Kelly Harrell <br /><br />"She Just Kept Kissing On" <br /><br />Victor 40095 <br /><br />February 19, 1929 (his last recording session?) <br /><br />Kelly Harrell was born on September 13, 1889, in Draper's Valley, Wythe County, Virginia. <br /><br />In early 1925, he recorded four titles for Victor. In that year he also had an Okeh recording session. <br /><br />His first Victor discs sold well enough for the company to invite Kelly to record additional titles in 1926, 1927, and 1929 (for some reason he did not enter a recording studio in 1928). <br /><br />He did not play an instrument. Kelly Harrell always required backing by other musicians. That added to the expense of issuing new Harrell discs--studios did not offer him work during the hard times of the Depression. <br /><br />He died on July 9, 1942, due to a heart attack.
