Skeeter's names is over the news wires again but this time it's not in regards
to Susan Boyle's cover but another song.  Actress Zoey Deschanel and musican M.
Ward who sing as rock/folk duo She & Him have recorded a cover of Skeeter's
GONNA GET ALONG WITH YOUR NOW in their new album.  Although this song was a hit
for several artists it's clearly Skeeter's verision they are paying hommage to -
the song is specifically mentioned as a Skeeter Davis song in the news articles
and the only other cover on the album is NRBQ's "Ridin' in My Car".

Hello, my name is Tom Carley and I have launched a brand new music website and
will be featuring a Musician of the Month, and for the first month, I have
decided to feature Skeeter Davis, please visit my website and view the tribute,
and I hope you like it.

http://www.tomsmusicplace.com/

For those of you not familar with Donna Frost and her relationship with Skeeter,
I thought you might enjoy the following news item from my local paper when Donna
did a tribute show to Skeeter at our annual covered bridge festival in June
2007.  Donna is trying hard to get Skeeter into both the Country and Rock 'n
Roll Hall of Fames.

Donna Frost to pay homage to idol at Moscow Festival
Elizabeth Gist

June 21, 2007 11:54 am

— She was a true rebel in the country music industry. She was a free spirit. She
wore jeans, had long-haired hippie-looking fellas playing in her band and
criticized President Nixon's continuation of the Vietnam War with her
self-written recording of "When You Gonna Bring Our Soldiers Home." She, along
with Hank Williams Sr., was one of the two artists to ever be suspended from the
Grand Ole Opry.
She was the incomparable Skeeter Davis.
When Donna Frost was a little girl, her Aunt Mary booked Chet Atkins' business.
Her aunt's best friend was Skeeter Davis, whose No. 1 hit, "The End of the
World," dominated pop charts in 1963 and was produced by Chet Atkins.
Donna came from a musical family. She began playing piano at age 9, guitar at
age 11. Her family was in a band and she began touring with them at the ripe old
age of 2-weeks-old, and hit the professional circuit in high school. So it was
only appropriate that her hero was none other than Skeeter Davis.
"I fell in love with her and her music right away," Frost said. "I always told
people, even Skeeter, that someday I was going to sing on stage with her when I
grew up. My mom would do my hair like Skeeter's and I would sing into a
hairbrush. I was just crazy about her."
Skeeter and Donna stayed in touch over the years. Donna's Aunt Mary passed away
in 1995, and in 1996 Skeeter was diagnosed with bone cancer.
"I remember that she called me and said, `Are you ready to sing with me?' and I
was just floored because she never used back-up singers," Donna said. "She said,
`I don't know where Barbados is, but we're going there.'"
In 1996, Donna sang with Skeeter on New Year's Eve in St. Lucia for the first
time. It was not the last. Donna continued on the road with Skeeter until her
cancer prohibited her from doing what she did best.
In Nashville, Ind., the duo performed at a small theater where many of Skeeter's
friends and family came to see the show. Donna opened the show for her friend,
something that back-up singers never get to do.
"She always came to my CD release parties," Frost said. "She was so supportive
of me, too, which was just amazing to me because I idolized her my whole life.
Getting to sing all of the songs that I grew up with was one of the highlights
of my life."
Donna recalls her first experience on the Grand Ole Opry with her hero.
"The only time I ever got scared was when I was on the Opry with Skeeter," she
said. "She always told me, `I'm going to find a way to get you on the Opry stage
with me someday. I thought it was just a pipe dream because Opry rules are very
strict. Artists had a limit of how many performers they could bring with them on
stage, most artists performing had to use the house band, that kind of thing.
But Skeeter was one of the few artists that could have her own band there. I
remember being in the rehearsal room and I began to panic, thinking `What if I
forget my words? It's live! Everyone hears the good, the bad and the ugly ...'
So I wrote the lyrics on my hand just in case and my knees were just knocking
like crazy. I remember standing there on those wooden boards thinking of all the
people who had stood there before me, you know? Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn ...
Luckily I didn't forget, which was a good thing, because the ink smeared."
When Skeeter's illness took over, she became even more of an inspiration to
Donna.
"I'd see her backstage before we'd go on, doubled over in pain, but she'd always
bounce out there with a smile on her face and perform. She never let her illness
keep her down. Everyone could learn a lesson from her."
When it got to the point where Skeeter's illness prohibited her from performing,
their friendship only got stronger.
"We talked all the time on the phone for hours at a time, staying connected,"
Frost said.
When Skeeter's brother became ill she went down to Florida to care for him until
he died, putting her own illness on hold. At this point, she told Donna that her
own cancer had spread. It broke her friend's heart to no end.
The last time Donna saw Skeeter was in January 2004, a few months before she
passed. Donna was in Florida, on tour with her band, and she and Skeeter were
able to go out to eat and spend the whole day and night together. News of
Skeeter's death in September of 2004 hit Donna like a rock.
"I said `I won't believe it until I see her,'" she recalled. "She meant so much
to me and was such a mentor to me. I still want to pick up the phone and call
her. You never forget someone like her. She's by far one of the best women I've
ever met."
Donna was an honorary pallbearer at Skeeter's funeral.
"I was sitting out in the crowd at the Ryman Auditorium, and Jeannie Pruitt and
Jeanne Sealy came up to me and said, `You're coming with us,'" Donna said. "I
was just flabbergasted. Here were these legendary women of country music coming
to find me!"
They came to find her as a final gift to Donna from Skeeter. As part of the
funeral arrangements she orchestrated before her death, Skeeter had arranged for
Lorrie Morgan, Martina McBride and the other Grand Ladies of the Grand Ole Opry
to sing "Amazing Grace" and asked that Donna be included with them.
"Jeannie told me, `She chose you in life and she chose you for this day too,'"
Donna said. "What a gift! Even in her death, she was still looking after me. I
still can't believe to this day that I got to take part in that. It was really
special, completely overwhelming, and all of the Grand Ladies were so gracious
to me."
The experience inspired Donna to keep her mentor's music alive. She tours the
country performing a Skeeter Davis Tribute show, where she plays all of
Skeeter's well-knowns as well as the hidden jewels. It's not only a tribute to
an icon in country music history, but it tells the story of 40+ years of
friendship.
Patrons at the Moscow Covered Bridge Festival will be lucky enough to experience
this at 8 p.m. Friday on the Festival Stage. She and her four-piece band,
including her youngest brother, will enjoy what they have to offer, she assures.
"Our steel player is one of those people that `if you think it, I can play it,'
so we're going to turn him loose on some stuff," she said. "Of course, we're
going to play `The End of the World,' `Get Along Without You Now,' `Last Date,'
`More Than You Ever Know,' `The Rock-a-Bye Boogie' and all kinds of good stuff.
We're bringing the best of Skeeter's repertoire, and I'm sure it will bring back
a memory or two, and people will be singing in the crowd. It's always emotional
for me, because she's gone now. I couldn't even listen to `The End of the World'
after she died, and I always get choked up after I sing it. I just want everyone
to remember her and celebrate her."
Although she has quite a few irons in the fire, Frost hopes to someday see her
friend honored in the best way she knows how.
"My real hope is that someday she will be inducted into the Country Music Hall
of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame," she said. "She was a real pioneer.
Faith Hill and Shania Twain and the Dixie Chicks, Carrie Underwood ... all of
those women owe a great deal to her because she opened the doors for them to
cross over from the country radio waves to pop stations. We're going to make it
happen. She's just too good to be forgotten, and all I want to do is keep her
spirit going and get her music out there."

