Album DescriptionThis is the longest selling album in the history of country music. Released in 1967, this collection of a dozen gems from country music’s biggest female voice raced to #5 on the country charts upon release and has expended over 630 weeks on the country catalog charts since reissue on CD in 1988. Digitally remastered/HDCD. MCA. 2003.
necessary recordingIn the late 1950s and the ’60s, country music was fundamentally a singles medium. This album, original freed in 1967 and reissued on compact disc in 1988, collects Patsy Cline’s greatest hits–all of them from the country singles market–including “Walkin’ After Midnight,” “Sweet Dreams (Of You),” “Crazy,” and “I Fall to Pieces.” Producer Owen Bradley surrounds Cline’s full-throated, in an emotional manner charged vocals with lush, sophisticated arrangements that set the standard for Nashville’s “countrypolitan” sound. Before Shania Twain found a new (though not inevitably improved) way to combine country and pop in the 1990s, this was the top-selling country album of all time by a female artist. –Rick Mitchell
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16 of 17 humans found the following review helpful. Immortal By D.V. Lindner The description of Cline that comes to mind for me each time one of her songs is played or even just her name comes up, was this one by David McGee in the 1992 Rolling Stone album guide: “Kitty Wells had retreated to less debatable ground after her 1952 hit, `It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky-Tonk Angels’ had found a sizable audience for it is distaff point of view; Cline, on the other hand remained a bulwark of effeminate fortitude to the end of her life.”
And this strength is apparent in each song the woman sings, no matter how much heartbreak the lyrics include. Patsy would in all likelihood reject the word `feminist’ and all the negative connotations it is picked up over the years, but if we fixed it is meaning to that of unshakable selfassurance and self-awareness it would surely partly include a broader Patsy. Her each performance proposes a woman keenly conscious of the scope of her talent, and she applied like the unerring pro she was.
Songs like “She’s Got You,” “I Fall To Pieces” and specially “Crazy” were substantially crossing over to the pop charts and pulling in even young rock and roll fans like I already was by that time. Had she lived, Patsy would surely have continued this accomplishment to even dandier heights. Her basi No. 1 pop hit was only one or two records away, no doubt. But once I heard her, even this 50-year-old R&B fan knew the Real Deal when I came upon it, and Patsy Cline is IT.
15 of 16 humans found the following review helpful. CRAZY…ABOUT PATSY CLINE… By Lawyeraau This hard living, hard loving, country diva had one of the most emotive voices in the history of country music. In her too short career, cut prematurely in a plane crash, she managed to put together a remarkable roster of musical hits and was a crossover sensation.
This is an perfectly definitive CD. There is plainly not one bad cut on it, with stand outs such as: “Crazy”, “She’s Got You”, “Back in Baby’s Arms”, “Why Can’t He Be You”, and “Leaving on Your Mind”. 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. Fans of Ms. 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.
13 of 15 persons found the following review helpful. I REMEMBER PATSY By D. W. Rossa I was born in 1931 and I lived through all the changes of the music from HILLBILLY to COUNTRY-SWING to COUNTRY WESTERN and then just plain COUNTRY.
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