Patsy Cline September 8, 1932 - March 5, 1963) was an American country music singer and part of the Nashville voice during the late 1950s and early 1960s. He successfully "crossed" into pop music and was one of the most influential, successful, and recognized vocalists of the 20th century. He died at the age of 30 in a private plane crash.
Klein is known for his rich voice, an emotionally expressive and bold voice, and his role as a country music pioneer. She helped pave the way for women as the main artist in this genre, along with Kitty Wells. He overcame poverty, devastating car accidents, and significant professional barriers, and he has been cited as an inspiration by Reba McEntire, LeAnn Rimes, and other singers in various styles. Books, films, documentaries, and stage plays document his life and career.
Her hits began in 1957 with Donn Hecht and Alan Block's "Walkin 'After Midnight," Hank Cochran and Harlan Howard "I Fall to Pieces," Hank Cochran "She's Got You," and Willie Nelson's "Mad," and ends at in 1963 with Don Gibson's "Sweet Dreams." Millions of records have been sold since his death. She won awards and awards, causing many to see her as an icon at Jim Reeves, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley levels. She became the first female solo artist to be inducted into Country Music Hall of Fame in 1973, ten years after her death. In 1999, he was voted number 11 on the VH1 special The 100 Greatest Women in Rock and Roll. In 2002, she was voted Number One in the Country of Television Music The 40 Largest Women of Country Music , and she was ranked 46th in "100 Greatest Singers of All Time" Rolling Stone magazine. The 1973 Country of Fame Music Hall reads: "The legacy of the eternal recording is the testimony of his artistic abilities."
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Initial years
Patsy Cline was born Virginia Patterson Hensley on September 8, 1932 in Winchester, Virginia, in Memorial Hospital of the city. He was the eldest son of Hilda Virginia (nÃÆ' Â © e Patterson, 1916-1998) and blacksmith Samuel Lawrence Hensley (1889-1956). He has Samuel Jr's brother. (1939-2004) and Sylvia's sister. The family moved often before finally settling in Winchester, Virginia when Patsy was 16 years old. Sam Hensley left his family in 1947, but the children's home was reportedly happy.
When Patsy was 13, he was hospitalized with throat infections and rheumatic fever. He then said, "The fever strikes my throat and when I recover, I have a thunderous voice like Kate Smith."
Cline enrolled at John Handley High School but never attended the class. To help her mother support their family, she worked as a soda bastard at the Gaunt Medicine Shop and a waitress at the Triangle Diner. He watches the player through a window on a local radio station, and he asks WINC (AM) disc jockey Jimmy McCoy if he can sing on his show. His appearance in 1947 was well received and he was asked to return. This led to appearances at local nightclubs wearing framed Western outfits that his mother made from Patsy's designs.
Klein appeared on variety shows and talents in the Winchester and Tri-State areas, and he gained many followers through local radio performances and performances. Jimmy Dean had become a country star in 1954, and he became common with him on Radio Connie B. Gay's Town and Country Jamboree event in WAVA (AM) in Arlington County, Virginia.
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Personal life
Virginia Hensley married contractor Gerald Edward Cline (1925-1994) on March 7, 1953. The marriage ended in a divorce on July 4, 1957, and there were no children from the union. The failure of their marriage was blamed on the conflict between Patsy's desire to sing professionally and Gerald's desire to keep him at home. He retained his last name professionally for the rest of his life.
Cline married Linotype operator Charles Allen "Charlie" Dick (May 24, 1934 - November 8, 2015) on September 15, 1957. He considered it a "love in his life". They have two children: Julia Simadore (born 1958) and Allen Randolph (born 1961). Charlie is buried next to Patsy in Shenandoah Memorial Park in his hometown of Winchester, Virginia.
Record career
Four Star Records
Bill Peer, his second manager, named him Patsy, from his middle name, Patterson. (Bill Peer, who has a country music band in Brunswick, MD, also has a baby girl named Patsy). In 1955 he got a contract for him on Four Star Records, a label he later affiliated with. Four Star is contracted by a Coral subsidiary of Decca Records. Patsy signed a contract with Decca on his first occasion three years later.
His first contract allowed him to record the compositions only by the Four Star author, which Kleine finds limiting. Later, he expressed regret over the signing with the label, but thought that no one else would have it, he took the deal. His first footage for the Four Star was "A Church, A Courtroom & Then Good-Bye," which attracted little attention, though it led to an appearance in the Grand Ole Opry. Since the show is not a "note", they are not governed by his contract, and he can sing what he wants, on the grounds. This somewhat eases his "restrained" feelings.
