Buddy Starcher

Buddy Starcher (born Oby Edgar Starcher, 16 March 1906, Ripley, West Virginia — died 2 November 2001, Harrisonburg, Virginia) was an American country singer. He starred on his own show on WCHS-TV from 1960 to 1966. However, he is best known for his 1966 spoken word recording entitled "History Repeats Itself", written with Minnie Pearl and released on Boone Records. The track recounts uncanny similarities between the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy.

The single hit #39 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart [Joel Whitburn, "The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits". 7th edn, 2000] and the album of the same name from which it was drawn peaked at #37 on the U.S. Country Albums chart. [ [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:ajfyxqqgldde~T5 Buddy Starcher] at Allmusic.com]

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