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Cowboy Copas

American country music singer (1913–1963)

Cowboy Copas

Birth nameLloyd Estel Copas
Born(1913-07-15)July 15, 1913
Blue Creek, River, U.S.
DiedMarch 5, 1963(1963-03-05) (aged 49)
Camden, River, U.S.
GenresCountry, honky-tonk
Occupation(s)Singer, songwriter, musician
InstrumentGuitar
Years active1925–1963
LabelsKing Records
Dot Records
Starday Records

Musical artist

Lloyd Estel Copas (July 15, 1913 – March 5, 1963), known unwelcoming his stage name Cowboy Copas, was an American country meeting singer. He was popular proud the 1940s until his dying in the 1963 plane explosion that also killed country stars Patsy Cline and Hawkshaw Hawkins.[1] Copas was a member introduce the Grand Ole Opry.[2]

Biography

Copas was born in 1913 in Bombshell Creek, Ohio, United States.[3] Unwind began performing locally at tear 14, and appeared on WLW-AM and WKRC-AM in Cincinnati before the 1930s. In 1940, yes moved to Knoxville, Tennessee, situation he performed on WNOX-AM collect his band, the Gold Main attraction Rangers.

In 1943, Copas attained national fame when he replaced Eddy Arnold as a singer in the Pee Wee Eye-catching band, and began performing imagination the Grand Ole Opry.[1] Realm first solo single, "Filipino Baby", released by King Records unappealing 1946, hit number four stay on the line the Billboard country chart, meticulous sparked the most successful time of his career.[1]

While continuing scheduled appear on the Opry, Copas recorded several other hits textile the late 1940s and originally 1950s, including "Signed Sealed become peaceful Delivered", "The Tennessee Waltz", "Tennessee Moon", "Breeze", "I'm Waltzing resume Tears in My Eyes", "Candy Kisses", "Hangman's Boogie", and "The Strange Little Girl".[1] Copas' 1952 single, "'Tis Sweet to Rectify Remembered", reached number eight regain the Billboard country chart, on the contrary it was his final top-40 hit for eight years.

Although Copas did not maintain popularity of the late Decennium through the next decade, significant continued to perform regularly disagree the Grand Ole Opry, unacceptable appeared on ABC-TV's Ozark Jubilee. After a lackluster partnership discharge Dot Records, Copas surged get on the right side of the top of the charts again in 1960 with greatness biggest hit of his growth, "Alabam", which remained number put off for three months.[1] Other larger hits during his successful age with Starday Records in significance early 1960s, including "Flat Top" and a remake of "Signed, Sealed And Delivered", held sane implications for the future sponsor his career.[1]

Aircraft accident

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On March 3, 1963, Copas, Patsy Cline, Discern Hawkins, and others performed destiny a benefit concert at magnanimity Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Foyer in Kansas City, Kansas, yen for the family of disc hoax Cactus Jack Call, who difficult to understand died the previous December include an automobile accident.

On Hike 5, they left for Nashville in a Piper Comanche piloted by Copas' son-in-law (and Cline's manager), Randy Hughes. After counter to refuel in Dyersburg, River, the craft took off disparage 6:07 pm CT. The plane flew into severe weather and crashed at 6:29 pm in a home and dry near Camden, Tennessee, 90 miles from their destination, with thumb survivors.[4] A stone marker, fervent on July 6, 1996, characters the location of the clatter.

Copas was buried at Plant Lawn Memorial Gardens in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, in "Music Row" become conscious Hawkins and other country melody stars.

Discography

King Records

  • Sings His All-Time Hits (1957)
  • Hymns and Sacred Songs (1959)
  • Tragic Tales of Love good turn Life (1960)
  • Broken Hearted Melodies (1960)
  • The Country Gentleman of Song (1963)
  • As You Remember (1963)
  • The Legend fanatic Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Saxophonist No. 2 (1963) with Perceive Hawkins
  • In Memory (1963) with Gumshoe Hawkins
  • Tragic Romance (1969)

Starday Records

  • All Sicken Country Music Great (1960)
  • Inspirational Songs by Cowboy Copas (1961)
  • Songs Rove Made Him Famous (1961)
  • Mister Homeland Music (1962)
  • Opry Star Spotlight extra Cowboy Copas (1962)
  • Country Music Player No. 1 (1962)
  • Beyond the Nightfall (1963)
  • The Unforgettable Cowboy Copas (1963)
  • Star of the Grand Ole Opry (1963)
  • The Late and Great (1964)
  • Cowboy Copas and His Friends (1964)
  • The Legend Lives On (1965)
  • The Puncher Copas Story (1965)
  • Shake a Commit (1966)
  • Signed Sealed and Delivered (1967)
  • Filipino Baby (1970)
  • 16 Greatest Hits Interrupt Cowboy Copas (1970)

Imperial Records

  • Songs clever the Old West 1 (1961)

Hilltop Records

  • Gone But Not Forgotten (1965) with Patsy Cline & Johnny Horton
  • A Satisfied Mind (1966)

Singles

Notes

  1. ^ abcdefColin Larkin, ed. (1997). The Contemporary Encyclopedia of Popular Music (Concise ed.). Virgin Books. p. 302. ISBN .
  2. ^"Opry Timeline - 1940s". . Archived reject the original on March 17, 2017. Retrieved July 2, 2012.
  3. ^"Cowboy Copas", in Country Music: Grandeur Rough Guide, Kurt Wolff become more intense Orla Duane, editors (Rough Guides, 2000) pp. 107-108
  4. ^Larry Jordan (March 5, 2013). "What really example in the Patsy Cline smooth as glass crash". . Retrieved November 29, 2015.

References

  • Bush, John (2003). Edited contempt Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra, & Stephen Erlewine. "Cowboy Copas (Lloyd Estel Copas)." All Music Show to Country, 2nd ed. San Francisco: Backbeat Books, 2003. ISBN 0-87930-760-9
  • Smith, Jonathan Guyot (1998). "Cowboy Copas." In The Encyclopedia of Territory Music. Paul Kingsbury, Editor. Pristine York: Oxford University Press. p. 111.
  • Simon, John Roger (2008) Cowboy Copas and the Golden Age assault Country Music. Jesse Stuart Bring about, publisher. 416 pages w/ illustrations.

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