Family tree of Anita CARTER

Singer & Musician

American Born Ina Anita CARTER

American singer

Born on March 31, 1933 in Maces Spring, Virginia, USA , United States

Died on July 29, 1999 in Hendersonville, Tennessee, USA

Born on march 31 54

Deceased on july 29 38

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Hensley

Libourn

Carter

Nancy

1834 - 1906

Addington

David Jackson

1846 - 1928

McConnell

Mary R. Louemma

1851 - 1894

Kilgore

John M.

1851 - 1927

McConnell

Eliza J.

1853 - 1918

Carter

Robert

1866 - 1941

Bayes

Mary Arvilla

1872 - 1944

Addington

Hugh Jackson

1877 - 1940

Kilgore

Margaret Elizabeth

1875 -

Carter

Ezra J.

1898 - 1975

Addington

Maybelle

1909 - 1978

Carter

Ina Anita

1933 - 1999

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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 "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'.

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