Singer Billie Jo Spears, whose performance of “Blanket on the Ground” went No. 1 on the country charts in 1975, died of cancer on Wednesday, Dec. 14, in Vidor, Texas. She was 73. No cause of death was ...
FROM being bathed in a tin bath in front of a fire in the Co Tyrone village of Pomeroy to performing with country stars Billie Jo Spears and Tammy Wynette, Philomena Begley has travelled far.