In the 1930s and ’40s, Saturday matinee screens across the country flickered with the exotic image of the white hat–wearing singing cowboy, crooning around the campfire and fighting for all that was ...

Today (July 15) country legend Cowboy Copas would have been 111 years old. Born Lloyd Estel Copas, the country singer found fame in the early ‘40s when he replaced Eddy Arnold as the singer in the Pee ...

A half-century after Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins and Cowboy Copas died in a plane crash 90 miles west of Nashville, the town where it happened will remember those artists with the "Gone But Not… By ...

On this day (March 5) in 1963, country singers Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas, and pilot Randy Hughes died in a plane crash near Camden, Tennessee. They were returning to Nashville from a ...

Editor's note: The crash that killed Patsy Cline happened March 5, 1963. This story recounting the tragedy and its impact in Nashville was originally published on the 53rd anniversary of her death.

'Grand Ole Opry' stars had just performed in Kansas City Taking Randy Hughes' plane was faster than driving Patsy Cline romanticized, other stars neglected through the years Editor's note: The crash ...

Lloyd Estel Copas (July 15, 1913 – March 5, 1963), known by his stage name Cowboy Copas, was an American country music singer popular from the 1940s until his death in the 1963 plane crash that also ...

Kentucky waltz (Cowboy Copas) --I'll sail my ship alone (Moon Mullican) --Tennessee tango (York Brothers) --Signed, sealed and delivered (Cowboy Copas) --Tennessee ...

Iowa Park - Perry Edward (Cowboy) Copas, 85, of Iowa Park, passed from this life on Friday, February 21, 2020 at Hospice of Wichita Falls. Rosary will be at 2:00 PM, Tuesday, February 25, 2020 at ...

An all-star lineup of singers -- including Natalie Cole, Amy Grant, Norah Jones, k.d. lang and Martina McBride -- pay tribute to Patsy Cline in a new CD, 40 yea Lloyd Estel Copas (July 15, 1913 – ...