미국 팝 컨츄리 가수 Skeeter Davis 스키터 데이비스 소개 - 글 출처: 위키백과

Skeeter Davis 소개 한글 번역

스키터 데이비스(1931.12.30 ~ 2004.9.19)는 켄터키주의 드라이 릿지라는 농장에서 Mary Frances Penick라는 본명으로 태어났다. 1950년대에 데이비스 시스터즈에서 데이비스라는 이름을 차용했으며, 그녀의 할아버지가 붙여준 닉네임- 마치 모기처럼 웅웅거리며 노래하면서 쇼맨쉽을 발휘했다는 의미인 스키터를 조합해서 스키터 데이비스라고 예명을 붙였다.

스키터는 인근의 켄터키주 코빙톤의 딕시 고교를 다녔고 베티 잭 데이비스를 만났다. 그둘은 나중에 데이비스 시스터즈를 결성했다. 그 둘은 RCA 빅터와 음반계약을 하게 되며 넘버원 히트송인 “I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know”를 발표했다. 단기간의 성공에도 불구하고 동료이자 절친한 친구인 베티는 자동차사고로 죽게 되는 비극을 겪었다. 스키터 역시 이 사고로 심각한 부상을 당했지만 회복하고 스키터는 솔로로 재기했다. 1957년까지 스키터는 컨트리 뮤직에서 최고 탑 가수들 중의 한 명이었다. 스키터는 당시로선 드문 오버더빙을 통해 하모니 보컬을 녹음한 걸로 잘 알려져 있으며 친구였던 체트 애킨스의 도움 또한 컸다고 한다. 1959년에 Grand Ole Opry라는 컨트리 라디오 방송 프로그램 고정 출연했다. “Set Him Free라는 곡으로 그래미상에 후보로 올랐다. 1960년 한 해 동안 스키터는 RCA사에서 가장 성공한 컨트리 가수였다. 41개의 컨트리 챠트를 랭크시켰고 그중에서 13곡은 팝 챠트에 랭크시켰다. 그 중에서 우리에게 가장 알려진 "The End Of The World"는 컨트리와 팝 챠트에 2위까지 오르는 대 히트를 기록했다.

"My Last Date With You", "Am I That Easy to Forget", "I Can't Stay Mad At You", "Gonna Get Along Without You Now", "What Does it Take", 그리고 "I Can't Believe That it's All Over" 등의 히트곡을 남긴다. 그녀는 총 다섯 번의 그래미 후보에 올랐다.

1973년에 스키터는 정치성을 이유로 방송에서 퇴출되게 되는 수난을 겪게 된다.(어떤 체포된 크리스챤의 무죄를 입증하기 위한 헌정곡을 불렀다는 정치적 이유) 그러나 1975년에 다시 참가했다. 그 이후에 쇼는 2004년까지 계속됐다. 1970년도에 스키터는 싱가폴, 스웨덴, 바바도스 같은 해외공연도 나섰다. 데이비스는 4번이나 결혼을 했다. Kenneth Depew와 처음 결혼을 했으며 Ralph Emery와 1960년에 결혼했고 1964년 이혼했으며 NRBQ 베이스 연주자 Joey Spampinato와 1996년에 이혼했다.

1985년작 "She Sings, They Play"에 그들 둘의 협연을 느낄 수 있다. 그녀의 자서전”켄터키로 가는 버스 요금”은 1993년에 발표되었다. 데이비스는 독실한 기독교인이었다. 데이비스는 1988년 이후 유방암과 투병했고 2004년 Nashville, Tennessee hospice에서 숨을 거두었다. 그녀는 죽기까지 Franklin, Tennessee에서 살았다. 스키터의 대표작인 "The End of the World는 많이 리바이블되었으며 카펜터스에 의해 불리기도 했다. 비교적 최근에는 Agnetha Faltskog "My Colouring Book" 앨범에서도 리메이크 되었으며 피아니스트 김광민이 피아노 곡으로 리메이크 하였다.

 

Skeeter Davis 소개 영어 원문 – 출처 위키백과

Skeeter Davis (born Mary Frances Penick December 30, 1931 – September 19, 2004) was an American country music singer, who was best known for crossover pop music songs of the early 1960s. She started out as part of The Davis Sisters in the early 1950s. In the late '50s and early '60s, she became a solo star. Her best known hit was the song "The End of the World" in 1963.

One of the first women to achieve major stardom in the country music field as a solo vocalist, she was an acknowledged influence on Tammy Wynette and Dolly Parton and has been hailed as an "extraordinary country/pop singer" by The New York Times music critic Robert Palmer

Early life & rise to fame

Skeeter Davis was one of country music's first crossover pop stars. The legacy that she left behind helped other stars in country music crossover to the pop charts. Her upbringing, however, was far different from that of most pop singers.

