SKEETER DAVIS - The End of the World | FIRST TIME HEARING REACTION

[@johnniekight1879]

She was one half of The Davis Sisters. They weren't really sisters but best friends. Early in their career they were in a head on collision with a drunken sailor. Her friend was killed and she needed extensive rehab. Her friends parents lived closer to the city so they took her in. They also kept her drugged and took all her money. Later she married a famous DJ who treated her horribly and stalked her after their divorce. It's unbelievable what she went through. The book "Bus Ride To Kentucky" tells it all. Great read. Should have been a movie. Her last appearance on the Grand Ol' Opry we all knew she was dying. Even she had a hard time getting through the song. So emotional. Even I was teary eyed. Skeeter took many pop hits and did the country versions of them.

[@KJ-4321]

Wow.. thanks for the extra info from that book. Appreciate it.

[@subwaygoddess1]

This song still brings tears to my eyes. Her voice and the lyrics ARE catastrophic to the heart! I love your reaction!

[@MoMoMyPup10]

Along with Patsy Cline, Skeeter Davis's vocals are voices that just slay me -- at least in songs like this with that very unique tone to the melody -- their voices go right through me every listen.

[@judydubiel]

I have always loved this beautiful song

[@RayEvans-j1q]

My favourite kind of country music is classic country! Love the name- Skeeter!

[@joannerichards1750]

One of the most loved and enduring songs of 1962. EVERYBODY alive then will remember Skeeter's classic lament.

[@dianegardner7210]

When someone you love passes away it’s amazing to you to see life go on like usual even though your world will never be the same

[@gaildevaney6074]

This song and Debbie Reynold's "Tammy" are my most treasured favs from my childhood..

[@clifton8929]

Even if a song is 62 years old, it still can reach out and touch your heart. The power of music transcends space and time. That's a great song choice. Thanks, Shawn, great memories, Wonderful commentary.

[@luvutons411]

Grrat voice by Skeeter Davis for sure. Simply but touching lyrics. Very much love it...🫶🎤💖

[@robertlerman7892]

Hi Shawn, You are awesome, yes I still cry😢 listening to her beautiful voice , music 🎶 & lyrics. A classic 👍❤️😢

[@maninthebuff]

As a child, this was one of the first songs I remember hearing. I must have been 5.

[@flubblert]

Such a beautiful song from deep in my past. I had forgotten all about it. It's one of those songs that you just never ever hear from anymore. But a great song nonetheless that should *not* be forgotten. I'm so glad someone recommended it. ❤️

[@bella-xp7qd]

This was released in 1962. When I was 10, I'd play the record over and over. Been listening to this for 61 years. On Saturday when I clean the house, out comes the old music 🎶.

[@famat161]

I just hit pause. Give me a second. I am just so looking forward to this, the most beautiful voice in the universe to my 14 year-old brain at that time.

[@MoMoMyPup10]

THANK YOU for whoever is responsible for you visiting the legends of modern music! Along with Patsy Cline, Skeeter Davis's voice are voices that just slay me -- at least in songs like this with that very unique tone to the melody -- their voices go right through me every listen

[@KJ-4321]

Great reaction! I remember hearing Herman’s Hermits version of this song. That got me to wondering who else covered it, so I looked it up online & and found out it was covered by 84 different musicians! Shawn, I loved your true appreciation for everything about this beautiful song! 🙂

[@thekookooman1991]

Another song with this vibe is "To Know Him Is To Love Him" by the Teddy Bears (a trio, one of whom was a young Phil Spector!) That one gets made fun of for being a bit goofy, but the woman who sings it has this same kind of earnestness in her voice and there's something hypnotic and almost eerie about the general ambience that always gives me chills. Check it ouf if you haven't already.

[@marxlover100]

As a little girl, she was nicknamed "Skeeter," slang for mosquito, by relatives because she was like a little bug -- all over the place and underfoot. This sad song puts tears in my eyes, as does her versions of these songs: "Optimistic", "I Will", "I'm Saving My Love" and the Charlie Chaplin-penned song "Smile". Some of her songs crossed from the country charts to the pop charts. "End of the World" was one, as was the lively "I Can't Stay Mad at You".

