Anita Kerr was the vocal embodiment of the "Nashville Sound" which dominated country music throughout the mid-'50s and '60s. Along with the Jordanaires, her group, the Anita Kerr Singers, were the ...

subdued background vocals of either the Anita Kerr Singers or the Jordanaires – taking some of the “twang” out of country music, but allowing the lead singer to be front and center.

Such was Kerr’s imprint on the Nashville scene that it’s reported that at one time, her voice was on one quarter of all the country singles made there. Anita Kerr, a key figure in country ...