Elizabeth Gist, Rushville (IN) Republican

Copyright © 1999-2008 cnhi, inc.

Skeeter was awarded the 1st ever Living Legend Award at the 1st Annual Music
City Gospel Showcase Convention & Award Show in June 2003.  Skeeter was too ill
be be present but sent a fax that was read by her good friend Donna Frost who
accepted the award for her.  See the video at www.donnafrost.com which features
Skeeter singing gospel and being interviewed.  Also don't forget that Donna is
hosting a Birthday Party in Skeeter's memory on December 30th in Nashville. 
Info on it can also be found on this site.  Also check out Donna's MySpace site
as well as Skeeter's MySpace site.

I have posted several old articles on Skeeter in Randy's "Remembering Skeeter
Davis" yahoo group.  If you haven't join that group as well, now is the time!
Best, Tom

Does anybody know any air dates of any of Skeeter's appearances on specific
shows, if so please let me know and I can put them in her credits on the
Internet Movie Database.  So far they have:

Company's Comin': A Tribute to Porter Wagoner (1997) (TV) .... Herself
Grand Ole Opry 70th Anniversary (1996) (TV) .... Herself
The Life and Times of Dottie West (1996) (TV) .... Herself
The Women of Country (1993) (TV) .... Herself

"Dolly" .... Herself (1 episode)
     - Episode #1.16 (????) TV episode .... Herself
Grand Ole Opry 60th Anniversary (1986) (TV) .... Herself
"Grand Ole Opry" (1985) TV series .... Herself (unknown episodes)
... aka Opry Live! (USA: short title)
Johnny Cash and the Country Girls (1981) (TV) .... Herself

