"The Patsy Cline Story The Patsy Cline Story is a double compilation album consisting of American country music singer Patsy Cline's best-known songs between 1961 and 1963. The album was released on June 10, 1963, three months following Cline's death. ""The Patsy Cline Story"" is a 24-track two-disc collection Cline's label, Decca Records released following Cline's death in a plane crash in March of that year. The album contains Cline's biggest hits, including ""Walkin' After Midnight"" (the 1961 remake), ""I Fall to Pieces,"" ""Crazy,"" ""She's Got You,"" and ""Sweet Dreams."" It also contains lesser-known songs that weren't hits for Cline,"
"UK release. Helms continued touring and recording for the next three decades. His pioneering contribution to the genre has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. Helms spent most of his later years living just outside Martinsville, Indiana, until his death from emphysema and asthma at the age of 63 in 1997. He was portrayed by actor Brad Hawkins in the 2007 film ""Crazy"". Bobby Helms Robert Lee Helms (August 15, 1933 – June 19, 1997) was an American country music singer best known for his 1957 Christmas hit ""Jingle Bell Rock"". His other hits include ""Fraulein"" and ""My"
"The Big Bopper Jiles Perry ""J. P."" Richardson Jr. (October 24, 1930 – February 3, 1959), known as The Big Bopper, was an American musician, singer and songwriter whose rockabilly look, style, voice, and exuberant personality made him an early rock and roll star. He is best known for his 1958 recording of ""Chantilly Lace"". On February 3, 1959, Richardson died in a plane crash in Clear Lake, Iowa, along with music stars Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens and pilot Roger Peterson. The accident was famously referred to as ""The Day the Music Died"" in Don McLean's 1971 song ""American"
"minutes after takeoff for reasons still unknown. The crash killed all three passengers and pilot Roger Peterson instantly upon impact. As with Holly and Richardson, Valens suffered massive and unsurvivable head injuries along with blunt force trauma to the chest. At just 17 years old, Valens was the youngest to die in the crash. The tragedy inspired singer Don McLean to write his 1971 hit ""American Pie"", immortalizing February 3 as ""The Day the Music Died"". Valens's remains were buried at San Fernando Mission Cemetery, Mission Hills, California. Valens was a pioneer of Chicano rock and Latin rock and inspired"
"Crazy (Willie Nelson song) ""Crazy"" is a ballad composed by Willie Nelson. It has been recorded by several artists, most notably by Patsy Cline, whose version was a No. 2 country hit in 1962. Partly due to the genre-blending nature of the song, it has been covered by dozens of artists in several genres over the years; nevertheless, the song remains inextricably linked with Cline. Nelson's own version appears on his 1962 debut album ""...And Then I Wrote"". With some help from a friend named Oliver English, Nelson wrote the song in early 1961; at the time he was a"
"song has become a country standard, with other notable versions by Patsy Cline and Emmylou Harris. In the summer of 1956 Faron Young recorded ""Sweet Dreams"" and took it all the way to #2 on the country charts. It was this version that garnered Gibson his first recognition as a talented songwriter. In early 1963, Patsy Cline was recording songs for her next album, ""Faded Love"", which was set for release in late March, 1963. She recorded ""Sweet Dreams"" for the album on February 5. However, on March 5, Cline died in a plane crash on the way home from"
"The Day the Music Died On February 3, 1959, American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. ""The Big Bopper"" Richardson were killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, together with pilot Roger Peterson. The event later became known as ""The Day the Music Died"", after singer-songwriter Don McLean referred to it as such in his 1971 song ""American Pie"". At the time, Holly and his band, consisting of Waylon Jennings, Tommy Allsup, and Carl Bunch, were playing on the ""Winter Dance Party"" tour across the Midwest. Rising artists Valens, Richardson and Dion and"
"Crazy (Aerosmith song) ""Crazy"" is a power ballad performed by American hard rock band Aerosmith and written by Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, and Desmond Child. It was the final single from their massively successful 1993 album ""Get a Grip"". It was released as a single in 1994 and peaked at #17 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, #7 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, and #3 in Canada. In the United Kingdom, it was released as a double-A side with ""Blind Man"", which reached #23. The video for the song was directed by Marty Callner and received heavy rotation on MTV."
"Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper were killed in a plane crash in February 1959, a then-teenaged Vee was one of a group of local musicians recruited to play at the next leg of a scheduled concert in Fargo, North Dakota. In 1961, Vee (whose other hit singles include ""Take Good Care of My Baby"" and ""The Night Has a Thousand Eyes"") recorded ""More Than I Can Say"", and it reached No. 61 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart. It was a bigger hit in the United Kingdom, where the song and its B-side, ""Staying In"", peaked at No."
"single of all time, confirmed by the Guinness Records. The early seventies also marked the deaths of rock legends Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, gospel great Mahalia Jackson and Cass Elliot of the Mamas and the Papas. The decade also saw the plane crash in 1977 in which three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd were killed. Elton John became the decade's biggest solo pop star, releasing diverse styles of music that ranged from ballads to arena rock; some his most popular songs included ""Crocodile Rock"", ""Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"", ""Bennie and the Jets"", ""Philadelphia Freedom"" and ""Don't Go Breaking My"
"writers of the song, King and Kilgore. He died at the age of 102 on 15 August 1994 at his home in Clinton, Arkansas, and was buried at the Woolverton Mountain Cemetery. Country singer Dickey Lee, who was still emerging on the music scene at the time, covered the song just months after it was released. Nat King Cole covered the song for his 1962 album ""Ramblin' Rose"". Bing Crosby covered the song for his 1965 album ""Bing Crosby Sings the Great Country Hits"". Jerry Lee Lewis also recorded a version of the song that year. In 1962, Australian country"
"3, 1963 Patsy Cline along with numerous other stars sang at a Memorial Hall benefit for the family he left behind. After leaving from Fairfax Airport two days later, Cline, along with Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas and concert promoter/manager Randy Hughes were all killed in the 1963 Camden, TN Piper Comanche plane crash en route to Nashville. On February 23, 2010, Cy Blumenthal (1913–1983) was posthumously inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame during the annual induction ceremonies in Nashville. He was recognized as the first man to own a chain of Large Market radio stations in the Country"
"Billy ""Crash"" Craddock Billy Wayne ""Crash"" Craddock (born June 16, 1939) is an American country and rockabilly singer. He first gained popularity in Australia in the 1950s with a string of rockabilly hits, including the Australian number one hit ""Boom Boom Baby"". Switching to country music, he gained popularity in United States in the 1970s with a string of top ten country hits, several of which were number one hits, including ""Rub It In"", ""Broken Down in Tiny Pieces"", and ""Ruby Baby"". Craddock is known to his fans as ""The King Of Country Rock Music"" and ""Mr. Country Rock"" for"
"1959. Then in April 1960, while touring with Gene Vincent in the UK, their taxi crashed into a concrete lamp post, killing Eddie at the young age of 21. The grim coincidence in this all was that his posthumous UK number-one hit was called ""Three Steps to Heaven"". Rockabilly music enjoyed great popularity in the United States during 1956 and 1957, but radio play declined after 1960. Factors contributing to this decline are usually cited as the 1959 death of Buddy Holly in an airplane crash (along with Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper), the induction of Elvis Presley into"
"B-3 organ. NOTE: All albums are available in CD format Paul Davis (singer) Paul Lavon Davis (April 21, 1948 – April 22, 2008) was an American singer and songwriter, best known for his radio hits and solo career which started worldwide in 1970. His career encompassed soul, country, and pop. His most successful songs are 1977's ""I Go Crazy"", a #7 pop hit which once held the record for the longest chart run on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, and 1982's ""'65 Love Affair"", which at #6 is his highest-charting single. In the mid-1980s, he also had two country #1 hits"
"his second appearance on ""The Ed Sullivan Show"" in January 1958 and soon after, toured Australia and then the UK. In early 1959, he assembled a new band, consisting of future country music star Waylon Jennings (bass), famed session musician Tommy Allsup (guitar), and Carl Bunch (drums), and embarked on a tour of the midwestern U.S. After a show in Clear Lake, Iowa, he chartered an airplane to travel to his next show, in Moorhead, Minnesota. Soon after takeoff, the plane crashed, killing Holly, Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper, and pilot Roger Peterson in a tragedy later referred to by"
