Aaliyah - Musicians killed in air crashes - Pictures - CBS News Musicians killed in air crashes Next James Horner Composer James Horner, the Oscar winner behind such films as "Titanic" and "A Beautiful Mind," died in a plane crash in June 22, 2015, according to a post from his assistant on Facebook. His other scores included "Alien," ''Apollo 13," ''Field of Dreams" and ''Braveheart." According to reports, Horner was the only person on the plane, and the pilot was killed. Credit: Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images Jenni Rivera Singer Jenni Rivera, seen performing during the 11th annual Latin Grammy Awards at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas on Nov. 11, 2010, died Dec. 10, 2012, when her Learjet crashed in rugged territory following a concert in Monterrey, Mexico. She is the latest in a long string of musicians who have lost their lives in air crashes.

Credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images for LARAS Melanie Thornton Melanie Thornton, half of the pop duo La Bouche, which had `90s hits such as "Be My Lover" and "Sweet Dreams," died in an airline crash in Switzerland on Nov. 24, 2001. Credit: AP Aaliyah Singer Aaliyah arrives at the "Planet of the Apes" premiere on July 23, 2001 in New York. The singer, who also did some acting, was killed in a plane crash in the Bahamas along with eight others. The twin-engine Cessna went down shortly after takeoff on Aug. 25, 2001. Credit: Frank Micelotta/Getty Images John Denver John Denver, seen on the cover of his Definitive All-Time Greatest Hits album, died in the crash of his experimental plane off the California coast on Oct. 12, 1997.

A 1970s superstar, Denver had hits like "Take Me Home, Country Roads" and "Rocky Mountain High." Credit: Sony Music Entertainment Stevie Ray Vaughan Blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan died when his helicopter crashed into a hill in East Troy, Wis., after departing from a concert on Aug. 27, 1990. Credit: AP Ricky Nelson Rick Nelson, left, with his family in a 1960-61 promotion photo for "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet." Nelson died Dec. 31, 1985, when his plane caught fire and crashed near DeKalb, Texas. Credit: AP Ronnie Van Zant Judy Van Zant, widow of lead singer Ronnie Van Zant speaks as other members of Lynyrd Skynyrd listen during the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in New York, March 13, 2006. Van Zant and guitarist Stevie Gaines, also of the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, died in a plane crash in McComb, Miss., on Oct. 21, 1977. Credit: TIMOTHY A.

CLARY/AFP/Getty Images Jim Croce Singer Jim Croce, known for hits such as "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown," was killed in a plane crash near Natchitoches, La., on Sept. 20, 1973. Credit: . Otis Redding Usher Raymond and Zelma Redding, Otis Redding's widow, launch the U-Cast Podcast series July 25, 2008, at Tiffany & Co. in Atlanta, Ga. Dec. 10, 1967. Soul singer Otis Redding died when his plane crashed into a lake near Madison, Wis., on Dec. 10, 1967. Credit: Rick Diamond/Getty Images Patsy Cline Country singer Patsy Cline, whose hits included "Crazy" and "She's Got You," and fellow singers Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins died in a plane crash near Camden, Tenn., on March 5, 1963. Credit: . Buddy Holly Rock star Buddy Holly was killed Feb.

3, 1959, when the chartered plane that he and other musicians were riding in crashed near Mason City, Iowa, en route to a show. Also killed in that crash were J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson and Ritchie Valens. Credit: AP Glenn Miller Trombonist Glenn Miller, the leader of a hugely popular dance band, was killed when his plane disappeared between England and Paris on Dec. 15, 1944, while Miller was entertaining troops. Credit: . List of music stars who have died in air crashes List of music stars who have died in air crashes By The Associated Press Share 1 / 2 In this picture taken March 8, 2012, Mexican-American singer and reality TV star Jenni Rivera poses during an interview in Los Angeles. The California-born singer who rose through personal adversity to become a superstar adored by millions in a male-dominated genre of Mexican-American music, was confirmed dead in a plane crash in northern Mexico, the National Transportation Safety Board confirmed Monday, Dec. 10, 2012.

(AP Photo/Reed Saxon) In this picture taken March 8, 2012, Mexican-American singer and reality TV star Jenni Rivera poses during an interview in Los Angeles. The California-born singer who rose through personal adversity to become a superstar adored by millions in a male-dominated genre of Mexican-American music, was confirmed dead in a plane crash in northern Mexico, the National Transportation Safety Board confirmed Monday, Dec. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon) With hectic tours to often remote places, the music world has been hit hard by air tragedies over the years. On Sunday, Mexican singing star Jenni Rivera and six others were killed when their Learjet crashed in rugged territory following a concert in Monterrey, Mexico. Here are other notable musicians who lost their lives in air crashes: — Dec. 15, 1944: Glenn Miller, the trombonist and leader of a hugely popular dance band, was killed when his plane disappeared between England and Paris while Miller was entertaining troops. — June 30, 1954: Gospel singers R.W. Blackwood and Bill Lyles died when the group's private plane crashed in Clanton, Ala. — Feb.

3, 1959: Rock stars Buddy Holly, J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson and Ritchie Valens were killed when their chartered plane crashed near Mason City, Iowa, en route to a show. — March 5, 1963: Country singer Patsy Cline, whose hits included "Crazy" and "She's Got You," and fellow singers Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins died in a plane crash near Camden, Tenn. — July 31, 1964: Jim Reeves, a country balladeer known for "Four Walls" and "Welcome to My World," was killed in the crash of a small plane in Nashville, Tenn. — Dec. 10, 1967: Soul singer Otis Redding died when his plane crashed into a lake near Madison, Wis. — Sept. 20, 1973: Singer Jim Croce, known for hits such as "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown," was killed in a plane crash near Natchitoches, La. — Oct.

