Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens
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Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens is a cemetery noted for the number of musicians' graves. It was established in 1960, and is located at 1150 Dickerson Pike in Goodlettsville, Tennessee
Goodlettsville, Tennessee
Goodlettsville is a city in Davidson and Sumner counties in the U.S. state of Tennessee. Goodlettsville was incorporated as a city in 1958 with a population of just over 3,000 residents; at the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 13,780. Goodlettsville chose to remain autonomous in 1963...

, just north of Nashville
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...

. One area of the cemetery is designated as "Music Row" for the number of country music
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 entertainers that are interred, including three musicians who died in the 1963 plane crash with Patsy Cline
Patsy Cline
Patsy Cline , born Virginia Patterson Hensley in Gore, Virginia, was an American country music singer who enjoyed pop music crossover success during the era of the Nashville sound in the early 1960s...

 as well as singer Jack Anglin
Jack Anglin
Jack Anglin was an American country music singer best known as a member of The Anglin Brothers, and later Johnnie & Jack with Johnnie Wright....

 who died in a car accident on his way to her funeral.

Notable interments

  • David "Stringbean" Akeman (1915-1973), comedian, banjo musician
  • Jack Anglin
    Jack Anglin
    Jack Anglin was an American country music singer best known as a member of The Anglin Brothers, and later Johnnie & Jack with Johnnie Wright....

     (1916-1963), musician
  • Lloyd "Cowboy" Copas
    Cowboy Copas
    Lloyd Estel Copas , 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 killed country stars Patsy Cline and Hawkshaw Hawkins. He was a member of the Grand Ole Opry.-Biography:Copas was born in 1913 in...

     (1913-1963), musician
  • Jimmie Crawford (1935-2005), musician
  • Lefty Frizzell
    Lefty Frizzell
    Lefty Frizzell , born William Orville Frizzell, was an American country music singer and songwriter of the 1950s, and a proponent of honky tonk music. His relaxed style of singing was an influence on later stars Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison, George Jones and John Fogerty...

     (1928-1975), singer/songwriter
  • Hawkshaw Hawkins
    Hawkshaw Hawkins
    Harold Franklin Hawkins , better known as Hawkshaw Hawkins, was an American country music singer popular from the 1950s into the early 60s known for his rich, smooth vocals and music drawn from blues, boogie and honky tonk...

     (1923-1963), musician
  • Randy Hughes
    Randy Hughes
    James Randell Hughes is a former American football safety who played six seasons in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys...

     (1928-1963), guitarist
  • Benny Martin
    Benny Martin
    Benny Edward Martin , was an American bluegrass fiddler who invented the 8-string fiddle.-Biography:Born in Sparta, Tennessee, his father and two of his sisters played music professionally...

     (1928-2001), Bluegrass fiddler
  • Paul Warren
    Paul Warren
    Paul Warren is an American blues/rock guitar player, and is the touring guitar player for the English rock star Rod Stewart....

    (1918-1978), Bluegrass fiddler
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