Two Country Queens from Buffalo and WikiKitty Wells & Dolly Parton

Kitty Wells

Background information Birth name Ellen Muriel Deason Also known as The Queen of Country Music Born August 30, 1919 (1919-08-30) (age 89) Origin Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. Genre(s) Country, Honky Tonk,Nashville Sound, gospel Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter Instrument(s) Vocals, guitar Years active 1949 – present Label(s) RCA VictorDecca / MCACapricornRuboccaSouthern Tracks Associated acts Red Foley, Webb Pierce, Johnnie Wright Ellen Muriel Deason (born August 30, 1919), known professionally
as Kitty Wells, is an American country music singer. Her 1952 hit
recording, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels," made
her the first female country singer to top the U.S. country
charts, and turned her into the first female country star. Her
Top 10 hits continued until the mid-1960s, inspiring a long list of
female country singers who came to prominence in the 1960s.
Wells's success in the 1950s and 1960s was so enormous that she
still ranks as the sixth most successful female vocalist in the
history of the Billboard country charts according to historian Joel
Whitburn's book The Top 40 Country Hits, behind Dolly Parton,
Loretta Lynn, Reba McEntire, Tammy Wynette, and Tanya Tucker.
Wells was the third country music artist, after Roy Acuff and
Hank Williams, to receive the Grammy Lifetime Achievement
Award in 1991, as well as being the eighth woman and first
Caucasian woman to receive the honor. In 1976, she was inducted
into the Country Music Hall of Fame. She is as of 2009 - at age
89 - the oldest living member of the Hall of Fame. Wells'
accomplishments earned her the moniker "The Queen of Country
Music

Dolly Parton

Background information Birth name Dolly Rebecca Parton Born January 19, 1946 (1946-01-19) (age 63)Sevierville, Tennessee, U.S. Genre(s) Country, country pop, bluegrass Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter, actress, author, philanthropist,
musician, businesswoman, advocate for children's education
(Imagination Library) Instrument(s) Vocals, guitar, banjo, autoharp, piano, fingernails. Voice type(s) Soprano[1] Years active 1959–present Label(s) Goldband (1959-1965)Monument (1965-1967)RCA (1967-1986)CBS (1987-1995)Rising Tide (1995-1998)Decca (1997-1998)Blue Eye (1998-1999)Sugar Hill (1998-2005)Dolly (2006-Present) Associated acts Porter Wagoner, Kenny Rogers, Emmylou Harris,
Linda Ronstadt, Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Shania Twain
Stella Parton, The Larkins, Altan, Billy Ray Cyrus Website dollypartonmusic.netdollyparton.com (launched August 2009; not fully operational at
August 13, 2009) Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American
singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and
philanthropist, best known for her work in country music.
In the four-and-a-half decades since her national-chart début,
she remains one of the most-successful female artists in the
history of the country genre which achieved her the title of 'The
Queen of Country Music'[2], with 25 number-one singles,[3] and a
record 41 top-10 country albums.[4] She has the distinction of
having performed on a top-five country hit in each of the last five
decades[5] and is the only artist to score a number-one country
single in each of the past four decades.[6]
She is known for her distinctive mountain soprano,[1] sometimes
bawdy humor, flamboyant dress sense and voluptuous figure.