Mary Frances Penick Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Mary Frances Penick (December 30, 1931 – September 19, 2004), better known as Skeeter Davis, was an American country music singer best known for crossover pop music songs of the early 1960s. She started out as part of The Davis Sisters as a teenager in the late 1940s, eventually landing on RCA Victor. In the late '50s, she became a solo star. Her best-known hit was the pop classic "The End of the World" in 1962.One of the first women to achieve major stardom in the country music field as a solo vocalist, she was an acknowledged influence on Tammy Wynette and Dolly Parton and was hailed as an "extraordinary country/pop singer" by The New York Times music critic Robert Palmer.
Joey Spampinato, Ralph Emery, The End Of The World, I'm Falling Too, My Last Date
Parents
William Penick, Sarah Penick, The End Of The World, I'm Falling Too, My Last Date
Nominations
NME Award for World Female Singer
Star Sign
Capricorn
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Fact
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Release of her book, "Bus Fare to Kentucky: The Autobiography of Skeeter Davis". [1993]
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Nominated for five Grammy awards between 1959 and 1972.
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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.
Nicknamed Skeeter by her grandfather, who said she was so active she buzzed around like a mosquito.
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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).
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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.
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Best known for her major country and pop hit from 1963, "The End of the World."
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Country performer.
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Fallout 4
2015
Video Game performer: "The End of the World"
Shingeki no kyojin endo obu za wârudo
2015
performer: "The End of the World"
Under the Dome
2013
TV Series performer - 1 episode
My Apocalypse: Chapter 2 - Easy Way Out
2013
Video short performer: "End of the World"
Granite Flats
2013
TV Series performer - 8 episodes
Legion
2010
performer: "The End of the World"
Pirate Radio
2009
performer: "End of the World" 1962
An American Affair
2008
performer: "The End of the World"
Opry Video Classics: Duets
2007
Video performer: "Let It Be Me"
Opry Video Classics: Queens
2007
Video performer: "End of the World"
Opry Video Classics: Songs That Topped the Charts
2007
Video performer: "I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know"
$10 Million
