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  PATSY CLINE HOME PAGE
PATSY CLINE, (Virginia Patterson Hensley), was born in the Shenandoah Valley in Winchester, Virginia, on September 8, 1932.
In 1973 Patsy was elected posthumously to the Country Music Hall of Fame, and her reputation is on record as one of the major female vocalists of all time.
Celebrating Patsy Cline, Inc., a 501c3 non-profit corporation, is committed to perpetuating the memory of Patsy Cline through the establishment of a Patsy Cline Museum in Winchester, Virginia.
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 Patsy Cline - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cline was well rounded in her musical tastes and credited everyone from Kay Starr to Hank Williams for influencing her.
When Patsy Cline made her first recordings in 1955, Kitty Wells was the indisputed top female vocalist in the country music field.
Cline is often considered a "heroine" by her contemporaries, who claim that she broke down doors in the industry for women.
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 Patsy Cline's Crazy
Cline, who was born Virginia Patterson Hensley in 1932 (her stage name came from her middle name and the last name of her first husband, Gerald Cline), was driven to become a country singing star from pre-teen age.
Cline was recording in Nashville with Owen Bradley's “A” list of musicians, but the songs she was permitted to sing did not match her immense talent, and what little profit she might have gained went to pay for the expenses she incurred under her contract.
Patsy Cline was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1973; she was the first female solo artist to be chosen.
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 CMT.com : Patsy Cline : Biography
Cline has the most legendary aura of any female country singer, however, perhaps due to an early death that cut her off just after she had entered her prime.
Cline began recording in the mid-'50s, and although she recorded quite a bit of material between 1955 and 1960 (17 singles in all), only one of them was a hit.
Cline's voice sounded richer, more confident, and more mature, with ageless wise and vulnerable qualities that have enabled her records to maintain their appeal with subsequent generations.
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 Patsy Cline's grave
Cline was the last name of her first husband, Gerald Cline, a construction industry mogul, whom she married in 1953 and divorced in 1957.
Cline is interred in the Shenandoah Memorial Park cemetery in her hometown of Winchester, Virginia.
The 1985 movie Sweet Dreams, starring Jessica Lange as Cline, is based on her adult life and is said by some familiar with her to be fairly accurate in many respects, although some have disputed its portrayal of her mercurial relationship with second husband Charlie Dick (portrayed in the film by Ed Harris).
www.hollywoodusa.co.uk /GravesOutofLA/patsycline.htm   (804 words)

  
 Midwest Today: Patsy Cline
Patsy was only 30, and had recorded barely a hundred songs during her six years on the national stage.
Patsy Cline had a bell-clear voice that was both bluesy and countrified, with a torchy pop edge that she used to great effect.
Patsy Cline's final recordings were mastered on four successive nights, February 4-7, 1963, between 7 and 10 P.M. It's as if she was in a hurry to leave a legacy.
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At the age of four, Patsy was influenced by a film of Shirley Temple and, without tuition, learned tap-dancing and showed an interest in music that was encouraged by the piano-playing of her step-sister.
Although Cline's name was known over a considerable area, Peer was aware that she needed national exposure, and concentrated his efforts on seeking a recording contract for her.
It has been suggested that Patsy Cline was not an outstanding performer of up-tempo material, but it is an undisputed fact that she could extract every possible piece of emotion from a country weepie.
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 Patsy Cline Page   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Cline's version was an interpretation of the piece which was entirely different from the way the songwriter had intended it to be, but it became her signature song and was enormously popular, again in both country and pop circles.
Patsy Cline, who had always wanted to be a country music star, had become the first female country music star to rival the popularity of the legendary Kitty Wells, and also the first to cross over to the pop charts.
Patsy Cline is acknowledged by some as one of the greatest singers of all time, country or otherwise.
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 ~Patsy Cline~ Heavens Gates ~Love Always, Patsy~
PATSY CLINE, was born in the Shenandoah Valley in Winchester, Virginia, on September 8, 1932.
Patsy's big break came when she won an Arthur Godfrey
Patsy was forced to sing a song she hated, "Walkin' After Midnight."
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 Patsy Cline
Patsy Cline was one of the true legends in American music, a stylist who transcended genres and generations.
Patsy would probably have been the first to admit she was not a classic beauty, and didn't try to be; but she had a sincere look that radiated old-fashioned sweetness while not comprising her strength.
Patsy was the life of any party and could swear, joke, drink and smoke like one of the boys, in fact there are stories that she once pushed her own husband out of a car, and on another occasion she beat up a man
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 Patsy Cline
Patsy was born September 8, 1932 and married Gerald Cline on March 7, 1953.
Patsy's father was Samuel Lawrence Hensley, who was the son of Solomon Job Hensley and Elizabeth Margaret 'Shifflett' Hensley.
According to one biography of Patsy Cline, it was rumored that Sally was in love with Sam Hensley and had every hope that he would return to her.
www.shifletfamily.org /HHI/cline.html   (640 words)