Between 1955 and 1957, Klein recorded a good tonk tonk, with songs like "Fingerprints," "Choose Me On Your Way," "Never Leave Me Again," and "Strangers In My Arms." Cline co-authored the last two. None of these songs are getting tremendous success. He experimented with rockabilly.
According to Decca Records producer Owen Bradley, the composition of the Four Stars only signaled Patsy's potential. Bradley thought that his voice is best suited for pop music, but Klein siding Four Star Peer and other producers, insisting that he could only record a country song, such as contract also states. Whenever Bradley tried to get him to sing torch songs that would become his signature, he would panic, missed fiddle and steel guitar are not foreign country. He often rebels, just wants to sing country and sing. He recorded 51 songs with Four Star.
Arthur Godfrey and "Walkin 'After Midnight"
On July 1, 1955 Kleine made his television network debut on a short television version of the Grand Ole Opry on ABC-TV. This was followed by an appearance on the Ozark Jubilee network late that month, before returning to the show in April.
In 1956, in an Armory dance where he was a vocalist, Cline met the native Winchester Charlie Dick, a linotype operator and a handsome female man who often visited the local club circuit Cline playing on the weekend, in Berryville, VA, eight miles from Winchester. Her raw charm and perseverance resulted in an affair - even though Patsy was still married to her first husband and was involved in the relationship again with manager Bill Peer.
Later that year, while searching for material for his first album, Patsy Cline: "Walkin 'After Midnight," appeared, written by Donn Hecht and Alan Block. Klein initially did not like the song because, according to him, "just an old pop song." However, songwriters and record labels insist that he record it.
Late in 1956, she auditioned for Arthur Godfrey's Talent Recognition in New York City, and was accepted to sing on CBS-TV show on January 21, 1957. Godfrey's "findings" about Klein are typical. His scout (actually his mother) presented Patsy, who should have originally sang "A Poor Man's Roses (Or Golden Gold)." However, the show's producers insisted he sing "Walkin 'After Midnight" instead, since it will be released shortly thereafter by Decca Records. Although the song was heralded as a country song, and recorded in Nashville, the Godfrey staff insisted that Klein appeared in a cocktail dress rather than in one of her mother's handmade cowgirl clothing.
The enthusiastic contemplation of the audience pushed the applause meter to the top, winning the competition for him. After Godfrey's show, listeners started calling their local radio station to request a song, so he released it as a single. Although Klein has performed for almost a decade and appeared on national TV three times, Godfrey needed to make him a star. Over the next few weeks, Klein appeared regularly on the Godfrey radio program. Disagreements over creative control caused Godfrey to fire her.
"Walkin 'After Midnight" reached No. 2 in the country graph and No. 12 on the pop chart, making Cline one of the first country singers to have hit pop crossovers. This single pushes its success for next year or so. She remains visible by making personal appearances and performing regularly on Godfrey shows, as well as performing for several years at the Ozark Jubilee (later Jubilee USA ). He has no other hits with Four Star.
In 1957, Klein recorded "A Stranger in My Arms" and "Do not Ever Leave Me Again," written by friends Lillian Clarborne and James Crawford, the only known release in which Cline donated music (she can playing the piano with ears) under the name of his birth Virginia Hensley. However, Four-Star Records listed Cline as a contributor to Barbara Vaughn's 1956 song "Wicked Love", leading to speculation that she might have cut the demo of the song. If so, it never shows up. [10, page 81, Honky Tonk Angel: The Intimate Story of Patsy Cline [1993].
After the birth of their daughter, Julie, in 1958, Klein and her husband moved to Nashville, Tennessee.
comeback 1961 - "I Fall to Pieces"
In 1959 Cline met Randy Hughes, a session guitarist and promotional guy. Hughes became his manager and helped him change the label. When his Four Star contract expired in 1960, he signed with Decca Records-Nashville, directly under Owen Bradley, a legendary producer of female singers. He was responsible for much of Cline's success and positively influenced the careers of Brenda Lee and Loretta Lynn.
Although he is still afraid of the lush Nashville sound arrangements, Bradley considers Cline's sound best suited for country pop-crossover songs. His directives and arrangements helped flatten his voice into a subtle torch-song style, which earned him fame.
Cline's first release for Decca is the pop country song "I Fall to Pieces" (1961), written by Hank Cochran and Harlan Howard. The song was promoted and won success in both countries and pop stations. On the country chart, slowly rise to the top, collecting the first rank of Number One. In a major accomplishment for the country singer at the time, the song also hit No. 12 on Pop and No. 6 on adult contemporary graphs, making it a household name and showing that women can achieve crossover success as much as men.
