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Patsy Cline
Patsy Cline was an American singer. One of the most influential vocalists of the 20th century, she was known as one of the first country music artists to successfully cross over into pop music. Cline had several major hits during her eight-year recording career, including two number-one hits on the Billboard Hot Country and Western Sides chart.
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entertainment · American country singer (1932–1963) · singer · songwriter · country musician · also Patsy Cline, Virginia Patterson Hensley, Cline
Born 8 September 1932 · Died 5 March 1963 · Q273080
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2026· 19 entries
“I just wish Patsy could have met you because she just adored you and listened to you all the time and wanted to be like you.”
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“It might not have been love at first sight when Patsy saw me, but it was for me.”
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Augusta Free Press: Ben Cline is still trying to save the Daughters of the American Revolution
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parade.com: 65 Years Ago, Patsy Cline Recorded One of the 'Best Country Songs of All Time,' Written by Willie Nelson, While on Crutches
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American Songwriter: Born 114 Years Ago Today in North Carolina, the “Greatest Country Music Visionary You’ve Never Heard Of” Who Basically Invented the Genre (And Discovered Jimmy Dean and Patsy Cline)
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Yahoo: Patsy Cline's 'Crazy': The Inspiring Story Behind Its Recording on Crutches
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American Songwriter: On This Day in 1961, Patsy Cline First Tried to Record Her Biggest Hit While Recovering From the Car Crash That Nearly Killed Her
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American Songwriter: Born 91 Years Ago in Texas, the Songwriter Son of a Country Legend Whose Songs Were Recorded by Patsy Cline, Ray Price, Loretta Lynn, and George Jones
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Published video “Crazy Dreams”.
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Published video “There He Goes”.
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Published video “So Wrong”.
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Published video “A Stranger In My Arms”.
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Published video “Lovesick Blues”.
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Published video “Don't Ever Leave Me”.
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Published video “Yes, I Understand”.
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Published video “Cry Not for Me”.
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Published video “That Wonderful Someone”.
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Published video “I'm Moving Along”.
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2023· 1 entry
Rolling Stone ranked Cline at No
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2019· 1 entry
Sara Evans discussed how Cline has been an influence since she was a young girl, "I learned everything I could learn about her
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2017· 1 entry
The Patsy Cline Museum opened in Nashville, Tennessee, located at 119 3rd Ave
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2015· 3 entries
Helped open a museum dedicated to Cline in Nashville
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Following the death of Julie's father in 2015, she helped open a museum dedicated to Cline in Nashville.
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And was laid to rest next to Cline
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2013· 1 entry
Diane Reese wrote, "she was what I call a pre-feminist woman
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2011· 2 entries
Cline's childhood home in Winchester was restored as a museum for visitors and fans to tour
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Stating: "I think when you go into the house, you will kind of feel like this is a snapshot of what it would have been like to visit when Mom lived there
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2010· 1 entry
Cline ranked at number 46 on Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Singers of All-Time"
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2007· 1 entry
Released album “20th Century Masters The Millenium Collection The Best of Patsy Cline Vol. 2”.
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2005· 2 entries
Cline's childhood home was given an official on-site marker and included on the National Register of Historic Places
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The Guinness World Book of Records cited Cline's Greatest Hits album as being the longest charting album of any female vocalist of any genre of music
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2003· 2 entries
Was included by Country Music Television on their list of the "40 Greatest Women of Country Music"
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That Cline "transformed what it meant to be a female country star"
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1999· 1 entry
Cline was ranked at number 11 among VH1's list of the "100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll"
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1998· 2 entries
Cline's mother died in 1998, 35 years after Cline's death.
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35 years after Cline's death
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1997· 1 entry
MCA released Live at the Cimarron Ballroom, a rare recording that had recently resurfaced
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1996· 12 entries
Released album “Remembering Patsy Cline... Queen of Country”.
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Released album “The Best of Patsy Cline: Walking After Midnight”.
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Released album “Crazy Dreams”.
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Released album “American Legends: Patsy Cline”.
