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  Anita Carter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ina Anita Carter (March 31, 1933 - July 29, 1999) was the youngest daughter of Ezra (Eck) Carter and Maybelle Carter (Mother Maybelle) and said to have the best voice of all the Carter Sisters.
Anita married fiddler Dale Potter in 1950 (div.), session musician Don Davis in 1953 (divorced and then re-married), and lead guitarist for Johnny Cash's band The Tennessee Three Bob Wooton in 1974 (divorced).
Anita Carter died in Goodlettsville, TN, at the age of 66, a year after eldest sister Helen and four years before middle sister June.
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 Maybelle Carter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
She was a member of the original Carter Family, which was formed in 1927 by her brother-in-law, A.
Carter, who was married to her cousin, Sara, also a part of the trio.
Maybelle Carter is interred in Hendersonville Memory Gardens, Hendersonville, Tennessee.
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 Salon Obituary | Musician Anita Carter dies at 66   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
Anita Carter, who sang and played stand-up bass with the famed country music act the Carter Sisters, is dead at 66.
Ina Anita Carter was born March 31, 1933, in Maces Spring, Va., one of three daughters of Maybelle and her husband, Ezra Carter, a brother of A.P. who sometime played with the trio.
Anita's soprano made her the featured singer, while June was a gifted comedian and Helen was considered the best overall musician.
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 Carter
It has the timeless quality of the very best Carter Family recordings.That the original songs recorded by the Carter Family survive at all is due to A. Carter's infallible ear, and the fact that they're still heard and played today is due in great measure to the tireless effort of Janette Carter.
BCD 16414 GL Anita Carter began singing on the radio with her mother, Maybelle, and the famous Carter Family when she was barely four years old.
Anita was the first to record Ring Of Fire, and, through the years, she recorded for RCA Victor, Columbia, Capitol, Mercury and United Artists, as well as Cadence.
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 Anita Carter - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
A member of country music's most famous family, Anita Carter found success of her own as a folk solo act during the early '50s and late '60s.
Sara's cousin Maybelle, the third member of the Carters, re-formed the group the same year -- as Mother Maybelle & the Carter Sisters -- with her daughters Helen, June, and Anita.
Meanwhile, Anita had begun to record for RCA in 1966, hitting the country charts with "I'm Gonna Leave You." Another single charted in 1967, and her duet with Waylon Jennings on "I Got You" reached number four in March 1968.
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 Other Sites of Interest to Carter Family Fold Visitors
The PBS television series program titled "The Carter Family: Will The Circle Be Unbroken" documents the rise to world-wide popularity of the Carter Family and their music.
The Carter Fold is proudly participating in this Governor's tourism initiative.
Carter Family songs published by Peer were major factors in helping him establish one of the world's premiere publishing companies.
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 June Carter Cash - The den mother of country music. By Patrick Carr
She was also the daughter of Maybelle Carter of the Carter Family, the first major recording stars and foremost progenitors of Southeastern country/folk music.
She was the sister of Helen and Anita Carter, with whom she continued the family act long after the first generation was gone.
She pressed on regardless, holding down her corner in the ensemble and ensuring that Anita, Helen, and a shifting selection of Carter offspring could work as much as they wanted, singing "Wildwood Flower" and the family anthem, "Will the Circle Be Unbroken," everywhere.
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 Carter Family Music & History-Article at Native Ground Music
Anita Carter was only four years old when she first saw Dr. John Romulus Brinkley in 1938 at a mansion in Del Rio, Texas, but it was a sight she never forgot: a goat-bearded, diamond-studded, round spectacled man, floating down the stairs with a pet monkey on his shoulder.
Alvin Pleasant Delaney Carter, (A. P.) was born in December of 1891 in Poor Valley, Virginia, in the hill country near the Tennessee line.
Anita, Helen, and June were great entertainers, treating their audience to fine singing and musicianship, mountain dancing, and lively down-home humor.
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 detail   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
The drugs used to treat Anita's R. Arthritis ended up doing a lot of damage to her pancreas, liver, kidneys.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Anita Carter, who sang and played stand-up bass with the famed country music act the Carter Sisters, is dead at 66.
Anita and sisters June and Helen performed with the Carter Family as children, and then with their mother as Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters.
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 Anita Carter Page in Fuller Up, The Dead Musicians Directory
Anita Carter's first significant work away from her family was the 1951
Carter Family, has died at age 66, her manager Lou Robin said Friday.