Grand Ole Opry and Nashville scene
On January 9, 1960, Klein embodied the dream of a lifetime when the Grand Ole Opry accepted his request to join the cast, making him the only person who reached the membership that way. Specifically, he wore trousers rather than a dress when he was accepted into the Grand Ole Opry, which was somewhat surprising at the time. He became one of Opry's biggest stars.
Even before that time, believing that there was "enough room for everyone" and was convinced of his ability and appeal, Klein made friends and encouraged women to start in country music at the time, including Loretta Lynn, Dottie West, Jan Howard, 16 year-old Brenda Lee and a 13-year-old steel guitar player named Barbara Mandrell (with whom Klein has toured). All call him a big influence.
According to Lynn and West, Cline always gives herself to friends, buys them groceries and furniture and even hires them as wardrobe assistants. Sometimes, he pays their rent so they can stay in Nashville and continue to pursue their dreams. The honky-tonk pianist and Opry's Del Wood star said, "Even when she does not have it, she'll spend it - and not always on herself, she'll give anyone the skirt from behind if they need it."
The Cline
He cultivates a rough and coarse exterior as "one of the boys," making friends with male artists as well. Among them were Roger Miller, Hank Cochran, Faron Young, Ferlin Husky, Harlan Howard, and Carl Perkins, all of whom were socialized in the famous Toidsie Orchid Lounge, adjacent to Opry. In the 1986 film documentary The Real Patsy Cline, singer George Riddle said of him, "It is not unusual for him to sit down and drink beer and tell jokes, and he will not be offended at the jokes of good people, big time he told jokes more dirty than you! Patsy is full of life. "
Klein uses the term "Hoss" to his friends, both male and female, and calls himself "The Cline." He met Elvis Presley in 1962 at a fundraising event for St. John's Children's Research Hospital. Jude and they exchanged phone numbers. After seeing him perform during a rare Grand Ole Opry appearance, he marveled at his music, called him The Big Hoss, and was often recorded with his support group, The Jordanaires.
At this time, Klein is in control of his own career, making it clear to everyone involved that he can defend anyone, both verbally and professionally, and ready to challenge them if they disturb him. At the concert promoters often cheat the stars by promising to pay them after the show but skip the money before the concert ends, Cline asks for her money before she goes on stage: "No dough, no show" becomes the rule. According to Roy Drusky's friend at The Real Patsy Cline : "Before one concert, we have not paid yet and we are talking about who will tell the audience that we can not do without salary Patsy said, know them! ' And he did it! "Dottie West remembered in amazement 25 years later that" It is common knowledge around the city that you are not screwing 'The Cline!' "
Car crash
On June 14, 1961, he and his brother, Sam, were involved in a collision at Old Hickory Boulevard in Nashville. The impact threw Klein into the windshield, almost killing him. Upon arriving at the scene, Dottie West takes a glass from Cline's hair, and goes with him in the ambulance.
When help arrived, Cline insisted that other car drivers should be treated first. He then said he saw the female driver from another car dead before his eyes. The West witnessed this too, and the impression it left behind may have contributed to the unfavorable decisions he made about three decades later. In 1991, when West was badly wounded in a car accident, he insisted that his driver was taken care of first. West died of his injuries, probably because he refused to be treated immediately. Cline spent a month in the hospital, suffering from a jagged wound on her forehead that required stitches, broken wrists, and dislocated hips. His friend Billy Walker, who died in a vehicle accident in 2006, said Kleine handed back his life to Christ when in hospital, where he received thousands of cards and flowers from fans. When she was released, her forehead looked hurt. (For the rest of his career, he wore a wig and makeup to hide the scars, along with a headband to reduce the pressure that caused the headache.) Six weeks later, he returned to the road with crutches with a new award for life.
A series of recordings titled Patsy Cline: Live in the Cimarron Ballroom, from his first concert after the accident, was released in 1997 and featured Cline interacting with the audience, reviewing his live performances. Recorded in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for sound proofing, these archives were found in the attic by the then owner one of Cline's dwellings and given to the family.
"Crazy"
Unable to capitalize on the success of "I Fall to Pieces" for staying in the hospital, Cline looks for another recording to rebuild himself. When introduced to "Crazy", a song written by Willie Nelson, Klein expressed displeasure over Nelson's demo record narrative. On Thursday, August 17, 1961, with Klein with crutches, the session was a rare time that Klein could not finish recording in one shot.
Working in a Quonset hut (where the original Bradley's Barn Studio was located before moving to Opryland), he tried to follow Nelson's narrative style. Klein claims this is too difficult. His rib, injured in the accident, made it difficult to achieve a high note. In an era when the standard to record four songs within three hours, those in the "Mad" session spent four hours for one song. Eventually it was decided that Klein would return on the following Monday and simply sing the lyrics, overdubbing his vocals on the best instrumental track. After resting he can achieve high notes, and record his share in one shot.
