DAVIS, SKEETER
(*1931)
DAVIS, SKEETER (b. Mary Frances Penick, Dry Ridge, Ky., December 30, 1931) A sometimes controversial GRAND OLE OPRY star of the 1960s, Davis began her career in ROCKABILLY and then became one of the leading purveyors of the NASHVILLE SOUND in the 1960s, often performing the kind of tear-soaked, pathetic numbers that characterized Nashville's view of women in preliberation days. Davis took her stage name in high school when she performed with a friend named Betty Jack Davis (1932–1953) in a…