Country Music Pioneer
Johnny Wright died at his home in Nashville on September 27 at the age of 97. Wright was a country music fixture for the better part of the 20th century and had a number of hit records, including ‘Ashes of Love’, while performing as half of the singing duo, Johnnie and Jack. After his singing partner and brother-in law Jack Anglin was killed in an automobile accident in 1963, Wright had a solo hit with ‘Hello Vietnam’ and later he changed the spelling of his name to ‘Johnny’.
Married to Kitty Wells
Johnny Wright had been married to country music legend Kitty Wells for nearly 74 years at the time of his death and had devoted much of his own career to promoting hers. Kitty Wells is best known for her mega hit, ‘It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels’, recorded in 1952. At the age of 92 Kitty Wells is still known as the undisputed Queen of Country Music. Johnny Wright was one of the few remaining pioneers of country music and many see his passing as the end of an era.
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