Country performer.

Best known for her major country and pop hit from 1963, "The End of the World."

Prior to her solo career, was a member of the country duo the Davis Sisters with Betty Jack Davis; the two were not related. The duo broke up when Betty was killed in a car accident August 2, 1953; Skeeter was seriously injured in that crash. Their only hit together, "I Forgot More than You'll Ever Know," charted on Billboard magazine's country charts two weeks after the accident; that song spent eight weeks at No. 1. Betty was replaced in the duo by her sister, Georgia, but she and Skeeter did not have any hits together.

Had a number 1 hit in 1963 with the song "The End Of The World". Other solo hits included "Set Him Free" (1959); "(I Can't Help You) I'm Falling Too" (1960, answer song to Hank Locklin's million selling 'Please help me I'm falling'; "I Can't Stay Mad at You" (1963); and "What Does it Take to Keep a Man Like You Satisfied" (1967).

Nicknamed Skeeter by her grandfather, who said she was so active she buzzed around like a mosquito.

Toured with Elvis Presley and The Rolling Stones.

She became a regular on the Opry, a live radio show, in 1959, and continued to perform until 2004. In 1973, she was suspended from the show for more than a year for protesting the arrest of "Jesus freaks" in Nashville. "I felt like a child without a home," she said after her reinstatement.