Carter married him in 1967, the Carters appeared on his ABC-TV show from 1969 to 1971.
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 Mother Maybelle & The Carter Sisters Discography -- Slipcue.Com Guide To Hick Music
The Carter Family worked together, off and on, from 1927 to 1943, although their personal relations became strained over the years, and the group broke up amid considerable acrimony.
The youngest daughter of Mother Maybelle, Anita Carter (1933-99) pursued a long and fruitful career, both as a second generation Carter Family member, and as a solo artist and songwriter.
From childhood she was part of the Carter Family, both in its original incarnation and as part of the reconstituted version called Mother Maybelle & The Carter Sisters (and later as "The Carter Family").
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 The Carter Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
Anita Carter, the youngest daughter of Maybelle Carter and said to be the best singer of the, Carter Sisters died in her middle Tennessee home Thursday29, 1999 at the age 66fowing a long illness.
Her sister, June Carter Cash and her brother-in-law Johnny Cash, were reportedly by her side.
She was probably the best singer of all the Carter Sisters and perhaps even better than Mother Maybelle, said music historian and Carter Family annotator Charles Wofe.
www.stevenmenke.com /Carter%20Family%20.htm   (578 words)

  
 Low priced Ring of Fire and More
It's been well documented that June Carter Cash and Merle Kilgore wrote the song "Ring of Fire," which is about her early relationship with Johnny Cash.
What's less well known is that it was her youngest sister, Anita, not Johnny Cash, who cut it first, accompanied only by a pair of acoustic guitars.
While Carter is also a daughter of Mother Maybelle, country music, at least in the...
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 Helen Carter Page in Fuller Up, The Dead Musician Directory
Carter Sisters, with her daughters as permanent members.
guitar, Helen on accordian and Anita on bass.
Anita and their children have been dedicated to preserving and carrying on the rich musical legacy which
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 eBay - anita carter, Records, CDs items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
Carter, Anita: So Much Love (C&W LP Vinyl)
ANITA CARTER "LOVING HIM WAS WASIER" 45 RPM
ANITA CARTER: To Be A Child Again (country, vinyl 45)
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 Amazon.com: On Border Radio, Vol. 1: Music: The Carter Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
I love the Carter Family....thus it is hard to give any of their recording anything less than a 5 star rating....but when I bought this cd I couldn't wait to get it home and play it to hear the "Carter Sisters" in their pre teens.
They show the Carters as a polished group of many years experience, though for some afficianados the performances may not come up to the standard that the group achieved in the commercial recording studio.
But it must be remembered that the Carters were doing these radio shows on a daily basis, so perhaps it should come as no surprise that the clinical polish of the recording studio is not in evidence here.
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 New York Real Estate Agents - cbhk.com - Best Agents   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
Anita was a successful magazine executive before deciding she wanted to change careers.
For many years, Anita spent summers with her husband camping on her wilderness property in Montana, but now enjoys experimenting with her own cooking recipes for relaxation.
What makes Anita unique is her commitment to each assignment which she accepts with creativity, intuitiveness, optimism and commitment to details.
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 Recording Reviews
Anita began singing with her mother, uncle (A.P. Carter), and aunt (Sara Carter) in the late 1930s when Anita was four years old.
This box begins with Anita's first singles for RCA in the early 1950s, when she was still a teenager, includes her solo and duet work for a variety of labels through 1972, and concludes with her final session (unreleased until now), recorded in 1996, three years before she died of complications from rheumatoid arthritis.
Arguably, Anita Carter was not showcased to best advantage surrounded by a roomful of strings and voices." But Bear Family to the rescue.
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 NPR : June Carter Cash's 'Wildwood Flower'
Morning Edition, September 24, 2003 · She was country music royalty, but June Carter Cash never left her Appalachian roots far behind.
As was the case with the original Carter Family beginning in the 1920s, and later permutations that included Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters (June, Helen and Anita), the Wildwood Flower recording sessions were very much a family affair.
The Carter Family and Johnny Cash are members of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
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 Country - Cecil Campbell -> Chestnut Grove Quartet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
But with the Carter Family still visible and the music of the original Carter Family considered a fountainhead for bluegrass and folk artists, the interest in their music remained strong into the sixties.
That album, which combined traditional material with more contemporary numbers was released as "Mother Maybelle Carter: A Living Legend" and paid tribute to the Carter sound of the past in places while putting it in a (slightly) more modern context in others.