The popular appeal of the latest version is attributed to Bradley's management of Klein's fears, as he convinces him to inspire recording with his unique persona. The song became an intimate representation of Cline and was seen not at all like the Nelson version. Now the classic, "Crazy" ends up becoming Cline's distinctive song.
At the end of 1961, "Mad" was a cross success, straddling the country and pop genre, and reaching the Top 10 on the charts. It became Cline's biggest pop hit. The song then reached No. 9 in the US Hot 100 and No. 2 in both Hot Country Song and Adult Adult list. An album released in November 1961, titled Patsy Cline Showcase , featured both Cline hits that year. Loretta Lynn later reported on her album, Remember Patsy, that on Cline's night aired "Crazy" on the Grand Ole Opry, she received three rounds of applause.
Sentimental
In the fall of 1961, Klein returned to the studio to record an album to be released in early 1962. One of the first songs was "She Got You", written by Hank Cochran. Cochran put a song on the phone for Klein and he immediately fell in love with her. It was one of the few songs that he enjoyed recording. Released as a single in January 1962, he quickly crossed, reaching No. 1. 14 on the pop charts, No. 3 on the adult contemporary graph (originally called "Easy Listening"), and as the second and last chart-topper. , No. 1 on the country chart. She will never again enter the pop charts during her lifetime.
"She's Got You" is also Cline's first entry on the UK singles chart, reaching No. 1. 43. The cover by Alma Cogan, one of the most popular female artists in Britain in the 1950s, is also very prominent. (The record record of the biggest hit British Hit Parade before his death was his version of the standard Heartaches, reaching the Top 30 at the end of 1962.)
Following the success of "She's Got You", Cline released a series of smaller hit states, including Top 10 "When I Get Thru 'With You", "Imagine That", "So Wrong", and "Heartaches". It's not a big crossover hit, but it still reaches the Top 20 and Top 10.
In 1962, Klein appeared on Dick Clark's American Bandstand and released his third album, Sentimentally Yours in August. When asked in a WSM-AM interview about his vocal style, he said, "Oh, I just sing like I'm hurt".
Life on the road begins in Klein. She wants to spend more time with her children, Julie and Randy, and starts talking about hiatus. But his manager insisted that they should attack while the iron was hot.
At the top
Klein was the first female country music star to be the headline of her own show and received a bill over the male star with whom she toured.
While the band usually supports female singers, Cline leads the band throughout the concert instead. He is highly respected by those in the industry rather than introducing him to the audience as "Pretty Miss Patsy Cline", as is often the case with women, he is given a more grand introduction - as Johnny Cash gave them in 1962. tour: "Ladies and Gentlemen, The Only and Only - Patsy Cline". As an artist, he made his fans highly respected, many of them became friends, staying hours after the concert to chat and sign autographs.
Cline was the first woman in the country to perform at Carnegie Hall New York, sharing bills with fellow members of Opry Minnie Pearl, Jim Reeves, Faron Young, Bill Monroe, and Grandpa Jones. The show resulted in a sharp rejection of Dorothy Kilgallen's gossip columnist, to whom Cline had eloquently reciprocated. In Los Angeles, he became a Hollywood Bowl headline with Cash. And in December 1962, she became the first woman in country music to headline her own show in Las Vegas, in downtown Mint Casino.
This success enabled Kleine to buy his dream home on the outskirts of Goodlettsville, Nashville, decorating it in his own style. It featured gold dust sprinkled on the bathroom tile and music room with the best sound equipment. In The Real Patsy Cline, Lynn remembers: "He called me into the front yard and said, 'Is not this beautiful? Now I will never be happy until I have a Mama like that ' "Cline called it" the house that Vegas built ", because the money from Mint covered the cost. After his death, Klein's house was sold to singer Wilma Burgess.
With Cline's new request, comes a higher income. Reportedly, he was paid at least $ 1,000 per appearance towards the end of his life. This is an unheard amount for country music ladies, whose average cost is less than $ 200 per show. His second concert from behind, held in Birmingham, Alabama, earned $ 3,000.
To match his sophisticated new voice, Cline also reinvented her personal style, unleashing her typical Western cowgirl outfit for a more elegant dress, cocktail dress, spiked heels, and gold trousers. In the days before the skintight leather pants of Tanya Tucker, Dottie West (formerly a close friend of Patsy) striking spandex clothing, and the famous red dress Reba McEntire shocked the country music scene, Patsy's new image was considered more risky and sexier than anyone ever visible. Personnel and fans of the country music industry are more accustomed to seeing gingham and calico dresses. Like his voice, Klein's style is in mock mode at first, then copied. She also loves dangly earrings, ruby-red lipstick and her favorite perfume is Wind Song .