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Released album “Birth Of A Country Legend”.
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Released album “The Legendary Patsy Cline”.
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Released album “The Birth of a Star”.
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Released album “The very Best of Patsy Cline”.
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Released album “Portrait of Patsy Cline”.
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Released album “Very Best of Patsy Cline”.
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Released album “All-Time Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “Patsy Cline Collector's Edition”.
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1995· 14 entries
Released album “Patsy Cline Sings Songs of Love”.
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Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1995).
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Released album “Classics”.
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Released album “Pick Me Up On Your Way Down”.
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A film about the life and career of Cline's friend Dottie West debuted on CBS titled, Big Dreams and Broken Hearts: The Dottie West Story
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Released album “Great American Legends: The Patsy Cline Collection”.
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Cline received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award for her legacy and career
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Released album “The Essential Collection”.
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Released album “Thinking Of You”.
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Released album “Country Gold”.
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Released album “Her Original Four Star Hits”.
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Released album “Legendary Country Singers: Patsy Cline”.
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Released album “Sincerely Yours”.
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Released album “Rhythm ’n’ Country”.
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1994· 6 entries
Released album “Golden Classics”.
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Released album “Classics Collection”.
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Released album “The Best of Patsy Cline”.
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Released album “Patsy Cline”.
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Released album “Cry Not for Me”.
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Released album “The One and Only”.
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1993· 9 entries
Released album “Loved and Lost Again”.
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Released album “Unforgettable Classics”.
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Released album “Don't Ever Leave Me Again”.
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Released album “20 Great Hits”.
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Released album “The Great Patsy Cline”.
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Cline was included on United States postal stamps as part of their "Legends" series
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Released album “Today, Tomorrow And Forever”.
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Released album “Gold”.
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Released album “Try Again”.
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1992· 4 entries
Released album “My Greatest Songs”.
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Released album “Forever and Always”.
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Released album “At Her Best”.
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Released album “Just a Closer Walk With Thee”.
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1991· 11 entries
Released album “The Patsy Cline Collection”.
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Titled A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline
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MCA records issued her first boxed set, titled The Patsy Cline Collection
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Released album “Patsy Cline (Vol.1): Walkin’ After Midnight”.
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Released album “Golden Greats”.
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Released album “Always”.
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Released album “Best Of Patsy Cline”.
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Released album “Country Spotlight: Patsy Cline”.
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Released album “The Wonderful World of Patsy Cline”.
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Released album “Patsy Cline (Vol.3): Don’t Ever Leave Me Again”.
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Released album “Today, Tomorrow and Forever, Volume 2”.
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1990· 5 entries
Released album “Walkin' After Midnight”.
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Released album “Walkin’ After Midnight & More Country Memories”.
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Released album “The Very Best Of”.
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Released album “Patsy Cline Sincerely Yours”.
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Released album “Unforgettable Patsy Cline”.
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1989· 5 entries
Released album “Walkin’ After Midnight: 28 Country Classic”.
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Released album “Walkin’ Dreams: Her First Recordings, Volume 1”.
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Released album “Walkin’ After Midnight”.
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Released album “The Rockin’ Side: Her First Recordings, Volume 3”.
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Released album “Hungry for Love: Her First Recordings, Volume 2”.
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1988· 7 entries
Released album “The Heart You Break”.
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Released album “Country Great!”.
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Released album “The Last Sessions”.
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Released album “Twenty Great Hits”.
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Released album “Commemorative Collection”.
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Released album “Dreaming…”.
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Released album “16 Greatest Hits”.
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1987· 3 entries
Released album “Queens of Country Music”.
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The local government approved the placing of markers within the town denoting it as the birthplace of Cline
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Released album “20 Golden Hits”.
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1986· 2 entries
Released album “Her Legendary Recordings Album No. 2”.
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Released album “Her Legendary Recordings”.
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1985· 3 entries
Released album “Heartaches”.
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A feature film about Cline's life was released titled Sweet Dreams
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Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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1983· 1 entry
Released album “Unforgettable”.
