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Skeeter Davis

Skeeter Davis was one of country music's best-selling females during the 1960s. Born in Dry Ridge, Kentucky, on December 30, 1931, she recorded her first songs as a member of the Davis Sisters, scoring a Number One hit in 1953 with "I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know." She shifted her focus to a solo career during the late 1950s and began enjoying even greater acclaim, earning a Grammy nomination for 1959's "Set Him Free" — the first song by a female country artist to receive such an honor — and racking up 10 different Top 10 hits by the time "The End of the World" was released ...