During his five-year career, Cline received a dozen awards for his achievements, and three more after his death from my Music Reporter , Billboard Awards and Cashbox .
Klein writes about his success in a letter to Anne Armstrong's friend: "It's incredible --- but what should I do to '63? The more Cline can not follow Klein!"
During the same period, Dottie West, June Carter Cash, and Loretta Lynn remember Cline telling them that she felt the impending destruction and did not expect to live longer. Klein, known for his excessive generosity, began distributing personal items to friends; he wrote his will in the Delta Air Lines and asked a close friend to care for his children if anything happened to him. He told The Jordanaires bassist Ray Walker as he stepped out of the Grand Ole Opry the week before his death: "Honey, I have two bad (accidents).The third will be a charm or it will kill me."
Last Session
In early February, Klein returned to Quonset's hut to record his fourth album and what would be his last album, which was originally titled Faded Love . Mixing classic country and classic pop standards such as Irving Berlin's "Always" and "Does Your Heart Beat for Me", this session is the most contemporary of his career. They feature a full string section with no conventional country music instruments. Prior to his death, as Owen Bradley told Patsy's author Margaret Jones, she and Cline have talked about performing album and standard albums, including "Can not Help Lovin 'Dat Man", because Klein is a fan of Helen Morgan, who had recorded the song in 1927.
Klein is deeply involved with the stories in the lyrics of the song, he reportedly cried throughout most of his last session. Raw emotions can be heard clearly on tracks like "Sweet Dream" and at the end of "Faded Love". At the screening, held after the February 7 session, according to singer Jan Howard in the documentary Remembering Patsy Cline picked up a copy of her first recording and gestured toward the recording booth referring to her latest song. and said, "Well, here it is... first and last".
Loretta Lynn, also present at the screening party after getting herself and her husband, Mooney, got out of bed at the request of the singer, admonished him. "Oh, Patsy!" she cried. Surprised, the singer said, "Oh, do not be angry, I'm just talking about my first recording compared to what we did tonight." Listen to the difference. Klein died a month later.
Death
On March 3, 1963, Klein benefited in the Army and Sailors Memorial Room, Kansas City, Kansas, for the disc jockey "Cactus" Jack Call family. He had died in a car accident a little over a month earlier. The call was an old DJ for KCKN, but had switched to KCMK a week before his death on January 25, 1963, at the age of 39. Also featured on the show were George Jones, George Riddle and The Jones Boys, Billy Walker, Dottie West, Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper, George McCormick, Clinch Mountain Boys, and Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins.
Klein, ill with flu, gave three shows, at 2 pm. and 5:15 pm, by 8 pm. shows added due to popular demand. All performances are just standing room. For 2 noon shows, she's wearing a blue-eyed tulle dress; to 5:15 show red disgust; and for the closing ceremony at 8 pm, Cline wore a white chiffon, closing the evening with a standing ovation. His last song was the last song he had recorded the previous month, "I'll Sail My Vessel."
Cline, who spent the night at Town House Motor Hotel, could not fly out the day after the concert because Fairfax Airport went inside. West asked Patsy to get into the car with her husband, Bill, back to Nashville, 16 hours away, but Klein refused, and said, "Do not worry about me, Hoss.When it's time I go, here's my time." On March 5, she called her mother from the motel and checked out at 12:30, went to the airport and boarded the Pancake PA-24 Comanche flight registration number N-7000P. The plane stopped once in Missouri to refuel and then landed at Dyersburg Municipal Airport in Dyersburg, Tennessee at 5 pm.
Hughes is a pilot, but not trained in flying instruments. Hawkins had accepted Billy Walker's place after Walker left on a commercial flight to take care of the affected family members. The Dyersburg, Tennessee, field manager advised them to stay overnight due to strong winds and bad weather, offering them free rooms and food. But Hughes replied, "I've come this far, we'll be there before you know it." The plane took off at 6:07 pm. Hughes's flying instructor, Elmo Merriwether, has also trained Jim Reeves, whose plane crashed the following year. Both the pilots were rated instruments, and both attempted to navigate with visual flight rules (VFR), which proved impossible in the driving rains faced by both flights.
Cline Flight fell in bad weather on the night of March 5, 1963. His restored watch had stopped at 6:20 pm. The plane was found about 90 miles (140 km) from the Nashville destination, in the woods outside Camden, Tennessee. The forensic examination concluded that everyone on board was killed instantly. Until the ruins found the following dawn and reported on the radio, friends and family did not give up hope. Endless calls tie up local phone exchanges in such a way that other emergency calls are having trouble getting through. The lights at Cornelia Fort Airpark's destination remained lit all night, as reports of the missing plane were broadcast on radio and TV.
