Kitty Wells "Pledging my love" (1971)

Early 1970s from a lady who was a big deal on country scene few decades ago - modern,current musicians and arrangements can't hide the fact that she is a little out of her depth here (she was and probably would have been far more comfortable singing gospel tunes and ballads) and her take on than-new "Rose garden" is simply bad.

The rest of the music shows that backing musicians and chorus are better than main focus - which is Kitty Wells who has a voice of questionable quality, it's a shaky, unsure, nasal sound. By today's standards she is not much of a singer, beloved as she must have been in country circles as early pioneer but honestly, hand-on-heart there are many more better voices around. Backing chorus in refrain helps to beef up her sound, still she is bland as a potato and there is nothing much to recommend here.