Skeeter Davis

Skeeter Davis

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Skeeter Davis (born Mary Frances Penick; December 30, 1931 – September 19, 2004) was an American country music singer who sang crossover pop music songs including 1962's "The End of the World". She started out as part of the Davis Sisters as a teenager in the late 1940s, eventually landing on RCA Victor. In the late 1950s, she became a solo star.

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Skeeter Davis was born on Wednesday, 30 December 1931 in Dry Ridge, Kentucky, USA. Her full name at birth was Mary Frances Penick. She was best known as a singer. Davis' country of citizenship (nationality) was American. She died on Sunday, 19 September 2004 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA at the age of 72. She is buried at Williamson Memorial Gardens, Franklin, Williamson County, Tennessee, USA. Her religion is listed as Christian. She had blue eyes and light brown hair (color). Her zodiac star sign was Capricorn.

You can find people similar to Skeeter Davis by visiting our lists Singer-songwriters from Kentucky and 21st-century American women singers.

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Mary Frances Penick
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The End of the World
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Date of birth
30 December 1931
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Dry Ridge, Kentucky, USA
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19 September 2004
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72 (age at death)
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Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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Cause of death
Breast Cancer
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Williamson Memorial Gardens, Franklin, Williamson County, Tennessee, USA
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Singer
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  • She became a regular on the Opry, a live radio show, in 1959, and continued to perform until 2004. In 1973, she was suspended from the show for more than a year for protesting the arrest of "Jesus freaks" in Nashville. "I felt like a child without a home," she said after her reinstatement.
  • Toured with Elvis Presley and The Rolling Stones.
  • Nicknamed Skeeter by her grandfather, who said she was so active she buzzed around like a mosquito.
  • Had a number 1 hit in 1963 with the song "The End Of The World". Other solo hits included "Set Him Free" (1959); "(I Can`t Help You) I`m Falling Too" (1960, answer song to Hank Locklin`s million selling `Please help me I`m falling`; "I Can`t Stay Mad at You" (1963); and "What Does it Take to Keep a Man Like You Satisfied" (1967).
  • Prior to her solo career, was a member of the country duo the Davis Sisters with Betty Jack Davis; the two were not related. The duo broke up when Betty was killed in a car accident August 2, 1953; Skeeter was seriously injured in that crash. Their only hit together, "I Forgot More than You`ll Ever Know," charted on Billboard magazine`s country charts two weeks after the accident; that song spent eight weeks at No. 1. Betty was replaced in the duo by her sister, Georgia, but she and Skeeter did not have any hits together.

Skeeter Davis is known for her role in the film Landscape with Invisible Hand (2023) as performer: "The End of the World".

She is also known for her role in the TV series The Messiah (2023) as performer - 1 episode.

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