COPAS, COWBOY

COPAS, COWBOY (b. Lloyd C., Blue Creek, Ohio, July 15, 1913–March 5, 1963) One of the great HONKY-TONK singers of the 1950s, Copas is best remembered for singing lead vocal on PEE WEE KING'S Tennessee Waltz, one of the biggest country hits of all time. Copas grew up in Ohio, despite his later claims to have been raised on a ranch in Muskogee, Oklahoma. By his late teens he was touring as a musician in a novelty duo with a pureblood Indian named Natchee (actually Lesley Vernon Stover , who was…