Patsy Cline
Patsy Cline only recorded three albums during her career, but she undoubtedly still helped to revolutionize the country music world with her distinctive croon. Alongside the likes of Brenda Lee, Skeeter Davis, and Kitty Wells, the Virginia native proved that anything that Nashville’s men could do, its women could do arguably even better.
From “Blue” and “Crazy” to “I Fall to Pieces” and “She’s Got You,” Cline recorded some of the most enduring country songs of the early 1960s and would no doubt have continued to build on her legacy had she not met her premature Final Destination-esque end at the age of just 30 in 1963.
Yes, Cline had already experienced a major brush with death a year prior, following a car collision that killed two passengers and left the singer in hospital for a month. However, Cline and all four others on board were killed instantly when their four-seater plane crashed during a storm in a Tennessee forest the following year.