Died On This Date (March 5, 1963) Patsy Cline / Country Music Icon
themusicsover Patsy Cline (Born Virginia Hensley)
September 8, 1932 – March 5, 1963
Patsy Cline was arguably the greatest female singer that country music has ever known. If not the greatest, she was clearly one of the most influential, even though her career was cut tragically short after just eight years. With a booming voice, it didn’t take long for Cline to get noticed thanks to numerous radio talent shows on which she performed as a teen. By the mid ’50s, Cline was making her first records, and in 1957, she released “Walkin’ After Midnight,” which became her first hit and propelled her into the national limelight. Over the next several years Cline released such future country standards as “I Fall To Pieces,” “Sweet Dreams,” and of course, the Willie Nelson penned, “Crazy.” She truly was one of the all-time queens of country music, but sadly that all came to a quick end on March 5, 1963. While flying from a show in Kansas City, Kansas, the small plane that carried Cline, manager, Randy Hughes, and band members, Hawkshaw Hawkins and Cowboy Copas crashed due to bad weather. There were no survivors. The great Patsy Cline was dead at 30.
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Cowboy Copas was a country singer, guitarist and songwriter whose career took off when he became a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 1943. During his career, Copas released fifteen charting hit singles, including “Filipino Baby,” “Tennessee Waltz,” “Signed Sealed and Delivered,” and the #1 “Alabam.” On March 5, 1963, Cowboy Copas was killed in the same plane crash that took 