Skeeter Davis was one of country music's best-selling females during the 1960s.
Born in Dry Ridge, Kentucky, on December 30, 1931, she recorded her first songs
as a member of the Davis Sisters, scoring a Number One hit in 1953 with "I
Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know." She shifted her focus to a solo career
during the late 1950s and began enjoying even greater acclaim, earning a Grammy
nomination for 1959's "Set Him Free" — the first song by a female country artist
to receive such an honor — and racking up 10 different Top 10 hits by the time
"The End of the World" was released ...