Country icon Patsy Cline made her lasting reputation with slow-burn ballads like “Crazy” and “I Fall to Pieces,” her reverb-kissed vocals drawn out to linger and quiver with exquisite ripeness. This classic collection highlights those quiet numbers, whether it’s the woozy strings and gossamer harmonies of “Sweet Dreams (Of You)” and “Faded Love” or the tinkling barroom piano of “Leavin’ On Your Mind.” But they’re not all tragic tearjerkers: “Back in Baby’s Arms” is a brisk change of pace that allows Cline some beaming happiness. Country icon Patsy Cline made her lasting reputation with slow-burn ballads like “Crazy” and “I Fall to Pieces,” her reverb-kissed vocals drawn out to linger and quiver with exquisite ripeness. This classic collection highlights those quiet numbers, whether it’s the woozy strings and gossamer harmonies of “Sweet Dreams (Of You)” and “Faded Love” or the tinkling barroom piano of “Leavin’ On Your Mind.” But they’re not all tragic tearjerkers: “Back in Baby’s Arms” is a brisk change of pace that allows Cline some beaming happiness. 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. She was not alone in this regard; Kitty Wells had become a star several years before Cline's big hits in the early '60s. Brenda Lee, who shared Cline's producer, did just as much to create a country-pop crossover during the same era; Skeeter Davis briefly enjoyed similar success.

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. That song, 'Walkin' After Midnight,' was both a classic and a Top 20 pop smash. Those who are accustomed to Cline's famous early-'60s hits are in for a bit of a shock when surveying her '50s sessions (which have been reissued on several Rhino compilations). At times she sang flat-out rockabilly; she also tried some churchy tear-weepers. Rascal Flatts Greatest Hits Volume 1 Rare more. Cosmos Witold Gombrowicz Pdf Creator. She couldn't follow up 'Walkin' After Midnight,' however, in part because of an exploitative deal that limited her to songs from one publishing company.