21, 1977: Lead singer Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Stevie Gaines of the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd died in a plane crash in McComb, Miss. — March 19, 1982: Randall "Randy" Rhoads, lead guitarist in rock star Ozzy Osbourne's band, along with two others, were killed when their Beechcraft Bonanza allegedly flew too low while "buzzing" a band van on tour in Leesburg, Fla. — Dec. 31, 1985: Rick Nelson, "Ozzie and Harriet" TV star turned rock 'n' roller, died when his plane caught fire and crashed near DeKalb, Texas. — March 21, 1987: Dean Paul Martin, former member of the 1960s band Dino, Desi and Billy and son of entertainer of Dean Martin, was killed with his co-pilot. The two, flying an F-4 phantom, were members of the California Air National Guard. — Aug.

27, 1990: Blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan died when his helicopter crashed into a hill in East Troy, Wis., after departing from a concert. — Oct. 25, 1991: Bill Graham, who built an empire promoting concerts as rock 'n' roll turned psychedelic in the 1960s with groups including Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead and Santana, was killed in a helicopter crash near Vallejo, Calif. — Oct. 12, 1997: John Denver, 1970s superstar with hits like "Take Me Home, Country Roads," died in the crash of his experimental plane off the California coast. — Aug. 25, 2001: Actress and R&B singer Aaliyah was killed in a plane crash in the Bahamas along with eight others. The twin-engine Cessna went down shortly after takeoff. — Nov. 24, 2001: Melanie Thornton, half of the pop duo La Bouche, which had '1990s hits such as "Be My Lover" and "Sweet Dreams," died in an airline crash in Switzerland. — Feb.

12, 2009: Two members of jazz musician Chuck Mangione's band, Gerry Niewood and Coleman Mellett, were killed in a commuter plane crash outside Buffalo, NY, along with 48 others. ___ News researcher Rhonda Shafner in New York contributed to this report. Reblog Music Stars Who Have Died in Plane Crashes Music Stars Who Have Died in Plane Crashes By Traci Taylor December 11, 2012 4:53 AM Share on Twitter Getty Images The music world has been hit hard by air tragedies over the years. On Sunday, Mexican-American singing superstar Jenni Rivera and six others were killed when their plane crashed following a concert in Monterrey, Mexico. Rivera was a multi-media star, releasing hit albums of traditional Mexican music, starring in a reality show, releasing her own clothing line and hosting a syndicated radio show. Reports say she’d also just signed on for her ABC sitcom. Here are other musicians who lost their lives in plane crashes: December 15, 1944: Glenn Miller, the trombonist and leader of a hugely popular dance band, was killed when his plane disappeared between England and Paris while he was entertaining troops.

January 26, 1947: Grace Moore was an American opera singer who died in a plane crash at the age of 48 in Denmark. October 1, 1949: Buddy Clark, a Big Band singer died at the age 37 just as he was reaching new heights of popularity when his plane ran out of fuel, lost altitude and crashed in Los Angeles. June 30, 1954: Gospel singers R.W. Blackwood and Bill Lyles died when their plane crashed in Alabama. February 3, 1959: The day the music died. The deaths of rock stars Buddy Holly, J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson and Ritchie Valens was inspiration for Don McLane’s song “American Pie.” All three were killed when their plane crashed near Mason City, Iowa, en route to a show. March 5, 1963: Country singer Patsy Cline and singers Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins died in a plane crash in Tennessee.

July 31, 1964: Jim Reeves, a country musician known for “Four Walls” and “Welcome to My World,” was killed in the crash of a small plane in Tennessee. May 9, 1967: Philippa Schuyler was a noted American child prodigy pianist who became famous in the 1930s and 1940s as a result of her talent and mixed-race parentage who died during a war correspondent mission to Vietnam. December 10, 1967: Soul singer Otis Redding died when his plane crashed into a lake near Madison, Wisconsin. September 20, 1973: Jim Croce, known for hits like “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown,” was killed in a plane crash near in Louisiana. August 9, 1974: Bill Chase, leader of the jazz band Chase died at the age of 39 along with keyboardist Wally Yohn, drummer Walter Clark and guitarist John Emma when their plane went down in Minnesota.

October 21, 1977: Lead singer Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Stevie Gaines of Lynyrd Skynyrd died in a plane crash in Mississippi. October 5, 1981: Jud Strunk was a singer who wrote and recorded the song “A Daisy a Day,” which made the Billboard Top 20 on both the country and pop music charts who suffered a heart attack while flying his plane, which crashed in Maine. March 19, 1982: Randy Rhoads, lead guitarist in Ozzy Osbourne’s band, along with two others, were killed when their plane allegedly flew too low while “buzzing” a band van on tour in Florida. July 28, 1982: Keith Green was an American gospel singer and Contemporary Christian Musician who died along with 11 other people including two of kid children when their plane crashed after takeoff. December 31, 1985: Rick Nelson, “Ozzie and Harriet” TV star turned rock ‘n’ roller, died when his plane caught fire and crashed in Texas.

March 21, 1987: Dean Paul Martin, former member of the 1960s band Dino, Desi and Billy and son of entertainer of Dean Martin, was killed with his co-pilot. The two, flying an F-4 phantom, were members of the California Air National Guard. August 27, 1990: Blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan died when his helicopter crashed into a hill in Wisconsin, after departing from a concert. March 17, 1991: Seven members of Reba McEntire’s band, along with her road manager and two pilots, were killed when their plane crashed in a mountain area near the Mexican border. October 25, 1991: Bill Graham, who built an empire promoting concerts as rock ‘n’ roll turned psychedelic in the 1960s with groups including Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead and Santana, was killed in a helicopter crash in California. October 12, 1997: John Denver, 1970s superstar with hits like “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” died in the crash of his experimental plane off the California coast.

August 25, 2001: Actress and R&B singer Aaliyah was killed in a plane crash in the Bahamas along with eight others. The plane went down shortly after takeoff. November 24, 2001: Melanie Thornton, half of the group La Bouche, which had ‘90s hits such as “Be My Lover” and “Sweet Dreams,” died in an airline crash in Switzerland. February 12, 2009: Two members of jazz musician Chuck Mangione’s band, Gerry Niewood and Coleman Mellett, were killed in a commuter plane crash outside Buffalo, New York, along with 48 others. Plane Crash Accidents: Top Ten Musicians Who Died In Plane Crashes February 14, 2013 By Jay Crawford 79 Comments Plane Crash Deaths ~ February 3rd was the anniversary of one of the most tragic events in music history. Infamously known as “ The Day the Music Died ,” this date in 1959 was when three legendary young rock and roll musicians were killed in a plane crash. As tragic as this event was, it was not the only time that a musician was killed in a plane crash.

