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Infobox musical artist| name = Anita Carter| image =| caption =| image_size =| background = solo_singer| birth_name = Ina Anita Carter| alias =| birth_date = birth date|1933|3|31| origin = Maces Spring, Virginia | death_date = death date and age|1999|7|29|1933|3|31| instrument = bass, vocals| genre = Country music|country , folk music|folk | occupation = singer-songwriter | years_active =| label = RCA Victor , Cadence, Columbia, Audiograph, United Artists, Liberty, Capitol| associated_acts = Carter Family The Carter Sisters Johnny Cash Hank Snow Waylon Jennings | website = Ina Anita Carter (March 31, 1933 & ndash; July 29, 1999), the youngest daughter of Ezra and Maybelle Carter|Mother Maybelle Carter , was a versatile American singer who experimented with several different types of music and played stand-up bass guitar|bass with her sisters Helen Carter and June Carter Cash as The Carter Sisters . The trio joined the Grand Ole Opry radio show in 1950 (Anita was 17 years old at the time), opened shows for Elvis Presley , and joined The Johnny Cash Show (TV series)|The Johnny Cash Show in 1971. As a solo artist, and with her family, Carter recorded for a number of labels including RCA Victor , Cadence, Columbia, Audiograph, United Artists, Liberty and Capitol.
Biography
Born in Maces Spring, Virginia , she scored two Top Ten hits in 1951 with "Down The Trail of Achin' Hearts" with Hank Snow at No. 2 and "Blue Bird Island" at No. 4. She reached the Top Ten again in 1968 with "I Got You" with Waylon Jennings at No. 4. Other solo releases charted as well. Carter recorded two folk albums in the 1960s. In 1962, she recorded a song co-written by her sister June and Merle Kilgore called " Ring of Fire (song)|Love's Ring Of Fire ".
After hearing the record, her future brother-in-law, Johnny Cash , reportedly dreamed of hearing Mexican horns on the record and told Anita that if her song did not hit in five or six months he would record it "the way I feel about it." After the song failed to make the charts, Cash recorded it as "Ring Of Fire" in March 1963 with the horns and the Carter Sisters (along with Mother Maybelle). The revised song went on to gain wide international popularity and became one of the biggest hits of his career. She appears in a video clip, currently on YouTube, in a duet with Hank Williams , of his song 'I Can't Help It'.
Marriages
Carter married fiddler Dale Potter in 1950 (they later divorced), session musician Don Davis in 1953 (divorced and then re-married), and Bob Wootton (lead guitarist for Johnny Cash's band Tennessee Three|The Tennessee Three ) in 1974 (divorced). She had two children, Lorrie Frances and Jay Davis.
Death
Carter suffered from rheumatoid arthritis for many years, and the drugs used to treat it severely damaged her pancreas, kidneys, and liver, resulting in her death at the age of 66, http://elvispelvis.com/anitacarter.htm Anita Carter Page in Fuller Up, The Dead Musicians Directory a year after eldest sister Helen and four years before middle sister June. She died under hospice care at the home of Johnny and June Carter Cash in Hendersonville, Tennessee .
Her interment was in Hendersonville Memory Gardens in Hendersonville, Tennessee .
Discography
Selected Singles
Year
Single
US Country
1957
"Blue Doll"
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1960
"Mama Don't Cry at My Wedding"
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1966
"I'm Gonna Leave You"
44
1967
"Love Me Now (While I Am Living)"
61
1968
"To Be a Child Again"
65
1969
"Cry Softly"
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1971
"Tulsa Country"
41
"A Whole Lotta Lovin'"
61
NOTE: Anita Carter released at least 22 additional non-charting singles between 1950 and 1974.
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