Between 1938 and '41 country music pioneers, The Carter Family settled in Del Rio, Texas where they were featured on one of the border stations on a regular basis.
www.rootsandrhythm.com /roots/COUNTRY/country_c1.htm   (3640 words)

  
 Carter Family, The : Camsco Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
The first installment in Rounder's nine-volume issue of the Carters' complete RCA recordings covers the first two recording sessions of A.P. Carter and his family, made by Ralph Peer in 1927.
Gold Watch and Chain features 16 Carter Family performances recorded in 1933-34 including "I Loved You Better Than You Knew," "I'll Be All Smiles Tonight" and the now-standard title track.
By 1929 the Carter Family, the seminal American country music group, was riding high as one of RCA's most popular recording artists.
www.camsco.com /artists/carter_family.html   (553 words)

  
 AP Carter, and Family
The Carter Family (A.P., Sara, and Maybelle) was the most famous pioneer recording group to come out of the American Country Music scene.
The Carter family consisted of A.P. Carter, his autoharp-playing wife, Sara, his cousin Maybelle, and various Carter grandchildren.
Rather than having to travel to Mexico to do their daily program, a transcription of a show, advertisements and all, would be recorded in advance near their Texas winter home and the acetate disk shipped to the station for broadcast.
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 Bibliography: Disabilities and Childhood in China, Japan and Korea (part 2)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
CARTER, Anita E. (1912) Origin of the Girls' Department in the School for Chinese Deaf, Chefoo, China, Volta Review 14: 199.
Brief notes from the start in 1907 when little Ying Tswen was left at the school by her father Li, to join her deaf brother.
CARTER, A.E. Letter from Chefoo School for the Deaf.
www.socsci.kun.nl /ped/whp/histeduc/mmiles/e-asiabib2.html   (5019 words)

  
 CMT.com : Anita Carter : Biography
During the mid-'50s, she also performed with the teen trio 'Nita, Rita & Ruby, but spent most of her time with the Carters.
She recorded for Capitol in the early '70s and almost hit the Top 40 with "Tulsa County." Her last chart appearance with the Carter Family, "Praise the Lord and Pass the Soup," was released in August 1973.
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 The Singing Ranger, Vol. 3 by Hank Snow
Promised to John - Anita Carter, Hank Snow
If Today Were Yesterday - Anita Carter, Hank Snow
Mockin' Bird Hill - Anita Carter, Hank Snow
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 Tower Records - Appalachian Angel: Her Recordings 1950 - 1975 & 1996 - Anita Carter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
Bluebird Island (FT Hank Snow) / Anita Carter
If Today Were Yesterday (FT Hank Snow) / Anita Carter
Mockin' Bird Hill (FT Hank Snow) / Anita Carter
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 Anita Carter
musician who began singing professionally at an early age with her parents, sisters, and other relatives as the influential country group, the Carter Family.
She went on to record a number of albums and singles, including “I Got on You,” the popular duet she sang with Waylon Jennings.
The mystery and majesty of Anita Baker: why she stopped singing and why she's returning.(The 50 Most Intriguing Blacks of 2004)(Biography)
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 The Mentor: An Academic Advising Journal
Ask about adding links within the institution's home page or academic department Web pages.
Carter, A. Design considerations for building a successful Web site.
Anita Carter is an academic adviser in the University Advising Center at Wayne State University.
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 Anita Carter - Rock Love: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
Anita Carter - Rock Love: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more
Anita Carter - Rock Love: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more
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 The Palm Beach Post: ANITA CARTER, 66, SINGER AND BASSIST FOR MUSICAL FAMILY@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
The Palm Beach Post: ANITA CARTER, 66, SINGER AND BASSIST FOR MUSICAL FAMILY@ HighBeam Research
ANITA CARTER, 66, SINGER AND BASSIST FOR MUSICAL FAMILY
Anita Carter, who sang and played stand-up bass with the Carter Sisters, the legendary country music act, died Thursday.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
He brought his family to Nashville in 1955, possibly hoping that his boys could find the success that had eluded him.
Don found some success as a songwriter (“Thou Shalt Not Steal” for Kitty Wells, two songs for Justin Tubb, and another for Anita Carter), but a contract with Columbia Records’ Nashville division in 1955 yielded just one undistinguished single.
By the time the brothers signed with Cadence Records in March 1957 (a deal midwifed by music publisher Wesley Rose of Acuff-Rose), they were singing teenage playlets crafted by songwriters Boudleaux and Felice Bryant overlaid with randb rhythm patterns.
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