Comments on: Friday Five: Kitty Wells Answer Songs

By: J.R. Journey

J.R. Journey — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:29:15 +0000

I never realized Kitty Wells recorded so many answer songs. Really enlightening feature this week.

Also, I think it’s the mark of a true artist that he or she can make you feel like they’ve actually lived the story in the song, whether they have or not. Obviously, Miss Wells was an up-standing lady, but her performance on cheating songs was genuine to the point that we still believe what she’s singing some 60 years later. I could think of a handful of female star(lets) that may have contracted ‘social diseases’ during their rise to fame, but I wouldn’t ever place Wells in that group.

By: Paul W Dennis

Paul W Dennis — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 06:35:25 +0000

Stormy – Kitty was actually nothing of the sort – she and husband Johnnie Wright recently celebrated their 72nd wedding anniversary

By: stormy

stormy — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:49:29 +0000

Paul: So she was the classy kind of husband stealing skank? That would make her the Rachel Uchitel, right?

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:48:55 +0000

Yes Juli, use of the term “a raging social disease” would have been much classier! (lol)

The fact answer songs can copy the melody of another hit song and then just change the words for an opposite perspective makes them like an early Weird Al Yankovic effort without the humor! Its almost like Kitty rode to success on the coattails of some of the top male artists of her day! Well considering how “girl singers” were treated back then by the country music establishment, I guess it was a gimmick that worked extremely well to get her in the door! If only Rose Maddox had thought of this first….

By: Juli

Juli — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:39:08 +0000

Paul: nope, they were from the Bear Family box. And yes, Kitty Wells is much more of a lady than I am–tasteless jokes are sort of my forte ;-)

By: Paul W Dennis

Paul W Dennis — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:28:58 +0000

“I’m Paying For That Back Street Affair” was an excellent song, although I don’t care for your veriage in describing it – Kitty was too much of a lady for that to have been the case !

I hope it wasn’t the remakes from 20 ALL-TIME GREATEST (for songs 1, 2 & 3) that you were listening to when putting your list. The originals are so much better