Departing from a brief stop at Dyersburg Municipal Airport in Dyersburg, Tenn., after flying from a benefit performance in Kansas City, Hughes was anxious to get Cline, Copas, and Hawkins back to Nashville despite warnings about the weather. On March 5, 1963, at approximately 6:07 p.m., writes author Rich Everitt, Cline and fellow country music stars Hawkshaw Hawkins and Cowboy Copas boarded a single engine Piper Comanche piloted by Cline's manager Randy Hughes. It ain't gonna do me no good," she told West.
Cline ominously gave her scrapbook to her friend, up-and-coming country singer Dottie West. Yet, her boisterous personality was tinged with a troubling fatalism. As recounted in Finding Her Voice: Women in Country Music, 1800-2000, Cline came back, scarred but stronger. In 1961, just as her career was going into overdrive, she was injured in a near-fatal car accident. An investigation revealed that a clamp holding the plane in position on the runway had not been removed prior to take off resulting in the crash. The plane had barely lifted from the ground when it shuddered and nosedived into the ground killing all 22 of the plane's occupants. The only American on board, Moore, 48, found herself in the company of Prince Gustav Adolph, heir to Sweden's throne. Soon, the glamorous singer became a star of the silver screen.Īs recounted by Susan Sawyer, author of More than Petticoats, while on a sold-out, 1947 tour of Europe, Moore boarded a twin-engine plane in Copenhagen, Denmark, bound for Stockholm, Sweden. Dubbed the Tennessee Nightingale by the press, Moore became a worldwide musical phenomenon. In 1928, she made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera House. Moore's pursuit of musical education eventually led her to France where she studied opera.
Humiliated but determined, she made a plan to escape her restrictive upbringing. At 18, she was forced to confess to the congregation of her church to dancing at a party, an activity considered immoral and sinful. Raised in a strict Baptist household, the starry-eyed singer yearned to leave her insular community for the footlights of New York. Although wreckage and bodies have never been recovered (sparking a number of conspiracy theories ranging from secret missions to an accident involving Allied bombers), it's likely that Miller's plane went down in icy conditions over the English Channel, as per Colorado Public Radio. En route to Paris, which had been liberated by Allied forces in August, Miller was scheduled to make arrangements for moving his band to the French capital. 15, 1944, Miller, then stationed in England, boarded a single engine UC-64. Army Air Force Band, he also found himself using music as part of a counter propaganda radio program. Charles Young, Miller entered the Army to modernize its approach to military music. Simon, a former Glenn Miller Orchestra drummer and author of Glenn Miller and his Orchestra, the patriotic band leader, then in his late 30s and ineligible for the draft, joined the war effort on his own terms. The power of prayer is huge.As WWII raged, Miller began to lose band members to the draft. If you can't make it, please join us in prayer at 9 from home. "Please join us tonight at the Cross Church Springdale student building as we pray for Craig, the families, and his safety. #Fox35 #GDO /R7RVKHJT9OĪ Backroad Anthem Facebook page post urged fans to pray for the safe return of Craig Strickland #IntoTheStorm" Country singer missing, ominous tweet b/f heading into storm. "In case we don't come back, and I are going right through Winter Storm Goliath to kill ducks in Oklahoma. Keep him in your prayers: /EZUl9KPX9Zīefore leaving on the Oklahoma duck hunting trip, Morland posted a tweet about their plans. Strickland, 29, and Chase Morland were last spotted about two hours after they embarked on their duck hunting trip, according to a report by MSN. Randy Strickland, the singer's father, told the media that the search is slated to resume today. Strickland is the lead singer of the country-rock band Backroad Anthem.Ĭraig Strickland is feared dead, and a search for the country singer was suspended Monday evening due to the Oklahoma snow storm.
Morland's body was found washed ashore after their boat capsized. Strickland and long-time friend Chase Morland, 22, went hunting during a severe winter storm in the Tulsa area of Kay County. Country singer Craig Strickland is missing after going on a duck hunting trip in Oklahoma.
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