September 1, 2017

569 Skeeter Davis (1931-2004) “The End of the World” 1962

“Wholesomeness was Skeeter Davis’s stock-in-trade. A devout Southern Baptist, she took her religious beliefs seriously and refused to perform at venues which sold alcohol. She was a stalwart of the Grand Ole Opry, the live radio show which was broadcast from Nashville, but in 1973 she was suspended from the show after she voiced her support for religious crusaders who had been arrested in the town…In 1993 Skeeter Davis published her autobiography, Bus Fare to Kentucky. In it she revealed that her childhood had been overshadowed by the murder of her grandfather by an uncle, and by her parents’ alcoholism and her mother’s attempted suicide” (The Daily Telegraph (London), 10/4/2004).  

Skeeter Davis “The End of the World”

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