Early in the morning, Roger Miller and a friend went looking for victims: "As fast as I can, I run through the woods screaming their names - through brush and trees - and I show up on this little hike, oh" , there they are. It was horrible. The plane crashed into its nose. "Shortly after the corpses were removed, the looters lurked the area, some of which were eventually donated to The Country Music Hall of Fame, among them Cline watches, Confederate cigarette lighter flags, studded belts and three pairs of sandals lamÃÆ' Â © gold.Chine fees and clothing from the last appearance was never found.
As he wished, Klein's body was brought home for his funeral, which was attended by thousands of people. She is buried in Shenandoah Memorial Park in her hometown of Winchester, Virginia. His grave is marked with a bronze plaque, which reads: "Virginia H. Dick (Patsy Cline) is recorded by its name: 'Death Can not Kill What Never Dies: Love'." With the help of Loretta Lynn and Dottie West, the bell tower was erected in the cemetery in her memory, which played hymns every day at 6:00, the hour of her death. Another warning marked the exact spot of Fire Tower Road in Fatty Bottom, Tennessee, where it crashed in a remote forest.
Family
Cline's mother Hilda Hensley died in 1998 due to natural causes at the age of 82; Samuel Hensley died of liver cirrhosis in the mid-1950s. Mrs. Hensley is a tailor in Winchester, Virginia, helps raise his grandson, and seldom gives interviews. Princess Klein, Julie Dick Fudge, said in 1985: "Grannie loves my mother so much that it's still difficult for her to talk about the accident." In his final years, Hensley said, "I never knew so many people loved my daughter."
Because Hilda is only 16 years older than Patsy, the two are very close. Klein's brother died in 2004. His brother still lives in Virginia. Until his death on November 8, 2015, Cline's widower, Charlie Dick, lives in Nashville, produces a documentary about Klein and attends a fan function. In 1965, he married singer Jamey Ryan, who signed a short contract with Columbia Records before giving birth to a son. They divorced in the early 1970s. In the movie Sweet Dreams, Ryan provides vocals for one song, "Blue Christmas," Cline's song was never recorded.
Princess Julie has four children. One, Virginia, named after Cline, was killed in a car crash in 1994. Six grandchildren survive. Julie represents Cline's real in public function.
Legacy
Impact and influence
In 2003 Remembering Patsy, producer guitarist Harold Bradley said of Klein, "He's taken the standard to become a country music vocalist, and raises the standards... Even now, the women are trying to reach that bar.... If you're going to be a country singer, and if you're not going to copy it - and most people come to town to do that - then you should be aware of the technique well to know what's in the past, because someone might think they're hot enough until they hear it.... It gives all the female singers come to measure their talent against and I hope it will be forever. "
When Klein made his first commercial recording in 1955, Kitty Wells was the best female vocalist in her field. By the time Cline breaks through as a consistent hit maker, Wells, known as The Queen of Country Music, is still the country's biggest female star. Klein took it off in 1961-1962, but won the Billboard Magazine Award for Favorite Women & amp; Western Artist for two consecutive years as well as the Star of The Year Reports Music Reporter Award for 1962.
Posthumous
1963-1985
Three Cline songs became posthumously hit Top 10 Country: "Sweet Dreams," "Leavin 'on Your Mind" and "Faded Love." Instead of the last session programmed into their own album and released intact, a double album titled The Patsy Cline Story was released in June 1963 by Decca (now Universal Music Group). The album featured many of its biggest hits, some previously unreleased singles on the album, and about half of the material recorded during the February 4-7 session of 1963. In 1988, the material was released almost entirely as The Last Sessions . Instead of being programmed into an album because all previous releases have been released, this release only presents songs in the sequence of the original chronological sessions. Two songs from the period - the first song recorded on February 4th ("Faded Love"), and the last song recorded on February 7 ("I'll Sail My Ship Alone") - does not appear in this compilation.
In the mid-1960s, MCA had acquired Decca and continued to release Klein albums into the early 1970s, collecting several posthumous hits along the way. Some of the more prominent beginnings in early 1964 with the hit 25 countries Top "He Called Me Baby," a song recorded during the "last session" in 1963. The song was released on his 1964 album That's How Heart Disease Begins. Her Great Her Hits album, released in 1967, continues to appear on the country music charts and is the longest album to remain on the country charts in country music history until Garth Brooks outranked her in the 1990s.
In 1973, Klein was the first female solo artist to be sworn in to Country Music Hall of Fame. Johnny Cash announced his honor for the CMA Awards event, broadcast live from the Ryman Auditorium.