"Hee Haw" .... Herself (1 episode, 1974)
     - Episode #6.22 (1974) TV episode .... Herself
"The Dean Martin Show" .... Herself (1 episode, 1973)
... aka The Dean Martin Comedy Hour (USA: new title)
     - Episode dated 6 September 1973 (1973) TV episode .... Herself
"The Midnight Special" .... Herself (1 episode, 1973)
     - Episode dated 6 April 1973 (1973) TV episode .... Herself
"That Good Ole Nashville Music" (1970) TV series .... Herself - Guest Performer

"The Mike Douglas Show" .... Herself (1 episode, 1968)
     - Episode dated 23 February 1968 (1968) TV episode .... Herself
"Bandstand" .... Herself (4 episodes, 1961-1963)
... aka AB (USA: short title)
... aka American Bandstand (USA: new title)
... aka American Bandstand 1966 (USA: ninth season title)
... aka New American Bandstand 1965 (USA: new title)
... aka VH1's Best of American Bandstand (USA: rerun title)
     - Episode #7.14 (1963) TV episode .... Herself
     - Episode dated 24 May 1963 (1963) TV episode .... Herself
     - Episode dated 14 February 1963 (1963) TV episode .... Herself
     - Episode dated 19 January 1961 (1961) TV episode .... Herself

I supplied the data to them for every one of these entries except for the Dean
Martin Show and Midnight Special (the site doesn't do have that much data for
specific variety show specials and episodes before 2000 so they are missing a
lot of credits for most music entertainers. Also IMDB got my add credits for the
75th Grand Ole Opry special mixed up and put them in the 70th Anniversary
special - I'm not positive if Skeeter was in the 70th but I know she was in the
75th albeit in a minor role.  It was one of her last television appearances.  I
have found the appearances dates for her guesting on the Jimmy Dean Show and
will be submitting that to them shortly.

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We had mentioned about two months ago here that Susan was going to cover EOTW in
her album, perhaps you missed it. Susan Boyle's CD has put Skeeter's name back
in a number of newspapers via the reviews, including The Los Angeles Times. 
Does anyone own a copy of this CD yet?  I plan to get it but since it's for me
and this is Christmas I will wait a bit.  I understand the CD liner notes
include comments by Susan on why she chose each song.  I would love to know what
she wrote about EOTW.


> I found that the new Susan Boyle album that's selling so well includes a
> cover of Skeeter's "End Of The World".
>
> Larry Davis
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gowdy" <>
> To: <skeeter@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, November 27, 2009 3:57 AM
> Subject: [skeeter] Re: Skeeter Re-issues
>
>
> >
> >
> > The thing that doesn't make any sense is that Bear Family does CDs on
> > artists that even the most dedicated music fan hasn't heard of before ...
> > ones that will not sell very many copies.  Then you have an international
> > artist like Skeeter that would generate sales, and they don't do anything
> > on her.  Doesn't make any sense.  Did they give you a reason?  It seems
> > like the whole music industry has black balled Skeeter over the years ...
> > beginning with Ralph Emery.
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
>

you are so right about bear family,why have they of all people not brought out a
box set of skeeter,there is as we all know so much great skeeter material out
there,we can only live in hope.

--- In skeeter@yahoogroups.com, "Gowdy" <gowdy@...> wrote:
>
>
>
> The thing that doesn't make any sense is that Bear Family does CDs on artists
that even the most dedicated music fan hasn't heard of before ... ones that will
not sell very many copies.  Then you have an international artist like Skeeter
that would generate sales, and they don't do anything on her.  Doesn't make any
sense.  Did they give you a reason?  It seems like the whole music industry has
black balled Skeeter over the years ... beginning with Ralph Emery.
>

I share your frustration in not being able to get CD reissues on the rest of
Skeeter's catalog. Richard Weize reissues just what he wants to and nothing
more. He's also never done anything on Ferlin Husky. I once read that he
didn't think his early material was strong enough. After B.A.C.M. did a
reissue of very early recordings, taken from vinyl, and many when he was
known as Terry Preston, I'd have to agree with his assessment. But I still
hoped he might issue some of his late '50s or '60s material which is of very
good quality.

Weize supports his Bear Family label through his thriving mail order
business so he doesn't need to make a profit on what he puts out. I'm sure
many of his titles don't sell even a thousand copies total. You know he did
do a double CD on The Davis Sisters. He seems to have a habit of not
revisiting an artist once he's done something on them. We'd love to get more
on Kitty Wells, Webb Pierce, Jean Shepard, Ray Price, and many others that
got one box set. OTOH if the artist really interests him he will do set
after set, such as he has done with Ernest Tubb, Hank Snow, Johnny Cash,
Merle Haggard, Marty Robbins, and a few others.

