Country Icon Patsy Cline’s Plane CrashCountry music star Patsy Cline died in a plane crash in 1963, along with fellow musicians Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas, and pilot Randy Hughes.On March 5, 1963, Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, and Cowboy Copas were traveling from Kansas City, Kansas, to Nashville, Tennessee, after performing at a benefit concert. The […]
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Betty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique”The publication of Betty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique” on February 19, 1963, became a pivotal moment in the feminist movement, exposing the dissatisfaction and frustration of American housewives.Betty Friedan, an American feminist writer and activist, surveyed her former college classmates at Smith College for their 15-year reunion in 1957. She discovered
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Top Oldies Songs from 1959 to 1963: Pre-Beatles Pop, Girl Groups, Doo-Wop, Surf Rock, Soul, and Instrumentals The top oldies from 1959 to 1963 came from one of pop music’s most underrated transition eras. Rock and roll had survived its first explosion, doo-wop was still strong, girl groups were rising, teen idols were everywhere, surf
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