In the late 1970s, the name Klein occasionally appeared in magazine articles and television interviews with West and Lynn, who inspired them to succeed. Although Lynn said in her autobiography of 1976 that she would never record Patsy's hits album "because it would be very painful," she did so a year later. The tribute album, I Remember Patsy , was released in 1977 and contains singles "She's Got You," a hit with Cline in 1962, and other Cline favorite renditions like "Crazy," "Back at Baby's Arms" and "Sweet Dreams."
Lynn's 1976 autobiography, Coal Miner Princess , features a full chapter dedicated to her friendship with Klein. Viewers were reintroduced to Patsy when a biopic film of the same name was released four years later. After the Coal Miner's Daughter opened, MCA re-released "Always." The soundtrack was released using original 1963 vocals and overdubs by many Nashville sound musicians who have become part of the original scene. The song reached No. 18 in the Hot Country Songs list in 1980. In 1981, two electronically produced duets were released between Cline and Jim Reeves, who died years after he was in another plane crash. Their duet "Have You Ever Been Lonely (Have You Ever Been Blue)" was the No. 5 hit, 5 country that year and their duet "I Fall to Pieces" became an interesting footnote in music history. Like Klein, Reeves gained a huge fan base after his death, as well as a series of re-issued singles. In 1985, the movie Sweet Dreams appeared, starring Jessica Lange as Patsy.
1990-2000
In 1992, the US Postal Service made a special postage stamp in honor of Patsy Cline, along with other country superstars such as Hank Williams, Family Carter, and Bob Wills.
The Patsy Cline exhibition was featured in 1993 when Grand Ole Opry opened its doors in Nashville for its inaugural season. Several awards, stage outfits, wigs, make-up, hair brushes, and replicas of the dream house room complete his dream has been on display. The year marks the 30th anniversary of his death, so Opry made the Saturday night segment as a tribute to Klein, Hawkins and Copas. With the widower Cline and their daughter present, his old friend Jan Howard paid homage to Klein by singing "I Fall to Pieces" (written with Howard's ex-husband Harlan Howard); Lynn follows her with a classic, "She's Got You." Later that year, Lynn, Dolly Parton, and Tammy Wynette incorporated Kleine's cover of "Lovesick Blues" on their Honky Tonk Angels trio album, singing along with Cline's original vocals that picked up the original multi-track cassette. A year later, Klein became a member of the Texas Cowgirl Hall of Fame.
In 1997, Cline's recording of "Crazy" was crowned the number one hit of the jukebox of all time. "I Fall to Pieces" entry at No. 17. In 1998, he was nominated to The Hollywood Walk of Fame by a special fan, and received his post posthumously in 1999; then, a street is named behind it at Universal Studios.
Also in 1999, VH1 was named Cline number 11 on 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll . He was also honored with Nashville's Golden Sound Award in the Legend Category in the same year.
2000-present
In 2002, CMT was named first Klein in 40 Greatest Women of Country Music, selected by members of the music industry. "I Fall to Pieces" is listed under No. 107 on the RIAA of the Century list in 2001. Lynn released her autobiography sequel, Coal Miner Princess , titled Still Woman Enough and again dedicated a chapter to her friendship with Klein (called "Still Thinking of Patsy").
Beginning in 2005, Patsy Cline's Greatest Hits was certified by the RIAA as Diamond, recognizing the sale of 10 million copies. The album is listed as the Longest Song Title by Female Artist in the 2005 edition of Guinness Book of World Records. For his 40th anniversary birthday in 2007, Bob Ludwig remastered the album and featured the original cover cover 1967.
Then in 2007, Cline's childhood home in Winchester, Virginia, was awarded a marker in a well-known spot in bronze for a place at The National Register of Historic Places. The house was housed in the Virginia Landmark Register and featured the State of Virginia Historical Marker on the road ahead. Every year, on Labor Day weekend, thousands of fans celebrate Cline's birthday at Shenandoah Memorial Gardens. Dini, Klein's daughter, and all her grandchildren and grandchildren, as well as other family members, attended the 20th annual meeting on September 8, 2007. After the renovation of millions of dollars in her former school, built in 1923, the authorities dedicate The Patsy Cline Theater there in 2009. Winchester also built a memorial bell tower in Shenandoah Memorial Park and named the two streets thereafter, Patsy Cline Memorial Highway and Patsy Cline Boulevard.
A museum dedicated to Kleine opened to the public on April 7, 2017. The Patsy Cline Museum is located at 119 3rd Avenue South in Nashville, Tennessee, on the second floor of The Johnny Cash Museum. The Patsy Cline Museum houses the largest collection of Cline artefacts and memorabilia under one roof. The exhibits include original clothing and stage costumes, awards, and household and personal items from Cline's Nashville-area "dream house."