Here is my top ten list of artists killed in plane crashes. Top Ten Musicians Who Died In A Plane Crash 1. Buddy Holly {see above} Holly was one of the three rock-and-rollers killed in the 1959 crash, and probably the biggest of the three. Holly already had three top ten hits, including a number one song with “That’ll Be the Day” in 1957. Several artists, including Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, and Eric Clapton count Holly among their biggest musical influences. Some say he may have been the single most important rock and roll artist of all time, although he had only been around for a couple of years before his untimely death. He was among the first artists to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 2. Patsy Cline Perhaps the single most influential female artist of all time, Patsy Cline was killed in a plane crash just outside Camden, Tennessee on March the 5th, 1963. She had a slew of country music hits to her credit, and had successfully crossed over into pop music, the first artist of her genre to do so.

Her hits include “Walkin’ After Midnight”, “I Fall to Pieces”, “She’s Got You”, and “Crazy.” She even scored Top 10 hits after her death in the country music field with “Sweet Dreams”, “Leavin’ On Your Mind”, and “Faded Love.” That is just a testament to her overall popularity. 3. Ritchie Valens The second most popular of those killed in the plane crash in 1959, Ritchie Valens was only 17 years old at the time of his death. He had already made his mark with three Top 40 hits, including “Donna”, which peaked at #2, “La Bamba”, and “C’Mon Let’s Go.” Valens pioneered what is known as Chicano rock, due to his Mexican-American heritage. Lou Diamond Phillips immortalized the young rocker in his 1987 portrayal of Valens in the film “La Bamba.” 4.

Ronnie Van Zant (Lynyrd Skynyrd) Perhaps the most infamous plane crash next to the 1959 one is the 1977 crash that killed three original members of the band Lynyrd Skynyrd, including original lead vocalist and founding member Ronnie Van Zant, backup singer Casey Gaines and guitarist Steve Gaines as well as the band’s road manager Dean Kilpatrick, the pilot and co-pilot. The band had pioneered the southern rock sound and were virtual icons, especially in the south, with songs like the legendary “Sweet Home Alabama”, the rock anthem “Freebird”, “Workin’ For MCA”, “What’s Your Name?”, and “I Know a Little.” Their music inspired countless other artists, such as Marshall Tucker, Charlie Daniels, Elvin Bishop, as well as numerous modern day country and rock artists. 5. Ricky Nelson Long before Justin Bieber or even Ricky Martin, there was the original teen heartthrob. His name was Ricky Nelson. Nelson began his career as an actor in the long-running television series “The Adventures of Ozzy and Harriet” in which he played himself. After the show ended, he embarked on a musical career that would make most artists jealous.

He scored huge hits with songs like “Dream Lover”, “Poor Little Fool”, and the #1 single “Travelin’ Man.” Nelson was killed when his private plane crashed just two miles from the airport in De Kalb, Texas on December 31, 1985. 6. John Denver John Denver had one of the most recognizable voices in radio. He also enjoyed major success in both the adult contemporary and country/western genres. During his lifetime he recorded twelve gold records and four platinum records. He is best known for his songs “Take Me Home (Country Roads)”, “Rocky Mountain High”, “Sunshine On My Shoulders”, and “Thank God I’m a Country Boy.” Denver was piloting a single occupant plane when he crashed into the Pacific Ocean in 1997 at the age of 53. 7. Stevie Ray Vaughan Technically, Stevie Ray Vaughan was killed in a helicopter crash. But, it’s an aircraft, so gimme a break Stevie was killed in 1990 when the helicopter he was riding in crashed into a hillside in Wisconsin.

He had helped to revive the modern blues movement with his band, Double Trouble, and scored huge hits in the blues genre, with songs like “Texas Flood”, “Pride and Joy”, “Rude Mood”, and a wonderful rendition of Jimi Hendrix’s “Vodoo Child (Slight Return).” Although he never cracked the Top 40 in his seven-year career, he was influential and inspirational to many artists, such as ZZ Top, Stevie Wonder, Eric Clapton and John Mayer. 8. Randy Rhoads Here is yet another example of a young, budding artist whose life ended way too early. Rhoads was a budding young guitarist who had co-founded the heavy metal band Quiet Riot before leaving them in 1979 to join former Black Sabbath lead vocalist Ozzy Osbourne on his first solo tour. Rhoads played guitar on Osbourne’s first and second studio albums, “The Blizzard of Oz” and “Diary of a Madman”, respectively. His riffs can be heard on Ozzy’s legendary hit “Crazy Train.” Rhoads was killed in March of 1982 when the plane he was on crashed into a garage in Leesburg, Florida.

Many modern day guitarists, especially in heavy metal, consider Randy Rhoads one of their biggest influences. 9. Jim Reeves He was known as “Gentleman” Jim Reeves. His sultry singing voice helped pioneer country music’s “Nashville sound” and left a legacy that would live for years after his untimely death. He had several top hits, including four #1 singles with “Mexican Joe”, “Bimbo”, “Four Walls”, and “Billy Bayou” but may be best known for songs that he recorded just prior to his death, “I Can’t Stop Loving You” and “Make the World Go Away.” He died in 1964 when the plane he was piloting crashed in Brentwood, Tennessee, just outside of Nashville. He was 41 years old. 10. The Big Bopper J.P. Richardson, a.k.a. The Big Bopper, is best known for his hit “Chantilly Lace” which was released in 1958. Until that time Richardson was a radio D.J. who enjoyed more success as a songwriter.