"the position of lead singer with the group in 1961. He would remain through early 1965. Tommy Allsup, the guitarist who had toured with Holly during the fateful Winter Dance Party frequently played with the band. Singing star and Liberty records artist Bobby Vee had a number of connections with Holly and the Crickets. After Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper were killed in the tragic February 1959 plane crash, Fargo, North Dakota teenager Bobby Vee was among several local young musicians recruited to join the rest of the Winter Dance Party tour, beginning with the next scheduled"
"1961, a version of the song ""Lollipop"", originally by Ronald & Ruby, which also became a success. Vee had a total of ten hit singles in the UK, ending with ""Bobby Tomorrow"" (UK number 21) in 1963. In 1963, American Bandstand signed Vee to headline Dick Clark's Caravan of Stars national U.S. tour which was scheduled to perform its 15th show on the night of November 22, 1963 at the Memorial Auditorium in Dallas, Texas until suddenly the Friday evening event had to be cancelled moments after U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated that afternoon while touring Dallas in"
"the country singles charts with cover versions: Burl Ives, Tony Booth and Darrell Clanton, in 1967, 1972 and 1983, respectively. Lonesome 7-7203 ""Lonesome 7-7203"" is a 1963 single by Hawkshaw Hawkins, written by Justin Tubb. It was the final single release of his career, released in 1963 on the King label. ""Lonesome 7-7203"" was Hawkins's first chart entry since ""Soldier's Joy"" in 1959. It spent twenty-five weeks on the ""Billboard"" Hot Country Singles charts, peaking at No. 1 on the chart dated for May 4, 1963. Three days after its release, Hawkins died in an airplane crash which also killed"
"Crazy (The Manhattans song) ""Crazy"" is a song written and produced by the Americans songwriters and music producers John V. Anderson, Steve Williams and Steve Horton. The song was recorded in 1983 by popular American R&B vocal group The Manhattans and released the same year on the album ""Forever by Your Side"" by Columbia Records. ""Crazy"" was released as a single in June 1983, reaching No. 4 on the R&B chart, and No. 72 on the Billboard Hot 100. Besides the United States, ""Crazy"" peaked at No. 63 on the UK Singles chart. Two formats were released for the single"
"Three Stars (song) ""Three Stars"" is a song written by Tommy Dee in 1959, as a tribute to Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper), who died in a plane crash earlier that year. The song was recorded by Tommy Dee with Carol Kay and first released on April 5, 1959, by Crest Records. It sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc. The lyrics suggested the three ""stars"" represent the three musicians that died in the crash. A year after Eddie Cochran recorded the song, he died in a car accident on his"
"an airplane carrying Austin, six other members of McEntire's band, and her road manager crashed into a nearby mountain after taking off from an airport in San Diego, California, killing all on board. Chris Austin Christopher Clay Austin (born February 24, 1964 in Boone, North Carolina – March 16, 1991 in San Diego, California) was a male country music singer. Austin was signed to Warner Bros. Records in 1988 and charted three singles on the ""Billboard"" Hot Country Songs chart. His highest-charting single, ""Blues Stay Away from Me,"" was included on the 1989 compilation album ""New Tradition Sings the Old"
"February 3rd 1959, the plane crashed near Clear Lake, Iowa, with Holly, Valens, The Big Bopper, and the pilot, Roger Peterson, all being killed. Bobby Vee, then an unknown artist, performed in Holly’s place at the very next concert. Later, Jimmy Clanton, Frankie Avalon, and Fabian were hired to finish the tour in place of the three deceased headliners. As of January 11, 2017 with the death of Holly's tour guitarist Tommy Allsup, Dion is the lone surviving member of the original Winter Dance Party lineup (The lone surviving Belmont, Angelo D'Aleo, was not on the tour as he was"
"Lynyrd Skynyrd Lynyrd Skynyrd ( ), was an American rock band best known for popularizing the Southern rock genre during the 1970s. With roots tracing to the formation of ""My Backyard"" in Jacksonville, Florida in 1964, the band was also known by names such as ""The Noble Five"" and ""One Percent"", before finally deciding on ""Lynyrd Skynyrd"" in 1969. The band gained worldwide recognition for its live performances and signature songs ""Sweet Home Alabama"" and ""Free Bird"". At the peak of their success, band members Ronnie Van Zant and Steve Gaines, and backup singer Cassie Gaines, died in an airplane"
"in 1964, a victim of both the British Invasion and the deaths of Reeves and Cline in separate airplane crashes. By the mid-1960s, the genre had developed into countrypolitan. Countrypolitan was aimed straight at mainstream markets, and it sold well throughout the later 1960s into the early 1970s. Top artists included Tammy Wynette, Lynn Anderson and Charlie Rich, as well as such former ""hard country"" artists as Ray Price and Marty Robbins. Despite the appeal of the Nashville sound, many traditional country artists emerged during this period and dominated the genre: Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, Porter Wagoner, George"
