*Link sent in by ReCliner Jimmy Walker of Ky:
In January 2010, NPR will launch a year-long exploration of 50 great voices in recorded history. The series isn't an attempt to catalog the so-called "greatest" singers. Instead, we hope to discover and re-discover awe-inspiring vocalists from around the world and across time. We asked you to nominate artists for the series and we received thousands of options. NPR and a panel of experts are in the process of whittling them down to about 100 singers — a mix of familiar names and surprising discoveries. Explore some of the nominated voices below, choose five favorites you think should be included in the final 50 and tell us why.
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Friday, November 6, 2009
Monday, November 2, 2009
Family and Friends Remember Patsy Cline
It wasn't just Patsy Cline and Willie Nelson fans filling the auditorium Thursday night at Handley High School. Family members and band members of the late singer came to honor their loved one.
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Willie Nelson takes the stage at Handley for dedication of new theater to an old friend
CORRECTION: A story published Oct. 30 should have stated that Schweiger-Dearing Productions was the sole promoter for the Patsy Cline Theatre dedication and Willie Nelson concert at John Handley High School.
By J.R. Williams -- jrwilliams@nvdaily.com
WINCHESTER -- Tickets were scarce and the wait was long, but Willie Nelson gave Winchester back its money and its time.
The country music legend was in town Thursday at John Handley High School to dedicate a brand-new theater to an old friend.
"The mayor just gave us a key to the city folks, so everything's cool," he said after taking the stage. "We're glad to be here at the Patsy Cline Theatre."
Community leaders, along with Charlie Dick, Cline's widower, and his family joined former state Sen. H. Russell "Russ" Potts Jr. to cut the ribbon on the new venue.
Nelson called Dick "one of the best friends I ever had."
Cline performed on the school's theater stage at 15 years old for a talent show, something Dick, who now lives outside Nashville, said he remembers well.
"I didn't know who she was at that time," he said.
Dick said he hopes the theater will further seal Cline's memory.
"I think this is great," he said. "Her name will be kept in the public eye, hopefully for a long time."
Nelson didn't disappoint the sold-out crowd.
He came to Winchester on Thursday from New York, where he had performed with jazz musician Wynton Marsalis, event promoter Christian Schweiger said.
Nearly every tune brought people to their feet. Right away he played "Crazy," the song he wrote that would stamp Cline's memory into popular culture for decades.
Nelson played several of his classics, including "Whiskey River," "Georgia On My Mind" and "On the Road Again," with some Janis Joplin and Hank Williams thrown in for good measure.
It wasn't Nelson's first visit to Winchester; he was a guest at the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival in 1966.
Proceeds from Thursday's show benefited the Winchester Education Foundation.
Tickets for the show were hard to come by -- passes for the 1,327-seat theater sold out nearly as soon as they went on sale.
Interest stretched at least as far as Nashotah, Wis., where attendee Don Krull said he came from to see the show.
Kay Boyce, a fan from Clear Brook, said she landed tickets through the Willie Nelson Fan Club. She was there with Libby McTiernan, of Winchester, and Joanne Talley, of Strasburg.
"He's my favorite," Boyce said. "I hope he plays '[You Were] Always on My Mind.'"
He did.
McTiernan, a self-described lifelong fan, said she remembers where she was when she found out Cline was killed in a plane crash.
"I was on vacation in Florida ... in a shop and heard it on the radio," she said. "I thought it was terrible."
She said the theater dedication was a fitting tribute to the Winchester girl who made it to the Country Music Hall of Fame.
"I think it should have been done a long time ago," she said.
The show also featured a performance by the John Handley Hilltop Singers, who also sang "Crazy." The audience also was treated to a slide show of photographs of Cline.
Judy Sue Huyett-Kempf, director of Celebrating Patsy Cline, was on hand to speak to attendees about the organization's effort to renovate the singer's childhood home.
"It's a huge step forward in the recognition of Patsy from here," she said.
The event was promoted by Tom Rooney, president of Rooney Sports and Entertainment, and Schweiger.
*also: http://www.tv3winchester.com/home/headlines/67413377.html
By J.R. Williams -- jrwilliams@nvdaily.com
WINCHESTER -- Tickets were scarce and the wait was long, but Willie Nelson gave Winchester back its money and its time.
The country music legend was in town Thursday at John Handley High School to dedicate a brand-new theater to an old friend.
"The mayor just gave us a key to the city folks, so everything's cool," he said after taking the stage. "We're glad to be here at the Patsy Cline Theatre."
Community leaders, along with Charlie Dick, Cline's widower, and his family joined former state Sen. H. Russell "Russ" Potts Jr. to cut the ribbon on the new venue.
Nelson called Dick "one of the best friends I ever had."
Cline performed on the school's theater stage at 15 years old for a talent show, something Dick, who now lives outside Nashville, said he remembers well.
"I didn't know who she was at that time," he said.
Dick said he hopes the theater will further seal Cline's memory.
"I think this is great," he said. "Her name will be kept in the public eye, hopefully for a long time."
Nelson didn't disappoint the sold-out crowd.
He came to Winchester on Thursday from New York, where he had performed with jazz musician Wynton Marsalis, event promoter Christian Schweiger said.
Nearly every tune brought people to their feet. Right away he played "Crazy," the song he wrote that would stamp Cline's memory into popular culture for decades.
Nelson played several of his classics, including "Whiskey River," "Georgia On My Mind" and "On the Road Again," with some Janis Joplin and Hank Williams thrown in for good measure.
It wasn't Nelson's first visit to Winchester; he was a guest at the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival in 1966.
Proceeds from Thursday's show benefited the Winchester Education Foundation.
Tickets for the show were hard to come by -- passes for the 1,327-seat theater sold out nearly as soon as they went on sale.
Interest stretched at least as far as Nashotah, Wis., where attendee Don Krull said he came from to see the show.
Kay Boyce, a fan from Clear Brook, said she landed tickets through the Willie Nelson Fan Club. She was there with Libby McTiernan, of Winchester, and Joanne Talley, of Strasburg.
"He's my favorite," Boyce said. "I hope he plays '[You Were] Always on My Mind.'"
He did.
McTiernan, a self-described lifelong fan, said she remembers where she was when she found out Cline was killed in a plane crash.
"I was on vacation in Florida ... in a shop and heard it on the radio," she said. "I thought it was terrible."
She said the theater dedication was a fitting tribute to the Winchester girl who made it to the Country Music Hall of Fame.
"I think it should have been done a long time ago," she said.
The show also featured a performance by the John Handley Hilltop Singers, who also sang "Crazy." The audience also was treated to a slide show of photographs of Cline.
Judy Sue Huyett-Kempf, director of Celebrating Patsy Cline, was on hand to speak to attendees about the organization's effort to renovate the singer's childhood home.
"It's a huge step forward in the recognition of Patsy from here," she said.
The event was promoted by Tom Rooney, president of Rooney Sports and Entertainment, and Schweiger.
*also: http://www.tv3winchester.com/home/headlines/67413377.html
We Hear Dead People: 10 Duets With Deceased Singing Partners
Patsy Cline and Willie Nelson
'Life's Railway to Heaven'
At least the Red-Headed Stranger had a real-world connection to Patsy, having written her smash hit 'Crazy.' You'd have to be a little loony in the head to pair the country diva with the likes of Bob ('Butterfly Kisses') Carlisle, as Cline's necro-producers did for her 'Duets Volume I' collection in 1999.
'Life's Railway to Heaven'
At least the Red-Headed Stranger had a real-world connection to Patsy, having written her smash hit 'Crazy.' You'd have to be a little loony in the head to pair the country diva with the likes of Bob ('Butterfly Kisses') Carlisle, as Cline's necro-producers did for her 'Duets Volume I' collection in 1999.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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Friday, September 25, 2009
Mandy Barnett to perform Patsy Cline Show!
By ALYSSA HARVEY, The Daily NewsThursday, September 24, 2009 11:00 AM CDT
When Mandy Barnett was a child, her mother bought a greatest hits tape of songs by the late singer Patsy Cline.Little did she know that she would bond so closely to the music. For the past 15 years, the Nashville-based singer has periodically portrayed the country music legend in “Always ... Patsy Cline” at the Ryman Auditorium. The show was the first performed when the theater reopened in 1994 after closing in 1974. Barnett’s latest turn in the role was a six-week performance during the Ryman’s 15th anniversary this past spring.“I never knew my life would take this turn,” she said in a telephone interview Tuesday.Barnett, a regular performer at the Grand Ole Opry, will channel the singer again Saturday with Powerhouse Promotions’ concert “A Tribute to Patsy Cline.” Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. followed by the show at 7:30 p.m. at the Capitol Arts Center. Tickets are $27 and $17.Powerhouse Promotions owner Stephen House said the company did a tribute concert for Cline - known for such hits as “Walkin’ After Midnight” and “Crazy” - last year with a different singer.“It was probably the most popular show that I’ve done,” he said. “Many people are looking forward to this one.”House said some people are planning to cross international lines to get their Patsy Cline fix.“I’ve sold four tickets to a businessman in Canada,” he said.Barnett is a natural choice to sing Cline’s songs, House said.“There were 450 people who auditioned for that part in (“Always ... Patsy Cline”) and she got it,” he said. “She has the endorsement of Patsy Cline’s family.”Barnett began singing when she was 5 years old at events such as churches and political rallies. She worked at Dollywood for a few years beginning when she was 10 and got record deals when she was 12. After she graduated from high school, she moved from her native Crossville, Tenn., to Nashville.“I auditioned for ‘Always ... Patsy Cline’ right out of high school. Singing is one of those things I’ve always done,” she said. “It has always been a natural thing. I get a lot of enjoyment out of doing it.”Barnett has performed on a variety of soundtracks, including “Space Cowboys,” “Election” and “Drop Dead Gorgeous” as well as on the “SpongeBob SquarePants” song “The Best Day Ever.” She has also done two solo records, “Mandy Barnett” and “I’ve Got a Right to Cry.”Although Barnett is working on a new album and performing in shows this winter, she keeps returning to Cline’s music.“I’ve always been drawn to her voice. She has this great music. It’s timeless,” she said. “The way she sang them was emotional and beautiful.”House said Cline’s enduring popularity is a mix of beautiful songs and an unusual voice. Cline died in a 1963 plane crash at age 30.“She had rheumatic fever when she was 14 and it affected her vocal chords and made her voice unique and different,” he said. “If she had lived longer I’m sure that there would’ve been other songs. It’s amazing that she died so early and has the popularity that she has.”— For more information or to buy tickets, call 791-5180.
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Thursday, September 17, 2009
Just west of DC, Patsy Cline's home shines as historic treasure
DC Historic Destinations ExaminerLisa Singh
Forget Graceland. Or Neverland. If you live in DC, you don’t have to travel to Santa Barbara or Memphis to tour a ground-breaking singer's old stomping grounds. Just 75 miles west of Washington, DC, you'll find the home of Patsy Cline, the first cross-over country singer who influenced future artists including KD Lang, Trisha Yearwood, and Carrie Underwood. To learn more about Patsy Cline's old home — and restoration plans in the works — Examiner.com recently caught up with JudySue Huyett-Kemp, a board member with Celebrating Patsy Cline. Plus, JudySue offers a few tips on how you can channel your inner Patsy. Read on!
Examiner: Tell us a little about Patsy Cline's home in Winchester, Va.
JudySue Huyett-Kempf: The house was originally built in 1892. Patsy, her mother, sister and brother — on their 19th move — entered this house; Patsy’s father, Samuel, was a steelworker, and work was hard to find so the family had moved around a lot. The year was 1948, Patsy was 16 years of age, and this is where she lived continuously until 1957 when she got married. However, she returned quite a few times up until her death.
Examiner: What was so special about the home to Patsy Cline?
JudySue Huyett-Kempf: This is the house where she felt settled — and from where she really made it. It was from this house where she went on to the Arthur Godfrey Show, and from where she first traveled on to Nashville, and decided to move to further her career.
Examiner: How did the house get on the historical marker?JudySue Huyett-Kempf: The group I belong to, Celebrating Patsy Cline, purchased the home about six years ago; before then, it was a rental property belonging to her mother. We realized this was one of our most prized possessions belonging to Patsy. It just made perfect sense to open the house to the public. It made the national historic marker four years ago.
Examiner: The house is currently being restored. What's the status?
JudySue Huyett-Kempf: We’re doing extensive research with four local historians to get the house back exactly as it was when Patsy lived there. To make it authentic, walls need to be put back, two bedrooms later added need to be removed, just various things. It’ll be done as soon as the money comes in.
Examiner: Tell us about the Sept. 4 Boots ‘n Hats event.
JudySue Huyett-Kempf: Celebrating Patsy Cline and the Winchester-Frederick County Convention and Visitors Bureau will honoring Patsy in advance of her Sept. 8 birthday. This "Boots-n-Hats" event features Brent Woodall and the Natchez Trace Band, plus a best hat and a best boots contest. When Patsy started her country singing, she always wore a cowboy hat and boots, with a fringe costume that her mother made. That was her trademark.
Examiner: How can people put their best boot forward at Friday's event?
JudySue Huyett-Kempf: Let Patsy be your wildest imagination. Just think "Patsy" and decorate your gear from there.
Comments
Eric says:
I had no idea Patsy Cline's hometown was so close.
September 3, 4:22 PM
Lisa Singh says:
Thanks Linda - appreciate that correction.
September 3, 1:12 PM
Linda says:
Interesting article! But there's a slight glitch. There's no such thing as 'the national historic marker.' The site has a Virginia historical marker, which is issued by the state of Virginia, but it's not national. It could also be listed on the National Register of Historic Places, in which case it would be referred to as a National Historic Site or just "listed on the NRHP." I'd send you links, but Examiner doesn't allow them in comments. The closest the USA has to a national marker system is actually the National Historic Landmarks system, which issues big square plaques for those sites that want them. But it's not a historical marker system. There are about 2500 NHLs in the USA. Trivia for the day. It's still neat to see something owned by Patsy Cline getting historical recognition.
September 3, 12:40 PM
Forget Graceland. Or Neverland. If you live in DC, you don’t have to travel to Santa Barbara or Memphis to tour a ground-breaking singer's old stomping grounds. Just 75 miles west of Washington, DC, you'll find the home of Patsy Cline, the first cross-over country singer who influenced future artists including KD Lang, Trisha Yearwood, and Carrie Underwood. To learn more about Patsy Cline's old home — and restoration plans in the works — Examiner.com recently caught up with JudySue Huyett-Kemp, a board member with Celebrating Patsy Cline. Plus, JudySue offers a few tips on how you can channel your inner Patsy. Read on!
Examiner: Tell us a little about Patsy Cline's home in Winchester, Va.
JudySue Huyett-Kempf: The house was originally built in 1892. Patsy, her mother, sister and brother — on their 19th move — entered this house; Patsy’s father, Samuel, was a steelworker, and work was hard to find so the family had moved around a lot. The year was 1948, Patsy was 16 years of age, and this is where she lived continuously until 1957 when she got married. However, she returned quite a few times up until her death.
Examiner: What was so special about the home to Patsy Cline?
JudySue Huyett-Kempf: This is the house where she felt settled — and from where she really made it. It was from this house where she went on to the Arthur Godfrey Show, and from where she first traveled on to Nashville, and decided to move to further her career.
Examiner: How did the house get on the historical marker?JudySue Huyett-Kempf: The group I belong to, Celebrating Patsy Cline, purchased the home about six years ago; before then, it was a rental property belonging to her mother. We realized this was one of our most prized possessions belonging to Patsy. It just made perfect sense to open the house to the public. It made the national historic marker four years ago.
Examiner: The house is currently being restored. What's the status?
JudySue Huyett-Kempf: We’re doing extensive research with four local historians to get the house back exactly as it was when Patsy lived there. To make it authentic, walls need to be put back, two bedrooms later added need to be removed, just various things. It’ll be done as soon as the money comes in.
Examiner: Tell us about the Sept. 4 Boots ‘n Hats event.
JudySue Huyett-Kempf: Celebrating Patsy Cline and the Winchester-Frederick County Convention and Visitors Bureau will honoring Patsy in advance of her Sept. 8 birthday. This "Boots-n-Hats" event features Brent Woodall and the Natchez Trace Band, plus a best hat and a best boots contest. When Patsy started her country singing, she always wore a cowboy hat and boots, with a fringe costume that her mother made. That was her trademark.
Examiner: How can people put their best boot forward at Friday's event?
JudySue Huyett-Kempf: Let Patsy be your wildest imagination. Just think "Patsy" and decorate your gear from there.
Comments
Eric says:
I had no idea Patsy Cline's hometown was so close.
September 3, 4:22 PM
Lisa Singh says:
Thanks Linda - appreciate that correction.
September 3, 1:12 PM
Linda says:
Interesting article! But there's a slight glitch. There's no such thing as 'the national historic marker.' The site has a Virginia historical marker, which is issued by the state of Virginia, but it's not national. It could also be listed on the National Register of Historic Places, in which case it would be referred to as a National Historic Site or just "listed on the NRHP." I'd send you links, but Examiner doesn't allow them in comments. The closest the USA has to a national marker system is actually the National Historic Landmarks system, which issues big square plaques for those sites that want them. But it's not a historical marker system. There are about 2500 NHLs in the USA. Trivia for the day. It's still neat to see something owned by Patsy Cline getting historical recognition.
September 3, 12:40 PM
Patsy Cline's Hometown Fixes Up Her House
By: Craig Shelburne
A local organization in Patsy Cline's hometown of Winchester, Va., is renovating the house she and her family once lived in. Located at 608 S. Kent St., the two-story home looks rather unremarkable from the street, and up until recently, it was a rental property. (See photos.) So I'm pleased to pass along details about a fundraising event that may help the community honor the roots of country music's most revered female singer. On Friday (Sept. 4), her fans will gather at the George Washington Hotel for an evening of music and country cooking. Proceeds from the $50 tickets will benefit Celebrating Patsy Cline, Inc., which owns the home and hopes to open it to the public. However, the renovations don't replace plans for the downtown museum, which is still vacant. The fundraiser will end at 11 p.m., but I'd recommend a Patsy Pilsner nightcap at Picadilly's Brewpub. After that, consider walkin' after midnight to reflect on Cline's magnificent legacy.
A local organization in Patsy Cline's hometown of Winchester, Va., is renovating the house she and her family once lived in. Located at 608 S. Kent St., the two-story home looks rather unremarkable from the street, and up until recently, it was a rental property. (See photos.) So I'm pleased to pass along details about a fundraising event that may help the community honor the roots of country music's most revered female singer. On Friday (Sept. 4), her fans will gather at the George Washington Hotel for an evening of music and country cooking. Proceeds from the $50 tickets will benefit Celebrating Patsy Cline, Inc., which owns the home and hopes to open it to the public. However, the renovations don't replace plans for the downtown museum, which is still vacant. The fundraiser will end at 11 p.m., but I'd recommend a Patsy Pilsner nightcap at Picadilly's Brewpub. After that, consider walkin' after midnight to reflect on Cline's magnificent legacy.
Troubadour honors Patsy Cline and Ernest Tubb at 45th annual tribute celebration
By Edward Marshall, Journal Staff Writer
*link in title
BERKELEY SPRINGS - For the 45th year in a row, music fans from all walks of life gathered this weekend at the Troubadour Lounge and Park in Morgan County, the home of the West Virginia Country Music Hall of Fame, to pay tribute to the life and music of the late Patsy Cline and Ernest Tubb.
Hosted by Troubadour owner Jim McCoy, the annual event serves the dual purpose of celebrating Cline's birthday, Sept. 8, as well remembering Tubb, who died on Sept. 6, 1984.
McCoy, a well-known country music singer, songwriter and producer in his own right, has a personal connection to both country music icons.
As a disc jockey at the Winchester radio station WINC, McCoy helped introduce Cline to the world by being among the first to broadcast her music over the airways. He is still close friend's with Cline's widower, Charlie Dick.
"That's what this is all about. We're trying to keep the memory of Patsy Cline alive," McCoy said. "All of these musicians (performing) today are great friends of mine or I've known them for a long time."
The annual event also celebrates Tubb, who was McCoy's idol as a young country music performer. Tubb mentored McCoy during his recording career and became his lifelong friend. The Troubadour itself is named after Tubb, who went by the nickname "The Texas Troubadour" during his singing career. Sunday's event, which was free to the public, featured performances from a number of musicians, many of whom were friends with or performed with Cline and Tubb. McCoy's friends and tribute performers also took the stage.
Among those who performed was Gina Romano, a Patsy Cline tribute artist from the Richmond, Va., area, who also attended last year's event.
"I just love the folks here and they just love this old Patsy Cline music," said Romano, who has been performing for the past 10 years. "They love her so much, and being a little bit of a part of keeping her alive in my little way is just really a pleasure."
Other performers included McCoy's friend and personal physician, Matt Hahn, who recently recorded a Jim McCoy tribute album with the man himself. Hahn, who calls himself the greatest Jim McCoy tribute artist in the world, said he took a shining to McCoy's music after he became McCoy's doctor. Today he even performs wearing the same suit McCoy wore as a member of The Melody Playboys.
"This is fantastic, because ... people from all walks of life, people from all around this area, people from all over the country and even other countries come to this festival," Hahn said of the annual tribute concert. "It's great just to have people coming together for the love of Patsy and the music."
A fan himself, he described Cline's voice as a rare gift, comparing it to a beautiful instrument that strikes a cord with music listeners generation after generation.
"It's just beautiful singing," he said.
Of course a Patsy Cline tribute concert couldn't be complete without her fans. Patsy Cline fan club members from as far away as Brooklyn and Kentucky travelled to Morgan County on Sunday to be part of the event.
"It's wonderful to continue to remember Pasty, as well as Ernest Tubb. Those are country music legends, and Patsy Cline is a musical icon," said Jimmy Walker, of Lexington, Ky. "It's timeless music that all fans can relate to."
Virginia Boswell, of Charlottesville, Va., has attended the tribute for the last 15 years as a member of the fan club.
"It's just that sound. It's something special," she said of Cline's music. "I think it's wonderful ... we wouldn't miss it."
Ellie Bussard, of Martinsburg, who is Dick's cousin, was also among those in audience.
"It's just a really fun weekend," she said of McCoy's annual tribute to Cline. "She was different than any other singer I've ever heard, she was down to earth and died much too soon."
- Staff writer Edward Marshall can be reached at (304) 263-8931, ext. 182, or emarshall@journal-news.net
*link in title
BERKELEY SPRINGS - For the 45th year in a row, music fans from all walks of life gathered this weekend at the Troubadour Lounge and Park in Morgan County, the home of the West Virginia Country Music Hall of Fame, to pay tribute to the life and music of the late Patsy Cline and Ernest Tubb.
Hosted by Troubadour owner Jim McCoy, the annual event serves the dual purpose of celebrating Cline's birthday, Sept. 8, as well remembering Tubb, who died on Sept. 6, 1984.
McCoy, a well-known country music singer, songwriter and producer in his own right, has a personal connection to both country music icons.
As a disc jockey at the Winchester radio station WINC, McCoy helped introduce Cline to the world by being among the first to broadcast her music over the airways. He is still close friend's with Cline's widower, Charlie Dick.
"That's what this is all about. We're trying to keep the memory of Patsy Cline alive," McCoy said. "All of these musicians (performing) today are great friends of mine or I've known them for a long time."
The annual event also celebrates Tubb, who was McCoy's idol as a young country music performer. Tubb mentored McCoy during his recording career and became his lifelong friend. The Troubadour itself is named after Tubb, who went by the nickname "The Texas Troubadour" during his singing career. Sunday's event, which was free to the public, featured performances from a number of musicians, many of whom were friends with or performed with Cline and Tubb. McCoy's friends and tribute performers also took the stage.
Among those who performed was Gina Romano, a Patsy Cline tribute artist from the Richmond, Va., area, who also attended last year's event.
