Most biographical films have a “sticky-sweet taste of Hollywood” in them. They’ve been compressed, cleansed, and rearranged to fit within audience expectations and a two-hour time frame. Not so with A Coal Miner’s Daughter, the life story of country music legend Loretta Lynn. Its successful ability to shrug off the phoniness of Tinseltown, to speak ...
On March 3, 1963, Patsy Cline gave her last concert in Kansas City. Cline, Cowboy Copas, and Hawkshaw Hawkins boarded a private plane with Randy Hughes, Cline’s manager. On March 5, 1963 the plane met with severe weather and crashed in Camden, Tennessee. There were no survivors. Patsy Cline, the singer with perfect pitch, who ...
Some of the biggest names in the music industry have tragically lost their lives in plane crashes. Legends of rock and roll, country, soul, and pop have all met their maker when the plane that they were occupants in or piloting crashed. Ironically, one had recorded what would become his greatest hit just three days ...
Margaret LeAnn Rimes was born in Pearl, Mississippi on August 28, 1982. Today, she is known as simply LeAnn Rimes, a well-known singer. She has a beautiful voice that is reminiscent of Patsy Cline. She started performing at a very young age. She scored her first number one hit on the country chart at the ...
Patsy Cline (portrayed by Jessica Lange) had a brilliant future ahead of her when she was killed in an airplane crash while traveling with her manager, Randy Hughes. A rising star in the country music scene, Patsy’s career was cut short by this horrible tragedy. Patsy had a natural talent for singing since she was ...
Planes and musicians have not gotten along in the past. There is an extensive list of well know musicians who have died in plane crashes. This article will describe some of the plane crashes and well know musicians who died in them. The day the music died” was February 3rd 1959 near the town of ...
Though kids growing up in large urban centers where rap and pop music rule the roost might despise country music, the fact remains that country music is still an incredibly popular genre through much of North America. Coming up with a list of the top 10 country songs of all time was far from easy. ...