Patsy cline biography wikipedia
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Here's Patsy Cline
1965 compilation album by Patsy Cline
Here's Patsy Cline is the third compilation album of music originally recorded by American country artist, Patsy Cline. The album consists of selected material Cline had recorded during her years at Four Star Records.
Background
[edit]Here's Patsy Cline contains ten tracks Patsy Cline had recorded at Four Star Records between May 23, 1957, and January 27, 1960. Included on the first side of the recorded is an alternate version of "Yes, I Understand," as the original version had included Cline singing harmony on her lead vocals. Cover versions of "Stop the World (And Let Me Off)," "Life's Railway to Heaven," and "Just Out of Reach." The second side contained Cline's 1956 single, "I've Loved and Lost Again," as well as an alternate take of "How Can I Face Tomorrow," which also had originally included harmony.
Here's Patsy Cline has been reissued several times. In 1973, the album was reissued as a vinyl rec
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Early Years
Cline was born Virginia Patterson Hensley, in a Winchester hospital, on September 8, 1932. Her parents, forty-three-year-old Samuel Lawrence Hensley, a blacksmith, and his second wife, sixteen-year-old Hilda Virginia Patterson Hensley, had married six days before the birth. Until 1937 Hensley lived on her paternal grandparents’ farm nära Elkton and with her maternal grandparents in Gore, just outside Winchester in Frederick County. The Hensley family moved nineteen times in sixteen years to various towns in the Shenandoah Valley, including stad, and during World War II to Portsmouth. They had returned to Winchester by 1948, when Samuel Hensley deserted his wife and three children. Hensley quit school shortly after her sixteenth birthday and to help support her family began working, first in a poultry plant and then later at a bus depot and as a soda clerk at a drugstore. She also began singing professionally at night and on weekends to supplement the money he
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Patsy Cline discography
| Patsy Cline discography | |
|---|---|
Publicity photo of Patsy Cline distributed by MCA Records between 1973-75. | |
| Studio albums | 3 |
| EPs | 6 |
| Compilation albums | 1 |
| Singles | 24 |
| Other charted songs | 6 |
| Other album appearances | 1 |
The discography of American music artist Patsy Cline consists of three studio albums, 24 singles, six extended plays, one compilation album, six other charted songs and one album appearance. Cline's discography contains material released during her lifetime. Her first recordings took place under the direction of Four Star Records. Cline's first single, "A Church, a Courtroom, Then Goodbye," was released in July 1955. Four Star issued 17 singles during Cline's four years recording with them. However, only "Walkin' After Midnight" (1957) became a major hit, reaching number 2 on the Billboardcountry songs chart and number 12 on the Billboardpop music chart.[1]
Cline signed with Decca Records in 1960, and thereaf