Heavenly sound from the Grand Ole Opry III - Patsy Cline

Black day came on March 5, 1963. She returned from benefit show, which was at the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall, Kansas City, Kansas. Her last song in this show was I'll Sail My Ship Alone. It's irony of destiny, that Dottie West invited her to returned back with her and her husband Bill by car. But Patsy wanted to be asap with her children and that why she used airplane. It was in forest near town Camden in Tennessee, the airplane crashed at 6:20 p.m., only 90 miles from the Nashville.

Patsy Cline died in her 30 old. There were also Hawkshaw Hawkins and Cowboy Copas. There were no survivors. Loretta Lynn, her very good friend came to know this horrible message in the morning from radio. It was great loss for all Country World.

Patsy Cline was buried in her hometown of Winchester, Virginia, at Shenandoah Memorial Park. In the forest near Camden there was erected the bell tower to the memories of Patsy with help of Loretta Lynn and Dottie West. The bell plays hymns daily at 6:00 pm, the hour when her death. Many item, which were found in the place of airplane crash, were donated to The Country Music Hall of Fame.

After death the sale of the records didn't stop. Singles of Sweet Dreams of You, Leavin' On Your Mind and Faded Love came the greatest hits of 1963, the songs When You Need a Laugh and He Called Me Baby in 1964 and song Anytime in year 1969.

Patsy had inspired many country singers, such as Loretta Lynn, Reby McEntir, Sylvie. Loretta Lynn did homage to Patsy by her album I Remember Patsy in 1977.

In 1973 Patsy was elected to The Country Music Hall of Fame. In 1985 there was produced the movie about her life, named Sweet Dreams: The Life and Times of Patsy Cline by HBO/Tri Star Pictures.

Discography:
During her live were released these albums:
1957 Patsy Cline
1961 Patsy Cline Showcase
1962 Sentimentally Yours

Charted singles:

• 1957 Walkin' After Midnight
  
• 1957 A Poor Man's Roses (Or a Rich Man's Gold)
  
• 1959 Cry Not for Me
  
• 1959 I Fall to Pieces
  
• 1961 Crazy
  
• 1962 Who Can I Count on
  
• 1962 She's Got You
  
• 1962 Strange
  
• 1962 When I Get Thru' With You
  
• 1962 Imagine That
  
• 1962 So Wrong
  
• 1962 You're Stronger Than Me
  
• 1962 Heartaches
  
• 1962 Why Can't He Be You
  
• 1963 Leavin' On Your Mind
  
• 1963 Sweet Dreams (Of You)
  
• 1963 Faded Love
  
• 1963 When You Need a Laugh
  
• 1964 He Called Me Baby
  
• 1968 Anytime
  
• 1980 Always
  
• 1980 I Fall to Pieces
  
• 1981 Have You Ever Been Lonely" (w/ Jim Reeves) 5
  
• 1982 I Fall to Pieces" (w/ Jim Reeves) 54
  
• 1999 There He Goes
  

A Tribute


Remembering Patsy Cline


How Can I Face Tomorrow


I've Loved and Lost Again


A Bottle Of Wine and Patsy Cline


Pick Me Up On Your Way Down

Heavenly sound from the Grand Ole Opry II - Patsy Cline

In Decca Records Patsy started to cooperate with famous director Owen Bradley, who was responsible for success also other country singers - Loretta Lynn and Brenda Lee.

The most successful record in Decca was ballad I Fall To Pieces. The song had in the top of two charts - country and pop. It could tell you, it was also the most famous song of Patsy Cline. It was written by Hank Cochran and Harlan Howard. The other famous songs were Crazy, Who Can O Count On?, She Got You, Strange and When I Get Through With You.

The dream of Patsy was to sing in Grand Ole Opry, and this dream came the true in 1961. Patsy Cline became the greatest star of it.

Patsy befriended with many women, with came to Grand Ole Opry and help them with their carriers, such as Loretta Lynn, Brenda Lee, Dottie West, Barbara Mandrell, Jan Howard, Roger Miller, Hank Cochran, Faron Young, Ferlin Husky, Harlan Howard, and Carl Perkins.

