Question: "Hello Vietnam" is the title of a song written by Tom T. Hall, the single, with backing vocals from Wright's wife, Kitty Wells, an American pioneering female country music singer, passed away on which date?
Context: The albums discography of Kitty Wells, an American country artist, consists of thirty-six studio albums, eleven compilation albums, and one box set.  Wells' first album release was 1956's "Country Hit Parade" on Decca Records, which compiled her hits during her first four years of recording for the label.  Prior to its release, many labels were reluctant to release albums by female country artists until Wells became the first female vocalist to sell records.  Following its release, Wells and her label issued three studio albums during the 1950s: "Winner of Your Heart" (1957), "Lonely Street" (1958), and "Dust on the Bible" (1959).  After the success of Wells' number one single "Heartbreak U.S.A." in 1961, an album of the same name was released the same year.  In 1963, her fourth compilation album "The Kitty Wells Story" became her first album to chart among the "Billboard Magazine" Top Country Albums list, peaking at #7.  In 1964, her tenth studio album "Especially for You" became her first studio album to chart on the same list, peaking at #19.  The latter started a string of albums that would peak on the "Billboard" country chart during the 1960s, including "Burning Memories" (#7; 1965), "Lonesome, Sad, and Blue" (#7; 1965), and "Queen of the Honky Tonk Street" (#5; 1967). "The Wild Side of Life" is a song made famous by country music singer Hank Thompson.  Originally released in 1952, the song became one of the most popular recordings in the genre's history, spending 15 weeks at No. 1 on the "Billboard" country charts, solidified Thompson's status as a country music superstar and inspired the answer song, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" by Kitty Wells. "Hello Vietnam" is the title of a song written by Tom T. Hall and recorded by American country music singer Johnnie Wright.  It spent twenty weeks on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot Country Singles chart with three weeks at number one.  The single, with backing vocals from Wright's wife, Kitty Wells, was Wright's most successful release on the U.S. country music chart as a solo singer.  His singing partner from Johnnie and Jack, Jack Anglin, was killed in a car accident in March 1963. "Shut Up and Kiss Me" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Mary Chapin Carpenter.  It was released in August 1994 as the first single from her album "Stones in the Road".  The song became her only Number One hit on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts; it also peaked at number 90 on the "Billboard" Hot 100.  The song features Lee Roy Parnell accompanying on slide guitar, Benmont Tench on piano and Trisha Yearwood providing backing vocals.  The song also won Carpenter a Grammy Award in 1995 for Best Female Country Vocal Performance. Ruby Wright (October 27, 1939 – September 27, 2009) was an American country music singer-songwriter.  Wright was the daughter of country singers Kitty Wells and Johnnie Wright.  She sang with her parents as a young girl and at age 13, was signed by RCA Records as Ruby Wells because there was also a Ruby Wright who was a pop singer. John Robert "Bobby" Wright (born March 30, 1942 in Charleston, West Virginia) is an American country music singer.  He is the youngest child and the only son of country singers Johnnie Wright and Kitty Wells, and brother of Ruby Wright.  Most of his boyhood years were spent in Louisiana, since his parents were regular performers on the country music television program "Louisiana Hayride".  At age eight, Wright appeared with his parents on the show, and became part of their recordings three years later.  The family went back to Nashville in 1958, because his parents became headliners at the Grand Ole Opry. Ellen Muriel Deason (August 30, 1919 – July 16, 2012), known professionally as Kitty Wells, was an American pioneering female country music singer.  She broke down a female barrier in country music with her 1952 hit recording, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" which also made her the first female country singer to top the U.S. country charts, and turned her into the first female country star.  Her Top 10 hits continued until the mid-1960s, inspiring a long list of female country singers who came to prominence in the 1960s. The singles discography of Kitty Wells, an American country artist, consists of ninety singles, nineteen B-sides, and two music videos.  In 1949 she was signed to RCA Victor Records, where she released her debut single, "Death at the Bar" also in 1949.  Dropped from RCA in 1950, Wells signed with Decca Records and released the single "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" in 1952.  The song was an answer song to Hank Thompson's hit, "The Wild Side of Life", spending six weeks at number one on the "Billboard Magazine" Hot C&W Sides chart.  The single sold one million copies and made Wells the first female country artist to have a single reach number one on the "Billboard" country list.  Until the end of the decade, Wells became the only woman on the country chart that would consistently receive radio airplay.  In 1953 the song, "Paying for That Back Street Affair" reached #6 on the "Billboard" Hot C&W Sides list, as well as twenty one additional Top Ten singles on the same chart between 1953 and 1959.  This included singles such as the Red Foley duet "One by One" (1954), "Making Believe" (1955), "I Can't Stop Loving You" (1958), "Mommy for a Day" (1959), and "Amigo's Guitar" (1959).  The latter song was written by Wells herself and later won her a BMI Songwriter's Award. Goldie Hill (January 11, 1933 – February 24, 2005), born Argolda Voncile Hill, was an American country music singer.  She was one of the first women in country music, and became one of the first women to reach the top of the country music charts with her No. 1 1953 hit, "I Let the Stars Get In My Eyes".  Along with Kitty Wells, she helped set the standard for later women in country music. Bill Phillips (January 28, 1936, Canton, North Carolina – August 23, 2010) was an American country music singer.  His professional music career started with the Old Southern Jamboree on WMIL in Miami in 1955.  He moved to Nashville in 1957 and worked with Johnnie Wright and Kitty Wells until the late 1970s.  His biggest recording was entitled "Put It Off Until Tomorrow" which peaked on the country charts at No. 6 on April 2, 1966.  The Decca recording featured uncredited harmony vocals by the song's composer, a very young and then little known Dolly Parton.
Answer: July 16, 2012