Cowboy Copas Song & Picture Folio Music Book, 1967, 9" X 12", 44 pg Classic C&W

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Original vintage Cowboy Copas Song & Picture Folio Music Book 1967
9" X 12", 44 pages including covers.
Inside front cover has bio/history of Lloyd "Cowboy" Copas, mentioning his tragic demise in 1963, in a
plane crash along with Randy Hughes the pilot, singer Hawkshaw Hawkins, and Miss Patsy Cline.
Music and lyrics for 16 songs written by Lloyd, some in collaboration with Tommy Hill, Lefty Frizzell,
and 7 pages of pictures.
Condition: VG+/Fine, with general age, wear and use, handling at edges, minor spine wear, still tight to
staples.
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Further Information:
Copas was born in 1913 in Blue Creek, Ohio, United States. He began performing locally at age 14,
and appeared on WLW-AM and WKRC-AM in Cincinnati during the 1930s. In 1940 he moved to
Knoxville, Tennessee, where he performed on WNOX-AM with his band, the Gold Star Rangers.
In 1943, Copas achieved national fame when he replaced Eddy Arnold as a vocalist in the Pee Wee
King band and began performing on the Grand Ole Opry. His first solo single, "Filipino Baby", released
by King Records in 1946, hit No. 4 on the Billboard country chart and sparked the most successful
period of his career.
While continuing to appear on the Opry, Copas recorded several other hits during the late 1940s and
early 1950s, including "Signed Sealed and Delivered", "The Tennessee Waltz", "Tennessee Moon",
"Breeze", "I'm Waltzing with Tears in My Eyes", "Candy Kisses", "Hangman's Boogie", and "The
Strange Little Girl". Copas' 1952 single, "'Tis Sweet to Be Remembered", reached No. 8 on the
Billboard country chart, but it was his final top 40 hit for eight years.
Although Copas did not maintain his popularity of the late 1940s through the next decade, he continued
to perform regularly at the Grand Ole Opry and appeared on ABC-TV's Ozark Jubilee. After a
lackluster partnership with Dot Records, Copas surged to the top of the charts again in 1960 with the
biggest hit of his career, "Alabam", which remained number one for three months. Other major hits
during his successful period with Starday Records in the early 1960s, including "Flat Top" and a remake
of "Signed, Sealed And Delivered", held promising implications for the future of his career.
Aircraft accident:
On March 3, 1963, Copas, Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins and others performed at a benefit concert
at the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Kansas for the family of disc jockey Cactus
Jack Call, who had died the previous December in an automobile accident.
On March 5, they left for Nashville in a Piper Comanche piloted by Copas' son-in-law (and Cline's
manager), Randy Hughes. After stopping to refuel in Dyersburg, Tennessee, the craft took off at 6:07
p.m. CT. The plane flew into severe weather and crashed at 6:29 p.m. in a forest near Camden,
Tennessee, 90 miles from the destination. There were no survivors. A stone marker, dedicated on July
6, 1996, marks the location of the crash.
Copas was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens in Goodlettsville, Tennessee in "Music Row" with
Hawkins and other country music stars.