Jean Shepard - Dear John Letter:the Singles Collection 1953-62 In Stock The white vocal groups often

The white vocal groups often came from the barbershop tradition

The releases were under various guises - Clara Ward as a solo artist

With Laurence Cummings

a pioneer of the protest movement in the 1960 alongside Bob Dylan and others

but equally deserving belters like Hit Git And Split by Young Jessie

Jean Shepard - Dear John Letter:the Singles Collection 1953-62 In Stock The white vocal groups oftenThe US country charts were for many years in the post war era the exclusive domain of male artists and it was not until Kitty Wells in 1952, soon followed by Jean Shepard in 1953, that a female artist topped the country charts. Specialising in songs redolent with the familiar country themes, especially for female artists during those times, of relationships, lost love, betrayal and heartache, and having had her first hit at No. 1 with "A Dear John