Honky tonk pianist, Opry star and Patsy's friend Del Wood said of her:

"Even when she didn't have it, she'd spend it — and not always on herself. She'd give anyone the skirt off her backside if they needed it."

and singer George Riddle said of her:

"It wasn't unusual for her to sit down and have a beer and tell a joke. She'd never be offended at the guys' jokes, because most of the time she'd tell a joke better than you! Patsy was full of life, as I remember"

The year 1961 wasn't only happy of her. She had very dangerous car accident (the second) in Nashville and she was near of death. She spent on month in hospital. She received many greetings and flowers from her fans. After leaving the hospital, she had many marks of accident in her face. But she didn't lose fans.
The friend Loretta Lynn sang Patsy Cline's hit Crazy and got standing ovations. This song was during the Top 10 in three different charts (Hot Country Songs list - No. 2, the US Hot 100 list - No. 9, the Adult Contemporary list - also No. 2).

Patsy Cline was the pioneer in record industry, who showed the female could surpass the men in record sale and tickets of concerts. She opened the door for the other singers such as Lynn Anderson, Crystal Gayle, Reba McEntire, Faith Hill, LeAnn Rimes, Shania Twain and Carrie Underwood.

I Fall To Pieces


Crazy


Three Cigarettes

Heavenly sound from the Grand Ole Opry I - Patsy Cline

She was famous but also maximum schlemiel.

I'd like to introduce Patsy Cline, American country music singer, She was born in September 8, 1932, in Winchester in state Virginia as Virginia Patterson Hensley.

Her career started very early. As 4 years old girl, she won amateurish tap-dancing competition. Later she started to learn to play on piano and to sing in church with her mother. Patsy as small girl decided to be famous singer.

She went to radio and asked to sing in radio show there. DJ Jimmy McCoy agreed and new talent was on the world. Her ascent wasn't finished, it was only beginning. In 1948 she won trip to Nashville, where Patsy presented herself in some clubs. After that, she returned home.

In 1953 she married with Gerald Cline. This marriage was short, only 4 years. The second man in her life was Bill Peer, who gave her name Patsy. But he wasn't her husband. It was Charlie Dick.

Patsy became on Connie B. Gay's Town and Country television show and also had appearances in Grand Ole Opry.

In 1955 she singed the contract with Four Star Records and recorded song A Church, A Courtroom & Then Good-Bye. During years 1955 and 1957 she released more materials in honky tonk style, but without big success. The Record's producer had insisted Patsy would record in country style and during contract with Four Star Records she released 51 songs.

Great moment of Patsy's career came in 1957. She met Charlie Dick , the love of her life. And also she won talent competition - Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scout and was invited to show again. She sang song Walkin' After Midnight, which became hit in country and also pop charts. This song was also in her the first album Patsy Cline. The song was written by Don Hecht and Alan Block and she didn't like it. But the song had success and she decided to recorded it as single.

In 1958 Patsy and Charlie moved to Nashville in Tennessee (after the birth of the third child - daughter Julie).

In 1960 the contract with Four Star Records finished and she decided to sing new with Decca Records-Nashville. She also started cooperation with Randy Hughes, who became her manager. Her career started to grow up to the top.

Walkin' After Midnight


A Poor Man's Roses (Or a Rich Man's Gold


San Antonio Rose

Loretta Lynn - part III

Coal Miner's Daughter


Don't Come Home A Drinkin'


Take me Home, Country Roads


Honky Tonk Girl, LIVE

Loretta Lynn - part II

Discography:

Solo studio Album
1963 Loreta Lynn Sings
1964 Before I’m Over You
1965 Songs from My Heart
1965 Blue Kentucky Girl
1966 I like’em Country
1966 You Ain’t Woman Enough
1967 Don’t Come a Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind)
1967 Singin’ With Feelin’
1968 Fisrt City
1969 Your Squaw Is on the Warpath
1969 Woman of the World / To Make a Man
1970 Wings Upon Your Horns
1970 Loretta Lynn Writes’em & Sings’em
1971 Coal MIner’s Daughter
1971 I Wanna Be Free
1971 You’re Lookin’ At Country
1971 One’s on the Way
1972 Here I Am Again
1973 Entertainer of the Year – Loretta
1973 Love Is the Foundation
1974 They Don’t Make’em Like My Daddy
1975 Back to Country
1975 Home
1976 When the Tingle Becomes a Chill
1976 Somebody Somewhere
1977 I Remember Patsy
1978 Out of My Head and Back in My Bed
1979 We’ve Come a Long Way Baby
1980 Loretta
1980 Lookin’ Good
1981 I Lie
1982 Making Love from Memory
1983 Lyin’, Cheatin’, Woman Chasin’, Honky Tonkin’, Whiskey Drinkin’
1985 Just a Woman
1988 Who Was That Stranger
2000 Still Country
2004 Van Lear Rose