He penned “Running Bear” for Johnny Preston, as well as George Jones’ first #1 single, “White Lightnin’. ” Richardson was the third of three rock stars killed in the 1959 plane crash infamously known as “The Day the Music Died.” An honorable mention goes to Aaliyah, who died in a plane crash in 2001. She had two #1 singles on the R&B/Hip Hop charts with “Back & Forth” and “If Your Girl Only Knew” and a #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Try Again.” She also starred in two major motion pictures, “Romeo Must Die” with Jet Li and “Queen of the Damned” opposite Stuart Townsend. Her plane crashed in the Bahamas attempting to return to the U.S. Who Was Your Favorite Musician That Died In A Plane Crash? So, if you feel I missed anyone, please let me know. Otherwise, feel free to comment on these tragic events.

Acrobat Music > Today`s Anniversary > Patsy Cline, legendary country singer, was killed a plane crash on March 5th 1963 Register with us Useful links Patsy Cline, legendary country singer, was killed a plane crash on March 5th 1963 There is not a lot left to be said about Patsy Cline that has not already been said a thousand times. She was quite simply the archetypal artist of the era of Nashville country music of the late '50s and early '60s, and her records set a benchmark of performing artistry to which other country artists over the years have aspired. Born Virginia Patterson Hensley in Virginia in 1932, she always dreamed of becoming a singer, learning to sing in church, and admiring the work of Judy Garland, Kay Starr and Hank Williams. A throat illness in childhood gave her voice its unusual quality. Her first marriage to Gerald Cline ended after 4 years, a result of a large age difference and her husband's antipathy to her ambition.

Taking a shortened version of her middle name, she became Patsy Cline, and through performances on local radio got a contract with Four Star Records. An appearance on the Grand Ole Opry followed, then a slot on Arthur Godfrey's talent show, where she performed "Walking After Midnight", which became one of the first crossover country/pop hits. She moved to Decca in 1960, working with producer Owen Bradley, with whom she made the classic hits "I Fall To Pieces" and "Crazy". She was by 1963 the biggest name in country, but sadly joined the roll-call of pop music stars to succumb to accidents in light planes. Her life has been commemorated many times in movies, TV shows and books, and she remains an iconic figure. Acrobat has on catalogue a collection of her Four Star recordings - for full details click here. Cline, Patsy (1932–1963) , and during World War II to Portsmouth . They had returned to Winchester by 1948, when Samuel Hensley deserted his wife and three children.

Hensley quit school shortly after her sixteenth birthday and to help support her family began working, first in a poultry plant and then later at a bus depot and as a soda clerk at a drugstore. She also began singing professionally at night and on weekends to supplement the money her mother made as a seamstress. During the next few years Hensley won amateur contests, sang both country and western tunes and popular standards on local radio stations, and performed with a number of bands. She auditioned in Nashville for the Grand Ole Opry but was deemed too young. In September 1952 Hensley auditioned for the country bandleader Clarence William "Bill" Peer, who had a radio show on a station in Martinsburg, West Virginia. Peer liked what he heard, hired her full-time to sing with his Melody Boys and Girls on the Maryland, Northern Virginia , and Washington music circuit, and gave her the stage name of Patsy. On March 7, 1953, she married Gerald E. Cline, the divorced son of a wealthy contractor from Frederick, Maryland. Virginia Patterson Hensley thereafter became known as Patsy Cline.

Musical Career In September 1954 Cline signed a contract with the 4 Star Record Company, Inc., and the following June recorded her first songs in Nashville: "Hidin' Out," "Honky-Tonk Merry-Go-Round," "Turn the Cards Slowly," and "A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye." Her first record, released in July 1955 on the Coral Records label, was unsuccessful, although it was produced by the former bandleader Owen Bradley, who was helping create what became the Nashville Sound, a synthesis of country and popular music designed to attract a mass audience. Cline initially resisted his attempts to tone down her "hillbilly" sound with pop arrangements for which he thought her voice was better suited. In 1954 Cline began a series of guest appearances on Town and Country Time, the half-hour daily music-variety television program of Connie Barriott Gay, the premier country music promoter in the Washington area. Usually she performed on the regionally broadcast program as the female vocalist with Jimmy Dean and the Texas Wildcats.

This exposure won Cline a booking on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, a televised variety show and talent competition, and on January 21, 1957, she won the competition by singing "Walkin' After Midnight." The publicity from this appearance increased sales of the Bradley-produced song, recorded for the Decca Records label on November 8, 1956, and by March "Walkin' After Midnight" held the second spot on Billboard's country music chart and twelfth place on the popular music chart. In October 1955 Cline broke both professionally and personally with Peer, with whom she had been having an affair. Gerald Cline, jealous of his wife's success and frustrated that she did not stay at home like a traditional housewife, separated from Patsy Cline, and the childless couple divorced in Maryland on March 28, 1957. Cline had met Charles Allen Dick, a linotype operator for the local newspaper, at a Berryville dance in April 1956. They married on September 15, 1957, and had one daughter and one son. Dick was serving in the U.S.

Army at Fort Bragg, and without a hit to follow "Walkin' After Midnight" and with an infant to care for, Cline was back to scraping by as a regional performer. A few months after Dick was mustered out of the army in February 1959, the couple moved to Nashville. Cline, who had appeared several times as a guest in the mid-1950s, joined the Grand Ole Opry as a regular cast member in January 1960. She began to record more songs and performed to supplement the income from her husband's printing job. The couple struggled until January 1961, when Decca released "I Fall to Pieces." This Cline-Bradley masterwork topped the country chart and reached the twelfth spot on the pop chart. In June, Cline was critically injured in an automobile accident but had returned to the studio by August, when she recorded "Crazy," a song written by Willie Nelson that rose to second place on the country chart and ninth place on the pop chart. In December 1961 she recorded "She's Got You," which became her second number-one country hit.

Achieving newfound success, Cline won several outstanding female country singer awards during the next two years. Beginning in January 1962 she frequently appeared as the second-billed performer in a concert tour organized by Johnny Cash that also featured June Carter and George Jones. Her touring schedule included television performances on American Bandstand and the Tennessee Ernie Ford Show as well as concerts at Carnegie Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, and the Mint Casino in Las Vegas. By early in 1963 she had recorded more than 100 songs. Her well-controlled, instantly recognizable voice wrung the last drop of emotion from every lyric. On March 5, 1963, while flying home to Nashville after a benefit concert in Kansas City, Missouri, in a plane piloted by her manager, Patsy Cline and the country music luminaries Lloyd Estel "Cowboy" Copas and Harold Franklin "Hawkshaw" Hawkins died in a crash near Camden, Tennessee. After a prayer service in Nashville, her remains were returned to Winchester, where her funeral attracted the news media and thousands of fans. She was buried in Shenandoah Memorial Park just outside the city.

