Today (July 15) country legend Cowboy Copas would have been 111 years old. Born Lloyd Estel Copas, the country singer found fame in the early ‘40s when he replaced Eddy Arnold as the singer in the Pee ...

In the 1930s and ’40s, Saturday matinee screens across the country flickered with the exotic image of the white hat–wearing singing cowboy, crooning around the campfire and fighting for all that was ...

Lloyd Estel Copas (July 15, 1913 – March 5, 1963), known by his stage name Cowboy Copas, was an American country music singer popular from the 1940s until his death in the 1963 plane crash that also ...

Fifty-three years ago, on Sunday, March 3, 1963, Lloyd "Cowboy" Copas shouldn't have been crying. Things were, after all, going well. Copas, who burst onto the country scene with four consecutive top ...