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Article: WINCHESTER, VA.; STILL `CRAZY' FOR PATSY CLINE
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- The Washington Post
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- March 14, 1993
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I head west across the Blue Ridge to mark an anniversary. Thirty
years ago, on March 5, 1963, a green and yellow Piper Comanche
carrying four important names in country music crashed on its way to
Nashville from Dyersburg, Tenn. Cowboy Copas, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Patsy
Cline and her manager, Randy Hughes, who was at the controls, were
all killed.
A Patsy Cline postage stamp will be issued in September to mark
the year. This may not matter much to busy Washingtonians, but west
of the Blue Ridge, in Winchester, Va., it matters.
Patsy ("Crazy," "Walkin' After Midnight," "I Fall to Pieces,"
"She's Got You," "Sweet Dreams") Cline was just 30 and just beginning
to get her career together and make ...