Posthumous Success In the decades following her death, Cline became a musical icon. In 1973 she was the first solo woman performer to be elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, and in 1981 she was inducted into the Virginia Folk Music Association's Virginia Country Music Hall of Fame. Her recordings have sold millions of copies, and she has been the subject of numerous biographies, several musicals, a tribute album, and a feature film, Sweet Dreams (1985). The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences recognized Cline with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995 and with Grammy Hall of Fame awards in 1992 and 2001 for "Crazy" (1961) and "I Fall to Pieces" (recorded 1960, released 1961), respectively. At the end of the twentieth century, her recording of "Crazy" remained the song most often played on jukeboxes. Cline has fan clubs around the world, a United States commemorative postage stamp, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (although she never made a movie).

In Winchester there is a bell tower erected in her memory at Shenandoah Memorial Park, an annual Labor Day celebration of her life, and the Patsy Cline Memorial Highway (Route 522) and Patsy Cline Boulevard. Her soulful interpretations of lyrics and her unmistakable voice continue to win admirers across musical genres and to inspire generations of vocalists, from Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton to Linda Ronstadt and k. d. lang. Time Line September 8, 1932 - Virginia Patterson Hensley is born in a Winchester hospital to Samuel Lawrence Hensley and Hilda Virginia Patterson Hensley. September 1952 - Virginia Patterson Hensley auditions for country bandleader Clarence William "Bill" Peer, who hires her to sing with his touring group, Peer's Melody Boys and Girls. He also gives Hensley the stage name Patsy. March 7, 1953 - Virginia Patterson "Patsy" Hensley marries Gerald E. Cline and thereafter is known as Patsy Cline.

1954 - Patsy Cline begins a series of guest appearances on the music-variety television program Town and Country Time. September 1954 - Patsy Cline signs a recording contract with the 4 Star Record Company, Inc. October 1955 - Patsy Cline breaks professionally and personally with Clarence William "Bill" Peer. January 21, 1957 - Patsy Cline wins the talent competition on the television program Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts by singing "Walkin' After Midnight." March 28, 1957 - Patsy Cline and Gerald E. Cline divorce in Maryland. September 15, 1957 - Patsy Cline marries Charles Allen Dick. They will have one daughter and one son. January 1960 - Patsy Cline joins the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee, as a regular cast member. January 1961 - Decca Records releases Patsy Cline's "I Fall to Pieces." The song tops the country chart and reaches the twelfth spot on the Billboard pop chart.

June 14, 1961 - Patsy Cline is critically injured in an automobile accident in Nashville, Tennessee. August 1961 - Patsy Cline records "Crazy," written by Willie Nelson. The song reaches second place on the country chart and ninth place on the pop chart. December 1961 - Patsy Cline records "She's Got You," which becomes her second number-one country hit. March 5, 1963 - Patsy Cline dies in a plane crash near Camden, Tennessee. 1973 - Patsy Cline becomes the first solo woman performer to be elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee. 1981 - Patsy Cline is inducted into the Virginia Folk Music Association's Virginia Country Music Hall of Fame. Categories References Further Reading Bego, Mark. I Fall to Pieces: The Music and the Life of Patsy Cline. Holbrook, Massachusetts: Adams Publishing, 1995. Bufwack, Mary A. and Robert K. Oermann. Finding Her Voice: The Saga of Women in Country Music. New York: Crown Publishers, 1993.

Gomery, Douglas. "Cline, Patsy." In The Dictionary of Virginia Biography, Vol. 3, edited by Sara B. Bearss et al., 303–305. Richmond: Library of Virginia, 2006. Gomery, Douglas. Patsy Cline: The Making of an Icon. Bloomington, Indiana: Trafford Press, 2011. Hazen, Cindy, and Mike Freeman, eds. Love Always, Patsy: Patsy Cline's Letters to a Friend. New York: Berkley Books, 1999. Jensen, Joli. "Patsy Cline's Recording Career: The Search for a Sound." Journal of Country Music 9, no. 2 (1982): 34–46. Jones, Margaret. Patsy: The Life and Times of Patsy Cline. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1994. Nassour, Ellis. Honky Tonk Angel: The Intimate Story of Patsy Cline. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. Roy, Don.

"The Patsy Cline Discography." Journal of Country Music 9, no. 2 (1982): 47–49. Shestack, Melvin. The Country Music Encyclopedia. New York: T. Y. Crowell Company, 1974. Cite This Entry APA Citation: Gomery, D., & the Dictionary of Virginia Biography. Patsy Cline (1932–1963). (2014, November 4). In Encyclopedia Virginia. Retrieved from MLA Citation: Gomery, Douglas and the Dictionary of Virginia Biography. "Patsy Cline (1932–1963)." Encyclopedia Virginia. Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 4 Nov. 2014. Web. READ_DATE. First published: November 26, 2012 | Last modified: November 4, 2014 Contributed by Douglas Gomery and the Dictionary of Virginia Biography .

Give feedback about this entry Name (Optional) Patsy Cline | Rolling Stone artists > P > Patsy Cline > Bio Patsy Cline Bio Country singer Patsy Cline's career was in full swing, with pop Top 40 hits and national concert tours, when she was killed in a plane crash at the age of 30. Her honeyed soprano has been emulated not only by country singers like Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton but also by pop singers like Linda Ronstadt. Cline took up the piano at age eight but didn't begin singing until her teens. In 1948 she won a trip to Nashville through an audition; nine years later she appeared on TV on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts and was spotted by Owen Bradley of Decca Records. Her first record, "Walkin' After Midnight," was both a country hit (#3) and a pop hit (#12) in 1957. She was soon one of country music's biggest stars. Despite her numerous country hits, she sought a broader audience and refused to be saddled with a hillbilly or cowgirl image.

