angel
2.4 Jealousy
2.5 I Can't Help Wondering
2.6 He's Lost His Love for Me
2.7 Touch and Go Heart
2.8 Mommy for a Day
2.9 All the Time
2.10 Your Wild Life's Gonna Get You Down
2.11 You'll Never Be Mine Again
2.12 Amigo's Guitar
2.13 Lonely Is a Word
2.14 Left to Right
2.15 Memory of Love
2.16 Carmel By the Sea
2.17 The Man I Used to Know
2.18 I Can't Tell My Heart That (With Roy Drusky)
2.19 The Other Cheek
2.20 Fickle Fun
2.21 Heartbreak U.S.A
2.22 There Must Be Another Way to Live
2.23 Day Into Night
2.24 Our Mansion Is a Prison Now
2.25 Unloved Unwanted
2.26 Au Revoir (Goodbye)
2.27 Will Your Lawyer Talk to God
2.28 The Big Let Down
2.29 We Missed You
2.30 Wicked World
2.31 Cold and Lonely (Is the Forecast for Tonight)