  
 Patsy Cline St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles
Cline was an aggressive artist who fought against efforts to mold her into a pop sensation.
Although Cline's talent was apparent to those who heard her sing, the recordings she made in the mid-1950s were largely ignored.
Cline favored the western outfits commonly worn by country singers of that era, but for this performance she was told to wear a cocktail dress.
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 AllRefer.com - Patsy Cline (Music: Popular And Jazz, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Cline was killed in a plane crash at the age of 30.
Her strong, golden-toned voice and expressive, sometimes sobbing style influenced a wide range of singers including Dottie West, Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton, and K. Lang.
Cline was posthumously named (1992) to the Country Music Hall of Fame and given (1995) a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
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 patsy
Patsy had a difficult childhood, her father deserting the family when she was 15yrs.old.
Patsy became a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 1960, and moved to Nashville with her husband Charlie.
The Patsy Cline we so loved was determined to reach out and take her talents to the widest possible audience, and she did so, having amongst her admirers, people who wouldn't normally have a bar of country music.
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That is because Patsy's sophisticated "country-politan" sound that hit in the late '50s and early '60s is more popular in the '90s than it was during her lifetime.
Patsy was very confident of her talent and aggressive enough to take advantage of opportunities when they came along, such as the performance in her home town of Grand Ole Opry star Wally Fowler.
Patsy became one of the chief purveyors (along with Brenda Lee) of the "Nashville Sound", a pop oriented sound that was dubbed "country-politan." Her record producer Owen Bradley was one of the architects of the sound and he says that pop oriented sound may be the reason for the longevity of her music.
www.countrystars.com /legends/bios/cline_p.html   (917 words)

  
 Artist Biography - Patsy Cline
Patsy Cline" starring Mandy Barnett and Tere Myers, which ran for several years at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.
Patsy's life tragically ended on March 5, 1963 when the airplane, in which she was a passenger, crashed in the mountains near Camden, TN.
Ten years after her death, Patsy Cline was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, the greatest honor bestowed upon a country singer.
www.countrypolitan.com /bio-patsy-cline.php   (753 words)

  
 Patsy Cline   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Patsy Cline (née Virginia Hensley) is one of the most successful women in all country music.
She was born in 1932 in Gore, Virginia, the daughter of a 43 year old father and a sixteen year old mother.
Cline (who adopted her first husband’s last name in 1953) was signed to Four Star Records in 1954.
www.unc.edu /~atrivett/music_cline.html   (301 words)

  
 Patsy Cline: The Definitive Collection - PopMatters Music Review
While that 1963 compilation, like too many of the ones that followed, made Cline safer and milder than she was, this new album (if only by its virtue of having 22 not 12 tracks) adds more songs like "Lovesick Blues", songs that show Cline had at least as much primal punch as countrypolitan smarts.
Though the liner notes compare her to Billie Holiday, Cline was closer to Etta James on her best days out from under producer Owen Bradley's thumb and string players.
But since Cline had a great natural voice that was done justice by the Opry's acoustics, her studio work pioneered a blend of streamlined ("homogenized", if you're into roots music) country pop stripped of its hillbilly roots.
popmatters.com /music/reviews/c/clinepatsy-definitive.shtml   (862 words)

