news:: country, opry star dies//rem works with i-tunes on prerelease track
Skeeter Davis, a veteran of the Grand Ole Opry, died Sunday (Sept. 19), at Nashville's St. Thomas Hospital. She was 73.
Davis scored her first solo hit in 1958 with the Chet Atkins-produced "Lost to a Geisha Girl," which reached No. 15 on Billboard's country singles chart. Davis scored a huge crossover hit in 1962 with "The End of the World." John Mellencamp covered the song on his most recent album.
Beyond reaching No. 2 on the country chart, the track also hit No. 1 on Billboard's adult contemporary tally, No. 2 on the Hot 100 and No. 4 on the R&B list.Other country hits included "(I Can't Help You) I'm Falling Too" (No. 2, 1960) and "Gonna Get Along Without You Now" (No. 8, 1964).
Davis married and divorced three times, first to Kenneth Depew, then to Ralph Emery, host of the television show "Nashville Now," and later to NRBQ bassist Joey Spampinato. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium, original home of the Grand Ole Opry.
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R.E.M.'s 13th studio album, "Around the Sun," is due Oct. 5, and the band is offering customers of Apple's iTunes Music Store a unique free download. A two-and-a-half-minute-long sampler of tracks from the album is made of snippets of first single "Leaving New York," the album's title track and album cuts "Wanderlust," "Electron Blue" and "I Wanted to Be Wrong."
Davis scored her first solo hit in 1958 with the Chet Atkins-produced "Lost to a Geisha Girl," which reached No. 15 on Billboard's country singles chart. Davis scored a huge crossover hit in 1962 with "The End of the World." John Mellencamp covered the song on his most recent album.
Beyond reaching No. 2 on the country chart, the track also hit No. 1 on Billboard's adult contemporary tally, No. 2 on the Hot 100 and No. 4 on the R&B list.Other country hits included "(I Can't Help You) I'm Falling Too" (No. 2, 1960) and "Gonna Get Along Without You Now" (No. 8, 1964).
Davis married and divorced three times, first to Kenneth Depew, then to Ralph Emery, host of the television show "Nashville Now," and later to NRBQ bassist Joey Spampinato. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium, original home of the Grand Ole Opry.
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R.E.M.'s 13th studio album, "Around the Sun," is due Oct. 5, and the band is offering customers of Apple's iTunes Music Store a unique free download. A two-and-a-half-minute-long sampler of tracks from the album is made of snippets of first single "Leaving New York," the album's title track and album cuts "Wanderlust," "Electron Blue" and "I Wanted to Be Wrong."
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