{"id":1839,"date":"2020-09-24T20:06:23","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T20:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joeviglione.com\/?p=1839"},"modified":"2020-09-24T20:06:23","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T20:06:23","slug":"kitty-wells-country-hit-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joeviglione.com\/?p=1839","title":{"rendered":"Kitty Wells                              Country Hit Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Release Me - Salvatore B. Viglione\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0PLyPbhV9lU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Release Me  by Sal Viglione<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/joeviglione.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/kitty-wells.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1840\" width=\"747\" height=\"762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joeviglione.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/kitty-wells.jpg 300w, https:\/\/joeviglione.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/kitty-wells-294x300.jpg 294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 747px) 100vw, 747px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>KITTY WELLS REVIEW<br>COUNTRY HIT PARADEArtist: Kitty WellsAllMusic Review by\u00a0Joe Viglione\u00a0\u00a0[-]<a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/country-hit-parade-mw0000872637\">https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/country-hit-parade-mw0000872637<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kitty Wells&nbsp;was a major influence on&nbsp;Dolly Parton,&nbsp;Linda Ronstadt,&nbsp;Emmylou Harris&nbsp;and so many other women who crossed over from country to pop. &#8220;Too many times married men think they are single&#8221; is the sentiment displayed in &#8220;It Wasn&#8217;t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels&#8221; &#8212; which is 1950s male bashing, and&nbsp;Wells&#8217; perfect vocal cuts through the violin and accompaniment. It&#8217;s pure country music that is far removed from the slick pop Nashville began manufacturing decades after this groundbreaking disc. &#8220;Paying for That Back Street Affair&#8221; is one of three Billy Wallace titles, featuring the lyrics &#8220;you gambled and I lost\/now I must pay with hours of despair.&#8221; The songs are full of someone having done someone wrong, and though there is a sameness throughout, vocally and instrumentally, the purity of&nbsp;Wells&#8217; performance and sincerity makes the 12 short stories very appealing. &#8220;I don&#8217;t claim to be an angel, my life&#8217;s been full of sin&#8221; is her statement, and she&#8217;s sticking to it.&nbsp;Wells&nbsp;covers&nbsp;Roy Acuff,&nbsp;Zeke Clements, and J.B. Miller, and the work is consistently high. The passion in the opening track,&nbsp;Jimmy Work&#8217;s &#8220;Making Believe,&#8221; is powerful stuff, but it&#8217;s her performance on the Eddie Miller\/Dube Williams\/Robert Yount&nbsp;classic &#8220;Release Me&#8221; which is the album&#8217;s high point, as influential as the hit &#8220;It Wasn&#8217;t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels.&#8221; This track may have helped establish Engelbert Humperdinck&#8217;s career as he took the song to the Top Five in 1967.&nbsp;Jimmy Heap&nbsp;had a country hit with the &#8220;Release Me&#8221; in 1955, and&nbsp;Esther Phillips&nbsp;took it to the top of the R&amp;B charts in 1962 (as well as Top Ten on the Top 40), but&nbsp;Kitty Wells&nbsp;adds something extra to it here, and her performance of the tune is timeless. Release Me doesn&#8217;t have &#8220;your lips are sweet as honey&#8221; lines, but &#8220;There&#8217;s Poison in Your Heart&#8221; lines, and maybe that&#8217;s what makes it so effective. Still,&nbsp;Kitty Wells&nbsp;can take corny country lyrics and deliver them with total sincerity. Kitty Wells Country Hit Parade is a classic of the genre and gave inspiration to decades of male and female vocalists who went on to inspire others. It is entertaining beyond its historical importance.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Good information on ABES BOOKS: &#8221; Not a book but a 12-inch, 33-1\/3 rpm &#8220;Long Play High Fidelity&#8221; (mono) vinyl record album, Decca DL 8293, near-mint vinyl in a near-mint cardboard jacket with one banged corner and a couple of faint tape or sticker ghosts to verso. The Queen of Country Music offers &#8220;Release Me,&#8221; &#8220;Whose Shoulder Will You Cry On,&#8221; Roy Acuff&#8217;s &#8220;Searching for a Soldier&#8217;s Grave,&#8221; and, of course, J.B. Miller&#8217;s &#8220;It Wasn&#8217;t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels.&#8221;   https:\/\/www.abebooks.com\/servlet\/BookDetailsPL?bi=30369640277&amp;cm_mmc=ggl-<em>-COM_Shopp_Rare-<\/em>-naa-_-naa&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjwh7H7BRBBEiwAPXjadiZVWfLMsW_cScHxmNUFji-yRf0fljozANaQ5Vo6sC2irruAMkKcaRoCxl4QAvD_BwE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KITTY WELLS REVIEWCOUNTRY HIT PARADEArtist: Kitty WellsAllMusic Review by\u00a0Joe Viglione\u00a0\u00a0[-]https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/country-hit-parade-mw0000872637 Kitty Wells&nbsp;was a major influence on&nbsp;Dolly Parton,&nbsp;Linda Ronstadt,&nbsp;Emmylou Harris&nbsp;and so many other women who crossed over from country to pop. &#8220;Too many times married men think they are single&#8221; is the sentiment displayed in &#8220;It Wasn&#8217;t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels&#8221; &#8212; which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeviglione.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeviglione.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeviglione.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeviglione.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeviglione.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/joeviglione.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1841,"href":"https:\/\/joeviglione.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions\/1841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeviglione.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeviglione.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeviglione.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}