"I just love the folks here and they just love this old Patsy Cline music," said Romano, who has been performing for the past 10 years. "They love her so much, and being a little bit of a part of keeping her alive in my little way is just really a pleasure."
Other performers included McCoy's friend and personal physician, Matt Hahn, who recently recorded a Jim McCoy tribute album with the man himself. Hahn, who calls himself the greatest Jim McCoy tribute artist in the world, said he took a shining to McCoy's music after he became McCoy's doctor. Today he even performs wearing the same suit McCoy wore as a member of The Melody Playboys.
"This is fantastic, because ... people from all walks of life, people from all around this area, people from all over the country and even other countries come to this festival," Hahn said of the annual tribute concert. "It's great just to have people coming together for the love of Patsy and the music."
A fan himself, he described Cline's voice as a rare gift, comparing it to a beautiful instrument that strikes a cord with music listeners generation after generation.
"It's just beautiful singing," he said.
Of course a Patsy Cline tribute concert couldn't be complete without her fans. Patsy Cline fan club members from as far away as Brooklyn and Kentucky travelled to Morgan County on Sunday to be part of the event.
"It's wonderful to continue to remember Pasty, as well as Ernest Tubb. Those are country music legends, and Patsy Cline is a musical icon," said Jimmy Walker, of Lexington, Ky. "It's timeless music that all fans can relate to."
Virginia Boswell, of Charlottesville, Va., has attended the tribute for the last 15 years as a member of the fan club.
"It's just that sound. It's something special," she said of Cline's music. "I think it's wonderful ... we wouldn't miss it."
Ellie Bussard, of Martinsburg, who is Dick's cousin, was also among those in audience.
"It's just a really fun weekend," she said of McCoy's annual tribute to Cline. "She was different than any other singer I've ever heard, she was down to earth and died much too soon."
- Staff writer Edward Marshall can be reached at (304) 263-8931, ext. 182, or emarshall@journal-news.net
Friday, September 11, 2009
THE PATSY CLINE THEATRE!!!
Willie Nelson To Perfom At JHHS
The auditorium inside John Handley High School was named Thursday to honor a former student and country music icon, while another icon is coming to a dedication ceremony in October. Posted: 2:25 PM Sep 10, 2009Reporter: Steven GlazierEmail Address: steven.glazier@tv3winchester.com
The auditorium inside John Handley High School was named Thursday to honor a former student and country music icon, while another icon is coming to a dedication ceremony in October. Posted: 2:25 PM Sep 10, 2009Reporter: Steven GlazierEmail Address: steven.glazier@tv3winchester.com
The Patsy Cline Theatre is now the name of the Handley auditorium.
The second announcement made Thursday was, a dedication ceremony will be held October 29 with a concert by Willie Nelson.
Superintendent Rick Leonard and principal Doug Joyner said they are happy to have recognition for the Handley family in a theatre rich in history.
The Winchester Education Foundation, which raises money for various school programs, will be the beneficiary of the concert. Damon DeArment is the president of the organization.
"We feel this event will bring credibility and awareness to the mission of the Winchester Education Foundation, which is to provide funding for academic programs, scholarships, teacher and student enrichment, athletic equipment and uniforms, and other projects to enhance the education of all the students in the Winchester school system," comments DeArment.
It will be Willie Nelson's second appearance in Winchester since the 1966 Apple Blossom Festival. Tickets for the dedication ceremony go on sale September 21.
The second announcement made Thursday was, a dedication ceremony will be held October 29 with a concert by Willie Nelson.
Superintendent Rick Leonard and principal Doug Joyner said they are happy to have recognition for the Handley family in a theatre rich in history.
The Winchester Education Foundation, which raises money for various school programs, will be the beneficiary of the concert. Damon DeArment is the president of the organization.
"We feel this event will bring credibility and awareness to the mission of the Winchester Education Foundation, which is to provide funding for academic programs, scholarships, teacher and student enrichment, athletic equipment and uniforms, and other projects to enhance the education of all the students in the Winchester school system," comments DeArment.
It will be Willie Nelson's second appearance in Winchester since the 1966 Apple Blossom Festival. Tickets for the dedication ceremony go on sale September 21.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
RECLINER JIMMY!
WINCHESTER, VA - Boots and hats crowded Winchester's George Washington hotel, and, no, it wasn't a rodeo. It was a fund-raiser to restore the former home of country music legend Patsy Cline. Prizes were awarded to the best boots and the best hat. For Cline's fans-- restoring the house is an important part of honoring an icon-- that they say means so much to Winchester. Organizers say people traveled from across the country to help with the fund-raiser. "It's music that truly is timeless. The recordings are over forty years old, sometimes fifty, and they still sound very current and its music that all fans can relate to," said Jimmy Walker. Cline lived on South Kent Street in Winchester during the earliest years of her career.
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Monday, September 7, 2009
Saturday, September 5, 2009
BOOT N' HATS UPDATE. W/ VIDEO LINK
Friday night was the Boots N' Hats event at the George Washington Hotel in Winchester.
The fundraiser was part of the effort to raise money to renovate country music legend Patsy Cline's home in Winchester. Also in the crowd were Patsy Cline fans who traveled from Pennsylvania and even as far as Maine to take part in the Boots N' Hats event.
"I heard about this place about a month ago from the commerce and I just had to come since I've loved Patsy Cline since I was about 8. I am a big fan!" said Laura from Hanover, PA.
"I have the best and biggest shrine to her in Maine set up in my living room. We are the biggest fans of her as far as I know in the state of Maine," said Ryan Abraham, who traveled from his home in Maine for the event.
There was also a silent auction with donated items to raise money for the Patsy Cline house.
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The fundraiser was part of the effort to raise money to renovate country music legend Patsy Cline's home in Winchester. Also in the crowd were Patsy Cline fans who traveled from Pennsylvania and even as far as Maine to take part in the Boots N' Hats event.
"I heard about this place about a month ago from the commerce and I just had to come since I've loved Patsy Cline since I was about 8. I am a big fan!" said Laura from Hanover, PA.
"I have the best and biggest shrine to her in Maine set up in my living room. We are the biggest fans of her as far as I know in the state of Maine," said Ryan Abraham, who traveled from his home in Maine for the event.
There was also a silent auction with donated items to raise money for the Patsy Cline house.
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Thursday, September 3, 2009
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Country legend to be honored at fundraiser
By Jessica Wiant -- jwiant@nvdaily.com
WINCHESTER -- Donning your best boots and hat on Sept. 4 at the George Washington Hotel could win you a prize, but should at least result in a good time for you and more money for the renovation of a local legend's former home.
Only the tip of the boot is filled so far in the effort to raise the $198,500 needed to completely restore country and pop star Patsy Cline's former home at 608 S. Kent St. to its condition during her years there, 1948 to 1957, says Judy Sue Huyett-Kempf, president of Celebrating Patsy Cline Inc.
The group, dedicated to preserving the singer's legacy, bought the building six years ago and wants to eventually open it to the public, not as a museum, but as a historic site -- accurate in details from furniture, curtains, appliances and more based on the memories of Cline's still-living husband, Charlie Dick, according to Huyett-Kempf.
They kicked off their fundraising efforts earlier this year, and on Sept. 4, they're hoping to fill the boot a little more with the first-ever Boots-n-Hats for Patsy Cline event with the Winchester-Frederick County Convention and Visitors Bureau.
"It's really going to be a fun, fun evening," says the bureau's executive director, Natalie Wills.
Live music for the evening will be provided by country music veteran Brent Woodall and the Natchez Trace Band and local country recording artist Thom Shepherd, whose song "Riding with Private Malone" was a No. 1 hit for country singer David Ball, according to a news release from the visitor's bureau.
"The music's going to be great," Wills says.
Food, including pulled pork and ham, also will be available, as will a cash bar featuring a special "Midnight Margarita," in honor of one of Cline's hits.
The event also will include a silent auction of Cline-themed items including a coffee table decorated with a collage of Cline memorabilia, a Cline wall clock, framed poem and Cline record collection that has been donated by a fan.
In addition to auction items, glowing boot and hat pins will be for sale for $3 during the evening to be used during a tribute to Cline. According to the news release, a Cline tribute artist will perform "Sweet Dreams," with the lights of the George Washington Hotel ballroom dimmed at one point during the evening.
And, of course, prizes will be awarded for the best boots and hats, although attendees aren't required to wear them, Wills says.
The date for the event was chosen because it falls near Cline's birthday, on Sept. 8, a date that has made Winchester a frequent stop for Cline fans on Labor Day weekends, according to Wills.
She says she'd like to see it grow into a full weekend of activities centered around the star, who died in a plane crash in 1963.
Cline, who spent much of her life in Winchester, is a music icon, Huyett-Kempf says, and a pioneer woman who "dared to journey into a man's world of music."
Even today many people identify with her songs, she says.
Just opening Cline's former house to the public will fulfill a need in the Winchester community, according to Wills: Hardly a day goes by that someone doesn't stop in the visitor center looking for Patsy Cline sites, she says.
"To have her house open would really give the fans the experience they're seeking," she says.
Boots-n-Hats for Patsy Cline will be held from 7 to 11 p.m. on Sept. 4 at the George Washington Hotel at 103 E. Piccadilly St. in Winchester. Tickets, which are $50 each, are available by mail or at the visitor center at 1400 S. Pleasant Valley Road. All proceeds from the event will go toward establishing the Patsy Cline Historic House. Call 542-1326 or 877-871-1326 for more information.
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WINCHESTER -- Donning your best boots and hat on Sept. 4 at the George Washington Hotel could win you a prize, but should at least result in a good time for you and more money for the renovation of a local legend's former home.
Only the tip of the boot is filled so far in the effort to raise the $198,500 needed to completely restore country and pop star Patsy Cline's former home at 608 S. Kent St. to its condition during her years there, 1948 to 1957, says Judy Sue Huyett-Kempf, president of Celebrating Patsy Cline Inc.
The group, dedicated to preserving the singer's legacy, bought the building six years ago and wants to eventually open it to the public, not as a museum, but as a historic site -- accurate in details from furniture, curtains, appliances and more based on the memories of Cline's still-living husband, Charlie Dick, according to Huyett-Kempf.
They kicked off their fundraising efforts earlier this year, and on Sept. 4, they're hoping to fill the boot a little more with the first-ever Boots-n-Hats for Patsy Cline event with the Winchester-Frederick County Convention and Visitors Bureau.
"It's really going to be a fun, fun evening," says the bureau's executive director, Natalie Wills.
Live music for the evening will be provided by country music veteran Brent Woodall and the Natchez Trace Band and local country recording artist Thom Shepherd, whose song "Riding with Private Malone" was a No. 1 hit for country singer David Ball, according to a news release from the visitor's bureau.
"The music's going to be great," Wills says.
Food, including pulled pork and ham, also will be available, as will a cash bar featuring a special "Midnight Margarita," in honor of one of Cline's hits.
The event also will include a silent auction of Cline-themed items including a coffee table decorated with a collage of Cline memorabilia, a Cline wall clock, framed poem and Cline record collection that has been donated by a fan.
In addition to auction items, glowing boot and hat pins will be for sale for $3 during the evening to be used during a tribute to Cline. According to the news release, a Cline tribute artist will perform "Sweet Dreams," with the lights of the George Washington Hotel ballroom dimmed at one point during the evening.
And, of course, prizes will be awarded for the best boots and hats, although attendees aren't required to wear them, Wills says.
The date for the event was chosen because it falls near Cline's birthday, on Sept. 8, a date that has made Winchester a frequent stop for Cline fans on Labor Day weekends, according to Wills.
She says she'd like to see it grow into a full weekend of activities centered around the star, who died in a plane crash in 1963.
Cline, who spent much of her life in Winchester, is a music icon, Huyett-Kempf says, and a pioneer woman who "dared to journey into a man's world of music."
Even today many people identify with her songs, she says.
Just opening Cline's former house to the public will fulfill a need in the Winchester community, according to Wills: Hardly a day goes by that someone doesn't stop in the visitor center looking for Patsy Cline sites, she says.
"To have her house open would really give the fans the experience they're seeking," she says.
Boots-n-Hats for Patsy Cline will be held from 7 to 11 p.m. on Sept. 4 at the George Washington Hotel at 103 E. Piccadilly St. in Winchester. Tickets, which are $50 each, are available by mail or at the visitor center at 1400 S. Pleasant Valley Road. All proceeds from the event will go toward establishing the Patsy Cline Historic House. Call 542-1326 or 877-871-1326 for more information.
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Tuesday, September 1, 2009
NASHVILLE MUSIC GARDEN WITH PATSY CLINE FLOWERS
AT THE HALL OF FAME GARDEN IN NASHVILLE SEPT 29TH 10AM! PATSY CLINE ROSE & DAYLILLIES.
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Monday, August 3, 2009
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Sunday, July 26, 2009
TG CH4 Irish tv documentary on Patsy!
LINK FOUND BY KING RECLINER JIMMY WALKER:
A group from an Irish television station was in town for a documentary on Patsy Cline.
The crew comes from an Irish language station called TG 4, one of four national stations in Ireland.
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They are creating a piece on 8 country music legends including Hank Williams, Dolly Parton, and Patsy Cline. The crew has been in the United States for the last 6 weeks.
Daithi O'Se is the TG 4 Television Presenter. He says besides the weather being very hot in the states compared to Ireland, the tour has been fantastic.
"This is the point where Patsy left school and would work in the local drug store, help her mother raise the family," explains O'Se. "So it is great to be here, to get the real inside, get the real dirt, talking with people about the real story of Patsy Cline and the legend that is Patsy Cline and her legacy," adds O'Se.
Winchester is the last stop on the tour and the production staff will go home to Ireland on Friday.
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A group from an Irish television station was in town for a documentary on Patsy Cline.
The crew comes from an Irish language station called TG 4, one of four national stations in Ireland.
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They are creating a piece on 8 country music legends including Hank Williams, Dolly Parton, and Patsy Cline. The crew has been in the United States for the last 6 weeks.
Daithi O'Se is the TG 4 Television Presenter. He says besides the weather being very hot in the states compared to Ireland, the tour has been fantastic.
"This is the point where Patsy left school and would work in the local drug store, help her mother raise the family," explains O'Se. "So it is great to be here, to get the real inside, get the real dirt, talking with people about the real story of Patsy Cline and the legend that is Patsy Cline and her legacy," adds O'Se.
Winchester is the last stop on the tour and the production staff will go home to Ireland on Friday.
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Thursday, July 16, 2009
Honky-Tonk Heroes and Hillbilly Angels: The Pioneers of Country and Western Music (Hardcover) With Patsy Cline
A MUST BUY FOR ANY FAN!
Honky-Tonk Heroes and Hillbilly Angels: The Pioneers of Country and Western Music (Hardcover) From School Library JournalGrade 3-5–Concise but thorough, this picture book discusses the evolution of a distinctive American music style through a chronicle of its biggest stars. After a lively introduction to the history of Country & Western music from its beginnings in 19th-century folk songs to the present, the author highlights 20th-century artists from the Grand Ole Opry, honky-tonks, western swing, and rock and roll. Each artist or group receives a full-page treatment opposite an illustration. The Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Roy Acuff, Gene Autry, Ernest Tubb, and Bill Monroe are all featured for their performances or their introduction of unique sounds: guitar leads, hillbilly yodels, Hollywood films, electric guitar, and the string-band blues and gospel mix of the Kentucky Bluegrass sound. Bob Wills and his country swing music, Kitty Wells's empathy for women's issues, Hank Williams's pop chart hits, Patsy Cline's Nashville Sound with small orchestras and background singers, Buck Owens's Bakersfield Sound of rockin' Country & Western, the solo sounds of Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, George Jones, and Johnny Cash all receive individual entries that define their talents, personal history, and professional accomplishments. Colorful, stylized, folk art of the performers and/or their instruments is included.–Mary Elam, Forman Elementary School, Plano, TX Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From BooklistGr. 4-6. Similar in format and design to the George-Warren and Levine's Shake, Rattle & Roll: The Founders of Rock & Roll (2001), this picture book offers short biographies of seminal figures in country and western music history. A one-page introduction summarizes the roots, development, and influence of the music before celebrating its artists in a series of double-page spreads. A typical entry presents the life and career of a singer or instrumentalist on one page opposite a portrait of that artist showcased in an antique wooden frame. Levine's folk-art paintings, created with flat colors and occasional use of pattern, are quite distinctive; one memorable portrait shows Gene Autry grinning, face forward, while his horse, Champion, shown in profile with a toothy grin, eyes the viewer. The naive art suits the subject even better than it did in the earlier book. Carolyn PhelanCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Winny news
City approves firm for manager search
Springsted Inc. will help with hiring of a permanent replacement for Godfrey
By J.R. Williams -- jrwilliams@nvdaily.com
WINCHESTER -- The City Council gave formal approval Tuesday night to use consulting firm Springsted Inc. in the search for a new city manager.
Council members voted unanimously to authorize an emergency contract for the company's services.
Council President Jeff Buettner said Springsted already has received several resumes for the position, vacated by J. Brannon Godfrey Jr. on June 23.
Candidates will be accepted through August, Buettner said, at which time Springsted will narrow the applicant pool for the city's consideration.
"We hope to have someone working by September," he said.
Springsted assisted in finding recently approved interim City Manager Robert Noe, of Leesburg, who will begin his duties July 28. Noe likely will not be in the running for the permanent position, Buettner said.
Godfrey unexpectedly resigned June 23 after 18 months on the job. Three weeks later, City Administration Director Sharen Gromling announced her retirement after 29 years with the city.
Gromling's replacement will not be hired until a city manager is in place, Buettner said.
Costs for Springsted's services are still under negotiation, he said.
In other business, the City Council:
* Approved a conditional-use permit for a "neighborhood convenience establishment" at 715 S. Kent St., at the corner of Germain Street.
According to a letter from the applicant to the city, the property would be used as a market, with hopes to convert the space into a cafe if the business is successful.
"We would like to amend the existing building for use as a neighborhood convenience that may consist of a neighborhood cafe, market, or bakery/deli," a letter from the applicant states.
Council members approved the permit after a public hearing on the matter. Richard Greenfield, a neighbor who lives in the 100 block of East Germain Street, spoke out against the project.
"I think a convenience store is not an upscale move," he said. "It's absolutely the wrong way to go."
Several stores in the area already serve residents, he said.
But several council members have said the project would help to revitalize that neighborhood.
"I think it will help create visibility and an open neighborhood," Councilman Michael Butler said. "I think it fits several definitions for what we want to do in that area."
The property is close to the former home of Patsy Cline, which has been approved for use as a museum.
* Approved the modification of a $1 million Virginia Department of Transportation grant concerning refurbishing sidewalks, curbs and gutters.
The city had applied for the work to be completed on Millwood Avenue and Loudoun and Gerrard streets.
The grant money now will be used on Amherst Street and Highland Avenue in conjunction with downtown utility replacement work.
Councilman Les Veach did not attend Tuesday's meeting.
Springsted Inc. will help with hiring of a permanent replacement for Godfrey
By J.R. Williams -- jrwilliams@nvdaily.com
WINCHESTER -- The City Council gave formal approval Tuesday night to use consulting firm Springsted Inc. in the search for a new city manager.
Council members voted unanimously to authorize an emergency contract for the company's services.
Council President Jeff Buettner said Springsted already has received several resumes for the position, vacated by J. Brannon Godfrey Jr. on June 23.
Candidates will be accepted through August, Buettner said, at which time Springsted will narrow the applicant pool for the city's consideration.
"We hope to have someone working by September," he said.
Springsted assisted in finding recently approved interim City Manager Robert Noe, of Leesburg, who will begin his duties July 28. Noe likely will not be in the running for the permanent position, Buettner said.
Godfrey unexpectedly resigned June 23 after 18 months on the job. Three weeks later, City Administration Director Sharen Gromling announced her retirement after 29 years with the city.
Gromling's replacement will not be hired until a city manager is in place, Buettner said.
Costs for Springsted's services are still under negotiation, he said.
In other business, the City Council:
* Approved a conditional-use permit for a "neighborhood convenience establishment" at 715 S. Kent St., at the corner of Germain Street.
According to a letter from the applicant to the city, the property would be used as a market, with hopes to convert the space into a cafe if the business is successful.
"We would like to amend the existing building for use as a neighborhood convenience that may consist of a neighborhood cafe, market, or bakery/deli," a letter from the applicant states.
Council members approved the permit after a public hearing on the matter. Richard Greenfield, a neighbor who lives in the 100 block of East Germain Street, spoke out against the project.
"I think a convenience store is not an upscale move," he said. "It's absolutely the wrong way to go."
Several stores in the area already serve residents, he said.
But several council members have said the project would help to revitalize that neighborhood.
"I think it will help create visibility and an open neighborhood," Councilman Michael Butler said. "I think it fits several definitions for what we want to do in that area."
The property is close to the former home of Patsy Cline, which has been approved for use as a museum.
* Approved the modification of a $1 million Virginia Department of Transportation grant concerning refurbishing sidewalks, curbs and gutters.
The city had applied for the work to be completed on Millwood Avenue and Loudoun and Gerrard streets.
The grant money now will be used on Amherst Street and Highland Avenue in conjunction with downtown utility replacement work.
Councilman Les Veach did not attend Tuesday's meeting.
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Patsy Cline house project outlined
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Patsy Cline house project outlined By Stephanie M. Mangino The Winchester Star
Winchester — “Come on in and sit right down and make yourself at home,” Patsy Cline sang on the 1956 single “Come On In.”
The line is serving as inspiration for the effort to turn her one-time home at 608 S. Kent St. into a special kind of place — one that will give fans a unique and personal insight into the singing star’s short life, according to JudySue Huyett-Kempf, president of Celebrating Patsy Cline Inc.
Cline died in a 1963 plane crash at age 30.
Scott Andres, building committee chairman of Celebrating Patsy Cline Inc., discusses the group’s plan to raise $198,500 and restore the legendary country singer’s home on Kent Street in downtown Winchester. Cline lived intermittently in the home between 1948 and 1957.(Photos by Jeff Taylor)
CPC launched its capital campaign Friday, announcing that it needs $198,500 to restore the historic home, where visitors will feel as though Cline is “right there beside you,” Huyett-Kempf said.
CPC hopes to have the house open to the public within six months — a goal that building committee chairman Scott Andres said at a Friday news conference may be optimistic, “but we’re shooting for that.”
Restoration work may be able to start when roughly one-third of the total needed is raised, he added.
KEE Construction of Winchester is the project contractor, CPC announced at the Friday event, held outside Cline’s former home.
The project is a special one for KEE for a couple of reasons, said its president Danny McKee.
First, the company likes to restore old homes. Secondly, it feels as if Cline always has been part of his family, he said.
McKee’s sister Sherrie Bloomfield often sang Cline’s songs while growing up, he said. Bloomfield did the same Friday on Cline’s onetime front porch, treating those gathered to renditions of the Cline hits “Crazy” and “Walkin’ After Midnight.”
Shelda Longerbeam, coordinating the fundraising effort, said she is hopeful about meeting the organization’s goal fairly soon.
A veteran area fundraiser, she is new to the CPC effort, but said she was drawn to it.
Her husband Jim was in the military service and their travels took them around the country — and Cline is beloved all over, she said.
Longerbeam, who counts herself a Cline fan, said she will approach people for funds for the project and will “try and get some other people to do the same thing.”
Once the work is complete, visitors to the historic home will hear songs Cline heard growing up and even see the porch glider where she sat, Huyett-Kempf said.
Retired University of Maryland professor and historian Douglas Gomery of Chevy Chase, Md., leads a tour of Patsy Cline’s bedroom Friday in her one-time home on Kent Street in downtown Winchester. Celebrating Patsy Cline Inc. plans to establish a museum in the house. Listening to Gomery is Hank Zimmerman (left) of ShenandoahValley.com and reporter Ryan O’Connor of TV3 Winchester.
Cline lived intermittently at the Kent Street home between 1948 and 1957. She signed her first record contract while living there, and it was from that house that she prepared for a 1957 star-making appearance on the “Arthur Godfrey Talent Scouts” television show.
