Two years after she died , her music was recognized .
`` Although she had been honored by the Washington Area Music Association , she was virtually unknown outside her native Washington , D.C. , when she died of melanoma in 1996.Four years later , Cassidy 's music was brought to the attention of British audiences when her versions of `` '' Fields of Gold '' '' and `` '' Over the Rainbow '' '' were played by Mike Harding and Terry Wogan on BBC Radio 2 . ''