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Kaye Adams (born April 9, 1941 in music|1941) is
an United States|American Country music|country
singer. 

She was born Princetta Kay Adams in Knox City,
Texas|Knox City, Texas, the fourth of five
children born to Charley Alva Adams (1908-1969)
and Ola May Henson (1914-1993). When Kaye was ten,
her family moved to Vernon, Texas.

In the 1960s, she came on the country scene with
the songs "Six Days A Waiting," "Old Heart Get
Ready," "Anymore," "Don't Talk Trouble To Me,"
"Trapped," "Roll Out The Red Carpet," "I Cried At
Your Wedding," "Honky Tonk Heartache" and "She
Didn't Color Daddy."

At the 1st Annual Academy of Country Music|Academy
of Country Music Awards in 1965 in music|1965 she
was named Top New Female Vocalist. Merle Haggard
was named Top New Male Vocalist, while Top Male
Vocalist and Top Female Vocalist went to Buck
Owens and Bonnie Owens. The following year, Adams
was nominated for Top Female Vocalist.

Before 1966 in music|1966, women never recorded
songs about truck driving. But Adams had a hit
that year with "Little Pink Mack," a song giving
the point of view of a woman driver, which is the
only song on the album by a woman. In the song her
truck has chrome and it "has polka-dot curtains
hangin' in the sleeper," but is the fastest
big-wheeler on the road. In her "truck drivin'
boots" she stands about five-foot three, but she
can take care of herself. She sings, "I'm a gear
swappin' mama, and I don't know the meaning of
fear." All the truckers are asked, "Who's the gal
in the little pink Mack?"

Adams appeared as a regular on such Bakersfield,
California|Bakersfield based country music
Television|TV Television program|programs as Buck
Owens’ Ranch and the Dave Stogner Show.

Her 1966 in music|1966 album "A Devil Like Me
Needs An Angel Like You" was a duo with singer
Jack Clement. She also sang on the
soundtrack-album of the Western movie Killers
Three (1968 in film|1968), which also featured
Clement, Merle Haggard and Bonnie Owens.

Kaye Adams was first married to George Willard.
They had two sons before divorcing. She and her
second husband were also divorced. She married for
a third time to a man named Buck.

Her albums include "A Devil Like Me Needs An Angel
Like You," "Make Mine Country" and "Wheels And
Tears."

==See also==
*Academy of Country Music
*List of country musicians