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Bang Bang (Kelly Willis album)

1991 studio album by Kelly Willis

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 10, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Bang Bang is an album by country music artist Kelly Willis, released in 1991 on MCA Records. It received little attention from country radio, although it was the biggest-selling of her three MCA albums. It includes the Billboard minor country hit "Baby Take a Piece of My Heart", which rose to No. 51 on the charts.

Editorial summary

“Bang Bang (Kelly Willis album)” enters the record as 1991 studio album by Kelly Willis. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bang, Kelly and Willis can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bang, Kelly and Willis.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Bang Bang (Kelly Willis album)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Bang, Kelly and Willis provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 10, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1991.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bang Bang (Kelly Willis album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.