Fifty-three years ago, on Sunday, March 3, 1963, Lloyd "Cowboy" Copas shouldn't have been crying. Things were, after all, going well. Copas, who burst onto the country scene with four consecutive top ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “I just sing like I hurt inside. If you can’t do it with feeling, then don’t,” Cline once said of her passion for performing — and ...

Patsy Cline was one of the fastest rising stars in country music when her life was tragically cut short on March 5, 1963. The iconic country singer died in a plane crash while flying back to Nashville ...

Patsy Cline died in a plane crash in 1963, but she very nearly lost her career and her life in a terrible car accident two years before. Cline was a fast-rising county star by 1961, having scored her ...

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Every couple of months, at a venue somewhere in Michigan – the Old Town Playhouse in Traverse City, say, or the State Theater in Bay City, the singer Judy Harrison will head backstage to her dressing ...

DILLON – To many, she’s the greatest female country singer of all time. To her fans, she’s a beloved singer whose early death at the age of 30 gave her the status of a music icon. But the real story ...

Patsy Cline’s “I Fall to Pieces” is the grandmother of generations of moments that honor the affecting power of female voices singing country music. Released 60 years ago, on Jan. 30, 1961, the song ...

On March 7, 1953, Cline married her first husband, Gerald Cline. She signed a record contract the following year and recorded her first songs. Her husband reportedly hoped she would be a more ...

On January 21, 1957, Patsy Cline made her national television debut on “Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts,” which aired Monday nights on CBS. The show featured agents and managers from across the country ...

THE FOOTE FILES (CBSDFW.COM) — Nobody could sing country music better than Patsy Cline. As a former classic country DJ, my audience loved her and her music. Born Virginia Patterson Hensley (1932-1963) ...

Jazz and country music have two things in common: the blues and a dependence on songs with heartfelt stories. In the case of jazz, those story songs came largely from urban musicals by way of Tin Pan ...