Remembering country music singer Kitty Wells, born Ellen Muriel Deason on August 30, 1919, in Nashville, Tennessee – she died on July 16, 2012. Her 1952 hit recording, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels", made her the first female country singer to top the U.S. country charts, and turned her into the first female country star. Her Top 10 hits continued until the mid-1960s, inspiring a long list of female country singers who came to prominence in the 1960s. Wells ranks as the sixth most su