We're more likely to get someone like Jasmine, Collectables, or Collector's
Choice interested in reissuing Skeeter. But since there have already been
several hits collections, about the only thing left would be to do some
two-fers with two complete albums on one CD.

I found that the new Susan Boyle album that's selling so well includes a
cover of Skeeter's "End Of The World".

Larry Davis

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gowdy" <>
To: <skeeter@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, November 27, 2009 3:57 AM
Subject: [skeeter] Re: Skeeter Re-issues


>
>
> The thing that doesn't make any sense is that Bear Family does CDs on
> artists that even the most dedicated music fan hasn't heard of before ...
> ones that will not sell very many copies.  Then you have an international
> artist like Skeeter that would generate sales, and they don't do anything
> on her.  Doesn't make any sense.  Did they give you a reason?  It seems
> like the whole music industry has black balled Skeeter over the years ...
> beginning with Ralph Emery.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>

They gave no reason, and the response suggested that not in the near or distant
future either.  I, too, marvelled at the number of artists on their website THAT
I HAD NEVER HEARD OF BEFORE that they were issuing CDs AND BOX
SETS........interesting.

madlyderanged1
--- In skeeter@yahoogroups.com, "Gowdy" <gowdy@...> wrote:
>
>
>
> The thing that doesn't make any sense is that Bear Family does CDs on artists
that even the most dedicated music fan hasn't heard of before ... ones that will
not sell very many copies.  Then you have an international artist like Skeeter
that would generate sales, and they don't do anything on her.  Doesn't make any
sense.  Did they give you a reason?  It seems like the whole music industry has
black balled Skeeter over the years ... beginning with Ralph Emery.
>

The thing that doesn't make any sense is that Bear Family does CDs on artists
that even the most dedicated music fan hasn't heard of before ... ones that will
not sell very many copies.  Then you have an international artist like Skeeter
that would generate sales, and they don't do anything on her.  Doesn't make any
sense.  Did they give you a reason?  It seems like the whole music industry has
black balled Skeeter over the years ... beginning with Ralph Emery.

Hello all,
I wrote Bear Family Records recently asking whether or not there would be any
CDs forthcoming by SKeeter Davis.  The answer was 'no'.


SAD

madlyderanged1

--- In skeeter@yahoogroups.com, "Larry Davis" <larryonline@...> wrote:
>
> This link will get you "Tunes For Two".
>
> http://rapidshare.com/files/124812325/bbsdtft.rar
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "oneforskeeter" <>
> To: <skeeter@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 1:11 PM
> Subject: [skeeter] duets with Skeeter
>
>
> > Does anyone know if the duet albums of Skeeter with Porter and Bobby Bare
> > are available anywhere?
> > Thanks,
> > L
> >
>

This link will get you "Tunes For Two".

http://rapidshare.com/files/124812325/bbsdtft.rar



----- Original Message -----
From: "oneforskeeter" <>
To: <skeeter@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 1:11 PM
Subject: [skeeter] duets with Skeeter


> Does anyone know if the duet albums of Skeeter with Porter and Bobby Bare
> are available anywhere?
> Thanks,
> L
>

Does anyone know if the duet albums of Skeeter with Porter and Bobby Bare are
available anywhere?
Thanks,
L

Are you the one who put it in the You Tube songs - that's where I saw it.  If
possible, we need to contact some of the people who performed with her - like a
Ricky Skaggs - and have influence with the powers that be in the "Opry" - to
bring up the subject.  Any ideas?
L
--- In skeeter@yahoogroups.com, Randy Bridges <laurabraniganfan1@...> wrote:
>
> Hello there, I am the one who started that petition, I was surprised to only
see 156 signatures, I know there are more Skeeter fans than that! What can we
do? Randy
>
> --- On Sun, 11/22/09, oneforskeeter <jaszc50@...> wrote:
>
>
> From: oneforskeeter <jaszc50@...>
> Subject: [skeeter] hall of fame
> To: skeeter@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sunday, November 22, 2009, 11:11 PM
>
>
>  
>
>
>
> I assume you all are aware of this site -
> http://www.thepetit ionsite.com/ petition/ 817734945
> - you can petition to get Skeeter into the country music hall of fame.
> a devoted listener.
>

I assume you all are aware of this site -
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/petition/817734945
- you can petition to get Skeeter into the country music hall of fame.
a devoted listener.