Under Bradley's direction, she came to embody the smooth, sophisticated new Nashville sound. "I Fall to Pieces" was a pop hit (#12) in 1961, followed later that year by "Crazy" (#9 pop, #2 country), a song written by a then little-known writer named Willie Nelson. She had another pop Top 20 hit with "She's Got You" (#14) in 1962. On March 5, 1963, Cline was returning from a Kansas City, Missouri, show when the single-engine plane her manager was piloting crashed. Over 25,000 people attended her funeral. In 1973 Cline became the first woman solo artist elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame. Actress Jessica Lange played the singer in the 1985 biopic Sweet Dreams; its soundtrack climbed to #29 on the U.S. LP chart. Cline's memory remained alive in the '90s, thanks to a flood of reissues, box sets, unreleased live albums, anthologies, and radio-session compilations.

At least five musical plays about the singer's life, including A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline and Always...Patsy Cline, were presented in North America and Europe. As of 1999, her Greatest Hits collection (MCA, 1973) had sold over 7 million copies. This biography originally appeared in The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll (Simon & Schuster, 2001). Notable plane crashes Notable plane crashes March 31, 1931 - Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne killed when his plane flew into a storm and fell into a wheat field near Bazaar, Kan. Aug. 15, 1935 - Will Rogers, cowboy humorist, killed in plane crash near Point Barrow, Alaska. Jan. 16, 1942 - Carole Lombard, actress in such comedies as Nothing Sacred, killed in plane crash near Las Vegas while on a tour to sell war bonds. Dec. 15, 1944 - Glenn Miller, trombonist and leader of a hugely popular dance band, killed when his plane disappears on flight from England to Paris while Miller was entertaining troops.

Buddy Holly. Feb. 3, 1959 - Rock stars Buddy Holly, J.P. ''The Big Bopper'' Richardson and Ritchie Valens killed when chartered plane crashes near Mason City, Iowa, en route to a show. March 5, 1963 - Patsy Cline, whose country hits included Crazy and She's Got You, and fellow singers Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins killed in plane crash near Camden, Tenn. July 31, 1964 - Jim Reeves, country balladeer with hits such as Four Walls and Welcome to my World, killed in crash of a small plane in Nashville, Tenn. Dec. 10, 1967 - Soul singer Otis Redding killed when plane crashes into a lake near Madison, Wis. Aug. 31, 1969 - Former heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Marciano killed in crash near Newton, Iowa. May 30, 1971 - Audie Murphy, World War II hero who became film actor, mostly in Westerns and war movies, killed in small plane crash in Carroll County, Va. Oct.

16, 1972 - House Majority Leader Hale Boggs, D-La., Rep. Nick Begich, D-Alaska, killed when their plane disappears over Alaska. Roberto Clemente (AP file). Dec. 31, 1972 - Roberto Clemente, Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder, killed in crash while flying to Nicaragua to aid earthquake victims. Sept. 20, 1973 - Singer Jim Croce, known for hits such as Bad, Bad Leroy Brown, killed in plane crash near Natchitoches, La. Oct. 21, 1977 - Lead singer Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Stevie Gaines of the Lynyrd Skynyrd band killed in plane crash in McComb, Miss. Aug. 2, 1979 - Thurman Munson, New York Yankees catcher, killed in crash of his private plane in Canton, Ohio. The Nelsons (AP file). Dec. 31, 1985 - Rick Nelson, Ozzie and Harriet TV star turned rock 'n' roller, killed when plane catches fire and crashes near DeKalb, Texas. Aug. 7, 1989 - Rep.

Mickey Leland, a Texas Democrat who chaired the House Select Committee on Hunger, killed when plane crashes during a trip to inspect relief efforts in Ethiopia. Aug. 27, 1990 - Blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan killed when a helicopter crashes into a hill in East Troy, Wis., after departing from a concert. April 4, 1991 - Sen. John Heinz, R-Pa., killed when his plane collides with a helicopter over Merion, Pa. April 5, 1991 - Former Sen. John Tower and NASA astronaut Manley ''Sonny'' Carter Jr. among those killed in the crash of an Atlantic Southeast Airlines flight near Brunswick, Ga. John Denver (AP). April 3, 1996 - Commerce Secretary Ron Brown among 35 killed when Air Force passenger jet crashes in Croatia during a trade mission to the Balkans. Oct. 12, 1997 - John Denver, 1970s superstar with hits like Take Me Home, Country Roads, killed in crash of his experimental plane off California coast.

Patsy Cline: Country music remembers its darkest day FacebookEmail Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Pinterest Patsy Cline: Country music remembers its darkest day Fifty 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 10 hits Post to Facebook Patsy Cline: Country music remembers its darkest day Fifty 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 10 hits Check out this story on USATODAY.com: CancelSend A link has been sent to your friend's email address. Posted! A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. 3 To find out more about Facebook commenting please read the Conversation Guidelines and FAQs Patsy Cline: Country music remembers its darkest day By Peter Cooper, The (Nashville) Tennessean Published 4:10 p.m.

ET March 4, 2013 | Updated 4:27 p.m. ET March 4, 2013 CLOSE x Share Country Music Hall of Famer Jean Shepard, a grand lady of the Grand Ole Opry, was married to Hawkshaw Hawkins when Hawkins, Lloyd "Cowboy" Copas and Patsy Cline rode in a plane piloted by Randy Hughes that crashed in a wooded area near Camden, TN Cline, Lloyd 'Cowboy' Copas, Hawkshaw Hawkins and Randy Hughes died March 5, 1963 in a plane crash in Camden, Tenn. A memorializes the area on Mount Carmel Road on Feb. 25, 2013 in Camden, Tenn. near the plane crash site that killed country singer Patsy Cline on March 5, 1963.