The home was where Cline — born Virginia Patterson Hensley Sept. 8, 1932 — developed as a singer.
“Her career was formed from there,” Huyett-Kempf said.
It was also where her mother stitched her stage costumes on a sewing machine CPC now possesses.
Armed with photos of the home provided by Cline’s husband Charlie Dick — along with his memories — CPC will re-create Cline’s world.
Some demolition work will be needed to bring the home back to Cline’s era.
For example, two upstairs bedrooms and a bathroom weren’t part of the home where Patsy lived. Instead, she, her mother Hilda Hensley, and her two siblings shared an upstairs room, Huyett-Kempf said.
“It makes you realize ... how little they had,” she said. “It’s an eye-opener.”
Her words were brought to life Friday when house historian Douglas Gomery — a University of Maryland professor emeritus — led a tour around the home, noting the cramped conditions in which the family lived.
“This is what she grew up in,” he said as he stood in the bedroom, which he termed a “community sleep room.”
Cline had her own area in the room, as did her brother. Her mother and youngest sister shared a double bed, he said.
Downstairs, as he pointed at a plug in the living room, he noted the family’s television sat.
It was placed on a swivel, so it could be seen in the living room and parlor areas.
It is likely that in a corner of the tiny living room, Cline sat and listened to the radio, Gomery added.
The demolition work will include the removal of the upstairs rooms Hensley later added to the home, Huyett-Kempf said.
Cline bought the home for Hensley in 1957, Gomery said. Hensley rented out the home for many years, but continued to live in another home on the street until her 1998 death.
Other interior construction work must be done to re-create Cline’s world.
A wall between the parlor and kitchen will reappear, and a tiny downstairs bathroom will also be re-established.
A hallway leading from the front door to that bathroom will also be brought back, Huyett-Kempf said. “Everything has to be authentic.”
The organization isn’t starting out from rock-bottom with its fundraising, having recently established a Brick-A-Thon campaign — selling commemorative bricks to be used in the sidewalk outside the home.
The engraved bricks cost $100 for one name line and $150 for two name lines.
CPC’s board members have sold more than $10,000 worth of the bricks, the group’s fundraising committee chairman Ernie Ryles said.
A new event will also raise money for the historic house. The first “Boots and Hats for Patsy Cline” will be held from 9 to 11 p.m. Sept. 4 at The George Washington Hotel.
The evening, which will have a country theme, will include light refreshments, a cash bar, country music, and contests for the attendees with the best outfit, best hat, and best pair of boots.
The tickets will cost $50.
For more information, contact CPC toll-free at 888-608-2726.
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Patsy Cline house project outlined By Stephanie M. Mangino The Winchester Star
Winchester — “Come on in and sit right down and make yourself at home,” Patsy Cline sang on the 1956 single “Come On In.”
The line is serving as inspiration for the effort to turn her one-time home at 608 S. Kent St. into a special kind of place — one that will give fans a unique and personal insight into the singing star’s short life, according to JudySue Huyett-Kempf, president of Celebrating Patsy Cline Inc.
Cline died in a 1963 plane crash at age 30.
Scott Andres, building committee chairman of Celebrating Patsy Cline Inc., discusses the group’s plan to raise $198,500 and restore the legendary country singer’s home on Kent Street in downtown Winchester. Cline lived intermittently in the home between 1948 and 1957.(Photos by Jeff Taylor)
CPC launched its capital campaign Friday, announcing that it needs $198,500 to restore the historic home, where visitors will feel as though Cline is “right there beside you,” Huyett-Kempf said.
CPC hopes to have the house open to the public within six months — a goal that building committee chairman Scott Andres said at a Friday news conference may be optimistic, “but we’re shooting for that.”
Restoration work may be able to start when roughly one-third of the total needed is raised, he added.
KEE Construction of Winchester is the project contractor, CPC announced at the Friday event, held outside Cline’s former home.
The project is a special one for KEE for a couple of reasons, said its president Danny McKee.
First, the company likes to restore old homes. Secondly, it feels as if Cline always has been part of his family, he said.
McKee’s sister Sherrie Bloomfield often sang Cline’s songs while growing up, he said. Bloomfield did the same Friday on Cline’s onetime front porch, treating those gathered to renditions of the Cline hits “Crazy” and “Walkin’ After Midnight.”
Shelda Longerbeam, coordinating the fundraising effort, said she is hopeful about meeting the organization’s goal fairly soon.
A veteran area fundraiser, she is new to the CPC effort, but said she was drawn to it.
Her husband Jim was in the military service and their travels took them around the country — and Cline is beloved all over, she said.
Longerbeam, who counts herself a Cline fan, said she will approach people for funds for the project and will “try and get some other people to do the same thing.”
Once the work is complete, visitors to the historic home will hear songs Cline heard growing up and even see the porch glider where she sat, Huyett-Kempf said.
Retired University of Maryland professor and historian Douglas Gomery of Chevy Chase, Md., leads a tour of Patsy Cline’s bedroom Friday in her one-time home on Kent Street in downtown Winchester. Celebrating Patsy Cline Inc. plans to establish a museum in the house. Listening to Gomery is Hank Zimmerman (left) of ShenandoahValley.com and reporter Ryan O’Connor of TV3 Winchester.
Cline lived intermittently at the Kent Street home between 1948 and 1957. She signed her first record contract while living there, and it was from that house that she prepared for a 1957 star-making appearance on the “Arthur Godfrey Talent Scouts” television show.
The home was where Cline — born Virginia Patterson Hensley Sept. 8, 1932 — developed as a singer.
“Her career was formed from there,” Huyett-Kempf said.
It was also where her mother stitched her stage costumes on a sewing machine CPC now possesses.
Armed with photos of the home provided by Cline’s husband Charlie Dick — along with his memories — CPC will re-create Cline’s world.
Some demolition work will be needed to bring the home back to Cline’s era.
For example, two upstairs bedrooms and a bathroom weren’t part of the home where Patsy lived. Instead, she, her mother Hilda Hensley, and her two siblings shared an upstairs room, Huyett-Kempf said.
“It makes you realize ... how little they had,” she said. “It’s an eye-opener.”
Her words were brought to life Friday when house historian Douglas Gomery — a University of Maryland professor emeritus — led a tour around the home, noting the cramped conditions in which the family lived.
“This is what she grew up in,” he said as he stood in the bedroom, which he termed a “community sleep room.”
Cline had her own area in the room, as did her brother. Her mother and youngest sister shared a double bed, he said.
Downstairs, as he pointed at a plug in the living room, he noted the family’s television sat.
It was placed on a swivel, so it could be seen in the living room and parlor areas.
It is likely that in a corner of the tiny living room, Cline sat and listened to the radio, Gomery added.
The demolition work will include the removal of the upstairs rooms Hensley later added to the home, Huyett-Kempf said.
Cline bought the home for Hensley in 1957, Gomery said. Hensley rented out the home for many years, but continued to live in another home on the street until her 1998 death.
Other interior construction work must be done to re-create Cline’s world.
A wall between the parlor and kitchen will reappear, and a tiny downstairs bathroom will also be re-established.
A hallway leading from the front door to that bathroom will also be brought back, Huyett-Kempf said. “Everything has to be authentic.”
The organization isn’t starting out from rock-bottom with its fundraising, having recently established a Brick-A-Thon campaign — selling commemorative bricks to be used in the sidewalk outside the home.
The engraved bricks cost $100 for one name line and $150 for two name lines.
CPC’s board members have sold more than $10,000 worth of the bricks, the group’s fundraising committee chairman Ernie Ryles said.
A new event will also raise money for the historic house. The first “Boots and Hats for Patsy Cline” will be held from 9 to 11 p.m. Sept. 4 at The George Washington Hotel.
The evening, which will have a country theme, will include light refreshments, a cash bar, country music, and contests for the attendees with the best outfit, best hat, and best pair of boots.
The tickets will cost $50.
For more information, contact CPC toll-free at 888-608-2726.
...www.celebratingpatsycline.org
By Alex Bridges -- abridges@nvdaily.com
WINCHESTER -- Patsy Cline's home before she made it big in country music needs a reverse facelift, a group of aficionados has said.
So Celebrating Patsy Cline plans to restore the house at 608 S. Kent St. to the way it looked when the singer lived there in the late 1940s and early 1950s. But that's going to take money, and the organization devoted to preserving the late singer's memory and connection to the city has kicked off a campaign to raise it.
Celebrating Patsy Cline announced its restoration plans at a press conference Friday afternoon and gave media a tour of the house. Director JudySue Huyett-Kempf noted the house, once restored, would be "historically correct."
The nonprofit organization set a fundraising goal of $198,500. The group already has raised more than $10,000 through the sale of bricks that will be placed in front of the house.
"First of all, this is going to be an historic house and not a museum," said Scott Andres, chairman of the group's building committee.
Winchester City Council recently approved amending the zoning ordinance to allow museums as an allowed use for property in the same district type as where the Cline house is located. Celebrating Patsy Cline spurred the change to the code.
The group hopes to finish the restoration in six months, Andres said, a deadline he acknowledged may be optimistic.
A structural engineering study of the building has been done on the home, which has not been lived in for a year. Andres said a recent tour of the house "was very eye-opening to me because we finally found out what goes where."
The group's historian, Douglas Gomery, of Chevy Chase, Md., led a tour of the home after the conference.
Gomery pointed out that the Hensleys lived in the poorer part of town inhabited by white families and that the home as originally built was very small. The Hensleys all lived on the second floor, accessible by one stairway. A second set of stairs will have to be removed. Other changes will have to be made to restore the house, which was built in the late 1800s.
"We don't know what's gonna happen once we start gettin' into the walls," Huyett-Kempf said, after pointing out some of the original wallpaper remains under coats of paint.
Virginia Patterson Hensley, later known as Patsy Cline, was born Sept. 8, 1932, at Winchester Memorial Hospital, Huyett-Kempf said. After 16 years -- and 19 moves -- Cline moved back to the city and settled at the South Kent Street home with her mother, Hilda Hensley, brother John "Sam" Hensley, and sister Sylvia Hensley.
Cline lived in the house until Aug. 1, 1957, and after marrying her second husband, Charlie Dick, moved with him into a residence three doors down, according to Huyett-Kempf. Cline's budding career spurred the singer and her husband to move to Nashville that year, though she frequently returned to Winchester before she died in a plane crash March 5, 1963.
Patsy Cline came back to stay with her mother in 1958 while recovering from the birth of her daughter, Julie.
At the event, guitarist Frank Johnson accompanied Sherri Blufield as she sang two of Cline's most well-known hits, "Crazy" and "Walkin' After Midnight."
No members of Cline's family attended the event.
WINCHESTER -- Patsy Cline's home before she made it big in country music needs a reverse facelift, a group of aficionados has said.
So Celebrating Patsy Cline plans to restore the house at 608 S. Kent St. to the way it looked when the singer lived there in the late 1940s and early 1950s. But that's going to take money, and the organization devoted to preserving the late singer's memory and connection to the city has kicked off a campaign to raise it.
Celebrating Patsy Cline announced its restoration plans at a press conference Friday afternoon and gave media a tour of the house. Director JudySue Huyett-Kempf noted the house, once restored, would be "historically correct."
The nonprofit organization set a fundraising goal of $198,500. The group already has raised more than $10,000 through the sale of bricks that will be placed in front of the house.
"First of all, this is going to be an historic house and not a museum," said Scott Andres, chairman of the group's building committee.
Winchester City Council recently approved amending the zoning ordinance to allow museums as an allowed use for property in the same district type as where the Cline house is located. Celebrating Patsy Cline spurred the change to the code.
The group hopes to finish the restoration in six months, Andres said, a deadline he acknowledged may be optimistic.
A structural engineering study of the building has been done on the home, which has not been lived in for a year. Andres said a recent tour of the house "was very eye-opening to me because we finally found out what goes where."
The group's historian, Douglas Gomery, of Chevy Chase, Md., led a tour of the home after the conference.
Gomery pointed out that the Hensleys lived in the poorer part of town inhabited by white families and that the home as originally built was very small. The Hensleys all lived on the second floor, accessible by one stairway. A second set of stairs will have to be removed. Other changes will have to be made to restore the house, which was built in the late 1800s.
"We don't know what's gonna happen once we start gettin' into the walls," Huyett-Kempf said, after pointing out some of the original wallpaper remains under coats of paint.
Virginia Patterson Hensley, later known as Patsy Cline, was born Sept. 8, 1932, at Winchester Memorial Hospital, Huyett-Kempf said. After 16 years -- and 19 moves -- Cline moved back to the city and settled at the South Kent Street home with her mother, Hilda Hensley, brother John "Sam" Hensley, and sister Sylvia Hensley.
Cline lived in the house until Aug. 1, 1957, and after marrying her second husband, Charlie Dick, moved with him into a residence three doors down, according to Huyett-Kempf. Cline's budding career spurred the singer and her husband to move to Nashville that year, though she frequently returned to Winchester before she died in a plane crash March 5, 1963.
Patsy Cline came back to stay with her mother in 1958 while recovering from the birth of her daughter, Julie.
At the event, guitarist Frank Johnson accompanied Sherri Blufield as she sang two of Cline's most well-known hits, "Crazy" and "Walkin' After Midnight."
No members of Cline's family attended the event.
Monday, July 6, 2009
"The Queens of Country: Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, Patsy Cline" dvd set.
"The Queens of Country: Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, Patsy Cline" (MPI, 2009, three discs, color and b/w, $24.98). Culled from TV appearances, each of these discs collects live performances of respective early hits by Cline (from various programs), Lynn (as a young regular on "The Wilburn Brothers Show") and Parton (from her 1976 syndicated half-hour program, with guests Kenny Rogers, Rod McKuen, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris).
These are reissues of earlier releases: "Patsy Cline: Sweet Dreams Still," "Loretta Lynn: Songs of Inspiration" and "Dolly Parton & Friends." The latter is actually a two-disc set, but only the first disc is here (with three episodes and a bonus song from "The Porter Wagoner Show"); the disc even has imprinted: "Disc One."
Extras: full frame, 56 songs
Starring Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn and Dolly PartonThree of the greatest female legends of song are spotlighted in this special three-disc DVD collection, featuring timeless sounds from the 1960s & the 1970s.DOLLY PARTON Dolly & Friends features the multi-talented Ms. Parton performing country and popular music from her 1976-77 series "Dolly." Joined by friends Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris, Kenny Rogers and poet Rod McKuen, Dolly offers a variety of her greatest hits as well as special duets not available anywhere else. LORETTA LYNN In this collection of long-unseen highlights from her days as a regular on The Wilburn Brothers Show, Lynn sings a heartfelt and uplifting assortment of both traditional and and contemporary gospel songs.PATSY CLINE Sweet Dreams Still is the essential video anthology of Patsy s filmed musical performances, offering full-length clips of rare performances along with Patsy s last televised appearance, days before her tragic death.
Friday, July 3, 2009
Brick-A-Thon Fundraiser Rebuilds Country Music Star's Home! Winny News for Patsy Cline!
WINCHESTER, VA - A new fundraiser could put your name down in history. The “Celebrating Patsy Cline Incorporated” organization has started a Brick-A-Thon fundraiser for deceased country music start Patsy Cline. Cline made Winchester her home for nearly nine years. The home on South Kent Street is in need of restoration, so bricks are being sold to help raise money. Each brick will be engraved with the donator’s name. The bricks will then be used in the restorations.
Link in title! News Clip at site.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Patsy Cline, Hank Williams Autographs Make Bank...
Loyal country music fans have been seeking autographs from their favorite stars all the way back to ... well, since there were country music stars. For buyers and sellers, the right autograph can mean shelling out or raking in some serious bucks.A recent article on the Musicouch blog ranks the top seven classic country acts based on recent auctions of item they had autographed. The late Patsy Cline, who died in a 1963 plane crash, tops the list, with a whopping $3,612 paid for a signed copy of her 1957 album 'Walkin' After Midnight.' Want an 8x10 photo autographed photo of the singer? The top bidder on that item paid $1,626.Following Patsy, in the No. 2 spot is the late Hank Williams. Rounding out the list are Jim Reeves, Jimmie Rodgers, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Cowboy Copas (another victim of that 1963 plane crash). Autographs don't have to be limited to photos or recordings. Other personal items such as business contracts, handwritten letters and personal checks are highly sought by collectors.And while items from stars who are no longer with us tend to fetch the most money, with eBay and other auction sites featuring a steady stream of signed memorabilia, there are plenty of opportunities to sell autographs from every era -- if you're willing to part with them, that is. (But don't even think about trying to get your hands on our autographed issue of Rolling Stone with Dolly Parton on the cover!)
link in title.
Friday, June 19, 2009
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Loretta Lynn Gets Patsy Cline’s Approval
June 18, 2009 — Loretta Lynn was rather famously friends with Patsy Cline when the Coal Miner’s Daughter first moved to Nashville during the early 1960s. Loretta paid tribute to her mentor with the 1977 album I Remember Patsy, but she also got a thumbs-up from the singer for one of her earliest hits.
"You Ain’t Woman Enough" was one of the songs that helped Loretta carve out an identity as a forthright, self-reliant female in a period where women in country music were labelled as "girl singers" and mostly controlled by the men that ran the business. Given the defiant nature of "You Ain’t Woman Enough," it was considered a daring song. Patsy, who was no pushover, considered it a winner.
"She was my only girlfriend at the time," Loretta told The Denver Post. "She took me under her wing, and when I lost her, it was something else. I still miss her to this day. I wrote ‘You Ain’t Woman Enough To Take My Man,’ and she said, ‘Loretta, that’s a damn hit.’ It shocked me, because you don’t expect somebody like Patsy Cline to tell you that you have a hit."
Loretta must have allowed "You Ain’t Woman Enough" to sit on the shelf for some time before she finally did something with it. Patsy died, along with fellow singers Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins, in a plane crash during March 1963. Loretta didn’t record "You Ain’t Woman Enough" until November 1965 — more than 30 months later. It’s clearly a classic. The Country Music Foundation’s book Heartaches By The Number ranked "You Ain’t Woman Enough" among the 500 greatest country singles of all-time.
"You Ain’t Woman Enough" was one of the songs that helped Loretta carve out an identity as a forthright, self-reliant female in a period where women in country music were labelled as "girl singers" and mostly controlled by the men that ran the business. Given the defiant nature of "You Ain’t Woman Enough," it was considered a daring song. Patsy, who was no pushover, considered it a winner.
"She was my only girlfriend at the time," Loretta told The Denver Post. "She took me under her wing, and when I lost her, it was something else. I still miss her to this day. I wrote ‘You Ain’t Woman Enough To Take My Man,’ and she said, ‘Loretta, that’s a damn hit.’ It shocked me, because you don’t expect somebody like Patsy Cline to tell you that you have a hit."
Loretta must have allowed "You Ain’t Woman Enough" to sit on the shelf for some time before she finally did something with it. Patsy died, along with fellow singers Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins, in a plane crash during March 1963. Loretta didn’t record "You Ain’t Woman Enough" until November 1965 — more than 30 months later. It’s clearly a classic. The Country Music Foundation’s book Heartaches By The Number ranked "You Ain’t Woman Enough" among the 500 greatest country singles of all-time.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
With Winchester's OK, organization plans to convert Patsy Cline home into museum
By J.R. Williams -- jrwilliams@nvdaily.com
WINCHESTER -- With the city's blessing in hand, Celebrating Patsy Cline Inc. is moving forward with plans to transform the singer's former home into a museum.
Big plans are in order. Vacant since June, 608 S. Kent St. has morphed into a different house since Cline lived there between 1948 and 1957.
A wall in the living room was removed, a set of back stairs to additional bedrooms was added, and what used to be a porch is now the kitchen. But that won't do, said Celebrating Patsy Cline's president, Judy Sue Huyett-Kempf.
The organization hopes to undo much of what time has done to the home since it was built in 1892, and is rebooting fundraising efforts to make it happen.
"We want it as authentic as possible," she said. "The next step is to get it back as far as we can. The bones are here."
Guests to the museum will walk into a day in Patsy's young life, she said. With help from black-and-white photographs furnished by Charles A. Dick, Cline's widower, the organization plans to match the furniture and find a suitable replacement for the original floral wallpaper, which is still visible in some places.
"[Cline's family] didn't have much money," Dick said from his Nashville home. "The furniture was something you would find at an estate sale."
Dick, who was in town several weeks ago to consult with the group, said he supports the renovations.
"I think all their ideas are good. I'd like to see it there," he said.
Visitors will be guided through the home, but many of Cline's belongings the organization has acquired will not be on regular display for security reasons, Huyett-Kempf said. Certain items will be brought to the home for special events only.
The next several months will be devoted in part to creating a marketing package for potential donors, said Ernie Ryles, a Celebrating Patsy Cline board member.
Most recently, the organization announced it will sell bricks for a reconstructed sidewalk in front of the home. One name on a brick costs $100. For $150, up to two names and a star -- representing Cline's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame -- will be displayed.
One hundred percent of donated funds from private donors and the brick campaign will go toward renovations, Ryles said.
Work will begin dependent on fundraising success, said Scott Andries, the group's project manager for the renovation.
"I don't think we can over-renovate, because you'll destroy the historic significance of the house," he said. Some structural improvements are needed, including reworked electrical wiring, he said.
The organization only recently shifted its focus to renovating the home after putting the brakes on a much larger project at the Loudoun Street Pedestrian Mall. The group still holds a lease there.
"It became clearer and clearer to us that people wanted us to own a building," Ryles said. The organization has owned the Kent Street home for about five years.
"We were trying to do some big things, but I think it's time for the past to be the past," he said.
Organization officials have been in talks with contractors and some investors, but it's too soon for finalized construction plans or to set an opening date, Ryles said.
"When we give that answer, we want to make sure we're on target," he said. "In the time I've been on the board, we're in the best position now to make something happen.
"Our chances are the best ever. I feel certain about that."
WINCHESTER -- With the city's blessing in hand, Celebrating Patsy Cline Inc. is moving forward with plans to transform the singer's former home into a museum.
Big plans are in order. Vacant since June, 608 S. Kent St. has morphed into a different house since Cline lived there between 1948 and 1957.
A wall in the living room was removed, a set of back stairs to additional bedrooms was added, and what used to be a porch is now the kitchen. But that won't do, said Celebrating Patsy Cline's president, Judy Sue Huyett-Kempf.
The organization hopes to undo much of what time has done to the home since it was built in 1892, and is rebooting fundraising efforts to make it happen.
"We want it as authentic as possible," she said. "The next step is to get it back as far as we can. The bones are here."
Guests to the museum will walk into a day in Patsy's young life, she said. With help from black-and-white photographs furnished by Charles A. Dick, Cline's widower, the organization plans to match the furniture and find a suitable replacement for the original floral wallpaper, which is still visible in some places.
"[Cline's family] didn't have much money," Dick said from his Nashville home. "The furniture was something you would find at an estate sale."
Dick, who was in town several weeks ago to consult with the group, said he supports the renovations.
"I think all their ideas are good. I'd like to see it there," he said.
Visitors will be guided through the home, but many of Cline's belongings the organization has acquired will not be on regular display for security reasons, Huyett-Kempf said. Certain items will be brought to the home for special events only.
The next several months will be devoted in part to creating a marketing package for potential donors, said Ernie Ryles, a Celebrating Patsy Cline board member.
Most recently, the organization announced it will sell bricks for a reconstructed sidewalk in front of the home. One name on a brick costs $100. For $150, up to two names and a star -- representing Cline's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame -- will be displayed.
One hundred percent of donated funds from private donors and the brick campaign will go toward renovations, Ryles said.
Work will begin dependent on fundraising success, said Scott Andries, the group's project manager for the renovation.
"I don't think we can over-renovate, because you'll destroy the historic significance of the house," he said. Some structural improvements are needed, including reworked electrical wiring, he said.