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1982· 1 entry
Released album “Remembering”.
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1981· 1 entry
Released album “Just a Country Boy and Girl”.
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1980· 2 entries
Cline's version of "Always" with new music tracks made the Billboard country chart, peaking at number 18
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That peaked within the Top 30 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart
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1977· 1 entry
Cline's friend and mentee Loretta Lynn released a tribute album titled I Remember Patsy
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1976· 1 entry
Released album “Today, Tomorrow & Forever: 20 Classics”.
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1975· 1 entry
That he discovered included Cline's live recording, which took place during July 1961, following Cline's car accident
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1973· 2 entries
Cline was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame
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Became the first female performer to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame
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1967· 2 entries
Released album “Patsy Cline’s Greatest Hits”.
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Decca released the compilation Patsy Cline's Greatest Hits
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1965· 4 entries
Released album “Gotta Lot of Rhythm in My Soul”.
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Released album “Here’s Patsy Cline”.
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Released album “Gone but Not Forgotten”.
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Released album “Reflections”.
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1964· 3 entries
Released album “A Portrait of Patsy Cline”.
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Released album “Today, Tomorrow & Forever”.
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Released album “That’s How a Heartache Begins”.
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1963· 12 entries
Released album “The Patsy Cline Story”.
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Died 1963-03-05.
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Was killed in the 1963 Camden PA-24 crash along with country musicians Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins, and manager Randy Hughes, during a flight from Kansas City, Kansas, back to Nashville
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Cline performed a benefit at the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall, Kansas City, Kansas, for the family of disc jockey "Cactus" Jack Call
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Dick married country artist Jamey Ryan in 1965
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Released album “In Memoriam”.
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Released album “A Legend”.
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“On singing and performing”
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“In a letter to a friend about having her mink coat stolen at her record company's party”
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“Responding to Jan Howard's angry retort to Cline's accusation of arrogance, backstage at the Opry, unidentified date”
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Released album “Encores”.
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Cline changed not only country music forever, but affected the world of pop, as well
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1962· 4 entries
Released album “Sentimentally Yours”.
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Hensley maintained a closet full of her daughter's stage costumes, including a sequined dress Cline wore while performing in Las Vegas in 1962.
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Cline had three major hits with "When I Get Through with You, "So Wrong", and "Imagine That"
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Released album “Patsy Cline’s Golden Hits”.
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1961· 3 entries
Released album “Showcase”.
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Cline and her brother Sam Hensley Jr
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Cline was back in the studio to record an upcoming album
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1958· 1 entry
Relocated to Nashville, Tennessee, to further her career
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1957· 2 entries
Cline made her first national television appearance on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts
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Said, "I developed a terrible throat infection and my heart even stopped beating
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1956· 5 entries
Cline received a call to perform on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, a national television show for which she had auditioned several months prior
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“Hoss, I got some news. I met a boy my own age who”
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Appeared on ABC's country music program, Ozark Jubilee
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Cline's father Samuel Hensley died of lung cancer in 1956.
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While Cline was performing with a local Virginia band
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1955· 1 entry
“A Church, a Courtroom, Then Goodbye”
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1954· 3 entries
Signed a two-year recording contract with the label alongside Peer and her husband Gerald Cline
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Bill Peer created and distributed a series of demonstration tapes with Cline's voice on it
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And had minor success with her earliest 4 Star singles, including "A Church, a Courtroom, Then Goodbye" (1955) and "I've Loved and Lost Again" (1956)
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1952· 1 entry
Asked to audition for local country bandleader Bill Peer
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1948· 1 entry
At local radio station WINC when she was 15
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1947· 2 entries
“Mama, I know what-all he did, but it seems he”
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Hensley had deserted the family in 1947.
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1932· 3 entries
To Hilda Virginia (née Patterson) and Samuel Lawrence Hensley
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Born 1932-09-08.
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“s collection. Discography Studio albums 1957: Patsy Cline 1961: Showcase 1962: Sentimentally Yours Compilation albums 1964: A Portrait of Patsy Cline 1964: That”
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