(Photo: Shelley Mays, The Tennessean) Story Highlights 'Grand Ole Opry' stars had just performed in Kansas City Taking Randy Hughes' plane was faster than driving Patsy Cline romanticized, other stars neglected through the years Fifty 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 10 hits in the 1940s, wound up on the cover of Billboard magazine. After that, he endured an eight-year slide in popularity before storming back in 1960 with a 12-week No. 1 hit called Alabam, a song that restored his standing as a major country star. That Sunday, the 49-year-old Copas was in Kansas City, Kan. , with his friends, playing three shows to raise money for the family of a disc jockey named Jack Call, who had died in a car wreck.

For $1.50, people could see and hear Copas, Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, George Jones, Billy Walker, Georgie Riddle, Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper, George McCormick and others as they sang their hits. MORE: Visit the Tennessean's music page It wasn't self-pity or depression that brought the Cowboy to tears; it was a post-show meeting with a longtime fan, a woman with cancer who told him that she wasn't long for this earth. Copas introduced the woman to Riddle, and when she walked away, Riddle said, the singing star grew emotional. "He said to me, 'Poor thing, she only has six months to live,'" Riddle says. "It was ironic. Because Copas had much less time than that." Plenty to bury Fewer than 48 hours later, Copas and fellow Grand Ole Opry stars Cline and Hawkins were passengers on a doomed plane piloted by Randy Hughes, who was Cline's manager, a talented musician and stage performer and the husband of Copas' daughter, Kathy. Around 7 p.m.

March 5, 1963, Hughes' plane dove into the hard, cold winter woods near Camden, Tenn., 85 miles west of Nashville. The plane's impact was like an egg hurled to the ground. No survivors. No chance. That crash marked an unprecedented loss to the country music community. And just days after the plane went down, on the same day of a Cline memorial, Jack Anglin of popular duo Johnnie & Jack died in a single-car accident in Madison, Tenn. And later that month, former Opry star "Texas" Ruby Fox perished in a trailer fire. In the half-century following the plane crash, Cline has been the subject of a feature film, a stage play and several biographies, while the lives of Copas, Hawkins and Hughes have been less studied. The focus on Cline alone has been hurtful to some of those left in tragedy's wake. "When that plane went down, Copas was the biggest star onboard," Cline's widow, Charlie Dick, told Opry announcer, country music historian and WSM air personality Eddie Stubbs five years ago.

"Usually, today, Patsy seems to get top billing," says Dick in a Tennessean interview today. "But Patsy was a big fan of Copas and Hawk, and they were stars. Everybody on that plane was important to the music business. And all of them were top dogs." Copas was a veteran favorite and a deft guitarist. A soaring vocalist, Cline had already scored in the 1960s with hits I Fall To Pieces, Crazy and She's Got You, and in Hughes, 34, she had a sharp and tenacious manager. Hawkins was a rising, charismatic star on a roll, married to future Country Music Hall of Famer Jean Shepard, and he had just released what would become his first and only No. 1 country hit, Lonesome 7-7203. "I remember the morning Hawk left, he bent over the baby's crib," says Shepard, who was eight months pregnant when the plane went down and had a 1-year-old son. "He bent over the baby's crib and said, 'I want another one just like that.' " Harold Franklin Hawkins Jr.

was another one just like that, born April 8, 1963, less than a month after the crash. In the coming years, Shepard grew exasperated at the extent to which Cline's death was emphasized and the others were set into the background. “A lot of people think during this time that I've hated Patsy Cline. And that's not the story at all.” Jean Shepard "A lot of people think during this time that I've hated Patsy Cline," Shepard says. "And that's not the story at all. I resented the way it was presented, like she was the only person on that airplane. ... I lost a husband. I lost as much as Charlie Dick did. He lost a wife." Shepard and Dick are old and dear friends. They've spoken about all of this, and they are in agreement. "The person who lost the most was Kathy," Shepard says. "She lost her father and her husband.

I thought she had a lot more to bury than we did." 'A long day' Saturday night, March 2, 1963, Patsy Cline played three shows in Birmingham, Ala., with Tex Ritter, Jerry Lee Lewis, Charlie Rich and Flatt & Scruggs. The next morning, she and Charlie Dick flew to East Nashville's Cornelia Fort Airpark in Randy Hughes' little plane. Country music travel in those days usually involved back roads and hassles, and the Comanche was a way to sail far above those things. "He didn't know how to fly when he bought it," says Kathy Hughes. "But Randy had high aspirations. As a manager, if he had a stable of stars he'd use that plane even more." Copas and Hawkins played the Opry that Saturday night. Sunday morning, while Cline, Dick and Hughes were in the air, Kathy Hughes prepared fried chicken, and Hawkins and Copas played with Copas' 11-year-old son, Mike, at Copas' home. Kathy, her father and Hawkins then took the short ride to Cornelia and met Hughes' plane.

Charlie Dick was heading home — or, as he threatened, down to Tootsie's in Nashville to spend the previous night's earnings on beer. The Kansas City flight proceeded without incident, other than Cline's complaints about how cold it was on the plane, and the performers arrived in time for the first of the day's three shows at 2 p.m. Promoter Hap Peebles, disc jockey Guy Smith and country music artist Billy Walker organized the performances, which were designed to raise money to aid the family of the late disc jockey Call. Fifty years later, it's difficult to imagine scores of top-drawer country artists giving up many hours of personal time to help a radio personality's family. These days, Kansas City is an eight-hour drive from Nashville. In 1963, taking back roads that were then the main roads, it was a significantly longer trip. Hughes' plane made the excursion possible for Cline, Copas and Hawkins. Cline and Hawkins, in particular, were reluctant to make the trip and eager to return.

Cline, 30, was exhausted: She spent much of the past year doing four shows per day at The Mint in Las Vegas, and she wanted to be around her children, 4-year-old Julie and 2-year-old Randy. Hawkins, 41, had a baby at home, and his wife, Opry member Shepard, was soon to give birth to their second son. Hawkins was a horseman, and he had a mare ready to foal as well. Opry star Billy Walker, who had gathered most of the Kansas City talent, was slated to fly back to Nashville on Hughes' plane, with Hawkins scheduled to be on a 6 a.m. commercial flight. But Walker received an urgent message Sunday night: His wife's father had suffered a heart attack in Texas, and he needed to rush back home. Knowing the commercial flight would be faster than the private plane, Hawkins gave Walker his airline ticket and agreed to fly with Hughes, Cline and Copas. After the third Kansas City show, Riddle and Cline spent half an hour talking at a reception thrown at the Town House motor hotel. The conversation was pleasant, not profound.