The organization only recently shifted its focus to renovating the home after putting the brakes on a much larger project at the Loudoun Street Pedestrian Mall. The group still holds a lease there.
"It became clearer and clearer to us that people wanted us to own a building," Ryles said. The organization has owned the Kent Street home for about five years.
"We were trying to do some big things, but I think it's time for the past to be the past," he said.
Organization officials have been in talks with contractors and some investors, but it's too soon for finalized construction plans or to set an opening date, Ryles said.
"When we give that answer, we want to make sure we're on target," he said. "In the time I've been on the board, we're in the best position now to make something happen.
"Our chances are the best ever. I feel certain about that."
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Friday, May 22, 2009
PATSY CLINE IN 1959 MEMORY
Do you remember Patsy Cline's 1959 show in Coopersburg?
May 21, 2009
Do you remember Patsy Cline's 1959 show in Coopersburg?May 31 will mark 50 years since a talented rising young country singer played a show at the former Playland Park in Coopersburg.Patsy Cline, then 26 and less than two years after her breakthrough appearance singing ''Walking After Midnight'' on CBS-TV's ''Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts'' and just before signing with Decca Records, played the amusement/swimming park on May 31, 1959, according to a promotional poster in the collection of part-time musician Joe Lazorik of Coopersburg.Cline later released ''Crazy'' and ''I Fall to Pieces'' before being killed in a 1963 plane crash in Tennessee at 30. She had several posthumous hits, was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1973.
If you were at the concert, or have memories of Playland Park, we'd like to hear from you for a story on the anniversary of the show. E-mail John J. Moser at john.moser@mcall.com or call 610-820-6722.
May 21, 2009
Do you remember Patsy Cline's 1959 show in Coopersburg?May 31 will mark 50 years since a talented rising young country singer played a show at the former Playland Park in Coopersburg.Patsy Cline, then 26 and less than two years after her breakthrough appearance singing ''Walking After Midnight'' on CBS-TV's ''Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts'' and just before signing with Decca Records, played the amusement/swimming park on May 31, 1959, according to a promotional poster in the collection of part-time musician Joe Lazorik of Coopersburg.Cline later released ''Crazy'' and ''I Fall to Pieces'' before being killed in a 1963 plane crash in Tennessee at 30. She had several posthumous hits, was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1973.
If you were at the concert, or have memories of Playland Park, we'd like to hear from you for a story on the anniversary of the show. E-mail John J. Moser at john.moser@mcall.com or call 610-820-6722.
Monday, May 18, 2009
Show stirs memories of Patsy Cline for Whisperin' Bill
Always… Patsy Cline finishes its Ryman Auditorium run this weekend, and audiences have been raving about Mandy Barnett’s spot-on portrayal of the legendary country singer.
Country Music Hall of Famer Bill Anderson watched the show last Friday night, and he said he “got plum-near teary-eyed when Mandy sang those first couple of songs.” Now, Whisperin’ Bill is the kind of guy who can get plum-near teary-eyed about lots of things (Vanderbilt baseball, for instance), but in this case his emotions were quite understandable. Anderson and Cline knew each other well, played the Grand Ole Opry together at the Ryman and toured together as well.
After the show, Anderson told friend Tom Adkinson about riding with Cline to a tour date in Hendersonville, N.C.
“It was Patsy, Cowboy Copas, Stringbean and me,” he said. “We laughed from the time we left Nashville until we got all the way to North Carolina. And that wasn’t a quick drive in those days.”
Copas died in the same 1963 plane crash that killed Cline, and Opry star David “Stringbean” Akeman was killed by burglars a decade later.
Always… Patsy Cline performances are Wednesday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m., with an additional Saturday matinee at 2 p.m. Tickets are $36.50 and $29.50, available at the Ryman box office or by calling 871-OPRY.
tojo45 wrote:
It's so great that Mandy gets to reprise her original role in this show. She's such a great singer and a wonderful talent. It's such a shame that she hasn't broken out to a larger audience.5/19/2009 6:44:24 AM
It's so great that Mandy gets to reprise her original role in this show. She's such a great singer and a wonderful talent. It's such a shame that she hasn't broken out to a larger audience.5/19/2009 6:44:24 AM
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Patsy Cline museum OK’d
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Renovations of home can begin as soon as funds are available
By Eric Beidel The Winchester Star
By Eric Beidel The Winchester Star
Winchester — As soon as the money is available, work will begin to restore Patsy Cline’s former home on Kent Street.
Then it will be opened to the public.
But no one knows when that will happen.
But no one knows when that will happen.
The City Council Tuesday night unanimously approved a special-use permit that will allow a museum at 608 S. Kent St., where the country music legend once lived.
Celebrating Patsy Cline Inc. owns the home and will operate the museum.
First, though, the group must renovate the home that until recently was rented to tenants.
A historic marker stands in front of the house. Former tenants used to place a sign on the door reminding uninvited visitors that the home was a private residence and not a museum.
The Cline organization had planned to open a museum on the Loudoun Street Mall, but financial constraints put a halt to that.
“It’s time now,” CPC President Judy Sue Huyett-Kempf said. “We’re very very excited and happy that Patsy Cline finally will get the recognition she deserves in her hometown of Winchester.”
Huyett-Kempf’s group has received bids from companies seeking to handle the renovations, which will be costly but manageable, she said.
The cost of the project has not been determined, Huyett-Kempf said.
The home will be restored to its appearance between 1948 and 1957, when Cline lived there with her mother.
Her husband Charlie Dick, who she met in 1956, has been helping with ideas.
“He remembers where all of the furniture was and everything,” Huyett-Kempf said.
The group is also launching an effort to raise money for the renovations and to open the house to the public.
In a dream world, Huyett-Kempf said, the house would be open by the end of the year.
“I’d like to open it tomorrow,” she said. “But we just can’t say. It’s whenever the money comes in.”
Once it does open to the public, the house will be open seven days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The Cline group plans to hold annual fundraisers and other events at the house that will extend beyond those hours.
CPC Inc. leaders took part in numerous government meetings to reach this point.
First, the city’s zoning ordinance had to be changed to allow museums in the residential district where the house is located. The City Council made that change in March. Then the organization had to apply for the special-use permit, which was approved Tuesday.
Attending Tuesday’s meeting in Rouss City Hall were President Jeffrey B. Buettner, Mayor Elizabeth A. Minor, Art H. Major, John A. Willingham, Evan H. Clark, Milt F. McInturff, John W. Hill, Michael L. Butler, and Les C. Veach.
— Contact Eric Beidel at
ebeidel@winchesterstar.com
First, though, the group must renovate the home that until recently was rented to tenants.
A historic marker stands in front of the house. Former tenants used to place a sign on the door reminding uninvited visitors that the home was a private residence and not a museum.
The Cline organization had planned to open a museum on the Loudoun Street Mall, but financial constraints put a halt to that.
“It’s time now,” CPC President Judy Sue Huyett-Kempf said. “We’re very very excited and happy that Patsy Cline finally will get the recognition she deserves in her hometown of Winchester.”
Huyett-Kempf’s group has received bids from companies seeking to handle the renovations, which will be costly but manageable, she said.
The cost of the project has not been determined, Huyett-Kempf said.
The home will be restored to its appearance between 1948 and 1957, when Cline lived there with her mother.
Her husband Charlie Dick, who she met in 1956, has been helping with ideas.
“He remembers where all of the furniture was and everything,” Huyett-Kempf said.
The group is also launching an effort to raise money for the renovations and to open the house to the public.
In a dream world, Huyett-Kempf said, the house would be open by the end of the year.
“I’d like to open it tomorrow,” she said. “But we just can’t say. It’s whenever the money comes in.”
Once it does open to the public, the house will be open seven days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The Cline group plans to hold annual fundraisers and other events at the house that will extend beyond those hours.
CPC Inc. leaders took part in numerous government meetings to reach this point.
First, the city’s zoning ordinance had to be changed to allow museums in the residential district where the house is located. The City Council made that change in March. Then the organization had to apply for the special-use permit, which was approved Tuesday.
Attending Tuesday’s meeting in Rouss City Hall were President Jeffrey B. Buettner, Mayor Elizabeth A. Minor, Art H. Major, John A. Willingham, Evan H. Clark, Milt F. McInturff, John W. Hill, Michael L. Butler, and Les C. Veach.
— Contact Eric Beidel at
ebeidel@winchesterstar.com
Monday, May 11, 2009
City planners back permit request for Patsy Cline museum
Thanks recliner Jimmy for sending this in!
By J.R. Williams -- jrwilliams@nvdaily.com
WINCHESTER -- Efforts to turn Patsy Cline's former home into a museum continue to clear administrative hurdles with little difficulty.
At a meeting last week, City Council planning and development committee members supported Celebrating Patsy Cline Inc.'s request for a permit required to operate the museum. The proposal now goes to the council for final approval.
Organizers hope to open 608 S. Kent St. to the public seven days a week from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Cline lived there from 1948 to 1957.
In a letter to city officials, Judy Sue Huyett-Kempf, president of Celebrating Patsy Cline, said, "It is the intent of CPC to restore an original wall in the living room and to outfit the current home with period furniture from that era. ... Restoration of the house should impact positively on current plans to renovate the Kent Street area."
A historical marker identifies the property as where the singer once lived.
Three temporary off-street parking spaces for the museum will be constructed on an adjacent lot at Pall Mall and Kent streets. Buses will be allowed to idle in front of the home, according to a recommendation by the Winchester Planning Commission.
According to a separate letter Huyett-Kempf submitted to the city, Celebrating Patsy Cline also is requesting approval of up to 10 fundraising events each year at the home.
Also on April 28, the committee:
* Heard that city employees are working on a revised zoning ordinance after a recent survey showed many residents found it confusing.
Committee members viewed a summary of the results, along with an update on what's being done to address residents' concerns.
The work is complementary to an ongoing comprehensive plan update, said Vincent P. Diem, Winchester zoning and inspections administrator.
Sixty-two residents responded to the survey, which was posted on the city's Web site. Of those surveyed, 56 percent said finding answers to their zoning questions was confusing. Participants requested interpretable graphs and other illustrations to better explain the ordinance.
In addition, 31 percent of respondents said guidelines for properties in the historic Winchester district are too restrictive.
Diem told the panel that some of those concerns already have been addressed. Revised design guidelines for properties in the district are in development. A "permitted use table," which shows what kind of homes and businesses are allowed in each zoning district, is now available.
* Gave a favorable recommendation to a request by Goodfellow's LLC for a permit to continue operations at the Loudoun Street nightclub.
The full council will consider the request.
* Discussed restructuring of the Old Town Development Board.
With the Frederick County Board of Supervisors giving up its seat, Karen Helm, director of the Old Town board, asked the council to fill the spot with a Shenandoah University representative.
The board also requires a replacement for Steve Northcutt, who has resigned.
The board will remain at 11 people
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Hawk to be inducted in WV HOF!!!
May 06, 2009 @ 12:14 PM
2009/The Herald-Dispatch
Herald-Dispatch.com
A Huntington native Grand Ole Opry star that was killed in the plane crash with Patsy Cline and Cowboy Copas, is one of the seven artists being inducted into the third class of The West Virginia Music Hall of Fame.
Michael Lipton, director of the Hall of Fame made the announcement this morning at a news conference at the Great Hall in the Cultural Center Theater.
The inductees, including the late,great honky tonk singer, Hawkshaw Hawkins, will be honored in a ceremony this November at the Cultural Center, along with a wide variety of Mountain State musicians who’ve made an impact on their respective musical fields.
Born and raised in the west end of Huntington, Hawkins racked up four top 10 singles starting with "Pan American" in 1948, but his only No. 1 single, "Lonesome 7-7203," appeared on the charts three days before his death.
Before joining the Opry in 1955, Hawkins (who blended up honky-tonk, country, boogie and blues) had honed his act to perfection on the Wheeling Jamboree, where he played from 1946-1954.
Hawkins, who could play any traditional acoustic instrument with strings (fiddle, guitar, bass, mandolin), taught himself to play guitar with a homemade instrument he traded for five rabbits at the age of 13.
His sister Mary Berry said one of Hawkins' biggest early influences was John Moore, a man who lived near them in the West End.
"He had a band, and my brother would go down there and sit in the yard and listen to their music, and they invited him in and he started picking with them, and he picked up a lot with them," Berry said in a previous feature about Hawkins in the Herald Dispatch. "He started on the radio when he was quite young."
By about age 16, Hawkins was heard for the first time on radio, WCMI out of Ashland. Hawkins won a talent contest on WSAZ and got a job at $15 per week.
He and friend, the late,Clarence Jack teamed up to form "Hawkshaw and Sherlock," a duo who played regularly over WSAZ.
With music calling, Hawkins left Huntington High School in his senior year. He and Sherlock traveled to Massachusetts in 1941 with a Wild West show providing the music.
And they were going great before World War II called and both served their country.
Jack came back injured and unable to perform while Hawkins, who spent 15 months of combat duty including Battle of the Bulge, came back from the war and signed onto the Wheeling Jamboree and King Records - both in 1945.
The two other deceased artists being inducted include: Moundsville composer/conductor, Frank DeVol, who wrote more than 50 movie scores, including, “The Dirty Dozen,” “Guess Who is Coming to Dinner,” and “The Longest Yard.” He’s best known for his TV show scores including, “The Brady Bunch,” and “My Three Sons.” Mercer County native Don Redman was considered one of the first great arrangers in jazz history as he was the main arranger and saxophone player for Fletcher Henderson and played sax on records by Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith and Louis Armstong.
The living inductees to the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame include coalfield blues man, Nat Reese, who has traveled the world playing country blues music.
Wheeling Jamboree stars Doc and Chickie Williams, who made their debut on the Jamboree in 1937, and appeared together on the radio for more than five decades. Doc is now 94 years old.
The Bailes Brothers, who were the first West Virginia act to become regulars on the Grand Ole Opry. Still living of the four brothers is 86-year-old Homer Bailes. The brothers, who also helped start The Louisiana Hayride, had some of their first gigs on WSAZ radio in Huntington.
Two-time Grammy Award-winning jazz artist, Larry Combs, who is considered one of the world’s leading orchestral clarinetists. He is also active in chamber music and the Chicago jazz scene.
For more info about the Hall of Fame, go online at http://www.wvmusichalloffame.com/.
2009/The Herald-Dispatch
Herald-Dispatch.com
A Huntington native Grand Ole Opry star that was killed in the plane crash with Patsy Cline and Cowboy Copas, is one of the seven artists being inducted into the third class of The West Virginia Music Hall of Fame.
Michael Lipton, director of the Hall of Fame made the announcement this morning at a news conference at the Great Hall in the Cultural Center Theater.
The inductees, including the late,great honky tonk singer, Hawkshaw Hawkins, will be honored in a ceremony this November at the Cultural Center, along with a wide variety of Mountain State musicians who’ve made an impact on their respective musical fields.
Born and raised in the west end of Huntington, Hawkins racked up four top 10 singles starting with "Pan American" in 1948, but his only No. 1 single, "Lonesome 7-7203," appeared on the charts three days before his death.
Before joining the Opry in 1955, Hawkins (who blended up honky-tonk, country, boogie and blues) had honed his act to perfection on the Wheeling Jamboree, where he played from 1946-1954.
Hawkins, who could play any traditional acoustic instrument with strings (fiddle, guitar, bass, mandolin), taught himself to play guitar with a homemade instrument he traded for five rabbits at the age of 13.
His sister Mary Berry said one of Hawkins' biggest early influences was John Moore, a man who lived near them in the West End.
"He had a band, and my brother would go down there and sit in the yard and listen to their music, and they invited him in and he started picking with them, and he picked up a lot with them," Berry said in a previous feature about Hawkins in the Herald Dispatch. "He started on the radio when he was quite young."
By about age 16, Hawkins was heard for the first time on radio, WCMI out of Ashland. Hawkins won a talent contest on WSAZ and got a job at $15 per week.
He and friend, the late,Clarence Jack teamed up to form "Hawkshaw and Sherlock," a duo who played regularly over WSAZ.
With music calling, Hawkins left Huntington High School in his senior year. He and Sherlock traveled to Massachusetts in 1941 with a Wild West show providing the music.
And they were going great before World War II called and both served their country.
Jack came back injured and unable to perform while Hawkins, who spent 15 months of combat duty including Battle of the Bulge, came back from the war and signed onto the Wheeling Jamboree and King Records - both in 1945.
The two other deceased artists being inducted include: Moundsville composer/conductor, Frank DeVol, who wrote more than 50 movie scores, including, “The Dirty Dozen,” “Guess Who is Coming to Dinner,” and “The Longest Yard.” He’s best known for his TV show scores including, “The Brady Bunch,” and “My Three Sons.” Mercer County native Don Redman was considered one of the first great arrangers in jazz history as he was the main arranger and saxophone player for Fletcher Henderson and played sax on records by Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith and Louis Armstong.
The living inductees to the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame include coalfield blues man, Nat Reese, who has traveled the world playing country blues music.
Wheeling Jamboree stars Doc and Chickie Williams, who made their debut on the Jamboree in 1937, and appeared together on the radio for more than five decades. Doc is now 94 years old.
The Bailes Brothers, who were the first West Virginia act to become regulars on the Grand Ole Opry. Still living of the four brothers is 86-year-old Homer Bailes. The brothers, who also helped start The Louisiana Hayride, had some of their first gigs on WSAZ radio in Huntington.
Two-time Grammy Award-winning jazz artist, Larry Combs, who is considered one of the world’s leading orchestral clarinetists. He is also active in chamber music and the Chicago jazz scene.
For more info about the Hall of Fame, go online at http://www.wvmusichalloffame.com/.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Fudge reveals relation to Patsy Cline
Jess Nobert
Assistant Perspectives Editor
Assistant Perspectives Editor
Not many students have ever seen a celebrity, but APSU sophomore Andrew Fudge is the grandson of one.Fudge, as his friends call him, is the grandson of Patsy Cline.When people find out, he usually hears, “That’s awesome. Who is that again?” or, “You’re kidding me, I don’t believe you.” And he even gets a few, “That’s awesome, can we go and hang out at her house sometime?”His typical response is, “She was a country singer,” “You should look her up,” “How can I prove it to you?” or, of course, “Um, she died in 1963.”Fudge is pretty modest about being a celebrity grandson. “I don’t consider our family to be boastful about the fact that we are related to Pasty Cline, but anytime there is a possibility to meet someone famous, like any country music singer, we try to use that to our advantage.”Though his grandfather doesn’t talk of Cline often, Fudge does have a few favorite memories he has shared. “My favorite stories that he has told me are about how he and Willie Nelson, who wrote ‘Crazy,’ would hang out and were drinking buddies,” Fudge said.“And there are the stories about when they went on tour with Johnny Cash and all the crazy shenanigans they would pull at hotels.”“I love when I talk about my grandmother and call her Virginia Patterson Hensley, because most people don’t know that’s her real name; Patsy Cline was just a stage name,” Fudge said.“While singing isn’t a talent that was passed down the genes,” Fudge said, “I do play the drums.”He has been playing for seven years, and plays most Sundays at his church.Fudge admits he’s not sure he would be at APSU, or even born if his grandmother hadn’t been on the plane that crashed in 1963. But if they were both here, “I know that she would have made many more amazing albums and that my family’s life would be a lot more hectic than it is today.”He puts it, “God had a plan for her to die, and it led to where me and my family are today.”Fudge, who is a brother of Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity, still isn’t sure what he wants to do after he graduates.“The past few years, I have gone back and forth with the possibility of going to seminary and doing something in the ministry field,” Fudge said, “or getting a degree in music and playing drums for a living in a music studio or band.”“The main goal I have right now is to be the first in my family to get a college degree.”“I think it’s really sunk in, now that I’m older, about how big she was.”Fudge said, “My family all went to the opening night of ‘Always Patsy Cline’ at the Ryman Auditorium. We got free tickets, being family and all, and it was pretty much like regular tickets.”“We sat up in the balcony in the middle of the auditorium just as if we bought the tickets at the door. No one really knows, without asking, that we are her family, so I felt like I was just going to a regular play,” he said.“But sitting there and hearing the girl playing my grandmother start to sing her songs, and everyone in the Ryman cheering, just because they love Patsy¹s songs, really makes me realize how big she was and how much people love her music,” Fudge said.Fudge said his favorite experience he has been a part of “was when Patsy received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. My whole family went to Hollywood and spent a week out there about a block from the Grauman’s Chinese Theatre and had a great time.”“I also love the fact that even though she is well known by millions, her songs are played on shows like ‘Lost,’ and in movies, like ‘The Departed.’I still live a normal life and am not constantly bombarded with reporters like most celebrities are today,” he said.“Growing up I don’t think I actually knew how big of a deal Patsy Cline really was. I just remember thinking of her just as Grandma Patsy.”“It’s also cool to have your grandmother on a U.S. postal stamp,” Fudge said.
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Eric P
Thu Apr 30 2009 17:15
Is this for real? I mean, really? I am way too gullable. Is this serious? Please tell me.
-EAP-
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Eric P
Thu Apr 30 2009 17:15
Is this for real? I mean, really? I am way too gullable. Is this serious? Please tell me.
-EAP-
COPAS REMEMBERED
Remembering Cowboy Copas In Section: Music » Posted In: Local Music, King Records Posted By: Steven Rosen
On Saturday, Brian Powers of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County — so instrumental in organizing that institution's ongoing tribute to the legacy of Cincinnati's King Records — put together and conducted one of the best King events yet, a panel discussion on Cowboy Copas & the Golden Age of Country Music.
Despite his use of the name "cowboy", Lloyd Copas was born in a remote hollow in Adams County. Learning to play rhythm guitar with the support of his father and schoolteacher, and blessed with an agreeably smooth and expressive voice, he developed a career as a Country-music sideman until scoring King's first national hit record with 1946's "Filipino Baby." More hits followed — including the first recording of "Tennessee Waltz" — until he was killed in a 1963 plane crash that also took the lives of Patsy Cline, Hankshaw Hawkins and Copas' son-in-law (and Cline's manager) Randy Hughes.
At Saturday's discussion were John Simon, a Portsmouth-based professor who has just published the book Cowboy Copas and the Golden Age of Country Music; Cathy Hughes, Copas' daughter (and Randy Hughes' widow); and Judy Perkins, now a spry octogenarian, who was Copas' friend and a country singer on WLW-TV's Midwestern Hayride as well as a syndicated radio show featuring Eddy Arnold. All three told some fascinating stories about a time when Country was still an entertainment-business subculture known as "hillbilly music" to society-at-large, but was a growing and lively scene just waiting to become as large as it is today.
Simon recalled how, as a child, he saw Copas perform at a Portsmouth theater on a white horse — without either band or microphone. Powers had assembled an impressive collection of audio and video clips, not just of Copas but also of Perkins singing on television and radio. The panel discussion also served as the formal announcement that the Cincinnati Museum Center is planning to host the exhibit Back Roads to Big City: A Journey Through the Heart of Honky Tonk Music: Collections From the Nashville Honky Tonk Hall of Fame. It will feature some 300 artifacts, tentatively including Nudie suits. Johnny Cash baptism notes, Patsy Cline's cowboy boots and a handwritten letter from Dolly Parton to Skeeter Davis among much else.
There will also be audio recordings and a special section on King Records, including James Brown's pink stage cape and jacket. More details as they become available, but in the meantime don't miss the next superb panel discussion organized by Powers, "Blues Stay Away From Me: A 60th Anniversary," at the downtown library at 3 p.m. on May 9. It will commemorate the 60th anniversary of the recording of one of King's most important milestones, the Delmore Brothers' "Blues Stay Away With Me," a classic country song written by African-American producer Henry Glover with Wayne Ramey on harmonica and cited as a precursor of Rock & Roll. And there will be more — much more.
On Saturday, Brian Powers of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County — so instrumental in organizing that institution's ongoing tribute to the legacy of Cincinnati's King Records — put together and conducted one of the best King events yet, a panel discussion on Cowboy Copas & the Golden Age of Country Music.