Davis' parents were William and Punzie Penick. Skeeter was the first of seven children. Her grandfather thought that she had a lot of energy for such a young age, so he nicknamed young Mary Frances "Skeeter" (Mosquito) and the name stuck with her. In 1947, the Penick family moved to Erlanger, Kentucky, where Skeeter met Betty Jack Davis. The two met at Dixie Heights High School in Erlanger and became instant friends. Together, the two both sang through much of high school. They formed a group together, which they called The Davis Sisters.

The Davis Sisters started singing on Detroit radio station WJR on the radio program "Barnyard Frolics."

As part of The Davis Sisters & tragedy

The Davis Sisters' harmonies were well liked by many, including RCA Records producer Steve Sholes, who signed the Davis Sisters to a recording contract in 1953. The two recorded a lot of material, including "I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know," which went to number 1 on the country charts, as well as making the top 20 on the pop charts. The Davis Sisters were the first harmonic girl group to reach #1.^{[citation needed]} Thanks to Kitty Wells the previous year, the Davis Sisters were able to become stars in country music.

However, while "I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know" was climbing the charts, the Davis Sisters were involved in a major car accident. The accident killed Betty Jack Davis and left Skeeter with broken arms and legs. However, Betty Jack Davis' mother insisted that Skeeter Davis would sing with Betty Jack's sister Georgia in place of her sister. Together, Georgia and Skeeter sang as the Davis Sisters until 1956.

The height of her career in the 1960s

Skeeter Davis decided to go back into country music as a solo star. She hooked up again with RCA Records in 1958, this time working with guitarist and record producer Chet Atkins. That year, Davis recorded "Lost to a Geisha Girl," which went all the way to the Country Top 20 and became her first solo hit. Atkins worked with Davis as a guitarist on all of these sessions. Atkins also multitracked Skeeter's voice to resemble the sound of The Davis Sisters. This echo can be found on several of her early solo hits, such as "Lost to a Geisha Girl" and "Am I That Easy to Forget." "Lost to a Geisha Girl" was an "answer song" to Hank Locklin's hit "Geisha Girl."

Another answer song that Skeeter recorded "in reply" to Hank Locklin was "I Can't Help You, I'm Falling Too." This was an answer song to Locklin's "Please Help Me, I'm Falling."

It was not until 1959 that Davis really broke the mold with Top 5 country hit "Set Him Free." That same year, she had another Top 20 hit called "Homebreaker." She also joined the Grand Ole Opry that year, and was nominated for a Grammy Award for "Set Him Free," becoming the first female Country singer to ever be nominated for a Grammy. Skeeter Davis from 1960 up until 1962 remained on top of her game, with songs "My Last Date (With You)," "Where I Ought to Be" and "Optimistic," all hits for Davis during this time. Her 1960 hit "(I Can't Help You) I'm Falling Too" was Skeeter's first entrance onto the pop charts. The song went all the way to the Top 40 there, which was unheard of for a country singer at the time. In 1961, she scored a second pop hit with a lyric version (written by Skeeter) of Floyd Cramer's instrumental country pop smash "Last Date" called "My Last Date (With You)" which did even better making the Top 30 on the pop charts. Both of these songs did very well on the Country charts peaking at number 2 and number 5, respectively.

In 1963, Skeeter achieved her biggest success with country pop crossover hit "The End of the World." The song just missed topping the country and pop charts that year. However, the song did top the adult contemporary charts. The song soon became Skeeter's signature song. Only one other woman besides Skeeter was achieving this kind of crossover success that she was achieving. That woman was Patsy Cline, who had a few pop hits around the same time as Skeeter did. However, Cline died in 1963, so Skeeter remained the only country music female artist to achieve pop music crossover success. Skeeter Davis' soft voice appeal was well liked by the teenage crowd at the time, making her a teen star for the era, similar to that kind of teen idol success that Lesley Gore was achieving too; however, Gore was a pop singer. Her crossover success did not end, though. Skeeter achieved one other country pop hit with the Carole King-penned song "I Can't Stay Mad At You," which became a Top 10 pop hit for her in 1963.

Skeeter Davis received five Grammy nominations including four for Best Female Country Vocal Performance in 1964 ("He Says the Same Things to Me"), 1965 ("Sunglasses"), 1967 ("What Does It Take"), and 1972 ("One Tin Soldier"). Davis was also an accomplished songwriter, penning almost 70 songs and earning two BMI awards for "Set Him Free" and "My Last Date With You," the latter of which was also recorded by Ann-Margret, Pat Boone, Kay Starr, Joni James, and several others in addition to Davis' original hit version. Also, it was remade into two number 1 country hits as "Lost Her/His Love(On Our Last Date), one by Conway Twitty (who wrote a new version of the song) in 1972 and another by Emmylou Harris in 1983.

