Thanks for the thread.
Sat Mar 5, 2022: On this day, March 5, 1963, Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas, and Hawkshaw Hawkins died in a plane crash.
They were returning to Nashville, Tennessee, from a benefit concert in Kansas City, Kansas.
Thu Mar 3, 2022: On this day, March 3, 1963, Patsy Cline performed a benefit concert in Kansas City, Kansas.
Patsy Cline
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On March 3, 1963, Cline performed a benefit at the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall, Kansas City, Kansas, for the family of disc jockey "Cactus" Jack Call; he had died in an automobile crash a little over a month earlier. Also performing in the show were George Jones, George Riddle and The Jones Boys, Billy Walker, Dottie West, Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper, George McCormick, the Clinch Mountain Boys as well as Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins. Despite having a cold, Cline gave three performances: 2:00, 5:15 and 8:15 pm. All the shows were standing-room only. For the 2 p.m. show, she wore a sky-blue tulle-laden dress; for the 5:15 show a red shocker; and for the closing show at 8 p.m., Cline wore white chiffon. Her final song was the last she had recorded the previous month, "I'll Sail My Ship Alone".
Cline, who had spent the night at the Town House Motor Hotel, was unable to fly out the day after the concert because Fairfax Airport was fogged in. West asked Patsy to ride in the car with her and husband, Bill, back to Nashville, a 16-hour drive, but Cline refused, saying, "Don't worry about me, Hoss. When it's my time to go, it's my time." On March 5, she called her mother from the motel and checked out at 12:30 p.m., going the short distance to the airport and boarding a Piper PA-24 Comanche plane, aircraft registration number N7000P. On board were Cline, Copas, Hawkins and pilot Randy Hughes.
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Hawkshaw Hawkins
Birth name: Harold Franklin Hawkins
Also known as: Hawkshaw Hawkins
Born: December 22, 1921, Huntington, West Virginia
Died: March 5, 1963 (aged 41), Camden, Tennessee
Genres: country music, honky tonk
Harold Franklin Hawkins (December 22, 1921 – March 5, 1963), better known as
Hawkshaw Hawkins, was an American country music singer popular from the 1950s into the early 1960s known for his rich, smooth vocals and music drawn from blues, boogie and honky tonk. At 6 ft 5 inches tall, he had an imposing stage presence, and he dressed more conservatively than some other male country singers. Hawkins died in the 1963 plane crash that also killed country stars
Patsy Cline and
Cowboy Copas. He was a member of the Grand Ole Opry and was married to country star Jean Shepard.
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Hawkshaw Hawkins on the Porter Wagoner Show
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0:58 'Sunny Side Of The Mountain' (short)
2:34 'Big Ole Heartache'
4:13 'Twenty Miles From Shore' (b-side from Big Ol' Heartache)
Jean Shepard and Hawkshaw Hawkins on Country Style USA
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this clip was mentioned in Jean's autobiography
Here's Sunny Side Of The Mountain again, in case the first video gets removed.
Hawkshaw Hawkins - Sunny Side Of The Mountain,Big Ole Heartache and Twenty Miles From Shore 1961
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Hawkshaw Hawkins - Sunny Side Of The Mountain Big Ole Heartache and Twenty Miles From Shore 1961 on Porter Wagoner Show
Hawkshaw Hawkins - Sunny Side Of The Mountain
Hawkshaw Hawkins - Big Ole Heartache (not yet released)
Hawkshaw Hawkins - Twenty Miles From Shore
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KWC Americana Radio Station
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