Despite his use of the name "cowboy", Lloyd Copas was born in a remote hollow in Adams County. Learning to play rhythm guitar with the support of his father and schoolteacher, and blessed with an agreeably smooth and expressive voice, he developed a career as a Country-music sideman until scoring King's first national hit record with 1946's "Filipino Baby." More hits followed — including the first recording of "Tennessee Waltz" — until he was killed in a 1963 plane crash that also took the lives of Patsy Cline, Hankshaw Hawkins and Copas' son-in-law (and Cline's manager) Randy Hughes.
At Saturday's discussion were John Simon, a Portsmouth-based professor who has just published the book Cowboy Copas and the Golden Age of Country Music; Cathy Hughes, Copas' daughter (and Randy Hughes' widow); and Judy Perkins, now a spry octogenarian, who was Copas' friend and a country singer on WLW-TV's Midwestern Hayride as well as a syndicated radio show featuring Eddy Arnold. All three told some fascinating stories about a time when Country was still an entertainment-business subculture known as "hillbilly music" to society-at-large, but was a growing and lively scene just waiting to become as large as it is today.
Simon recalled how, as a child, he saw Copas perform at a Portsmouth theater on a white horse — without either band or microphone. Powers had assembled an impressive collection of audio and video clips, not just of Copas but also of Perkins singing on television and radio. The panel discussion also served as the formal announcement that the Cincinnati Museum Center is planning to host the exhibit Back Roads to Big City: A Journey Through the Heart of Honky Tonk Music: Collections From the Nashville Honky Tonk Hall of Fame. It will feature some 300 artifacts, tentatively including Nudie suits. Johnny Cash baptism notes, Patsy Cline's cowboy boots and a handwritten letter from Dolly Parton to Skeeter Davis among much else.
There will also be audio recordings and a special section on King Records, including James Brown's pink stage cape and jacket. More details as they become available, but in the meantime don't miss the next superb panel discussion organized by Powers, "Blues Stay Away From Me: A 60th Anniversary," at the downtown library at 3 p.m. on May 9. It will commemorate the 60th anniversary of the recording of one of King's most important milestones, the Delmore Brothers' "Blues Stay Away With Me," a classic country song written by African-American producer Henry Glover with Wayne Ramey on harmonica and cited as a precursor of Rock & Roll. And there will be more — much more.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
MISS ANNIE ARMSTRONG: NAMED NEW PATSY CLINE RECLINER CLUB AWARD WINNER!!!
WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR LOVE & SMILE. WE THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU HAVE SHARED WITH US ABOUT PATSY. ALL YOUR STORIES & PHOTO'S. MOST OF ALL YOUR LOVE & SWEETNESS. CONGRATS, YOU ARE THIS YEARS RECLINER CLUB AWARD WINNER!
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Music City Walk Of Fame Names Inductees
A new class of inductees to the Music City Walk of Fame has been announced. The new inductees include National Baptist Publishing Board founder Dr. Richard Henry (R.H.) Boyd, pioneering producer/songwriter/performer “Cowboy” Jack Clement, record executive and songwriter Mike Curb, and performers Marty Stuart, Josh Turner and CeCe Winans. The inductees, the sixth class to be named, will be honored April 19 at 2:30 PM in the Hall of Fame Park in downtown Nashville. The ceremony, which is sponsored by Great American Country (GAC), is free and open to the public. The Music City Walk of Fame is an official project of Music City, Inc., the charitable foundation of the Nashville Convention & Visitor Bureau. The April 19 inductions bring the total number of Walk of Fame honorees to 37.
Opry To Open “Shop On Broadway”
Opry Originals: The Shop On Broadway, a Grand Ole Opry-themed retail store, is set to open on Nashville’s Lower Broadway area at 300 Broadway on Thursday, April 16. A rhinestone-studded ribbon-cutting ceremony is scheduled for Monday, April 20 followed by a week of grand opening events. With a design sensibility dubbed “Country Archeology,” the free-standing, 5,000 square-foot store will bring together the roots of the Grand Ole Opry and country music’s contemporary culture in a collection of old and new, brought to life through media, graphic imagery, and re-claimed materials and finishes. Reminiscent of a market, the space will encourage hands-on interaction and invite guests to discover and take home their own piece of the Opry lifestyle. The store will showcase an extensive line of lifestyle products including Opry-branded clothing; local artisan merchandise; a new Opry Country Kitchen line of food products; dinnerware and home furnishings. The store will also feature artist appearances and book/record signings as well as listening stations, photo opportunities, and food and beverage offerings. Included among the store’s apparel offerings will be an “Opry by Manuel” collection of jackets, shirts, and jeans designed exclusively for the Opry by legendary clothier Manuel. The 300 Broadway structure was built circa 1911 as the home of the Broadway National Bank. It housed banking institutions until 1987 and has been occupied by R.C. Mathews and The Mathews Co. since 1991.
Hall Of Fame Salutes Patsy Cline's pal: Brenda Lee
The Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum is getting ready to pay tribute to “Little Miss Dynamite,” Brenda Lee, with the cameo exhibition Brenda Lee: Dynamite, Presented by Great American Country Television Network, which will open in the Museum’s East Gallery on August 7 and run through June 2010. Born Brenda Mae Tarpley on December 11, 1944, the Atlanta native sang from the time she could talk and won her first talent show at the age of four. With influences ranging from Judy Garland to Edith Piaf to Frank Sinatra, Lee’s explosive voice and bubbly personality made her incredibly popular at home and also overseas. Throughout the ‘60s Lee performed regularly in Europe, South America and Japan, at one point touring Germany with the Beatles as her opening act.
As her Owen Bradley-produced pop hits began to dwindle in the late 1960s, Lee recorded Kris Kristofferson’s “Nobody Wins” in 1973, and her country career was off and running. She scored eight more Top 10 country hits, including “Big Four Poster Bed” in 1974 and “Broken Trust” in 1980. In 1997, Lee was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, and in 2002, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the only female ever to be inducted into both prestigious Halls of Fame. Also in 2002, Lee bowed her autobiography, Little Miss Dynamite: The Life and Times of Brenda Lee, co-written with MusicRow’s Robert K. Oermann and Lee’s daughter Julie Clay. In February 2009, she received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award for her creative contributions to the field of recording. Although she has scaled back her personal appearances and recordings in recent years to spend more time with her family, Lee continues to write and perform.
As her Owen Bradley-produced pop hits began to dwindle in the late 1960s, Lee recorded Kris Kristofferson’s “Nobody Wins” in 1973, and her country career was off and running. She scored eight more Top 10 country hits, including “Big Four Poster Bed” in 1974 and “Broken Trust” in 1980. In 1997, Lee was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, and in 2002, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the only female ever to be inducted into both prestigious Halls of Fame. Also in 2002, Lee bowed her autobiography, Little Miss Dynamite: The Life and Times of Brenda Lee, co-written with MusicRow’s Robert K. Oermann and Lee’s daughter Julie Clay. In February 2009, she received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award for her creative contributions to the field of recording. Although she has scaled back her personal appearances and recordings in recent years to spend more time with her family, Lee continues to write and perform.
Monday, April 6, 2009
MANDY & CHARLIE ON WSM 650AM WITH EDDIE STUBBS
***this just in from reCliner Jimmy Walker:
Mandy Barnett Mandy will be on the air tonight with Eddie Stubbs and Charlie Dick, live from the Country Music Hall Of Fame. Tune into 650 WSM AM at 7:00 pm CST. If you don't live within the Nashville area, you can also listen Live online at :http://www.wsmonline.com/
Mandy Barnett Mandy will be on the air tonight with Eddie Stubbs and Charlie Dick, live from the Country Music Hall Of Fame. Tune into 650 WSM AM at 7:00 pm CST. If you don't live within the Nashville area, you can also listen Live online at :http://www.wsmonline.com/
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
ALWAYS PATSY CLINE RETURNS TO THE RYMAN!!!
Always… Patsy Cline! Offers a Compelling Look into the Music and Character of Patsy Cline
A pioneering woman in country music, the legendary Patsy Cline captivated her generation and inspired many of today’s most popular contemporary country artists. Patsy’s timeless contralto voice will echo through the riveting performance of Always…Patsy Cline! This tribute to the illustrious country star will run from April 15th to May 23rd, bringing back unforgettable songs like I Fall to Pieces, Sweet Dreams and Crazy.
The performance will not only feature Cline’s soulful crooning, but it will also capture the story of her character and her kindness. You will learn of Patsy’s close friendship with fan Louise Singer and the heartfelt correspondence between them. Cast as a complex play, rather than a one-dimensional tribute, you will witness how Louise struggles to cope with Cline’s untimely death, while an ethereal Patsy Cline fades in and out with songs that complement the drama as it plays out.
Whether you are a diehard Patsy Cline fan, or just a fan of high quality theater, you will be won over by this compelling musical biography as it is acted out on stage. This production has received widespread critical acclaim, so you definitely won’t want to miss its short run this coming spring. Reserve your tickets today and come see a fitting tribute to the iconic Patsy Cline!
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MORE INFO BELOW.
A pioneering woman in country music, the legendary Patsy Cline captivated her generation and inspired many of today’s most popular contemporary country artists. Patsy’s timeless contralto voice will echo through the riveting performance of Always…Patsy Cline! This tribute to the illustrious country star will run from April 15th to May 23rd, bringing back unforgettable songs like I Fall to Pieces, Sweet Dreams and Crazy.
The performance will not only feature Cline’s soulful crooning, but it will also capture the story of her character and her kindness. You will learn of Patsy’s close friendship with fan Louise Singer and the heartfelt correspondence between them. Cast as a complex play, rather than a one-dimensional tribute, you will witness how Louise struggles to cope with Cline’s untimely death, while an ethereal Patsy Cline fades in and out with songs that complement the drama as it plays out.
Whether you are a diehard Patsy Cline fan, or just a fan of high quality theater, you will be won over by this compelling musical biography as it is acted out on stage. This production has received widespread critical acclaim, so you definitely won’t want to miss its short run this coming spring. Reserve your tickets today and come see a fitting tribute to the iconic Patsy Cline!
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MORE INFO BELOW.
Monday, March 30, 2009
The Life and Regrets of an International Ambassador
In a recent interview country western singer George Hamilton IV reveals his life and regrets.
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London, United Kingdom, March 27, 2009 --(PR.com)-- He was a teen idol in the 1950’s. In 1960 he had a gold record with his hit “A Rose and a Baby Ruth.” He is most known for “Abilene” which made Number 1 in the charts for four weeks. He recently sang a newer tongue-in-cheek rendition of it called “Gasoline”. After riding the rails of his popularity in the 1970’s George began touring places like Russia, Australia and the Middle East. He is quite often called “The International Ambassador of Country Music” and is one of the longest standing members of the prestigious “Grand Ole Opry” in Nashville, Tennessee (U.S.A.). He has also appeared in the film “Your Cheatin’ Heart” (portraying Hank Williams) and played himself in the stage production of “Patsy”, about the life of Patsy Cline.Spending so much time away from home George Hamilton IV recently reflected on choices he’s made in his life. He, quite often, tours with his son George was recently in the U. K. for a concert tour and was interviewed for a new TV series called “Principles of Praise” to be aired later this year on a network of over 15 Christian TV networks from Russia to the Middle East, Canada to Turkey. George said that “when our sons and our daughter were very young they needed me there but I was mostly gone because I was so caught up in my career.” He continued, “At that time I was a Christian but not a cross-carrying Christian. I was away. Anytime my booking agent could find a lucrative tour I was gone.” On reflecting the country western singer said “George V, who is now a singer / songwriter, said something very poignant to me. The first time we toured together he said “Dad, this is the baseball we never tossed.” I said “What?”. He answered “Don’t you remember when I was a kid and wanted to play ball with my Dad you were never there. Now I’m catching up. When I sing a verse of a song, then you sing a verse it’s like tossing a ball in the back yard.” With sadness and tears reflecting in his eyes George continued “It was quite moving for me and also very revealing”.Produced by a UK charity - Harvest Fields Commissioning International and its media production arm, OLI Productions, other guests in the series include singer songwriters Graham Kendrick, Chris Bowater, Dave Bilbrough, Noel Richards, Lou Fellingham and Phatfish, Karen Lafferty and others.A companion series “Principles of Leadership” is currently being broadcast on 15 Christian and independent television networks around the world including SAT 7 (the Middle East), CNL (Russia and worldwide), Gospel Channel (Scandinavia), The Australian Christian Channel, the Alfa and Omega Network (Romania and worldwide), Premier TV (U.K.), Shine TV (New Zealand), U Channel (Indonesia), the Family 7 Network (Holland) The Miracle Channel (Canada) and IFBN (Israel).Harvest Fields Commissioning International is a U. K. Registered Charity with the purpose of assisting in raising up and encouraging churches and leaders in over 45 countries and on all 5 continents for work in churches, charities and other humanitarian assistance groups. Its websites are at: www.agapelive.net and www.hfci.net .For further information or high-res photos:Press Department info@agapelive.net info@hfci.net
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London, United Kingdom, March 27, 2009 --(PR.com)-- He was a teen idol in the 1950’s. In 1960 he had a gold record with his hit “A Rose and a Baby Ruth.” He is most known for “Abilene” which made Number 1 in the charts for four weeks. He recently sang a newer tongue-in-cheek rendition of it called “Gasoline”. After riding the rails of his popularity in the 1970’s George began touring places like Russia, Australia and the Middle East. He is quite often called “The International Ambassador of Country Music” and is one of the longest standing members of the prestigious “Grand Ole Opry” in Nashville, Tennessee (U.S.A.). He has also appeared in the film “Your Cheatin’ Heart” (portraying Hank Williams) and played himself in the stage production of “Patsy”, about the life of Patsy Cline.Spending so much time away from home George Hamilton IV recently reflected on choices he’s made in his life. He, quite often, tours with his son George was recently in the U. K. for a concert tour and was interviewed for a new TV series called “Principles of Praise” to be aired later this year on a network of over 15 Christian TV networks from Russia to the Middle East, Canada to Turkey. George said that “when our sons and our daughter were very young they needed me there but I was mostly gone because I was so caught up in my career.” He continued, “At that time I was a Christian but not a cross-carrying Christian. I was away. Anytime my booking agent could find a lucrative tour I was gone.” On reflecting the country western singer said “George V, who is now a singer / songwriter, said something very poignant to me. The first time we toured together he said “Dad, this is the baseball we never tossed.” I said “What?”. He answered “Don’t you remember when I was a kid and wanted to play ball with my Dad you were never there. Now I’m catching up. When I sing a verse of a song, then you sing a verse it’s like tossing a ball in the back yard.” With sadness and tears reflecting in his eyes George continued “It was quite moving for me and also very revealing”.Produced by a UK charity - Harvest Fields Commissioning International and its media production arm, OLI Productions, other guests in the series include singer songwriters Graham Kendrick, Chris Bowater, Dave Bilbrough, Noel Richards, Lou Fellingham and Phatfish, Karen Lafferty and others.A companion series “Principles of Leadership” is currently being broadcast on 15 Christian and independent television networks around the world including SAT 7 (the Middle East), CNL (Russia and worldwide), Gospel Channel (Scandinavia), The Australian Christian Channel, the Alfa and Omega Network (Romania and worldwide), Premier TV (U.K.), Shine TV (New Zealand), U Channel (Indonesia), the Family 7 Network (Holland) The Miracle Channel (Canada) and IFBN (Israel).Harvest Fields Commissioning International is a U. K. Registered Charity with the purpose of assisting in raising up and encouraging churches and leaders in over 45 countries and on all 5 continents for work in churches, charities and other humanitarian assistance groups. Its websites are at: www.agapelive.net and www.hfci.net .For further information or high-res photos:Press Department info@agapelive.net info@hfci.net
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Thursday, March 26, 2009
Pop-Country Hitmaker Dan Seals Dies at 61
Dan Seals, who enjoyed successful careers in both pop and country music for more than three decades, died Wednesday. He was 61 years old.Seals battled mantle cell lymphoma, and according to sources had recently undergone an experimental stem cell transplant at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. He died at his home in Nashville, while under hospice care.Born in McCamey, Texas, Dan Seals was the brother of Jim Seals, of the hit pop duo Seals and Crofts. The younger Seals soon followed in his brother's footsteps, forming a singing partnership with John Ford Coley. The duo scored a number of hit singles on the pop chart throughout the '70s as England Dan and John Ford Coley, including the No. 2 hit, 'I'd Really Love to See You Tonight,' and a Top 10 cover of Todd Rundgren's 'Love Is the Answer.'In 1980, Seals signed as a solo country-pop artist with Atlantic Records, and in 1983, turned his attention solely to country music, signing with Nashville's Liberty/Capitol label. In 1984, he began an impressive streak of 16 Top 10 country hits, starting with 'God Must Be a Cowboy.' In 1985, he scored the first of 11 No. 1 country songs, with 'Meet Me in Montana,' a duet with Marie Osmond. Other chart-topping hits included 'Addicted,' 'You Still Move Me' and the pop crossover hit, 'Bop,' which was the CMA's Single of the Year in 1986.Like his brother, Seals was a member of the Bahá'à faith. He was a cousin of the late country singer Johnny Duncan, and also a cousin of songwriter Troy Seals and former Little Texas singer Brady Seals. He is also survived by wife Andrea, three sons and a daughter, as well as his mother, two brothers and sister.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
NEW DVD COVER FOR SWEET DREAMS STILL DVD IN CANADA FOR PATSY CLINE!
PATSY CLINESWEET DREAMSDVD
TRACKS: Sweet Dreams is the definitive collection of hits, rarities and personal favourites from one of the world’s greatest performers that captures her inescapable emotion and vocal charisma and showcases the many facets of her brilliant body of recordings from “Red Hot Momma” to “the Nashville Sound”. Hosted by Robert K. Oermann, this program features complete performances of Patsy’s greatest hits along with her last televised appearance filmed just days before her tragic and untimely death.
Introduction
A Church, A Courtroom And Then Goodbye
Come On In (And Make Yourself At Home)
I've Loved And Lost Again
Walkin' After Midnight
Lovesick Blues
How Can I Face Tomorrow
I Fall To Pieces
San Antonio Rose
Crazy
She's Got You
So Wrong
BONUS
Three Cigarettes In An Ashtray
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
Let's Go To Church (Next Sunday Morning)
I Saw The Light
Walkin' After Midnight
Come On In (And Make Yourself At Home)
TRACKS: Sweet Dreams is the definitive collection of hits, rarities and personal favourites from one of the world’s greatest performers that captures her inescapable emotion and vocal charisma and showcases the many facets of her brilliant body of recordings from “Red Hot Momma” to “the Nashville Sound”. Hosted by Robert K. Oermann, this program features complete performances of Patsy’s greatest hits along with her last televised appearance filmed just days before her tragic and untimely death.
Introduction
A Church, A Courtroom And Then Goodbye
Come On In (And Make Yourself At Home)
I've Loved And Lost Again
Walkin' After Midnight
Lovesick Blues
How Can I Face Tomorrow
I Fall To Pieces
San Antonio Rose
Crazy
She's Got You
So Wrong
BONUS
Three Cigarettes In An Ashtray
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
Let's Go To Church (Next Sunday Morning)
I Saw The Light
Walkin' After Midnight
Come On In (And Make Yourself At Home)
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Monday, March 16, 2009
link of the day: buddy holly & Decca's Paul Cohen
Buddy1 Bad business decisions practically defined Buddy Holly as much as his role as a rock n' roll icon/pioneer/visionary/legend/statue/fre akish cult figure (for some). During his short musical career, Holly ended up on the losing end of many legal entanglements (like signing away co-writing credit to producer Norm Petty) however double-crossing Decca record executive Paul Cohen was one of Buddy's savviest business moves.After a couple of dud releases, the suits at Decca were scratching their heads and wondering out loud whether they didn't sign the right hick rock 'n' roller. A&R suit Paul Cohen took the brunt for this misfire and was held responsible for the Holly account. After expertly steering the careers of Red Foley, Kitty Wells, Webb Pierce and Patsy Cline among others, he was badly out of his element with these Young People and their pimpled rock 'n' roll transistor crap. He spoke hillbilly, mainly to hillbilly adults--but rock 'n' roll? Cohen thought he'd ride this fad out like he did with the rumba and the mambo but this noise wasn't going away so fast. He could care less about rock 'n' roll and even less about that pest from the west: gangly, four-eyed Buddy Holly. "The biggest no talent I have ever worked with," muttered Cohen under his breath as he went over the crunched numbers for Holly's releases again. He sat in his late winter office and exhaled loudly. A cold wind whooshed by the thirtieth floor and Cohen sank in his chair and removed another Cuban from the walnut humidor. These numbers were not good. The phone rang. It was Buddy Holly on line one.
more at youtube, link in title....poor buddy
more at youtube, link in title....poor buddy
"So InCline - A Patsy Cline Ballet."
When I thought I had been amazed to the gills, Leaia Caver completely transforms the Senior Company in, "So InCline - A Patsy Cline Ballet." Now people you have not seen a stompin' good time until you have seen the Senior Company bounce to the music as one complete unit while pushing you through the old creaking door of a Honky Tonk. I don't think my foot stopped tapping until I got to my car
Once again, the Marks and Silver chemistry made me smile so big that I might need Botox to give my cheek muscles a break for a while. Meredith Barton rocked my world so hard with every tasteful hip switch and sway, never losing any of her beautiful technique and musicality in "Crazy". Girl, go ahead and write your check, the money's in the bank.
Central Florida still has quality performers and entertainment and one of the places they frequent are Ballet South. If you have not yet caught a show with Ballet South, then I think you might want to start your psycho therapy first just to make sure you've gotten the crazies out of your system. Don't worry they will return next Season. Be ready … I know I will.
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Once again, the Marks and Silver chemistry made me smile so big that I might need Botox to give my cheek muscles a break for a while. Meredith Barton rocked my world so hard with every tasteful hip switch and sway, never losing any of her beautiful technique and musicality in "Crazy". Girl, go ahead and write your check, the money's in the bank.
Central Florida still has quality performers and entertainment and one of the places they frequent are Ballet South. If you have not yet caught a show with Ballet South, then I think you might want to start your psycho therapy first just to make sure you've gotten the crazies out of your system. Don't worry they will return next Season. Be ready … I know I will.
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Sunday, March 15, 2009
THE JIMMY WALKER VIDEO COLLECTION OF PATSY CLINE
MAJOR COLLECTOR RECLINER JIMMY WALKER HAS DOWNLOADED MANY VIDEOS ON HIS YOUTUBE PAGE. HE HAS GRANTED RECLINERCLUB TO POST A FEW ON OUR MAIN SITE! THANKS RECLINER JIMMY! LINKS IN TITLE!
Friday, March 13, 2009
Patsy Cline Stage Play Returns April 15
The popular bio-musical stage play, Always . . . Patsy Cline, presented by Humana, returns to the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, April 15 through May 23.
Singer Mandy Barnett will reprise her critically acclaimed turn as Patsy Cline, and theatre veteran Tere Myers will return in the role of Patsy's devoted fan, Louise Seger. Always . . . Patsy Cline is based on the true story of the friendship that developed between the two women, who corresponded until Patsy's death at age 30 in an airplane crash on March 5, 1963. The show takes its name from Patsy's signature on her letters to Louise. The production features more than 20 of Patsy's most memorable songs, including "I Fall to Pieces," "Crazy," "Blue Moon of Kentucky" and "Sweet Dreams," which became a hit shortly after her death. Mandy Barnett, who originated the role at the Ryman in 1994, has received rave reviews throughout the years for her recreations of Patsy Cline's unique and unforgettable sound. Tickets for the show are available by calling (615) 871-OPRY or visiting ryman.com.
