1963 in Country Music - Events

Events

  • March — The month marks a dark time for country music, as it lost no less than five people in a seemingly endless string of tragedies.
* On March 5, three of the genre's top stars - Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins and Cowboy Copas - are killed in a small plane crash near Camden, Tennessee, while on their way to Nashville from Kansas City, Kansas. The pilot, Cline's manager and Copas' son-in-law, Randy Hughes, is also killed.
* En route to Cline's funeral, Jack Anglin - one half of the duo Johnnie and Jack - is killed in a car accident.
* On March 29, Texas Ruby, of the duo Curly Fox and Texas Ruby, is killed in a trailer fire while Fox was performing on the Grand Ole Opry.
  • July — The first issue of the Music City News is published. Its publisher is country music star Faron Young.
  • September 19 — The Jimmy Dean Show begins a three-year primetime run on ABC. The show — Dean's second go-around on television, following his 1950s series on CBS — is widely hailed by critics for its class treatment of top country stars of the day, many of whom were getting their first true national exposure.

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