(AP) Forty years after Virginia-born country singer Patsy Cline died in a plane crash near the marshy banks of the Tennessee River, fans leave plastic flowers and written messages at the crash site.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the late ’50s, “Don Owens’s TV Jamboree” was a must-see every Saturday for country music fans across the Washington metro area.

The same year that Patsy Cline was climbing both the country and pop charts with “Walkin’ After Midnight”, another woman was also breaking barriers in the industry. With her 1957 song “Dark Moon”, ...

In the late ’50s, “Don Owens’s TV Jamboree” was a must-see every Saturday for country music fans across the Washington metro area. A promoter and DJ with a carnival-barker’s zeal, Owens was known to ...