Skeeter's success continued after 1963. Her next follow-up came in late 1963 with "I'm Saving My Love" and another song in 1964 called Gonna Get Along Without Ya Now (which was an updated cover of the song, made a hit in 1956 by Patience and Prudence). While both of these songs made it onto the pop charts, they were not very successful, only reaching the Top 50 on the pop charts, but they were Top 10 hits on the Country charts.

In 1965, Skeeter recorded a duet that became a hit with Bobby Bare called "A Dear John Letter." The best-known version of the song, however, was recorded originally by Jean Shepard and Ferlin Husky back in 1953. Skeeter also recorded quite a few albums during this time. One of them was a tribute album to Buddy Holly entitled Skeeter Davis Sings Buddy Holly. In 1967, Skeeter had her first Top 10 hit in a while with "What Does It Take (To Keep A Man Like You Satisfied)." An album was also released by the same name, which of course featured the hit single. Skeeter only achieved two other major country hits the rest of the decade, called "Fuel to the Flame" (written by Dolly Parton, whom Skeeter paid tribute to with an album called Skeeter Sings Dolly in 1972) and "There's a Fool Born Every Minute." Other singles were minor hits, but she released many albums.

 

Decline & controversy

In 1970, Skeeter had another Top Ten hit with "I'm a Lover (Not a Fighter)" and another duet with Bobby Bare with "Your Husband, My Wife," and in 1971, she also had a hit with the autobiographical "Bus Fare To Kentucky." Her chart success began to slowly fade away in the beginning of the decade. Other singles like "It's Hard to Be a Woman" and "Love Takes a Lot of My Time" failed to make hits for Skeeter. "One Tin Soldier" did not get much attention from country radio, and failed to make the Top 40, but was nominated for Grammy as Best Female Country Vocal. Skeeter remained an avid member of the Opry. In 1973, she had a brief comeback with her Top 20 hit "I Can't Believe That It's All Over." In 1973 also during a performance at the Grand Ole Opry, Skeeter dedicated a gospel song to arrested evangelists which some felt was using the Opry stage for "political" commentary. This led to a 15-month suspension from the Grand Ole Opry and created quite a controversy for her. During much of the 70s, she became somewhat of a flower child on the Grand Ole Opry. By now her chart success faded away, and Davis gave up making singles. Her last song to make the national charts was 1976's "I Love Us."

 

Personal Life, Later life & death

In the 1970s, she began regularly touring foreign countries such as Barbados, Singapore, and Sweden where she was among the most popular entertainers of any field. Davis was married three times, the first being to Kenneth Depew. She later married Ralph Emery in 1960 and divorced him in 1964. In 1985, Skeeter made a solid comeback with the album She Sings, They Play, with the band NRBQ. A few years later, she married NRBQ's bassist Joey Spampinato. Davis and Spampinato were divorced in 1996. She continued to perform frequently throughout much of the 1990s and into 2000. In 2001 she became incapacitated by the breast cancer that would ultimately claim her life. She died in a hospice in 2004. She remained a Grand Ole Opry member until the end of her life.

Skeeter lived in Brentwood, Tennessee, from the early 1960s until the time of her death in 2004. Her autobiography, Bus Fare to Kentucky (named after a 1971 Davis hit), was published in 1993. In 1998 she authored a children's book The Christmas Note (with Cathie Pelletier) based on her childhood that received praise from a number of authors including Lee Smith (author), Rebecca Wells, and Terry Kay.

Davis was a devout Christian. Davis developed breast cancer in 1988, and died of it in a Nashville, Tennessee, hospice, aged 72 on September 19, 2004.

