2 CD The acknowledged Queen Of Country Music, Kitty Wells was the frst solo female singer to top the US Country charts, in 1952, with It Wasnt God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels She went on to establish herself as Countrys frst 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 ffty- fve 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 difcult to fnd elsewhere on CD, making this a most welcome release. Tracks: It Wasnt God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels / A Wedding Ring Ago / The Things I Might Have Been / Paying For That Back Street Affair / You Said You Could Do Without Me / I Dont Claim To Be An Angel / Hey Joe / Cheatins A Sin / Release Me / One By One (With Red Foley) / Im A Stranger In My Home (With Red Foley) / Youre Not Easy To Forget / Thou Shalt Not Steal / As Long As I Live (With Red Foley) / Make Believe (Till We Can Make It Come True) (With Red Foley) / Makin Believe / Whose Shoulder Will You Cry On / Theres Poison In Your Heart / Im In Love With You / Ive Kissed You My Last Time / Lonely Side Of Town / You And Me (With Red Foley) / How Far Is Heaven (With Carol Sue) / Goodbye Mr. Brown (With Roy Acuff) / Searching (For Someone Like You) / Id Rather Stay Home / Repenting / Oh, So Many Years (With Webb Pierce) / Three Ways (To Love You) / (Ill Always Be Your) Fraulein / One Week Later (With Webb Pierce) / I Cant Stop Loving You / Shes No Angel / Jealousy / I Cant Help Wondering / Hes Lost His Love For Me / Touch And Go Heart / Mommy For A Day / All The Time / Your Wild Lifes Gonna Get You Down / Youll Never Be Mine Again / Amigos Guitar / Lonely Is A Word / Left To Right / Memory Of Love / Carmel By The Sea / The Man I Used To Know / I Cant Tell My Heart That (With Roy Drusky) / The Other Cheek / Fickle Fun / Heartbreak U.S.A. / There Must Be Another Way To Live / Day Into Night / Our Mansion Is A Prison Now / Unloved Unwanted / Au Revoir (Goodbye) / Will Your Lawyer Talk To God / The Big Let Down / We Missed You / Wicked World / Cold And Lonely (Is The Forecast For Tonight
