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 ...

Released during a period of mourning, the collection helped ensure that her voice and the timeless songs she recorded would ...

She knew her time on earth was short. When you think of the legends of country music, Patsy Cline has to be close to the top ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A 1961 country hit that helped redefine the genre has been ranked among the greatest songs of all time by Rolling Stone, cementing its place as one of the most enduring recordings in music history.

The sound of Patsy Cline’s voice is unmistakable. That doesn’t leave Melissa Adams-Goihl much leeway in portraying the legendary country singer and songwriter. Adams-Goihl portrays Patsy Cline in the ...

Loretta Lynn — the “Coal Miner’s Daughter” who died at 90 Tuesday — had a special bond with another female country legend: Patsy Cline. The two singers — who were born just five months apart in 1932 — ...

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 daughters of the two country queens hope the new biopic, Patsy & Loretta, introduces viewers to the real women behind their mothers' legends Nancy Kruh is a Nashville-based writer-reporter for ...

Editor's note: The crash that killed Patsy Cline happened March 5, 1963. This story recounting the tragedy and its impact in Nashville was originally published on the 53rd anniversary of her death.