Singer Mandy Barnett will reprise her critically acclaimed turn as Patsy Cline, and theatre veteran Tere Myers will return in the role of Patsy's devoted fan, Louise Seger. Always . . . Patsy Cline is based on the true story of the friendship that developed between the two women, who corresponded until Patsy's death at age 30 in an airplane crash on March 5, 1963. The show takes its name from Patsy's signature on her letters to Louise. The production features more than 20 of Patsy's most memorable songs, including "I Fall to Pieces," "Crazy," "Blue Moon of Kentucky" and "Sweet Dreams," which became a hit shortly after her death. Mandy Barnett, who originated the role at the Ryman in 1994, has received rave reviews throughout the years for her recreations of Patsy Cline's unique and unforgettable sound. Tickets for the show are available by calling (615) 871-OPRY or visiting ryman.com.
Monday, March 9, 2009
Country legend Hank Locklin dies
Country legend Hank Locklin, one of the greatest and most influential tenor singers in country music history, died Sunday in Brewton, Ala
Mr. Locklin was a Grand Ole Opry member since 1960, and had recently released his 65th album, By the Grace of God. He was 91.
His greatest hits included "Send Me the Pillow That You Dream On" in 1958 and "Please Help Me I'm Falling" in 1960.
His style was a linchpin of the much-vaunted "Nashville Sound," and he was an international ambassador for country music.
He was also a beloved figure both onstage and backstage at the Grand Ole Opry: His voice was an audience favorite, and his humor and good will backstage were a comfort to many performers.
The family is planning a private funeral and burial service.
Mr. Locklin was a Grand Ole Opry member since 1960, and had recently released his 65th album, By the Grace of God. He was 91.
His greatest hits included "Send Me the Pillow That You Dream On" in 1958 and "Please Help Me I'm Falling" in 1960.
His style was a linchpin of the much-vaunted "Nashville Sound," and he was an international ambassador for country music.
He was also a beloved figure both onstage and backstage at the Grand Ole Opry: His voice was an audience favorite, and his humor and good will backstage were a comfort to many performers.
The family is planning a private funeral and burial service.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Friday, March 6, 2009
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Monday, March 2, 2009
REMEMBERING PATSY IN WV 2009
REMEMBERING PATSY CLINE 2009
Dear Customers & Patsy Cline Fans,
Every year we honor Patsy Cline with two events. This year will be 46 years since the tragic plane crash. Our schedule for this year’s events is below. Please come out and help us remember a country music legend.
Friday, March 6th
We invite all singers to come sing karaoke with Mike Hicks & his Hot Licks from 9pm-12am. Everyone welcome to pay tribute to Patsy Cline.
Saturday, March 7th
Live band Dixie Moon from 9pm-12am.
Sunday, March 8th
Watch the Patsy Cline videos, view scrapbooks & listen to Patsy Cline music. Annual meal & party starts at 1 pm until ?. Music by many musicians and singers. All are invited to be with us. Bring a covered dish. The Troubadour will provide the meat, it’s all free.
Don’t forget our second event that will take place – Labor Day weekend, September 5th & 6th
If you have any questions, or if you need directions, give us a call at 304.258.9381.
Hope to see everyone there!
Dear Customers & Patsy Cline Fans,
Every year we honor Patsy Cline with two events. This year will be 46 years since the tragic plane crash. Our schedule for this year’s events is below. Please come out and help us remember a country music legend.
Friday, March 6th
We invite all singers to come sing karaoke with Mike Hicks & his Hot Licks from 9pm-12am. Everyone welcome to pay tribute to Patsy Cline.
Saturday, March 7th
Live band Dixie Moon from 9pm-12am.
Sunday, March 8th
Watch the Patsy Cline videos, view scrapbooks & listen to Patsy Cline music. Annual meal & party starts at 1 pm until ?. Music by many musicians and singers. All are invited to be with us. Bring a covered dish. The Troubadour will provide the meat, it’s all free.
Don’t forget our second event that will take place – Labor Day weekend, September 5th & 6th
If you have any questions, or if you need directions, give us a call at 304.258.9381.
Hope to see everyone there!
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Sunday, February 15, 2009
BREAKING NEWS: JIM McCOY & HALL OF FAME VW
THIS JUST IN:
CONGRATS ON YOUR NOMINATION:
Joltin' Jim McCoy!!!
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
RECLINER LINK OF THE DAY: JOHNNY ONE- NOTE'S BLOG!
RECLINERS FELLOW BLOGGER IS TODAYS LINK OF THE DAY!
WE THANK JOHNNY FOR HIS LINK TO OUR BLOG & FOR THE
FILE SHARING TOO. CK IT OUT 2DAY!
"The Rockin'Gipsy" Says: This is the complete unissued/uncut,restored 15 minutes A.F.R.S.1960 radio transcription..01 Intro02 Lovesick Blues03 When Your House Is Not A Home04 Army Message05 Trouble Among The Yearlings06 Love Walked In - Don Abrams07 How Can I Face Tomorrow08 Outro.Front and back-cover are included.Download here *****.Code: one-note.Posted by: "The Rockin'Gipsy"
Monday, February 9, 2009
TOPIC OF THE DAY: PATSY 09
REMEMBERING PATSY CLINE 2009
Dear Customers & Patsy Cline Fans,
Every year we honor Patsy Cline with two events. This year will be 46 years since the tragic plane crash. Our schedule for this year’s events is below. Please come out and help us remember a country music legend.
Friday, March 6th
We invite all singers to come sing karaoke with Mike Hicks & his Hot Licks from 9pm-12am. Everyone welcome to pay tribute to Patsy Cline.
Saturday, March 7th
Live band Dixie Moon from 9pm-12am.
Sunday, March 8th
Watch the Patsy Cline videos, view scrapbooks & listen to Patsy Cline music. Annual meal & party starts at 1 pm until ?. Music by many musicians and singers. All are invited to be with us. Bring a covered dish. The Troubadour will provide the meat, it’s all free.
Don’t forget our second event that will take place – Labor Day weekend, September 5th & 6th
If you have any questions, or if you need directions, give us a call at 304.258.9381.
Hope to see everyone there!
&
JIM’S BIRTHDAY BASH!
This year we’re going all out – we’re celebrating Jim’s 80th birthday for 2 days!
Saturday, April 11th: Music by the Country Majestics – a great band out of New Jersey
9 PM-12 AM Cover charge: $4.00 single or $6.00 couple
Sunday, April 12th: Music by the Country Majestics & many others – begins at 1 PM
Everything is free except for drinks. Please bring a covered dish, we will provide all of the meat. Come out & enjoy music & a great day of food & fun. Don’t bring presents, just be present. Help us make this a great day for Jim!
If you have any questions, or if you need directions, give us a call at 304.258.9381.
-Bertha, Kat, Kelly, Jesse, Eddie, Sharon & Fabian-
Dear Customers & Patsy Cline Fans,
Every year we honor Patsy Cline with two events. This year will be 46 years since the tragic plane crash. Our schedule for this year’s events is below. Please come out and help us remember a country music legend.
Friday, March 6th
We invite all singers to come sing karaoke with Mike Hicks & his Hot Licks from 9pm-12am. Everyone welcome to pay tribute to Patsy Cline.
Saturday, March 7th
Live band Dixie Moon from 9pm-12am.
Sunday, March 8th
Watch the Patsy Cline videos, view scrapbooks & listen to Patsy Cline music. Annual meal & party starts at 1 pm until ?. Music by many musicians and singers. All are invited to be with us. Bring a covered dish. The Troubadour will provide the meat, it’s all free.
Don’t forget our second event that will take place – Labor Day weekend, September 5th & 6th
If you have any questions, or if you need directions, give us a call at 304.258.9381.
Hope to see everyone there!
&
JIM’S BIRTHDAY BASH!
This year we’re going all out – we’re celebrating Jim’s 80th birthday for 2 days!
Saturday, April 11th: Music by the Country Majestics – a great band out of New Jersey
9 PM-12 AM Cover charge: $4.00 single or $6.00 couple
Sunday, April 12th: Music by the Country Majestics & many others – begins at 1 PM
Everything is free except for drinks. Please bring a covered dish, we will provide all of the meat. Come out & enjoy music & a great day of food & fun. Don’t bring presents, just be present. Help us make this a great day for Jim!
If you have any questions, or if you need directions, give us a call at 304.258.9381.
-Bertha, Kat, Kelly, Jesse, Eddie, Sharon & Fabian-
Friday, January 16, 2009
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Friday, January 2, 2009
Steel guitarist, writer, producer Walter Haynes dies at 80
Steel Guitar Hall of Famer Walter Haynes, who also wrote and produced hit country music songs, died Jan. 1 in Tyler, Texas. He was 80, and was known for his work with Jimmy Dickens, Del Reeves, The Everly Brothers, Jeanne Pruett and numerous others.
“When you heard Walter play on things like Jimmy Dickens’ ‘We Could,’ the tone was just so beautiful,” said broadcaster, musician and historian Eddie Stubbs. “That steel guitar sounded almost like it was breathing.”
Haynes’ legacy is not solely defined by his steel guitar prowess. He produced Pruett’s “Satin Sheets” and Cal Smith’s “Country Bumpkin,” and also produced artists including Reeves, Marty Robbins and Bill Monroe. And though he was not a prolific songwriter, he co-wrote (with Hank Mills) Del Reeves’ No. 1 1965 hit, “Girl on the Billboard.” The inspiration for that song came when he saw a Coca-Cola billboard that featured a swimsuit-wearing model. Without a pen and paper handy, he scribbled ideas for the song in his dust on his car’s dashboard.
Yet steel players and traditional country music fans speak first of Mr. Haynes’ contributions as an instrumentalist. Raised in Kingsport, Mr. Haynes moved to Nashville in 1949 as a fiddle player. Two years later, he had switched to steel and was working toward a sound that was complex and intricate for its time.
He became a major influence on Buddy Emmons, who would join Dickens’ band after Mr. Haynes left the group in 1955. Emmons would later broaden the impact of the pedal steel guitar and would become beloved in doing so. Less celebrated than Emmons, Mr. Haynes was nonetheless crucial in bridging instrumental eras. Mr. Haynes provided a link between the simple lap steel of the 1940s and the more sophisticated pedal steel styles of Emmons, Lloyd Green and others.“There was a time when Walter Haynes was a critical part of steel guitar recording in Nashville,” said modern day steel guitarist Pete Finney. “He’s too often overlooked in the history of pedal steel.”An addition to his time in Dickens’ Country Boys group, Mr. Haynes worked the road with Ferlin Husky and Webb Pierce. He also worked for 13 years as a staff musician on the Grand Ole Opry. In the studio, he was versatile enough to play on such disparate recordings as Dickens’ rockabilly-fused “Hey Worm! (You Wanna Wiggle),” Patsy Cline’s elegant “Walkin’ After Midnight” and rocker J.J. Cale’s 1971 Naturally album. Mr. Haynes also worked some music-related “day jobs,” heading up Moss Rose Publishing and serving as an assistant to Owen Bradley at Decca and as a vice president at MCA Nashville. In young days, he was a dashing fellow, as well: Elvis Presley once asked him for hairstyling advice.“He and I were roommates in the early 1950s,” said Bob Moore, the legendary bass player who also spent time as a member of the Country Boys band. “He had a lot of fun, and he was just a plain old nice guy.”At the time of his death, Mr. Haynes had been teaching music lessons in Bullard, Texas, where he lived with wife Cindy.Services will be held Sunday, Jan. 4, at Tyler Metro Church, 7525 Old Jacksonville Highway, Tyler, Texas, 75703.
“When you heard Walter play on things like Jimmy Dickens’ ‘We Could,’ the tone was just so beautiful,” said broadcaster, musician and historian Eddie Stubbs. “That steel guitar sounded almost like it was breathing.”
Haynes’ legacy is not solely defined by his steel guitar prowess. He produced Pruett’s “Satin Sheets” and Cal Smith’s “Country Bumpkin,” and also produced artists including Reeves, Marty Robbins and Bill Monroe. And though he was not a prolific songwriter, he co-wrote (with Hank Mills) Del Reeves’ No. 1 1965 hit, “Girl on the Billboard.” The inspiration for that song came when he saw a Coca-Cola billboard that featured a swimsuit-wearing model. Without a pen and paper handy, he scribbled ideas for the song in his dust on his car’s dashboard.
Yet steel players and traditional country music fans speak first of Mr. Haynes’ contributions as an instrumentalist. Raised in Kingsport, Mr. Haynes moved to Nashville in 1949 as a fiddle player. Two years later, he had switched to steel and was working toward a sound that was complex and intricate for its time.
He became a major influence on Buddy Emmons, who would join Dickens’ band after Mr. Haynes left the group in 1955. Emmons would later broaden the impact of the pedal steel guitar and would become beloved in doing so. Less celebrated than Emmons, Mr. Haynes was nonetheless crucial in bridging instrumental eras. Mr. Haynes provided a link between the simple lap steel of the 1940s and the more sophisticated pedal steel styles of Emmons, Lloyd Green and others.“There was a time when Walter Haynes was a critical part of steel guitar recording in Nashville,” said modern day steel guitarist Pete Finney. “He’s too often overlooked in the history of pedal steel.”An addition to his time in Dickens’ Country Boys group, Mr. Haynes worked the road with Ferlin Husky and Webb Pierce. He also worked for 13 years as a staff musician on the Grand Ole Opry. In the studio, he was versatile enough to play on such disparate recordings as Dickens’ rockabilly-fused “Hey Worm! (You Wanna Wiggle),” Patsy Cline’s elegant “Walkin’ After Midnight” and rocker J.J. Cale’s 1971 Naturally album. Mr. Haynes also worked some music-related “day jobs,” heading up Moss Rose Publishing and serving as an assistant to Owen Bradley at Decca and as a vice president at MCA Nashville. In young days, he was a dashing fellow, as well: Elvis Presley once asked him for hairstyling advice.“He and I were roommates in the early 1950s,” said Bob Moore, the legendary bass player who also spent time as a member of the Country Boys band. “He had a lot of fun, and he was just a plain old nice guy.”At the time of his death, Mr. Haynes had been teaching music lessons in Bullard, Texas, where he lived with wife Cindy.Services will be held Sunday, Jan. 4, at Tyler Metro Church, 7525 Old Jacksonville Highway, Tyler, Texas, 75703.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Friday, December 19, 2008
WINNY MUSEUM WRITE-UP
By Carlos SantosPublished: December 19, 2008
Patsy Cline's home in Winchester, where she lived as a child and as a budding star, soon may be turned into a museum for fans of the legendary country singer.
"We want to make the house exactly like it was when she was there," said Judy Sue Kempf, the president of Celebrating Patsy Cline Inc., a nonprofit group that owns the modest house at 608 S. Kent St. "That's where her career was formed."
Cline, whose distinctive country sound still has untold number of fans, has become something of an icon in Winchester -- next only to its apple festival. She has become one of the small city's biggest tourist attractions.
Kempf said her organization is asking the city to rezone the property so it can be used as a museum. Hundreds of sightseers stop by the house annually, though it is not open to the public.
The house, which is on the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places, is tiny. When Cline, her mother, sister and brother moved into the four-room home in 1948, it only had two bedrooms. The white, clapboard house has been renovated and enlarged since then.
Cline lived at the home from 1948 until 1953 and returned intermittently to live with her mother, including after her marriage to Gerald E. Cline failed.
Cline hit the big time on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts in 1957 after singing "Walkin' After Midnight." She recorded more than 100 songs before dying in a plane crash in 1963 while flying home to Nashville. She was 30. Thousands attended her funeral in Winchester.
She had moved to Nashville with her second husband, Charlie Dick. Dick, a Winchester-area native, said he met Patsy for the first time at the Kent Street home. She was just a local singer and he was a linotype operator at the Winchester Star.
"I hope it works," said Dick in a telephone interview from Nashville, where he still lives. "I know people want to see that house."
Dick said the Nashville home where he and Cline lived for just over a year is still besieged by fans. "The people who live there now said people are always knocking on the door begging to come in."
Dick said he has Cline's jewelry, clothes and all of her music awards that he would lend to the museum. And Celebrating Patsy Cline -- which also plans to open a Patsy Cline museum on the city's downtown pedestrian mall -- already owns about 125 items that belonged to Cline including some furniture, clothes, a sewing machine and other items.
"I know Patsy Cline fans will want to walk in the same house she lived in," said Scott Andres, who is a member of the board for Celebrating Patsy Cline. "I've heard folks say she's more popular now than when she was alive. It's an interesting phenomenon." Contact Carlos Santos at (434) 295-9542 or csantos@timesdispatch.com
Patsy Cline's home in Winchester, where she lived as a child and as a budding star, soon may be turned into a museum for fans of the legendary country singer.
"We want to make the house exactly like it was when she was there," said Judy Sue Kempf, the president of Celebrating Patsy Cline Inc., a nonprofit group that owns the modest house at 608 S. Kent St. "That's where her career was formed."
Cline, whose distinctive country sound still has untold number of fans, has become something of an icon in Winchester -- next only to its apple festival. She has become one of the small city's biggest tourist attractions.
Kempf said her organization is asking the city to rezone the property so it can be used as a museum. Hundreds of sightseers stop by the house annually, though it is not open to the public.
The house, which is on the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places, is tiny. When Cline, her mother, sister and brother moved into the four-room home in 1948, it only had two bedrooms. The white, clapboard house has been renovated and enlarged since then.
Cline lived at the home from 1948 until 1953 and returned intermittently to live with her mother, including after her marriage to Gerald E. Cline failed.
Cline hit the big time on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts in 1957 after singing "Walkin' After Midnight." She recorded more than 100 songs before dying in a plane crash in 1963 while flying home to Nashville. She was 30. Thousands attended her funeral in Winchester.
She had moved to Nashville with her second husband, Charlie Dick. Dick, a Winchester-area native, said he met Patsy for the first time at the Kent Street home. She was just a local singer and he was a linotype operator at the Winchester Star.
"I hope it works," said Dick in a telephone interview from Nashville, where he still lives. "I know people want to see that house."
Dick said the Nashville home where he and Cline lived for just over a year is still besieged by fans. "The people who live there now said people are always knocking on the door begging to come in."
Dick said he has Cline's jewelry, clothes and all of her music awards that he would lend to the museum. And Celebrating Patsy Cline -- which also plans to open a Patsy Cline museum on the city's downtown pedestrian mall -- already owns about 125 items that belonged to Cline including some furniture, clothes, a sewing machine and other items.
"I know Patsy Cline fans will want to walk in the same house she lived in," said Scott Andres, who is a member of the board for Celebrating Patsy Cline. "I've heard folks say she's more popular now than when she was alive. It's an interesting phenomenon." Contact Carlos Santos at (434) 295-9542 or csantos@timesdispatch.com
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008
WINNY STAR NEWS
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Patsy’s house could open as a museum Zoning change request made for residence at 608 S. Kent St.
By F.C. Lowe and Eric BeidelThe Winchester Star
Winchester — Patsy Cline fans may soon have the opportunity to visit the home where the legendary singer lived with her family from 1948 to 1953. Patsy Cline lived in this home on Kent Street from 1948 to 1953.(Photo by Scott Mason)
The owner of the house, Celebrating Patsy Cline Inc., asked the Winchester Planning Commission Tuesday to initiate a change to the city’s Zoning Ordinance that would allow museums in the HR-1 District, where the house is located.
The district is the only residential area in the city that doesn’t allow museums by-right or with a conditional-use permit. The latter allows a property to be used in a manner not allowed by-right in a particular zoning district.
“We have always had plans to open her house at 608 S. Kent St.,” said Judy Sue Huyett-Kempf of Berryville, president of CPC. “Now that it is vacant [the home had been rented], we feel it is the time to begin the process of getting the house open.”
A museum couldn’t be considered at Cline’s former house without the amendment, city planners said.
Generally, a private entity will sponsor an ordinance change in order to accommodate a certain project. However, the Planning Commission agreed to publicly sponsor this legislation.
If the amendment is adopted, the Cline organization would still have to apply to the city government for a conditional-use permit before opening the museum.
Part of the vision of the organization, which also plans a museum on the Loudoun Street Mall, is to honor the locally born singer who died in a 1963 plane crash in Tennessee.
Accompanying Huyett-Kempf to Tuesday’s commission meeting was CPC board member Scott Andres of Clarke County.
“The timing is right,” Andres said. “We have a lot issues to deal with, including accessibility. We want to make the house as accessible to as many people as possible.”
The two-story structure contains about 1,700 square feet of space, with three bedrooms, Huyett-Kempf said.
“We are just starting the process,” she said. “It will take months to open the house to the public, and we have many steps to complete.”
Patsy moved to the home in 1948 with her mother, sister, and brother, Huyett-Kempf said. “She lived there off and on until 1957, when she married Charlie Dick.”
The house was the starting point of her stardom, a vital step in how her career was formed, Huyett-Kempf said. “It was from this house that her career blossomed with many performances as a teenager, singing in Winchester and surrounding areas, the Arthur Godfrey show, going to Nashville, and many other events and places.”
Cline’s former husband remembers it well.
“I first met her when she lived there,” Charlie Dick said during a phone interview Tuesday from Tennessee. “I spent half my time over there when we were dating.”
He recalls how Patsy’s mother Hilda Hensley did a lot of work to the interior of the house, moving walls and painting.
“Hilda would tackle anything,” Dick said, “and Patsy would go along — she’d get in the middle of it.”
Dick said he is very supportive of opening the house to the public. Living in Nashville, he realizes how much fans want to see celebrities’ homes. Some still ride by the Tennessee house where Dick lived with Patsy.
“I know people want to see it,” he said. “I’d like for Winchester to have something for people to see when they visit.”
The Cline house is listed on the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places.
Celebrating Patsy Cline wants to use the structure to help tell the singer’s story, Huyett-Kempf said.
“From this house, fans can follow the path left by this famous icon in country music.”
...www.celebratingpatsycline.org
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Patsy’s house could open as a museum Zoning change request made for residence at 608 S. Kent St.
By F.C. Lowe and Eric BeidelThe Winchester Star
Winchester — Patsy Cline fans may soon have the opportunity to visit the home where the legendary singer lived with her family from 1948 to 1953. Patsy Cline lived in this home on Kent Street from 1948 to 1953.(Photo by Scott Mason)
The owner of the house, Celebrating Patsy Cline Inc., asked the Winchester Planning Commission Tuesday to initiate a change to the city’s Zoning Ordinance that would allow museums in the HR-1 District, where the house is located.
The district is the only residential area in the city that doesn’t allow museums by-right or with a conditional-use permit. The latter allows a property to be used in a manner not allowed by-right in a particular zoning district.
“We have always had plans to open her house at 608 S. Kent St.,” said Judy Sue Huyett-Kempf of Berryville, president of CPC. “Now that it is vacant [the home had been rented], we feel it is the time to begin the process of getting the house open.”
A museum couldn’t be considered at Cline’s former house without the amendment, city planners said.
Generally, a private entity will sponsor an ordinance change in order to accommodate a certain project. However, the Planning Commission agreed to publicly sponsor this legislation.
If the amendment is adopted, the Cline organization would still have to apply to the city government for a conditional-use permit before opening the museum.
Part of the vision of the organization, which also plans a museum on the Loudoun Street Mall, is to honor the locally born singer who died in a 1963 plane crash in Tennessee.
Accompanying Huyett-Kempf to Tuesday’s commission meeting was CPC board member Scott Andres of Clarke County.
“The timing is right,” Andres said. “We have a lot issues to deal with, including accessibility. We want to make the house as accessible to as many people as possible.”
The two-story structure contains about 1,700 square feet of space, with three bedrooms, Huyett-Kempf said.
“We are just starting the process,” she said. “It will take months to open the house to the public, and we have many steps to complete.”
Patsy moved to the home in 1948 with her mother, sister, and brother, Huyett-Kempf said. “She lived there off and on until 1957, when she married Charlie Dick.”
The house was the starting point of her stardom, a vital step in how her career was formed, Huyett-Kempf said. “It was from this house that her career blossomed with many performances as a teenager, singing in Winchester and surrounding areas, the Arthur Godfrey show, going to Nashville, and many other events and places.”