[@chrisunger3186]

Beautiful song. They Don't make music like this anymore

[@jons.105]

A young Carole King and Gerry Goffin wrote one of Skeeter's hits, "I Can't Stay Mad at You".

[@danalynch8889]

I tear up when I hear this song. It played a lot on the radio when my was a live, but she passed way when I was 6 years old.

[@debbers]

Skeeter Davis was always played in my home when I was a child and my mother had all of her record albums! I think I still have a couple of them!

[@NoviJimB]

I was born in 1960 into a musical family with six older siblings, so I was literally hearing music from close to the day I was born. I wasn't even three when this song came out. I think one of my siblings might have had this 45, I definitely have memories of hearing this song. I started listening to cable TV radio stations several years back and the oldies station played this, and wow, what a jarring sense of 'dej vu' the first time I heard it played. Her voice is so good, and the production on this was really top notch, especially for 60+ years ago. The feeling it gives me is impossible to accuratley describe. Haunting but beautiful. Great choice. She was popular in the country world but this was her only big hit on the pop charts.

[@debsandz]

Such a great song! Loved hearing it again!

[@VickiCampbell-1216]

This song always makes me cry. I lost my mom, too, in 2020. Another song that brings me to tears is PATCHES by CLARENCE CARTER, (1970 studio version). The story within the lyrics chokes me up every time I hear it. My condolences, Shawn. I always thought Moms were supposed to live forever....❣Love your reaction to this song. 💙

[@irmaoksanen6830]

Great choice! The arrangement and orchestration on these older songs is so beautiful. The lyrics...fire.

[@RegenaCox-yy1rl]

Love this song. I have this record on a 45. It's an oldie but a goodie.

[@tedcole9936]

Yes, devastating. This track was used to great effect as an outro song early in the TV series Mad Men.

[@kathyrizzi8754]

Yes Shawn! I love this song from the 60’s. Thank you, so much!👍👏👏👏♥️

[@newodkin]

I put on her last concert near her home town in Kentucky. I want to say it was 1993. She was between cancers and she and her band were hot off a concert tour of US bases in Germany. She did two and a half hours of hits and then a four hour autographing session for her book, followed ny two long radio interviews. Always smiling the whole day. Well, except in this sad song. So great to hear it live that day.

[@RalphSpoiledsport]

So I have been correct. "Skeeter " is also slang for Mosquito where I grew up. Thanks for the validation.

[@leeyaferguson9019]

Same here.😊

[@RogerMiller-kw7os]

Another great voice from that time is Doris Day, check out "Que Sera, Sera (What will be, will be)"

[@joelhoulette3244]

Agree. Also like secret love.

[@North-Woods]

This was a really great and well produced song.

[@leeannies-tears369]

I was just a little girl when this one came out. Even them I knew it was heartbreaking. Always loved this one ❤

[@allengray5748]

Haven't heard this Gem 💎 in forever!! Dude it's Awesome someone is hearing this song so many years later. Salvadori!! Cool name also!! Great Reaction!! Peace 🕊️☮️♾️😎

[@mustangbill65]

My all time fav song...

[@donnacushman7024]

Got to #2 on the Billboard charts in March 1963...a CLASSIC!

[@dagmar.6954]

Skeeter was a great singer songwriter. She started out as part of the Davis Sisters as a teenager in the late 40's & then went solo in the late 50's. "End Of The World" was her biggest hit in 1962. She did a lot of songs such as "Set Him Free", "Lost To A Geisha Girl", "Homebreaker", "(I Can't Help You) I'm Falling Too", "My Last Date (With You)", "Where I Ought to Be", "Optimistic", "I'm Saving My Love", "Gonna Get Along Without You Now", I Can't Stay Mad At You", "He Says the Same Things To Me" etc.

[@michellec8841]

The Carpenters covered this too. Wonderful song

[@BCashion1962]

I just knew that this one would be "right up your alley", Shawn! I think you would also like another one of her hits called "I Can't Stay Mad At You"... I love the way she added "You've got me where you want me" right at the end of that one.

[@johnvillanova9984]

She later married Joey Spampinsto of NRBQ....now there's a Group you never heard of...(But should!)🤔

[@steverusso177]

Love NRBQ Old school is the best school.

[@waltw4537]

Did not know that. Hey, do you remember the name of the box people threw requests into? Yeah. NRBQ indeed.

