BIOGRAPHY
Born Mary Frances Penick in 1931, Skeeter Davis began her career as a teenager in the duo the Davis Sisters, scoring a number-one country hit with "I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know" in 1953. A car accident that year killed her singing partner Betty Jack and left Davis critically injured, delaying her career by more than a year. She rebuilt as a solo artist in the late 1950s, landing a string of top-10 country hits and crossing into the pop charts with "(I Can't Help You) I'm Falling Too." Her 1963 recording of "The End of the World" became her signature song, reaching No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. She continued recording into the 1970s and 80s, including a later collaboration with the rock band NRBQ, and died in 2004.