Depictions
Movies and documentaries
In Coal Miner Princess , Beverly D'Angelo describes Patsy with Sissy Spacek as Loretta Lynn. The film gained a wide audience. Instead of lip-synching to the original recording, as was common during the period, the two actresses sang. Contrary to the movie script, Klein and Lynn never toured together. Klein also never had a bus, although he had planned to buy one before his death, and the stars during his time usually traveled with caravans and limousines.
In 1985, HBO/Tri Star Pictures released Sweet Dreams: The Life and Times of Patsy Cline, starring Jessica Lange in the lead role with Ed Harris and Ann Wedgeworth as her husband Charlie Dick and her mother Hilda Hensley, each. The film is based on research by Bernard Schwartz. Lange shrouded with Cline's original recording.
The film depicts Kleine's marriage with Dick as rough, describing Klein as a victim of domestic violence; however, as Dottie West said in the 1986 interview, "It's always very interesting to watch - because you always know Patsy will win! She is her husband She is her lover." Mrs. Klein was quoted in 1985 about "People" saying, "The producers told me that they will make a love story.I once watched the movie.That's enough.Jessica (Lange) did well, with what she had to do. "Charlie Dick states in the same article," It's a good movie - if you like fiction. " The rest of the Cline family and close friends claim that many sequences in the film have become an inaccurate fiction for Hollywood and are not happy with the final product.
Some inaccuracies in Sweet Dream revolve around the plane crash. The aircraft used was the Cessna 172 Skyhawk, not the Piper Comanche, and the cause of the accident was described as having trouble reviving the engine after replacing the fuel tank. The film also depicts the plane crashing into a mountain cliff and burning, although there are no mounts at the actual crash site and the plane did not explode. In Billboard's review of Ellis Nassour 1981 Patsy Cline: An Intimate Biography, the reviewer gave high praise to Nassour for his research in recreating the events that led to the accident and the accident itself. In the revised 2008 edition [Chicago Review Press, 2008] from Nassour's second biography, Honky Tonk Angel: The Intimate Story of Patsy Cline [1993, St. Martin Press], Nassour includes further documentation obtained from the official CAB (Civil Aeronautics Board) report on the accident, which is housed at the National Archives office in Atlanta, Georgia.
Sweet Dream is a simple hit and Lange was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance, which she mentioned as a favorite. The soundtrack, featuring several numbers replicated with a new orchestra, was successful, and Cline's recording started up the charts again, as happened after the publishing of the Coal Miner's Princess. Since overdubbing records have done very well, Bradley and arranger Bill McElhiney put their original vocals into a digitally recorded background for fresh new sounds. This new recording returns Cline's voice to attention once more, resulting in multiple hits with the Walkin 'After Midnight Blues Lovesick and Foolin' Round from the soundtrack.
Furthermore, more accurate documentary videos have been produced, including Sweet Dreams Still: Live Collections, The Real Patsy Cline and Remembering Patsy. have been re-edited and used in the Biography event on Cable Channels A & amp; E in the mid-1990s.
Ten years after the Sweet Dreams, Patsy was pictured again at Big Dreams and Broken Hearts: The Dottie West Story, a 1995 CBS film made for TV featuring Tere Myers as Patsy and Michelle Lee as Dottie. In 2007, a biography film entitled Crazy, about the life of Hank Garland, the lead guitarist on many Patsy recordings, featuring Mandy Barnett from Always... Patsy Cline fame as Patsy.
Playback and musicals
A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline and Always... Patsy Cline is the only game approved by Patsy Cline Estate and licensed by Legacy, Inc., a family company.
A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline, created by Dean Regan in 1991, is a music award featuring life and music. It has been produced throughout the United States and Canada, with some production by Springer Opera House and Troupe America, Inc. It goes by the name of Patsy! at the Grand Palace in Branson, Missouri, for the year, starring Gail Bliss. Other players in the role are Katie Deal, Julie Johnson, Devra Straker, Sara-Jeanne Hosie, Bridget Beirne and Alison MacDonald.
Always... Patsy Cline , produced by Ted Swindley, aired in 1988. The story is taken and expanded from the biography section of Cline Honky Tonk Angel by Ellis Nassour. Always chronicles his meeting in 1961 with Louise Seger, a fan and Mississippi native who arrived early at the Esquire Ballroom in Houston for Klein performance. Meet before the show, both form lasting friendships. In the musical, Cline says Seger fears about his presence that night, and Seger tells him that he will have no problem filling the hall. He then persuades Klein to spend the night at his home rather than at the hotel. They stayed up all night talking, and doing radio broadcasts in the morning.
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