| LC control no. | n 91116601 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Wells, Kitty |
| Variant(s) | Deason, Ellen Muriel Deason, Muriel Ellen |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1919-08-30 |
| Death date | 2012-07-16 |
| Place of birth | Nashville (Tenn.) |
| Place of death | Madison (Tenn.) |
| Profession or occupation | Singers Country musicians |
| Found in | Kitty Wells [SR] p1991: label (Kitty Wells) Definitive country (Wells, Kitty (given name: Ellen Muriel Deason); b. Aug. 30, 1919, Nashville, Tenn.; singer, songwriter, guitar) New York times WWW site, July 17, 2012 (in obituary published July 16: Kitty Wells; b. Muriel Ellen Deason, Aug. 30, 1919, Nashville; d. Monday [July 16, 2012], Madison, Tenn., aged 92; perhaps best known for her 1952 hit It wasn't God who made honky tonk angels, she became a prototype for generations of female country music stars; her stage name was drawn from an old folk ballad made popular by the Pickard Family) |
| Associated language | eng |
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