Collaboration studio albums
1965 Mr. & Mrs. Used to Be
1967 Ernest Tubb & Loretta Lynn Singin' Again
1968 If We Put Our Heads Together
1971 We Only Make Believe
1971 Lead Me On
1973 Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man
1974 Country Partners
1975 Feelin's
1976 United Talent
1977 Dynamic Duo
1978 Honky Tonk Heroes
1979 Diamond Duet
1981 Two's a Party
1989 Makin' Believe
1993 Honky Tonk Angels

Compilation Ambums
1965 Hymns
1966 A Country Christmas
1968 Loretta Lynn's Greatest Hits
1968 Who Says God Is Dead!
1972 Alone With You
1972 God Bless America Again
1973 Story
1974 Loretta Lynn's Greatest Hits Vol. 2
1976 Blue-Eyed Kentucky Girl
1979 The Very Best of Loretta Lynn & Conway Twitty
1988 20 Greatest Hits
1991 Country Music Hall of Fame Series
1994 Honky Tonk Girl - The Loretta Lynn Collection
1998 All Time Gospel Favorites
1999 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection
2004 All Time Gospel Favorites
2004 The Very Best of Loretta Lynn
2005 The Definitive Collection
2005 20th Century Masters - The Christmas Collection
2006 Gold
2006 Chronicles
2007 Number 1s

Singles
1960 I'm a Honky Tonk Girl"
1960 New Rainbow
1960 Darkest Day
1962 Success
1963 The Other Woman
1963 Before I'm Over You
1964 Wine, Women, and Song
1964 Mr. and Mrs. Used to Be
1964 Happy Birthday
1965 Blue Kentucky Girl
1965 Our Hearts Are Holding Hands
1965 The Home You're Tearing Down
1966 Dear Uncle Sam
1966 You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man)
1966 Don't Come Home A' Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)
1967 Sweet Thang
1967 If You're Not Gone Too Long
1967 A Man I Hardly Know
1967 What Kind of a Girl (Do You Think I Am)
1968 Fist City 1968
1968 You've Just Stepped In (From Stepping Out oN Me)
1968 Your Squaw Is on the Warpath
1969 Woman of the World (Leave My World Alone)
1969 To Make a Man (Feel Like a Man)
1969 Who's Gonna Take the Garbage Out
1969 Wings Upon Your Horns
1970 I Know How
1970 You Wanna Give Me a Lift
1970 Coal Miner's Daughter
1971 After the Fire Is Gone
1971 I Wanna Be Free
1971 You're Lookin' At Country
1971 Lead Me On
1971 One's on the Way
1972 Here I Am Again
1972 Rated
1973 Love Is the Foundation
1973 Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man
1973 Hey Loretta
1974 They Don't Make 'em Like My Daddy
1974 As Soon as I Hang Up the Phone
1974 Trouble In Paradise
1975 The Pill
1975 Feelin's
1975 Home
1975 When the Tingle Becomes a Chill
1976 Red, White, and Blue
1976 The Letter
1976 Somebody, Somewhere
1977 She's Got You
1977 I Can't Love You Enough
1977 Why Can't He Be You
1977 Out of My Head and Back In My Bed
1978 Spring Fever
1978 From Seven Till Ten
1978 You're the Reason Our Kids Are Ugly
1978 We've Come a Long Way Baby
1979 I Can't Feel You Anymore
1979 I've Got a Picture of Us on My Mind
1979 You Know Just What I'd Do
1979 The Sadness of It All
1980 Pregnant Again
1980 It's True Love
1980 Naked In the Rain
1980 Cheatin' on a Cheater
1981 Lovin' What Your Lovin' Does to Me
1981 Somebody Led Me Away
1981 I Still Believe In Waltzes
1982 I Lie
1982 Making Love From Memory
1983 Breakin' It
1983 There's All Kinds of Smoke (In the Barroom)
1983 Lyin', Cheatin', Women, Chasin', Honky Tonkin', and Whiskey Drinkin' Too
1983 Walking With My Memories
1985 Heart Don't Do This to Me
1985 Woudln't It Be Great
1986 Just a Woman
1987 Honky Tonk Angels Medley
1988 Who Was That Stranger
1988 Fly Away
1988 Makin' Believe
1993 Silver Threads and Golden Needles
2000 Country In My Genes
2004 Miss Being Mrs.
2004 Portland, Oregon

Loretta Lynn - part I

     Few day ago I watch one movie about life of famous country singer, Loretta Lynn. The name of that was Coal Miner's Daughter.

