The affect of Nation Music Corridor of Fame inductee Kitty Wells continues to reverberate round her residence city of Nashville to at the present time. In case you ask Dolly Parton simply how necessary an affect Kitty was on her, for instance, you’ll get an extended and enthusiastic reply. Not for nothing did Wells develop into referred to as the Queen of Nation Music.
After she made her breakthrough in 1952 with the track that most likely stays her single best-known hit, “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels,” Kitty returned to the highest of the nation chart in 1954 with “One By One,” a duet with Crimson Foley. She was constructing a repertoire of High 10 hits that may proceed till 1965, and a chart presence that prolonged till previous her sixtieth birthday, in 1979.
On December 17, 1955, Wells was within the studio recording the track that, the next summer season, would develop into her fifteenth High 10 single in simply 4 years. “Searching (For Someone Like You),” written by Pee Wee Maddux, reached No.3 on the nation survey and went on to be one among Kitty’s longest-running hits, in a profession that was stuffed with them.
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The author, born Murphy Monroe Maddux Jr., was additionally an artist in his personal proper together with his Lazy River Boys, and performed guitar, metal guitar and fiddle. His songbook additionally included a number of numbers that have been lower by Fat Domino, together with “Hold Hands,” “Nothing New (Same Old Thing),” and “What A Price.”
Wells scored no fewer than 9 singles that every spent 20 weeks or extra on the nation countdown, with that “One By One” launch logging a outstanding 41 weeks. “Searching (For Someone Like You)” managed a formidable 34, which stored the track within the listings from July 1956 effectively into the next yr.
Purchase or stream “Searching (For Someone Like You)” on Kitty Wells’ twentieth Century Masters compilation.