  
 On Point : Remembering Patsy Cline - Remembering Patsy Cline
Forty years ago, legendary country singer Patsy Cline died at the age of 30 when her small plane went down on a flight to Nashville, Tennessee.
Twenty years later, a young singer from Alberta, Canada, came out with her first album, and its inspiration was Patsy Cline.
Patsy Cline's influence on uncounted singers who followed her is incalculable.
www.onpointradio.org /shows/2003/09/20030905_b_main.asp   (191 words)

  
 patsy-cline - Wink   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Patsy's life, recording career, recording sessions, pictures of her and from Winchester sites and from the crash site, and Patsy related news.
Patsy Cline on the cover of her Sentimentally Yours album, 1962.
The Patsy Cline Lyrics in Gnis365 are the property of Patsy Cline Lyrics respective authors, artists and labels.
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 Resources for more Patsy Cline information   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In addition to quotes about Cline's influence on their careers from the artists participating in the record, it will contain reminiscenses from some of Cline's contemporaries such as Brenda Lee, Loretta Lynn, and Harold Bradley.
Remembering Patsy is the first collection of photographs of Patsy Cline ever released in a book.
Another excellent biography, this one examines the country music business itself in the 1950's and 1960's, and Patsy's role in bringing country music to the mainstream, as the first successful female crossover artist, and how she opened doors for the females who followed her.
www.patsyclinetribute.com /resources.htm   (702 words)

  
 Patsy Cline MP3 Downloads - Patsy Cline Music Downloads - Patsy Cline Music Videos   (Site not responding. Last check: )
One of the greatest singers in the history of country music, Patsy Cline also helped blaze a trail for female singers to assert themselves as an integral part of the Nashville-dominated country music industry.
Things took a radical turn for the better on all fronts in 1960, when her initial contract expired.
Reaching number one in the country charts and number 12 pop, it was the first of several country-pop crossovers she was to enjoy over the next couple of years.
www.mp3.com /patsy-cline/artists/49783/biography.html   (784 words)

  
 Patsy Cline
Some Cline disciples, however, prefer earlier radio recordings that depend only on the heartbreaking emotion she conveyed with her voice.
Despite being in a serious auto accident in 1961, Cline had hits that year and the next with “Crazy”; (penned by Willie Nelson) and “She's Got You.” Cline's career was in a slump in 1963 when her death in a plane crash revived it.
Patsy Cline - Cline, Patsy, 1932–63, American country singer, b.
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 Amazon.com: Patsy Cline - 12 Greatest Hits: Music: Patsy Cline   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Patsy Cline (1932-63) is considered a pioneering legend of country music.
Cline's voice is amazing--smooth as honey, often as sweet, and illuminated with a passionate inner fire.
Cline's, as well as those music lovers just wanting a great CD, would be well satisifed with it.
www.amazon.com /Patsy-Cline-12-Greatest-Hits/dp/B000002NVT   (1107 words)

  
 Patsy Cline Tribute Bands
This fantastic Patsy Cline tribute is an extraordinary 2 hour biographical stage production that tells the life story of Country’s legendary Patsy Cline.
Narrative interlaced between over 20 of Patsy’s most beloved songs brings back to life Patsy's humble beginnings in Winchester, VA to her meteoric rise to fame.
Close your eyes and you’ll swear Patsy is there singing at the Grand Ol’ Opry.
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 Amazon.com: Patsy Cline's Greatest Hits: Music: Patsy Cline   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ten of the cuts on this CD were top ten tunes on the pop charts of the time, while seven of them made the top ten on the country charts.
Cline's, as well as those music lovers just wanting a great CD, would be well satisfied with it, more so now that it has been re-mastered and available at a give away price.
I LOVE PATSY CLINE and cried when she died in the plane crash with two of her traveling companions.
www.amazon.com /Patsy-Clines-Greatest-Hits-Cline/dp/B0000BWVO3   (1574 words)

  
 Patsy Cline Chronology
Patsy Wins First Prize at the National Country Music Championships, Held In Warrenton, Virginia, Sponosored By Washington, DC Promoter, Connie B. Gay.
Patsy Appears On the January 21 broadcast of Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts.
Patsy Scores Several Posthumous Hits, Including "Sweet Dreams (of You)," #5 Country and #44 Pop, and "Faded Love," #7 Country and #96 Pop.
www.patsycline.info /chron.html   (996 words)

  
 PATSY CLINE HOME PAGE
The Patsy Cline Committee of the Winchester-Frederick County Chamber of Commerce is committed to perpetuating the memory of Patsy Cline through the establishment of a Patsy Cline Museum in Winchester, Virginia.
ATSY CLINE, (Virginia Patterson Hensley), was born in Winchester, Virginia, on September 8, 1932.
Patsy Cline Box Set was certified Gold with over 1/2 million copies sold.
www.patsycline.com /images   (471 words)

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