Cline’s former husband remembers it well.
“I first met her when she lived there,” Charlie Dick said during a phone interview Tuesday from Tennessee. “I spent half my time over there when we were dating.”
He recalls how Patsy’s mother Hilda Hensley did a lot of work to the interior of the house, moving walls and painting.
“Hilda would tackle anything,” Dick said, “and Patsy would go along — she’d get in the middle of it.”
Dick said he is very supportive of opening the house to the public. Living in Nashville, he realizes how much fans want to see celebrities’ homes. Some still ride by the Tennessee house where Dick lived with Patsy.
“I know people want to see it,” he said. “I’d like for Winchester to have something for people to see when they visit.”
The Cline house is listed on the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places.
Celebrating Patsy Cline wants to use the structure to help tell the singer’s story, Huyett-Kempf said.
“From this house, fans can follow the path left by this famous icon in country music.”
...www.celebratingpatsycline.org
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Friday, December 5, 2008
RECLINER LINK OF THE DAY- LYNN NEWS
Lynn reminisces fondly about Patsy Cline, the revered country and pop singer who died in a plane crash in 1963 at age 30. Cline was one of Lynn's best friends and a major inspiration, she says. Cline, she says, might be looking down from heaven, kicking her foot and saying what she used to tell her friend: "You've got a damn hit!" "God will make it up to her, I'm sure," Lynn says. "She was doing such big things."
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Thursday, December 4, 2008
APC---it's official!
Always... Patsy Clinefeaturing Mandy Barnett and Tere MyersWednesday, Friday and SaturdayApril 15 - April 29 and May 6 - May 23$36.50 & $29.50Tickets on sale Saturday, December 6 at 10 am
THANKS RECLINER JIMMY. LINK IN TITLE!
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
NEW VOL.2 AT CB STORES!
Patsy Cline Volume 2
#299891$11.99
Enjoy the melodic and soothing voice of the great Patsy Cline when you purchase this extraordinary CD.
Song List:1. Crazy2. Walkin' After Midnight3. Sweet Dreams (Of You)4. I Fall to Pieces5. She's Got You6. Faded Love7. You're Stronger Than Me8. Leavin' on Your Mind9. Just Out of Reach (Of My Two Open Arms)10. You Belong to Me
Monday, December 1, 2008
Marty Stuart's Photo Book of Country Music Elites Tops Latest Music Books
There's a wealth of books for country fans in stores this holiday season on subjects ranging from Jimmie Rodgers, the father of country music, to Miley Cyrus, presumably the format's great-granddaughter. And there are plenty of general interest music titles as well, according to Publishers Weekly.Among the most impressive works is Marty Stuart's lovingly collected and poetically remembered gallery of artist photographs, most of them candid shots and many of which he took himself, beginning with his days as a 13-year-old mandolin player for Lester Flatt. Thick enough to last through a long winter and accompanied by a CD (with a music video), the book is called Country Music: The Masters (Sourcebooks). It truly is masterful. The cover photo of Johnny Cash, which Stuart took just before Cash died, is like a glimpse of Mount Rushmore.Veteran Nashville journalist Robert K. Oermann went to great lengths to shine the spotlight on country legends -- past and present in -- Behind the Grand Ole Opry Curtain (Hachette Book Group). The profiles include detailed stories about pioneers such as Patsy Cline and Minnie Pearl, living icons including George Jones, Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton and contemporary stars such as Martina McBride and Trace Adkins.Randy Owen, Alabama's lead singer, takes fans inside the workings of the supergroup with his Born Country: My Life in Alabama -- How Faith, Family and Music Brought Me Home (Harperone). Fans of historic country music radio shows can travel memory lane with Chad Berry's The Hayloft Gang: The Story of the National Barn Dance (University of Illinois Press).Also in the country chute: Waiting for a Train: Jimmie Rodgers's America, edited by Mary E. Davis and Warren Zanes (Rounder Books); Adam Victor's The Elvis Encyclopedia (Overlook Press); and Sybil Rosen's Living in the Woods in a Tree: Remembering Blaze Foley, a study of and tribute to the Texas singer and songwriter who wrote Merle Haggard's "If I Could Only Fly" (University of North Texas Press). Tom Moon's 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die (Workman) includes a section of country picks. In the more contemporary realm, Hannah Montana's star is represented in two new titles -- Matthew Rettenmund's Miley's World (Berkley Boulevard) and Susan Janic's Living the Dream: Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: The Unofficial Story (ECW Press).Here are other current and impending music titles:Robb Lawrence's The Modern Era of the Les Paul Legacy: 1968-2008 (Hal Leonard Books); David Martin's Mixing the Hits: Country, with two DVD-ROMs (Hal Leonard Books); Janis Ian's Society's Child: My Autobiography (Tarcher); Jeff Kaliss' I Want to Take You Higher: The Life and Times of Sly and the Family Stone (Backbeat Books); Marshall Mathers' Eminem: The Way I Am (Dutton); Philip Norman's John Lennon: The Life (Ecco).Holly George-Warren's The Grateful Dead 365 (Abrams); Bob Carruthers' Led Zeppelin: Celebration Day: The Inside Story (Angry Penguin); Jon Bream's Whole Lotta Led Zeppelin: The Illustrated History of the Heaviest Band of All Time (Voyageur Press); Michael Heatley's Where Were You When ... the Music Played? (Reader's Digest Books); Alan Govenar's Texas Blues: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound (Texas A&M University Press).The Oxford American Book of Great Music Writing, edited by Mark Smirnoff (University of Arkansas Press); Jake Brown's Black Eyed Peas ... an Unauthorized Biography (Colossus Books); Gary Steckles' Bob Marley: A Life (Interlink); Alan Parker's Sid Vicious: No One Is Innocent (Orion); Ray Lowry and Ben Myers' The Clash (Angry Penguin).Noel Hudson's The Band Name Book (Boston Mills Press); Scott Plagenhoef and Ryan Schrieber's The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs From Punk to the Present (Fireside); Bobby Owsinski's How to Make Your Band Sound Great with DVD (Hal Leonard Books).Kimberly Bright's The World's a Mess; It's in My Kiss: The Untold Story of X (Santa Monica Press); Ani DiFranco: The Complete Lyrics (Seven Stories Press); Ralph Gibson's State of the Axe: Guitar Masters in Photographs and Words (Yale University Press).Sarah Caldwell's Challenges: A Memoir of My Life in Opera, written with Rebecca Matlock (Wesleyan University Press) and Joseph Polisi's American Muse: The Life and Times of William Schuman (Amadeus Press).
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Saturday, November 29, 2008
NEW 2008 HITS CD
THIS IS A REALLY FUN CD WITH ALL OUR FAV SONGS. THE BEST THING ABOUT IT IS THE PATSY CLINE COLLECTOR CARD THAT COMES WITH IT! ON THE BACK OF THE CARD IT COMES WITH CODES TO GET YOUR FAV PATSY RING TONE ON UR CELL PHONE. A MUST BUY FOR THE POP OUT COLLECTOR CARD!!! SEE PIC. link in title.
New Product Category : MusicUPC : 602517737594Title : CLINE,PATSY - PLAYLIST YOUR WAY (DIG)EAN : 0602517737594Label : MISCDiscs : 1Binding : Audio CDHeight : 0.5400 inchesWidth : 4.9700 inchesLength : 5.5500 inchesWeight : 0.1800 poundsKeywords : General, Nashville Sound, General AAS, Rockabilly, CD Album, Main AlbumCondition : NewMay have line through bar code.
Additional Information about Playlist Your WayPortions of this page Copyright 1948 - 2008 Muze Inc. All rights reserved.
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No track list available1. Walkin' After Midnight2. I Fall To Pieces3. Crazy4. Strange5. She's Got You6. So Wrong7. Heartaches8. Why Can't He Be You9. Faded Love10. When I Get Through With You (You'll Love Me Too)11. Back In My Baby's Arms12. Leavin' On Your Mind13. Always14. Sweet Dreams of You
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Additional Information about Playlist Your WayPortions of this page Copyright 1948 - 2008 Muze Inc. All rights reserved.
Track listing
No track list available1. Walkin' After Midnight2. I Fall To Pieces3. Crazy4. Strange5. She's Got You6. So Wrong7. Heartaches8. Why Can't He Be You9. Faded Love10. When I Get Through With You (You'll Love Me Too)11. Back In My Baby's Arms12. Leavin' On Your Mind13. Always14. Sweet Dreams of You
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Saturday, November 22, 2008
MORE ON THE NEW OERMANN BOOK!
You can’t help it. Your toes have to tap when the radio’s on.
Pretty soon, you’re moving your fingers in time to the music, too, and maybe nodding your head. If it’s not the steel guitar that has you in its grip, it’s the soft drum or the fiddle that’s got you.
And it all started with, as Loretta Lynn says, a “patting foot” because you love country music. Some of your best memories are of listening to the Grand Ole Opry on the radio or watching it on TV. Now, keep those feet moving and take a step back to re-live those moments with your favorite stars in the new book “Behind the Grand Old Opry Curtain” by Robert K. Oermann.
For going on 100 years, the Grand Ole Opry has been home to dozens of talented country music performers. Becoming a member is by invitation only, and while it might seem as if they’re joining a double-secret Club, the truth is that new inductees are being enfolded into a family.
Everybody in the Opry, it seems, is somehow connected to everybody else there. When Hawkshaw Hawkins, Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas, and Randy Hughes were killed in a now-legendary airplane crash, Opry members flocked to the victims’ families to lend support. Hughes’ wife was Copas’ daughter. Patsy Cline, in particular, was a “big sister” to many up-and-coming performers including Loretta Lynn, who credits Cline with teaching her to look good on stage and off.
Opry members have watched out for their brethren for as long as the Opry’s been around. Friends tried to save Faron Young from himself, though they couldn’t help in the end. Young stood up for Charlie Pride, once telling a radio station that if they threw out the African American singer’s records, they may as well throw out Young’s, too. Pride nurtured the careers of others, including Ronnie Milsap. Roger Miller was given a leg-up by several Opry stars, and he passed that forward once he was inducted.
But that doesn’t mean everything was smooth in Opryland. There were busted duos and busted hearts, divorcing and drinking, and too much living large. In this book, you’ll learn about the stories, scandals, smiles, and songs.
“Behind the Grand Ole Opry Curtain” is one of those delicious tell-all books that will (mostly) please you with goodness in the end. Each chapter spotlights an Opry star, but also includes the people who made that star’s life better. Author Robert K. Oermann will surprise you (who knew there was such a preponderance of car crashes among Opry members?), tell you things you didn’t know (Charlie Pride was not the Opry’s first African American member), and he discusses a few on-going mysteries (when, exactly, did Hank Williams die?).
“Behind the Grand Ole Opry Curtain” is an easy-to-read, enjoyable presentation of stars then and now, and it’ll have you humming songs you haven’t thought about in years. If you love country music, this book needs to be on your bookshelf. Pat your feet on out and get it.
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Pretty soon, you’re moving your fingers in time to the music, too, and maybe nodding your head. If it’s not the steel guitar that has you in its grip, it’s the soft drum or the fiddle that’s got you.
And it all started with, as Loretta Lynn says, a “patting foot” because you love country music. Some of your best memories are of listening to the Grand Ole Opry on the radio or watching it on TV. Now, keep those feet moving and take a step back to re-live those moments with your favorite stars in the new book “Behind the Grand Old Opry Curtain” by Robert K. Oermann.
For going on 100 years, the Grand Ole Opry has been home to dozens of talented country music performers. Becoming a member is by invitation only, and while it might seem as if they’re joining a double-secret Club, the truth is that new inductees are being enfolded into a family.
Everybody in the Opry, it seems, is somehow connected to everybody else there. When Hawkshaw Hawkins, Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas, and Randy Hughes were killed in a now-legendary airplane crash, Opry members flocked to the victims’ families to lend support. Hughes’ wife was Copas’ daughter. Patsy Cline, in particular, was a “big sister” to many up-and-coming performers including Loretta Lynn, who credits Cline with teaching her to look good on stage and off.
Opry members have watched out for their brethren for as long as the Opry’s been around. Friends tried to save Faron Young from himself, though they couldn’t help in the end. Young stood up for Charlie Pride, once telling a radio station that if they threw out the African American singer’s records, they may as well throw out Young’s, too. Pride nurtured the careers of others, including Ronnie Milsap. Roger Miller was given a leg-up by several Opry stars, and he passed that forward once he was inducted.
But that doesn’t mean everything was smooth in Opryland. There were busted duos and busted hearts, divorcing and drinking, and too much living large. In this book, you’ll learn about the stories, scandals, smiles, and songs.
“Behind the Grand Ole Opry Curtain” is one of those delicious tell-all books that will (mostly) please you with goodness in the end. Each chapter spotlights an Opry star, but also includes the people who made that star’s life better. Author Robert K. Oermann will surprise you (who knew there was such a preponderance of car crashes among Opry members?), tell you things you didn’t know (Charlie Pride was not the Opry’s first African American member), and he discusses a few on-going mysteries (when, exactly, did Hank Williams die?).
“Behind the Grand Ole Opry Curtain” is an easy-to-read, enjoyable presentation of stars then and now, and it’ll have you humming songs you haven’t thought about in years. If you love country music, this book needs to be on your bookshelf. Pat your feet on out and get it.
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Patsy Cline... always a national treasure
Patsy Cline... always a national treasure
By John Daniel
Monday, November 17, 2008
Patsy Cline is one of the most revered and most admired singers in the history of country music, in any genre for that matter. Her legacy is her subtle style of melding blues, country and heartache into beautiful music.In the play Always... Patsy Cline, the relationship between Louise Seger and Patsy is introduced and explored in detail.The story starts in the Grand Ole Opry, the iconic country tune-house where Patsy frequented in her time.Louise tells the story straight to the audience, and brings us in, describing the first time she heard Patsy on the radio. In between the dialogue there are frequent musical numbers, which sets the tone and keep the flow and pacing.The story unfolds with their first meeting at a performance in Houston. They connected over their love for music and good conversation. They strike up a friendship that continues well past their first meeting, where many letters and phone calls are exchanged.Eventually, the show takes a different turn than the original high-spirited, joyous one and focuses in on the tragic and sudden death of the country star.
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It was a moment that affected many Americans and we see just how it personally affects Louise as she tells of her feelings.All throughout, the musical numbers match the emotional tone and anchor the show, they tie the scenes together as a continual story.Up until the end of the show, there are musical numbers that unwind into more casual and upbeat songs that include duets between the actors and audience participation. There is even an encore, which comes as a pleasant surprise.When I attended this show, I was expecting a play with some musical numbers (it is a Patsy Cline story after all), but a dialogue heavy piece that followed a classic theatrical structure.
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What I got is a varied concert show with some scenes of dialogue.The songs play a large role in the show, they are essentially a third character.Unfortunately the actual character of Louise Seger (played by Kate Jaeger), is somewhat of a dud. The performance was respectable considering the character's material, but I was disappointed with the results.The character was what you would call a woman with gumption.She had a down-to-earth attitude, but sometimes her heartiness, country spirit, and unending folksiness was disconcerting. The writing is meant to be funny and lighthearted, but so many of the jokes miss the mark.On the other side of the token, you have a standout performance by Eayman Ilika (kudos for unique name!) in the title role of Patsy Cline.Her portrayal in the musical sequences was flawless and filled with the essence of the country siren.Overall, I was satisfied with this production. I enjoyed getting to know this theater, which had been unfamiliar to me until this show, I relished the music of the show, and I thought the costumes were well designed.This was a show that made an impression on me. I even bought a Patsy Cline CD simply to reintroduce myself to an underrated American treasure.One final note, I am very excited about the upcoming Centerstage Theatre production of Aladdin - An English Panto. You should make time to support local theatre and attend that show.For more information, go to centerstagetheatre.com.John Daniel is a student at Federal Way High School.
Please share your point of view on this story. Comments posted with First and Last names will be considered for publication in the print edition. You may request that your name not be published. You may also send your comment directly to the editor at fwnews@robinsonnews.com.
By John Daniel
Monday, November 17, 2008
Patsy Cline is one of the most revered and most admired singers in the history of country music, in any genre for that matter. Her legacy is her subtle style of melding blues, country and heartache into beautiful music.In the play Always... Patsy Cline, the relationship between Louise Seger and Patsy is introduced and explored in detail.The story starts in the Grand Ole Opry, the iconic country tune-house where Patsy frequented in her time.Louise tells the story straight to the audience, and brings us in, describing the first time she heard Patsy on the radio. In between the dialogue there are frequent musical numbers, which sets the tone and keep the flow and pacing.The story unfolds with their first meeting at a performance in Houston. They connected over their love for music and good conversation. They strike up a friendship that continues well past their first meeting, where many letters and phone calls are exchanged.Eventually, the show takes a different turn than the original high-spirited, joyous one and focuses in on the tragic and sudden death of the country star.
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It was a moment that affected many Americans and we see just how it personally affects Louise as she tells of her feelings.All throughout, the musical numbers match the emotional tone and anchor the show, they tie the scenes together as a continual story.Up until the end of the show, there are musical numbers that unwind into more casual and upbeat songs that include duets between the actors and audience participation. There is even an encore, which comes as a pleasant surprise.When I attended this show, I was expecting a play with some musical numbers (it is a Patsy Cline story after all), but a dialogue heavy piece that followed a classic theatrical structure.
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What I got is a varied concert show with some scenes of dialogue.The songs play a large role in the show, they are essentially a third character.Unfortunately the actual character of Louise Seger (played by Kate Jaeger), is somewhat of a dud. The performance was respectable considering the character's material, but I was disappointed with the results.The character was what you would call a woman with gumption.She had a down-to-earth attitude, but sometimes her heartiness, country spirit, and unending folksiness was disconcerting. The writing is meant to be funny and lighthearted, but so many of the jokes miss the mark.On the other side of the token, you have a standout performance by Eayman Ilika (kudos for unique name!) in the title role of Patsy Cline.Her portrayal in the musical sequences was flawless and filled with the essence of the country siren.Overall, I was satisfied with this production. I enjoyed getting to know this theater, which had been unfamiliar to me until this show, I relished the music of the show, and I thought the costumes were well designed.This was a show that made an impression on me. I even bought a Patsy Cline CD simply to reintroduce myself to an underrated American treasure.One final note, I am very excited about the upcoming Centerstage Theatre production of Aladdin - An English Panto. You should make time to support local theatre and attend that show.For more information, go to centerstagetheatre.com.John Daniel is a student at Federal Way High School.
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Friday, November 14, 2008
PATSY CLINE IN THE 40IES? WHAT THE.....?
Rolling Stone Magazine has compiled their list of the 100 greatest singers ever and a few country guys and gals made the cut. According to Rolling Stone's site the voting was all totally scientific:
Each voter was asked to list his or her 20 favorite vocalists from the rock era, in order of their importance. Those ballots were recorded and weighted according to methodology developed by the accounting firm of Ernst & Young, which then tabulated and verified the results for Rolling Stone.
Sounds almost like they were voting for the Oscars. Do you spose the winners were kept in a lock box until the magazine was printed?
You can check out the complete list here along with a little tribute plus a playlist of their music, but the country folk making the list are:
88 Willie Nelson, 77 Merle Haggard, 73 Dolly Parton, 46 Patsy Cline, 43 George Jones, 27 Hank Williams, 21 Johnny Cash
Number one on the list was Aretha Franklin. So who would you have included that didn't make the cut?
Each voter was asked to list his or her 20 favorite vocalists from the rock era, in order of their importance. Those ballots were recorded and weighted according to methodology developed by the accounting firm of Ernst & Young, which then tabulated and verified the results for Rolling Stone.
Sounds almost like they were voting for the Oscars. Do you spose the winners were kept in a lock box until the magazine was printed?
You can check out the complete list here along with a little tribute plus a playlist of their music, but the country folk making the list are:
88 Willie Nelson, 77 Merle Haggard, 73 Dolly Parton, 46 Patsy Cline, 43 George Jones, 27 Hank Williams, 21 Johnny Cash
Number one on the list was Aretha Franklin. So who would you have included that didn't make the cut?
The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time
1 Aretha Franklin by Mary J. Blige
2 Ray Charles by Billy Joel
3 Elvis Presley by Robert Plant
4 Sam Cooke by Van Morrison
5 John Lennon by Jackson Browne
6 Marvin Gaye by Alicia Keys
7 Bob Dylan by Bono
8 Otis Redding by Booker T. Jones
9 Stevie Wonder by Cee-Lo
10 James Brown by Iggy Pop
11 Paul McCartney
12 Little Richard
13 Roy Orbison
14 Al Green
15 Robert Plant
16 Mick Jagger by Lenny Kravitz
17 Tina Turner
18 Freddie Mercury
19 Bob Marley
20 Smokey Robinson
21 Johnny Cash
22 Etta James
23 David Bowie
24 Van Morrison
25 Michael Jackson by Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy
26 Jackie Wilson
27 Hank Williams
28 Janis Joplin
29 Nina Simone
30 Prince
31 Howlin' Wolf
32 Bono by Billie Joe Armstrong
33 Steve Winwood
34 Whitney Houston
35 Dusty Springfield
36 Bruce Springsteen
37 Neil Young
38 Elton John
39 Jeff Buckley by Chris Cornell
40 Curtis Mayfield
41 Chuck Berry
42 Joni Mitchell
43 George Jones by James Taylor
44 Bobby "Blue" Bland
45 Kurt Cobain
46 Patsy Cline
47 Jim Morrison
48 Buddy Holly
49 Donny Hathaway
50 Bonnie Raitt
51 Gladys Knight
52 Brian Wilson
53 Muddy Waters by Ben Harper
54 Luther Vandross
55 Paul Rodgers
56 Mavis Staples
57 Eric Burdon
58 Christina Aguilera
59 Rod Stewart
60 Björk
61 Roger Daltrey
62 Lou Reed
63 Dion
64 Axl Rose
65 David Ruffin
66 Thom Yorke
67 Jerry Lee Lewis
68 Wilson Pickett
69 Ronnie Spector
70 Gregg Allman
71 Toots HIbbert
72 John Fogerty
73 Dolly Parton
74 James Taylor
75 Iggy Pop
76 Steve Perry
77 Merle Haggard
78 Sly Stone
79 Mariah Carey
80 Frankie Valli
81 John Lee Hooker by Bonnie Raitt
82 Tom Waits
83 Patti Smith
84 Darlene Love
85 Sam Moore
86 Art Garfunkel
87 Don Henley
88 Willie Nelson
89 Solomon Burke
90 The Everly Brothers
91 Levon Helm by Jim James
92 Morrissey
93 Annie Lennox
94 Karen Carpenter
95 Patti LaBelle
96 B.B. King
97 Joe Cocker
98 Stevie Nicks
99 Steven Tyler
100 Mary J. Blige
1 Aretha Franklin by Mary J. Blige
2 Ray Charles by Billy Joel
3 Elvis Presley by Robert Plant
4 Sam Cooke by Van Morrison
5 John Lennon by Jackson Browne
6 Marvin Gaye by Alicia Keys
7 Bob Dylan by Bono
8 Otis Redding by Booker T. Jones
9 Stevie Wonder by Cee-Lo
10 James Brown by Iggy Pop
11 Paul McCartney
12 Little Richard
13 Roy Orbison
14 Al Green
15 Robert Plant
16 Mick Jagger by Lenny Kravitz
17 Tina Turner
18 Freddie Mercury
19 Bob Marley
20 Smokey Robinson
21 Johnny Cash
22 Etta James
23 David Bowie
24 Van Morrison
25 Michael Jackson by Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy
26 Jackie Wilson
27 Hank Williams
28 Janis Joplin
29 Nina Simone
30 Prince
31 Howlin' Wolf
32 Bono by Billie Joe Armstrong
33 Steve Winwood
34 Whitney Houston
35 Dusty Springfield
36 Bruce Springsteen
37 Neil Young
38 Elton John
39 Jeff Buckley by Chris Cornell
40 Curtis Mayfield
41 Chuck Berry
42 Joni Mitchell
43 George Jones by James Taylor
44 Bobby "Blue" Bland
45 Kurt Cobain
46 Patsy Cline
47 Jim Morrison
48 Buddy Holly
49 Donny Hathaway
50 Bonnie Raitt
51 Gladys Knight
52 Brian Wilson
53 Muddy Waters by Ben Harper
54 Luther Vandross
55 Paul Rodgers
56 Mavis Staples
57 Eric Burdon
58 Christina Aguilera
59 Rod Stewart
60 Björk
61 Roger Daltrey
62 Lou Reed
63 Dion
64 Axl Rose
65 David Ruffin
66 Thom Yorke
67 Jerry Lee Lewis
68 Wilson Pickett
69 Ronnie Spector
70 Gregg Allman
71 Toots HIbbert
72 John Fogerty
73 Dolly Parton
74 James Taylor
75 Iggy Pop
76 Steve Perry
77 Merle Haggard
78 Sly Stone
79 Mariah Carey
80 Frankie Valli
81 John Lee Hooker by Bonnie Raitt
82 Tom Waits
83 Patti Smith
84 Darlene Love
85 Sam Moore
86 Art Garfunkel
87 Don Henley
88 Willie Nelson
89 Solomon Burke
90 The Everly Brothers
91 Levon Helm by Jim James
92 Morrissey
93 Annie Lennox
94 Karen Carpenter
95 Patti LaBelle
96 B.B. King
97 Joe Cocker
98 Stevie Nicks
99 Steven Tyler
100 Mary J. Blige
Friday, November 7, 2008
PATSY CLINE CASTING CALL: TX AUDITIONS
Can you look and sing like Patsy Cline? If so, we need you! Performance dates are Feb. 13-28, 2009 at the Crighton Theatre in Conroe, TX.The representatives of the Patsy Cline Estate retains approval over casting/design elements/marketing materials. Notably, the Patsy Cline Estate must approve all actresses portraying Patsy as well as the 'look' (sets and costumes) for the show. For the performer playing Patsy we would need either a DVD or CD of you performing the following 3 songs: Walkin’ After Midnight, Crazy and I Fall to Pieces, with a full a picture and resume.Please forward all materials to STAGE RIGHT6700 Woodlands PkwySuite 230-114Spring, TX 77382Alternately if you have the materials electronically you can send them to info@stage-right.org.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
NEW BOOK BY OERMANN: Stars Tell Stories From Behind the Grand Ole Opry Curtain. PATSY CLINE NEWS
How dumb am I?
