Anecdotes

Nicknamed Skeeter by her grandfather, who said she was so active she buzzed around like a mosquito.

Toured with Elvis Presley and The Rolling Stones.

Release of her book, "Bus Fare to Kentucky: The Autobiography of Skeeter Davis". (1993)

Nominated for five Grammy awards between 1959 and 1972.

Best known for her major country and pop hit from 1963, "The End of the World."

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).

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.

Country performer.

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.