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In Patsy Cline biography, she sang the song Crazy.




Beginning with Patsy Cline biography, she was born in 1933, in Winchester Virginia.

Her first performance was at the age of four, when she took first prize for tap dancing in an amateur contest.

When she was eight years old, she received a piano for her birthday, and her interest in singing grew, as she learned to accompany herself at the keyboard.

Throughout her childhood, she was active in all church choir performances, and at sixteen her vocal activities expanded to include benefits and club appearences.

Continuing with Patsy Cline biography, on January 21st 1957, she stood in front of the CBS television camers and sang a song.

The cameras were shooting the Auther Godfrey Talent Scout Program, and the song she was singing was "Walking After Midnight".

When the time came for the studio audience to vote for a winner, the applause put her right on top as the winner.

During the next few months her song, "Walking after Midnight" was among the Nation's best sellers.

In 1957, Patsy's husband Gerald filed for a divorce.

Soon afterwards, continuing with Patsy Cline biography, she had the big break that led her successfully along the road to stardom.

Willy Fowler, of Grand Ole Opry fame was appearing at the Palace Theatre in Winchester, he persuaded her parents to let her go to Nashville to try her luck.

While in Nashville Patsy Cline made many friends in the music business. Her success with, "Walking After Midnight" was followed by hit after hit like "Three Cigarettes In An Ashtray, I Cried All The Way To The Altar and Ain't no Wheels on This Ship".

It's this sincerity, and a long string of hits that got her nominated to the Country Music Hall Of Fame.

On the 14 of June, 1961 she was injured in a car accident. When speaking to the Audience at the Grand Ole Opry , She said, "I Recorded a song called I Fall To Pieces and I was in a car accident, now I'am really worried because I have a brand new record and it's called Crazy".

Continuing with Patsy Cline biography, she was killed in a plane crash in Tennessee the 5th of March, 1963 while returning from Kansas City, Missouri. She was only 30 years old.

Killed with her were also three other Country Singers, Randy Huges, Hawkshaw Hawkins and Cowboy Copas.

In 1985, a Film titled, "Sweet Dreams" was made about her life story. The film starred Jessica Lange as Patsy.

A few of her songs she sang were:

  • A Church, A Courtroom, Then Goodbye
  • Ain't No Wheels On This Ship
  • A Poor Man's Rose
  • A Stranger In My Arms
  • Come On In
  • Crazy
  • Cry Not For Me
  • Finger Prints
  • Hidin'Out
  • Honky Tonk Merry Go Round
  • Hungry For Love
  • I Cried All The Way To The Altar
  • I'm Blue Again
  • Life's Railway To Heaven
  • Lovesick Blues
  • Walking Dream
  • Walkin' After Midnight
  • The Heart You Break May Be Your Own
  • Then You'll Know
  • Three Cigarettes In An Ashtray
  • Today, Tomorrow, And Forever


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