"Billy Joe Royal Billy Joe Royal (April 3, 1942 – October 6, 2015) was an American pop and country singer. His most successful record was ""Down in the Boondocks"" in 1965. Born in Valdosta, Georgia to Clarence Royal and Mary Sue Smith, and raised in Marietta, Georgia, Royal performed at the Georgia Jubilee in Atlanta during his teens. He formed his own rock and roll band, and became a local star at the Bamboo Ranch in Savannah in the late 1950s and early 1960s, where his singing style was influenced by African-American performers including Sam Cooke. He was a friend"
"Carolina. Billy Joe Royal Billy Joe Royal (April 3, 1942 – October 6, 2015) was an American pop and country singer. His most successful record was ""Down in the Boondocks"" in 1965. Born in Valdosta, Georgia to Clarence Royal and Mary Sue Smith, and raised in Marietta, Georgia, Royal performed at the Georgia Jubilee in Atlanta during his teens. He formed his own rock and roll band, and became a local star at the Bamboo Ranch in Savannah in the late 1950s and early 1960s, where his singing style was influenced by African-American performers including Sam Cooke. He was a"
"1977 Mississippi CV-240 crash On October 20, 1977, a Convair CV-240 passenger aircraft ran out of fuel and crashed in a wooded area near Gillsburg, Mississippi. Chartered by the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd from L&J Company of Addison, Texas, it was near the end of its flight from Greenville, South Carolina, to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Lead vocalist/founding member Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist/vocalist Steve Gaines, backing vocalist Cassie Gaines (Steve's older sister), assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick, pilot Walter McCreary, and co-pilot William Gray all died as a result of the crash; 20 others survived. On October 20, 1977, three days"
"were marred with tragedy. Johnny Horton, who sang in the saga-song style, was killed in a car accident in 1960. A March 5, 1963, plane crash claimed the lives of Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins. Days later, Jack Anglin was killed in a car accident, while Texas Ruby died in a trailer fire in Texas. In July 1964, Jim Reeves lost his life while piloting a plane near Brentwood, Tennessee. Ira Louvin was killed in a car accident in 1965. Success overcame several of those tragic deaths, as both Cline and Reeves had many posthumous hits (with previously"
"the plane safely. The 1962 album ""Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music"" and its sequel, ""Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, Vol. 2"", helped to bring country music into the musical mainstream. Charles's version of the Don Gibson song ""I Can't Stop Loving You"" topped the Pop chart for five weeks, stayed at number 1 on the R&B chart for ten weeks, and gave him his only number-one record in the UK. In 1962, he founded his record label, Tangerine, which ABC-Paramount promoted and distributed. He had major pop hits in 1963 with ""Busted"" (US number 4) and"
"#5 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in 1959. It sold over one million copies, earning gold disc status. The song proved to be his only hit, however. Later, Wayne worked as a sound engineer, before he died in a car accident, at the age of 31, in Memphis in 1971. Thomas Wayne (singer) Thomas Wayne (July 22, 1940, Batesville, Mississippi - August 15, 1971, Memphis, Tennessee) was an American singer. He is best remembered as a one-hit wonder for ""Tragedy"". Wayne, who was born Thomas Wayne Perkins, was the brother of Johnny Cash's guitarist, Luther Perkins. He released several singles"
"Charlie Rich Charles Allan Rich (December 14, 1932July 25, 1995) was an American country music singer, songwriter, and musician. His eclectic style of music was often difficult to classify, encompassing the rockabilly, jazz, blues, country, soul, and gospel genres. In the later part of his life, Rich acquired the nickname the Silver Fox. He is perhaps best remembered for a pair of 1973 hits, ""Behind Closed Doors"" and ""The Most Beautiful Girl"". ""The Most Beautiful Girl"" topped the U.S. country singles charts, as well as the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 pop singles charts and earned him two Grammy Awards. Rich was"
"three UK top ten hits with the Jimi Hendrix Experience: ""Hey Joe"", ""Purple Haze"", and ""The Wind Cries Mary"". He achieved fame in the U.S. after his performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, and in 1968 his third and final studio album, ""Electric Ladyland"", reached number one in the U.S.; it was Hendrix's most commercially successful release and his first and only number one album. The world's highest-paid performer, he headlined the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970, before his accidental death from barbiturate-related asphyxia on September 18, 1970, at the age"