Charted Singles

Year	Single	Chart Positions			Album
		US Hot 100 Singles	US Country Singles	US A.C. Singles
1953	"I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know" (as part of The Davis Sisters)	18	1	-	I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know
1958	"Lost to a Geisha Girl"	-	15	-	I'll Sing You a Song and Harmonize Too
1959	"Set Him Free"	-	5	-	I'll Sing You a Song and You Harmonize Too
1959	"Homebreaker"	-	15	-	I'll Sing You a Song and You Harmonize Too
1960	"Am I That Easy to Forget"	-	11	-	I'll Sing You a Song and Harmonize Too
1960	"(I Can't Help You) I'm Fallin' Too"	39	2	-	Here's the Answer
1961	"My Last Date (With you)"	26	5	-	Here's the Answer
1961	"The Hand You're Holding Now"	-	11	-	Blueberry Hill
1961	"Optimistic"	-	10	-	Blueberry Hill
1962	"Where I Ought to Be"	-	9	-	Blueberry Hill
1962	"The Little Music Box"	-	22	-	Blueberry Hill
1962	"Something Precious"	-	23	-	The End of the World
1963	"The End of the World"	2	2	1	The End of the World
1963	"I'm Saving My Love"	41	9	10	Cloudy, With Occasional Tears
1963	"I Can't Stay Mad At You"	7	14	2	Let Me Get Close to You
1964	"Gonna Get Along Without Ya Now"	48	8	20	Let Me Get Close to You
1964	"He Says the Same Things to Me"	47	17	28	Let Me Get Close to You
1964	"Let Me Get Close to You"	106A	45	-	Let Me Get Close to You
1965	"A Dear John Letter" (with Bobby Bare)	114A	11	-	Tunes for Two (with Bobby Bare)
1965	"Sun Glasses"	120A	30	-	Singin' in the Summer Sun
1966	"Goin Down the Road (Feelin' Bad)"	-	36	-	My Heart's in the Country
1967	"Fuel to the Flame"	-	11	-	What Does it Take
1967	"What Does it Take (To Keep a Man Like You Satisfied)"	121A	5	-	What Does it Take
1967	"Set Him Free" (re-recording)	-	52	-	What Does it Take
1968	"For Loving You" (with Don Bowman)	-	72	-	(Released on a Don Bowman album)
1968	"Instinct for Survival"	-	54	-	(Single Only)
1968	"There's a Fool Born Every Minute"	-	16	-	Single release in '68, appeared on Skeeter in 1971
1969	"The Closest Thing to Love (I've Ever Seen)"	-	66	-	The Closest Thing to Love
1969	"I'm a Lover (Not a Fighter)"	-	9	-	A Place in the Country
1970	"Let's Get Together" (with George Hamilton IV)	-	65	-	A Place in the Country
1970	"Your Husband, My Wife" (with Bobby Bare)	-	22	-	Your Husband, My Wife (with Bobby Bare)
1970	"It's Hard to be a Woman"	-	65	-	It's Hard to be a Woman
1970	"We Need a Lot More of Jesus"	-	69	-	It's Hard to be a Woman
1971	"Love Takes Up a Lot of My Time"	-	58	-	Love Takes Up a Lot of My Time
1971	"Bus Fare to Kentucky"	-	21	-	Skeeter
1972	"Sad Situation"	-	46	-	Skeeter
1972	"One Tin Soldier"	-	54	-	Bring it on Home
1973	"I Can't Believe That It's All Over"	101A	12	-	I Can't Believe That It's All Over
1973	"Don't Forget to Remember"	-	44	-	I Can't Believe That It's All Over
1974	"One More Time"	-	65	-	(Single Only)
1976	"I Love Us"	-	60	-	(Single Only)

^A Positions on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 singles chart.

Selected Albums

Year	Album
1960	I'll Sing You a Song, and Harmonize Too
1961	Here's The Answer
1962	Sing Duets (with Porter Wagoner)
1963	The End of the World
1963	Cloudy, With Occasional Tears
1964	Let Me Get Close to You
1964	I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know
1965	Written By the Stars
1965	Tunes for Two (with Bobby Bare)
1965	The Best Of Skeeter Davis
1965	Blueberry Hill
1966	Skeeter Sings Standards
1966	Singin' in the Summer Sun
1966	My Heart's In the Country
1967	Skeeter Davis Sings Buddy Holly
1967	Hand In Hand With Jesus
1967	What Does it Take
1968	I Love Flatt and Scruggs
1968	Why So Lonely
1969	The Closest Thing to Love
1969	Mary Frances
1970	A Place in the Country
1970	Your Husband, My Wife (with Bobby Bare)
1970	It's Hard to be A Woman
1970	Easy to Love
1971	Love Takes a Lot of My Time
1971	Skeeter
1971	Foggy Mountain Top
1972	Bring It On Home
1972	Skeeter Sings Dolly
1972	The Hillbilly Singer
1973	The Best of Skeeter Davis Vol. 2
1973	I Can't Believe That It's All Over
1973	The End of the World
1974	He Wakes Me With A Kiss Every Morning
1978	The Best of the Best of Skeeter Davis
1982	Live Wire
1983	Heart Strings
1985	She Sings, They Play (with NRBQ)
1995	The Essential Skeeter Davis
2002	RCA Country Legends: Skeeter Davis
2003	Blueberry Hill/The End of the World
2004	The Pop Hits Collection
2006	The Pop Hits Collection Vol. 2
2007	Great American Country