She was born in small village Butcher Hollow in Kentucky, April 14, 1934 to family of coal miner Melvin "Ted" Webb and his wife Clara Marie (Ramey) Webb. Her own name was Loretta Young. She was the second of eight children. She grew up in same village. Maybe somebody didn't know, she is also from one side Indian, because her mother was of Scots-Irish and Cherokee ancestry.

     She was married in January 10, 1948 to Oliver Vanetta Lynn, who was known as "Doolittle," "Doo,". Yes, you see right. Only in her 13 years old. Very young. Her husband had to promise to her father two things: 1., he has never beat her, 2., he has never taken Loretta far away from her family house.

The wedding day was very poor, only few people. She hadn't any experiences of married life and houses works, as she said she was uneducated. Doo worked, she was housewife. But without any knowledges of cooking, of housekeeping. Maybe that's why Doo was angry with her and bagged he. She returned home, to parent's house. In that time she was pregnant but she didn't know it.

Doo decided to leave Kentucky and went to Washington. When he got to know about pregnant we changed decision and stayed with Loretta in Butcher Hollow. To her 17 years old, she had already 4 children (Betty Sue, Ernest Ray, Jack Benny, Doo - I hope I write right). In 1951 they left to Custer, Washington. There she was full time mother.

She started to sing as child in church, but after wedding she stopped it. Again she started to sing from her children and around their house. Doo liked it and that's why he bought her guitar, although she wasn't able to play on it. Loretta learned to play during cooking, during many house works.

One day Doo invited her to pub and there she began singing in local club - Grace Hall. The first embarrassment went away and Loretta had great success. From that time she sang more time but Doo had other plans. Next step was recording single named I'm A Honky Tonk Girl and Doo sent it with her photo to many radios.

It looks her life is on right way, and suddenly hard blow, her father died (1959). Loretta taxed herself with her leaving to Washington.

New plans - open her sing career. Her children stayed with grand mother in Kentucky and Loretta with Doo started to visit all radios, where they sent her single. They took Regional Record Reports and started. The first step was to play her song. In radio they wasn't put it, but Loretta was relentless and it was well.

     The brake point came when she got 14 of full-state hitparade. In that time Doo decided the time is right to come out in Grand Ole Opry. Loretta had never hoped to be there, but it was in Ernest Tubb show. In white hat and in own sewn dress, Loretta was light point of this show. Step by step her fame was growing up and she was in Tubb's show next week again.

After that the success show changed success show.

One day she sang song especially for Patsy Cline, who had car accident. Patsy's husband Charlie Dick invite Loretta to Patsy's room in hospital where she was. Both women found affinity and the friendship started. Loretta went with Patsy on Patsy's tour. Doo went with them.

Loretta became famous, her husband started to go back and it wasn't what he wanted. He drunk, to be aggressive.He still love her and that's why he made decision - Loretta continued in tour, he went home.

Loretta is pregnant again. Patsy make plans but she died during returning from benefit concert(at the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall, Kansas City, Kansas) at plane crash in March 5, 1963 near Camden, Tennessee. Patsy Cline was 30 years old. Loretta was broken-hearted.

The pregnant was ended by childbirth of twin girls. As soon as possible she returned to concert's activity.

     Again she was busy, she traveled on tours, recorded albums, showed on concerts. She became the most favourite country singer, especially The first Country Lady.

The concerts were very strenuous, Loretta slept more in bus as in normal bed in house and she started to have headache. She have taken medicaments, more and more. Tempo is hard, on next tour Lorette was traveled with her husband Doo, but problems of her health has deepen. She didn't remember song words, she is run-down and in the end she flaked out direct on podium.

Later she spent time on their Ranch with her husband and her children. Doo decided to build new house.

The free time was very important for her, she returned to the light of reflector, with new vitality, with new songs.

During the movie, I thought: Yes, it was very long time ago, it was normal, it was in 19-teen century. It can happened only in that time. And after movie? Stop, it was in 20-teen. Loretta is still the first country lady. And she is good example that when man wants something and work on himself, he can have success. REMEMBER IT.

     All information was from movie Coal Miner's Daughter.
(Direction: Michael Apted, Script: Loretta Lynn, Thomas Rickman, George Vecsey, Actors: Sissy Spacek (Loretta Webb / Lynn), Tommy Lee Jones (Doolittle 'Mooney' Lynn aka 'Doo'), Levon Helm (Ted Webb), Phyllis Boyens (Clara 'Clary' Webb), Bill Anderson Jr. (Webb child), Foister Dickerson (Webb child), Malla McCown (Webb child), Pamela McCown (Webb child)).