"We were talking about how it had been a long day," Riddle says. (Photo: Courtesy photo) "Get Home-itis" Monday morning, it was clear that another long day was in store. Storms halted all private flights out of Kansas City's Fairfax Airport. Billy Walker was back in Nashville by 9 a.m., to care for his children while his wife went to Texas, and Hughes, Hawkins, Cline and Copas had to burn a day in Kansas City. "They got weathered in," says Country Music Hall of Famer Bill Anderson. "I've been out with entertainers so many times when everyone gets awfully impatient. You get a case of what I call 'Get Home-itis.' It's 'Let's go home.' " Tuesday morning, the weather wasn't much better and their impatience was heightened. The plane Hughes had purchased for convenience was proving less convenient than a car, and certainly less so than the tour bus that Cline and Dick dreamed of buying. Hughes decided to get back by hopping from small airport to small airport, waiting for storms to clear the area before taking off for the next short haul.

They made it as far as Dyersburg, Tenn., northeast of Memphis and just east of Arkansas, and landed around 4:30 p.m. In Dyersburg, roughly 170 miles from Nashville, they were met by Evelyn and Bill Braese, the couple who ran the airport. Impressed to be meeting the country stars, the Braeses also were dubious about Hughes' notion of flying to Nashville. Major storms roared to the east. The Braeses advised Hughes not to fly, and they arranged for motel rooms for the Nashville group. "I talked to Randy in Dyersburg," says Kathy Hughes. "He asked me how the weather was in Nashville. I said it had been horrible all day, but I looked out the window and said, 'It has stopped raining, and it looks like I can see the sun trying to set.' He said, 'Do me a favor and call Cornelia Fort and tell them to turn the lights on. We're going to make it in probably an hour.' " 'Something to look forward to' Kathy Copas Hughes called Shepard and Dick to tell them when the troupe would finally be arriving. And Shepard gave her baby son a bath in the kitchen sink.

"It was beginning to get dusky dark," Shepard says. "And the most horrible feeling come over me that had ever come over me in my life. I just stood there a couple of minutes and kind of froze. I thought I was going into labor. ... That's about the time the plane crash happened." The aftermath was chaotic and horrific. Pieces of the plane were strewn about the Camden forest: a wing in an oak tree, the engine divoted six feet into the ground. There was a kindness to the impact's violence: No one on board felt a thing. They did not suffer. They were among friends. WSM radio informed listeners, including family members, that a plane carrying Opry regulars Cline, Copas, Hawkins and Hughes was missing. The plane was discovered around daybreak. Singer-songwriter Roger Miller had been with Dick late into the night, and he drove to try to find the site while Dick stayed at home with his children. Miller got there in the morning and screamed at the scavengers who were already sifting through the woods, collecting ghastly souvenirs in the hours before authorities secured the scene, around 1 p.m. March 6.

(Photo: Gerald Holly, The Tennessean) Cline's remains went first to her home for a wake, and she is buried in her hometown of Winchester, Va. Hughes', Copas' and Hawkins' bodies are buried at Forest Lawn cemetery in Nashville. By Wednesday evening, the victims' loved ones welcomed mourners. "When I was in mourning about their deaths, the first thought in my mind was, 'Kiddo, you're not with your people anymore,' " says Kathy Copas Hughes. "My husband and my father ... it was a shocking thing. It numbs you for a while. But country music people, we kind of cling to each other. We all take sorrow according to our background and what we believe. If you don't have anything to hang onto, it has to be the most horrible thing in the world. I believe I had divine help." Help came from many places. Hughes and Ferlin Husky had started a publishing company, and Husky insisted that Kathy Copas Hughes, who had no publishing experience, retain half the company. That insistence meant she kept half the proceeds from country and gospel smash On the Wings of a Dove, and she used that money to put herself and her two sons through college.

Marty Robbins wrote a song about Shepard's situation called Two Little Boys, and he gave writer's credit to Don Robin Hawkins and Harold Hawkins, Hawkshaw and Shepard's sons, the second of whom was born April 8, 1963. At Cline's memorial service on Thursday, March 7, Bill Anderson sat in a pew at Phillips Robinson, just in front of Kitty Wells and Johnnie Wright. Wells was the "Queen of Country Music," despondent over the death of a potential successor. Wright, her husband, was half of groundbreaking duo Johnnie & Jack, along with his step-brother Jack Anglin. "Getting up to leave, I spoke to Johnnie for a quick minute," Anderson says. "A few minutes later, I saw Johnnie was walking on the little porch outside the funeral home, just bawling like a baby. Someone said they'd just told him that Jack was in an automobile wreck and they think he's dead." Word spread immediately. Now, five were gone. "If they'd lived, Copas would be 99, Jack Anglin 96, Hawkshaw 91, Randy 84 and Patsy 80," says Stubbs.

"We can only imagine what they'd be like if they were with us. As it was, they left us in the prime of their lives. Career-wise, they were all in a good place. The records were happening and show dates were on the books. They'd each had success and faced their share of tough times. But the present was good, and the future was something to look forward to." That future went dark, in deep, cruel woods and at a sharp and deadly bend in a road. Their music remains, unscratched and unsullied, at once timeless and young. Radio show pays tribute From 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. March 6, WSM-AM 650 will present its annual tribute to Jack Anglin, Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas, Hawkshaw Hawkins and Randy Hughes. Confirmed guests include Kathy Copas Hughes, Charlie Dick and Jack Anglin's nephew, Bobby Wright. In addition to the radio broadcast, the show will be streamed at . 449 CONNECT TWEET 1 LINKEDIN 3 COMMENTEMAILMORE Read or Share this story: NEVER MISS OUT Life Be a pop culture maven.

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Question: Which country singer, whose biggest hit was "Crazy", was killed in a plane crash in 1963?
Answer: Patsy Cline