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    • Jul 15, 1913
    Lloyd "Cowboy" Copas is born in Blue Creek, Ohio. Dubbed the Waltz King of the Grand Ole Opry, he fashions such hits as "Filipino Baby" and "Alabam." He dies in the same 1963 plane crash that kills Patsy Cline
    Aug 8, 1938
    Cowboy Copas has a son, Gary Lee Copas
    Dec 17, 1946
    Pee Wee King holds his first RCA recording session at the label's Studio A in Chicago, with Cowboy Copas on guitar. It also marks the first recording date for guitarist Harold Bradley, a 2006 inductee in the Country Music Hall of Fame
    Mar 25, 1947
    Guitarist Cowboy Copas records with Pee Wee King's Golden West Cowboys for the fourth and final time, at RCA Studio A in Chicago, as he moves on to a solo career
    Apr 8, 1948
    Hank Williams plays a Grand Ole Opry-sponsored show featuring Johnny Bond and Cowboy Copas in Montgomery, Alabama. Williams starts drinking with Copas and disappears for several days
    Dec 21, 1948
    Cowboy Copas records "I'm Waltzing With Tears In My Eyes" and "Candy Kisses" at the Castle Studio in Nashville
    Jul 23, 1949
    Cowboy Copas records "Hangman's Boogie" in Los Angeles
    Nov 11, 1949
    "Square Dance Jubilee" debuts in movie theaters, with New York talent scouts looking west to cast a country-themed TV show. In the picture are Cowboy Copas, who sings "Hangman's Boogie," and Spade Cooley, who performs "Shame On You"
    Sep 21, 1951
    Cowboy Copas records "'Tis Sweet To Be Remembered" in Cincinnati
    Sep 11, 1955
    Elvis Presley performs the first of two shows on a Hank Snow package tour with Cowboy Copas and The Louvin Brothers at the City Auditorium in Norfolk, Virginia. In the audience: Gene Vincent
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