[@MrNormaltoo]

was great for the slow dance.

[@carolespinoza8469]

My favorite song when I was 11 or 12. I was born 1950. 🎶🎶🎶🎶❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

[@jgoldwhite]

I love the heartbreak devastation of this song so much that my band Bell Gardens did a cover of it on our first album.

[@thedocofrock1890]

herman's hermits did an excellent cover of this that was very popular but as usual the original is the best for me.

[@KJ-4321]

Agree! I also appreciate Herman’s Hermits version….But love the original!

[@thedocofrock1890]

@@KJ-4321 yeah - i was 11 when it came out in '62 and i remember falling completely in love with skeeter davis. sadly she passed at 72 years old in '04 from the killer - breast cancer. damn i'm 71 now and wonder how much time i have left. i have luckily avoided any diseases to this point. but you never know - that can change in a heartbeat

[@thekookooman1991]

Such a simple song, yet so effectively sincere and moving. And isn't this what profound loss feels like? It seems impossible that the world could just go on so indifferently,.

[@willfromyadkinville]

now you got my heart this song is just perfect! stop the black or white she was just wonderful! period!

[@angelinasanchez5083]

That took me back to my girlhood, my favorite breakup song, Lol. Great reaction, thanks. Please react to another beautiful song by Simply Red called STARS. ❤

[@MrErrandboy]

"I Can't Stay Mad at You" by her is more of an upbeat VERY catchy song. Definitely counter balances the one you just played. Please do that one next.

[@Jonni1027]

Skeeter used to be married to Joey Spampinato of the great band NRBQ… I always thought it must’ve been a beautiful marriage of two amazing musicians❤

[@Colton-q7p]

Beautiful voice she has! My favourite of hers is He says the same things to me.

[@MamaBe1963]

Please react to her songs with Bobby Bare. Also, she did many "answer" songs. For example, listen to Elvis ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT, then listen to Skeeter YES I'M LONESOME TONIGHT.

[@kowindsurf1590]

beautiful song

[@KevinRCarr]

This is a really nice recording of this song, but there's another cover of the song that I was infatuated with when I was a pre-teen, by Herman & The Hermits (Peter Noone), that I think you'd like, as well.

[@shirleybhs9zd6li5i]

Loved the British Invasion. Herman's Hermits were great plus Chad & Jeremy. Peter & Gordon and so many many more. Blessings

[@KJ-4321]

Yep! I’m right there with you! 😀

[@tcspur1]

John Mellencamp's version is also great.

[@magicbrownie1357]

We playin' Fallout?

[@buckdurant5336]

Chills. Every time.

[@lisafolmar5321]

A song in a similar vein, My Baby's Gone by the Louvin Brothers. Tight harmonies, Sand Mountain Alabama duo.

[@StuartBearden]

Nice

[@joelhoulette3244]

Absolutely love this song. Really like brenda lees version also.

[@tinapatterson5022]

🥰

[@balkanarchist1914]

I've loved this ever since it was used on Mad Men.

[@jamesvomsaal]

I grew up with the Herman Hermits version every bit as good as

[@bradsense7431]

Oh my gosh I have listened to Skeeter’s version since rediscovering it about ten years ago on a country music program. But somewhere in my mind it seemed I also heard it elsewhere and you have just solved it! I am going to look up that version. Thanks.

[@KJ-4321]

I love Herman’s Hermits version too! It was also covered by 84 different musicians!

[@laurabarlaj6836]

Try Gale Garnett "We'll Sing in the Sunshine"

[@patsmith8035]

If you want to listen to Emily Linge who is now 16 she eas 14 when she covered it She played the piano too.

[@karenh.]

💔

[@topiparviainen4238]

Flashback straigt back to fallout 4

[@b3stanga697]

Another song you should hit is “We'll Sing in the Sunshine” sung by Gale Garnett

[@jodyjackson5475]

😢

[@deepfriedscotsman2860]

You should try a song from 1945 called House Of Blue Light by Ela Mae Morse and Freddie Slack another one from 1954 by Tiny Topsy called Aw Shucks Baby

[@intothesunset3]

♥♥♥

[@BrentWarren-z2j]

Listen to Where I ought to be/ Skeeter Davis.