How long have I been around the music business? Thirty years? You would think I’d know a thing or two about artists’ schedules by now. When I began writing the chapters for Behind the Grand Ole Opry Curtain in January 2007, I decided to write about the deceased stars first. So through the winter, I was telling the stories of Johnny Cash, Dottie West, Patsy Cline, Minnie Pearl, Johnny Paycheck and the like.
In the late spring and early summer, I began contacting the Opry’s living cast members for interviews. Guess what? They were on the road! So scheduling the interviews became somewhat complicated.
As summer turned to fall, I was behind schedule and facing the deadline for the manuscript. The deadline came and went. I wrote like a madman, finishing three chapters in October, three chapters in November and five chapters in January 2008. I finally came across the finish line in March 2008.
The good news is that just about everybody I asked to participate in Behind the Grand Ole Opry Curtain did so, with pleasure. Clint Black and Barbara Mandrell invited me into their homes. Pam Tillis and Hal Ketchum came over to sit at my kitchen table.
Even Country Music Hall of Fame superstars agreed to share their stories — Loretta Lynn, George Jones, Dolly Parton, Bill Anderson and Eddy Arnold, the last of whom died before the book was complete. So did Porter Wagoner.
The even better news is that everyone was so wonderfully candid about their romances and tragedies. I have known Dolly for decades, but she has never talked so much to me (or anyone) about her husband Carl Dean and their still-special relationship. Vince Gill was very open about his divorce and his blossoming love for Amy Grant. As you might expect, the Opry and its cast figured prominently in both.
Dierks Bentley does not like to talk about his private life and has refused to do so on several occasions. I was flattered that he trusted me enough to tell me about his courtship with his wife Cassidy. Of course, that chapter is already out of date, since they had baby daughter Evie early last month!
All in all, creating Behind the Grand Ole Opry Curtain was a wonderful experience. It was like visiting with dear friends. And I hope it reads that way.
Editor’s note: Read an excerpt from Behind the Grand Ole Opry Curtain.
How long have I been around the music business? Thirty years? You would think I’d know a thing or two about artists’ schedules by now. When I began writing the chapters for Behind the Grand Ole Opry Curtain in January 2007, I decided to write about the deceased stars first. So through the winter, I was telling the stories of Johnny Cash, Dottie West, Patsy Cline, Minnie Pearl, Johnny Paycheck and the like.
In the late spring and early summer, I began contacting the Opry’s living cast members for interviews. Guess what? They were on the road! So scheduling the interviews became somewhat complicated.
As summer turned to fall, I was behind schedule and facing the deadline for the manuscript. The deadline came and went. I wrote like a madman, finishing three chapters in October, three chapters in November and five chapters in January 2008. I finally came across the finish line in March 2008.
The good news is that just about everybody I asked to participate in Behind the Grand Ole Opry Curtain did so, with pleasure. Clint Black and Barbara Mandrell invited me into their homes. Pam Tillis and Hal Ketchum came over to sit at my kitchen table.
Even Country Music Hall of Fame superstars agreed to share their stories — Loretta Lynn, George Jones, Dolly Parton, Bill Anderson and Eddy Arnold, the last of whom died before the book was complete. So did Porter Wagoner.
The even better news is that everyone was so wonderfully candid about their romances and tragedies. I have known Dolly for decades, but she has never talked so much to me (or anyone) about her husband Carl Dean and their still-special relationship. Vince Gill was very open about his divorce and his blossoming love for Amy Grant. As you might expect, the Opry and its cast figured prominently in both.
Dierks Bentley does not like to talk about his private life and has refused to do so on several occasions. I was flattered that he trusted me enough to tell me about his courtship with his wife Cassidy. Of course, that chapter is already out of date, since they had baby daughter Evie early last month!
All in all, creating Behind the Grand Ole Opry Curtain was a wonderful experience. It was like visiting with dear friends. And I hope it reads that way.
Editor’s note: Read an excerpt from Behind the Grand Ole Opry Curtain.
Editors note: Award-winning music writer Robert K. Oermann delves into the behind-the-scenes stories surrounding country's biggest stars -- past and present -- in his new book, Behind the Grand Ole Opry Curtain: Tales of Romance and Tragedy. Martina McBride, one of the Opry's brightest stars, is profiled in the following chapter, "Small-Town Gals."Every marriage is a partnership, but Martina McBride's is something more. Martina's husband John McBride is her sound engineer, both in the studio and on the road. He also co-manages his wife's career (along with the Canadian Bruce Allen). He is her constant companion and biggest cheerleader. They live together, work together, raise children together, and tour together. "We've always had a relationship where we have been able to relate on a lot of different levels," comments Martina. "I think it surprises a lot of people. I don't think a lot of people really understand it until they see us together. "John and I have a great sense of respect for each other. I really respect his talent, and he respects my talent. We have different talents, but they complement each other. We spend every day together in the studio making a record, and we go home. We're just together a lot. "He's the one person I can trust to be really honest with me. He doesn't try to butter me up or pat me on the back. I mean, he gives me praise when things are good, but I need somebody to give me the bottom line. "He's my favorite person in the world to be with. He has such great instincts. Really, he's just amazingly talented. . . . He's wonderful. "John is actually probably a bigger music lover than I am," Martina adds. "I like quiet. I'm like, 'Turn that radio off. Let's have some peace and quiet around here.' He just lives, eats, and breathes music. He approaches it from a real heartfelt place. Whereas I'm probably a little more clinical when it comes to my producing. So it's a really great combination. "His enthusiasm is priceless. He just immerses himself in everything he does. That's the way he is. So we are very different, but it ends up working out.""It's interesting," agrees John McBride. "Martina and I work together, and we spend a lot of time together. I hope I can give her a comfort level in the studio, do a great job for her that makes her happy, so that she doesn't have to think about anything except making music. "She is the best friend and the best partner I could ever have. No question about it. She's the most stable, rational person I've ever met in my life, which drives me insane. I'm a wreck, normally. I'm a passionate guy, and I burn a little hot. "Martina's not nearly as competitive as I am. She doesn't worry about awards and how many records she sells. She just loves music. She loves singing and performing, and that's why she does this. I am the more competitive one. I worry about it more than she does. "The longer we're together, I'm thinking I'm getting a little more like her, and she's getting a little more like me. We're able to do this work together." John is eight years older than his wife. In the beginning of their relationship, he was the "big-city sophisticate" living in Wichita, Kansas, a town of 300,000. Martina, by contrast, hails from tiny Sharon, Kansas, population 250. Her high school graduating class contained ten of the town's residents. "We grew up on a farm. There was nothing to do. We had three channels on the TV, one of which was fuzzy, so we had two channels. No video games. No running down to the Quick Trip or the convenience store. No playing with neighborhood kids. It was just us, really. We'd come home from school, and we were isolated on the farm. So we always had musical instruments. Our playtime was sitting around making music and singing and playing together. "The Shiffters were a band that my dad had ever since I can remember. There was always rehearsing in the living room and music around us all the time. I started singing in the band when I was about seven years old. We would play wedding dances, VFWs, American Legion halls, and things like that. "It was our family thing to do. My mom ran the soundboard. My dad played guitar and sang. I played keyboard. My brother played guitar. We worked our way up to where we were playing four-hour dances every Saturday night. It was just a lot of fun. I did that all through, until I graduated from high school. "I was singing Reba McEntire, Juice Newton, Patsy Cline, Jeanne Pruett, Connie Smith. My dad would teach me the [country] standards, and then I would pick up whatever song was on the radio. Linda Ronstadt -- I was a big fan of hers. The area where I'm from is pretty rural, so country music wasn't uncool at all."I was always encouraged, had a real optimistic outlook and always believed this could happen if I was in the right place at the right time. I was raised to believe in myself. It was pretty ideal." There was never any question in Martina's mind that she wanted to make music her profession. After graduating high school, she moved to Wichita, where she sang in a rock band called The Penetrators. Martina was so innocent, she didn't grasp the sexual innuendo of the group's name. "I was pretty naïve. I went to a big city and realized that you can't trust everybody. You have to lock your doors, and everybody isn't always what they say they are. It was real new for me, because where I was from, everybody knew everybody. Everything was so down to earth. So I guess we were real sheltered."Most of what I remember about those days is traveling around in a van with a hole in the floor and having no money. I'd go into these little dives and scream my head off singing Pat Benatar. It was a good experience, but I don't miss it at all." She formed a second band called Lotus, driving them around in a converted ambulance. "She was trying to put together a band to travel around," recalls John McBride. "That's when we met. I had a rehearsal hall, and she rented it. Of course, she didn't pay me, so I had to track her down." She didn't pay because she couldn't. The band was falling apart. Martina began telling her troubles to John, who was living in the warehouse rehearsal hall. To her shock, she realized she was falling in love with him. "Here I was, crying on his shoulder about my band not coming together, and I thought, 'I'm in love with this guy. This is crazy. He lives in a warehouse.' " After taking time off to heal her rock-ravaged vocal chords, Martina returned to singing country music. She and John married on May 15, 1988. Their romance began the couple's round-the-clock togetherness. "Actually, I can't imagine it being any other way," says Martina. "I mean, for us it's real natural. We both live, eat, and breathe the music business. For a long time, I never thought I would get married, because I didn't think I could ever find anybody that was so involved and supportive, and could understand what this business is all about, all the traveling and everything. But when I found John, it just clicked. We're just like a really great team. "He started his sound-system business with two speakers and a mixing board and two microphones. He built it up from there and was trying to run it out of Kansas, which is not exactly the musical center of the universe. It was kind of hard, but we both looked at each other one day and said, 'If we really want to pursue this in a big way, we really need to move [to Nashville].' So three months later [in 1990], we packed up everything in a long trailer and moved."I always knew John would do well. He moved here with nothing and has really built up a huge company." In Kansas, John had toured with such rock bands as Steppenwolf and Bad Company. In Nashville, he found work at once as a sound man and went on the road with Charlie Daniels, Ricky Van Shelton, and other country stars. Martina waited tables and bided her time. John soon built up his sound company to one of the most prominent in the U.S. touring industry, with his gear on the road with dozens of top stars. When John became Garth Brooks' production manager on a 1991 tour, Martina went along to sell T-shirts. "It was an easy job," she recalls with a chuckle. "I'm telling you what, when people hit that door, they were ready to BUY T-shirts and hats and all that stuff." Back at home, John continued to badger Music Row and local clubs about his wife's singing talent. Finally, he struck pay dirt. "I heard that they were looking for a new female artist at RCA," recalls Martina. "I went and bought a big, bright purple envelope and put in the tape and a bio and a picture. At RCA they have this sign that says 'No unsolicited material.' That means that they don't take anything that they haven't requested. So -- actually this was John's idea -- he took a big pen and wrote 'Requested material' on the envelope and dropped it off. And it got through! They called us about three weeks later, and then we did a live showcase for them." RCA Records introduced her in 1992 with the singles "The Time Has Come," "That's Me," and the devastating anti-alcohol ballad "Cheap Whiskey." Martina sang its chilling lyrics with incendiary force. Her harmony vocalist was Garth Brooks, and when she went out on Garth's 1992 tour, she graduated from merchandising to being the superstar's opening act. Her powerful voice and striking song choices impressed more than a million fans on the road that year. "I get people in interviews who ask me all the time, 'So they let you pick your own songs?' I didn't really know how things were done, so I just kind of barged in and said, 'These are the songs I want to do.' Maybe that kind of helped me." "Martina picked those songs," says her proud husband. "No one else picked them. She made all the decisions, because she's got such a strong sense of what she wants." "I was so concerned about being taken seriously," Martina explains. "I didn't want to be a fluffy 'girl singer.' I think the material that I pick is very strong-woman material." Many of her hits have reflected her happy private life -- 1995's "Safe in the Arms of Love" and "Wild Angels," 1997's "Valentine," 1998's "Happy Girl," 1999's "I Love You," and 2001's "Blessed." But many others have striking, socially conscious lyrics, such as the 2002 anti-child abuse song "Concrete Angels," "Anyway," which Martina co-wrote, and her powerful anthems against domestic violence: "A Broken Wing" (1997) and, unforgettably, "Independence Day" (1994). "I love lyrics that ring true and that are honest. Something that kind of opens your eyes and opens your heart and makes you want to do something to make a difference. I think the songs I sing should stand for what I believe. I like to sing songs that portray people, and especially women, with dignity, strength, and respect." Most of these songs were accompanied by striking videos. Martina's luminous, ice-blue eyes and chestnut hair are highly photogenic. And everyone was struck by the larger-than-life voice coming from that petite 5-foot 4-inch, 100-pound frame. By 1993--1994, she was a star. The transition did not come easily for her. Offstage, Martina is a shy woman who doesn't make small talk easily. Onstage, she gradually warmed to her audiences and began to relax. One recurring gag in the early days came when she'd introduce the guitar player in her band: "This guy and I slept together for about four years," she'd say. "Then we got rooms of our own." It was, of course, brother Marty Schiff, who remains in his sister's band to this day. "I don't feel comfortable talking about myself," Martina comments about her reserved, introverted nature. "John is much more of a people person. We get in a cab, and I just sit back and look around. John's like, 'So how long have you been driving a cab? What's going on?' By the time we get to the hotel, he's made fast friends with the cab driver. It's amazing. "Sometimes we'll go to a business dinner, and he's kind of my secret weapon. He takes a lot of the pressure off of me." On October 14, 1995, Martina was invited to be on the Grand Ole Opry on the night the show celebrated its seventieth birthday. No one told her that her time onstage was to be brief. She sang too long, which meant that the cast's "Happy Birthday" singing couldn't air on the televised portion of the show. When other stars criticized her, she burst into tears. Backstage, she was comforted by Jeanne Pruett. Nevertheless, Martina was invited to become a member of the Opry cast. On November 30, 1995, she was inducted by the legendary Loretta Lynn. Loretta has subsequently "adopted" Martina and taken her under her wing. "I love her," says Martina of Loretta. "She's amazing to me. What she's done is opened herself up to me. I'll find myself in a corner with her, and her just telling me all this stuff. Does she do this to everybody? I've got to remember it all. It's unbelievable."Becoming an Opry member was the most thrilling moment of my career. I'll try to make the Opry proud and do my best to continue the tradition of country music and the tradition of the Opry." Despite her increasing stardom, Martina retained her humility and stuck to her small-town values. Motherhood, not her career, is her main focus. Martina schedules her tours and her promotional appearances around her daughters' -- Delaney, Emma, and Ava Rose -- schooling and schedules. "That just seems to make the most sense to me. Being a good mom, that's important, definitely. As long as you have that priority set, then it all just kind of takes care of itself. I feel like I'm successful and I'm happy. I don't have a desire to be the world's biggest superstar. I'm happy with my life just the way it is. I want to be able to go to the grocery store. I want to be able to raise my kids in a way that's sane and normal. "I really wouldn't want to have this immediate kind of superstardom that so many acts have. You'd have to put everything in your life aside, and I can't do that. I have a family that I adore. I won't make those sacrifices. I don't care enough about being a big star to do that. I can't imagine these people who can't even walk down the street. I don't have the desire to be on the cover of every magazine. Maybe I'm just lazy." John disagrees. He says his wife's career has been the result of determination, a solid work ethic, and a continuous drive for self improvement. In 2005, Martina began producing her own records, a rarity for a woman in country music. "Martina is very, very hands-on," says John. "Starting with her second album, she received a coproducer credit, and she took that very seriously. She did at least 50 percent of the work. Her ears are incredible. She hears better than anyone I know. She knows what she wants, and she'll work and work and work until she gets what she wants. "Martina has really built her career the old-fashioned way. She came out with her first album, which did okay but not great overall. The second album, she had a little more radio success and a few more hits. The third album, she finally got her first number one. She's really had to fight every inch of the way. "The first time that Martina received the Female Vocalist of the Year award [in 1999] was a magical, magical night. Of course, I felt like she should have gotten it the previous five years in a row. As a matter of fact, I think I threatened that if she didn't win, I was going to light myself on fire and run out of the auditorium. Thank God that never happened." Martina was also named the Country Music Association (CMA) Female Vocalist of the Year in 2002, 2003, and 2004. She and her idol Reba McEntire are the only stars who have won this award four times. The two women costarred in the landmark, all-female country tour Girls' Night Out in 2001, alongside Sara Evans, Jamie O'Neal, and Carolyn Dawn Johnson. It came about because of Martina's experience on the road with female pop stars in the 1998 Lilith Fair tour. She approached Reba about creating something similar for country music's women. "That Lilith Fair experience was life-changing for me," says Martina. "I never knew a tour could be like that, with all that camaraderie. The whole vibe was really cool." Girls' Night Out was just as much fun, she reports. Behind the scenes, John's star was rising just like his wife's. He built Blackbird Studio and an accompanying equipment-rental business in Nashville. The facility is now one of the top studios in America, hosting sessions for country and pop stars alike. The complex also houses the McBrides' song-publishing business. Naturally, Martina records there, with John engineering by her side. "My husband doesn't do anything halfway," says Martina. "He is passionate about audio. Blackbird Studio has a great vibe. It's got a great energy about it that everybody comments on when they come to work here. It's really palpable. You can just feel it when you walk in." "They built a paradise where we all get to hang out and make music," comments producer/guitarist Paul Worley. "John is there to help Martina and support her on the roller-coaster ride of being an artist. And she has been there for him as he's built his own dream, this wonderful, wonderful studio. Kudos to them. "John and Martina, they've got the most wonderful relationship of any man and woman together I've ever seen. They both have huge dreams and huge lives. They pursue their dreams, and they don't get in each other's way. I hope it goes on forever." "It's an unconditional kind of love," says Martina McBride. "It's really rare. I feel lucky that I found it."Copyright 2008. This article is used with the permission of Hachette Book Group and Robert K. Oermann. All rights reserved.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Friday, October 31, 2008
ALWAYS PATSY CLINE RETURNS TO THE OLE' RYMAN!!!
LINK IN TITLE. THANKS RECLINER JIMMY FOR SHARING THE NEWS!
Thursday, October 23, 2008
RECLINER LINK OF THE DAY!
THANKS RECLINER JIMMY FOR THE LINK!
HIS FATHER WROTE "BACK IN BABY'S ARMS"!
HIS FATHER WROTE "BACK IN BABY'S ARMS"!
Saturday, October 18, 2008
WE SAW THE "CRAZY" MOVIE TODAY!
WE ALL HAD A BALL, THE MOVIE WAS AMAZING!
CK YOUR LOCAL MOVIE HOUSES!
READ MORE ABOUT IT ON THIS BLOG BELOW
& LISTED LINKS. ALSO YOU CAN WATCH THE CLIP
ON THE MAIN SITE ON THE NEWS ROOM PAGE!
LINK IN TITLE!
In addition to being a rising film star – his performance as Jerry Lee Lewis in the Oscar-winning Walk The Line drew much acclaim Waylon Payne is a country music artist with deep Nashville roots. He was named for his godfather, Waylon Jennings, and is the son of GRAMMY-winning country artist Sammi Smith and longtime Willie Nelson guitarist Jody Payne. There’s no doubt that Payne’s musical pedigree lends intensity and authenticity to his star turn as Hank Garland, which was honored with the Best Actor award at Colorado’s prestigious Breckenridge Festival of Film; CRAZY also won for Best Feature.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
NEXT STOP FOR PATSY'S LAST WRITTEN LETTER!
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Patsy Cline on Great new Aussie cd set!
Tracklisting:
Disc 1
1.
Lynn Anderson -rose Garden
2.
Loretta Lynn -you're Looking At Country
3.
Tammy Wynette -stand By Your Man
4.
Anne Murray -reason To Believe
5.
Patsy Cline -stop The World (& Let Me Off)
6.
Sandy Posey -single Girl
7.
Deborah Allen -baby I Lied
8.
Billie Jo Spears -blanket On The Ground
9.
Cindy Morgan -you're My Best Friend
10.
Brenda Lee -johnny One Time
11.
Donna Fargo -sticks And Stones
12.
Dolly Parton -(It Wasn't God Who Made) Honky Tonk Angels
13.
Holly Dunn -daddy's Hands
14.
Skeeter Davis -my Last Date (With You)
15.
Dottie West - D-i-v-o-r-c-e
Disc 2
1.
Lynn Anderson -top Of The World
2.
Tammy Wynette -'til I Can Make It On My Own
3.
Sandy Posey -born A Woman
4.
Billie Jo Spears -what I've Got In Mind
5.
Dolly Parton -puppy Love
6.
Anne Murray -there Goes My Everything
7.
Loretta Lynn -coal Miner's Daughter
8.
Lynn Anderson -heaven's Just A Sin Away
9.
Tammy Wynette -rocky Top
10.
Billie Jo Spears -for The Good Times
11.
Patsy Cline -just Out Of Reach
12.
Loretta Lynn -me And Bobby Mcgee
13.
Patsy Cline -walking After Midnight
14.
Anne Murray -buffalo In The Park
15.
Dolly Parton -making Believe
Disc 3
1.
Patsy Cline -crazy
2.
Billie Jo Spears -misty Blue
3.
Marie O'brien -loving Him Was Easier
4.
Jo Anne Houston -let's Love The Bad Times Away
5.
Barbara Fairchild -slippin' Away
6.
Tina Davis -last Days Of Love
7.
Billie Jo Spears -you're My Man
8.
Anne Murray -both Sides Now
9.
Lynn Anderson -blue Bayou
10.
Marie O'brien -for Reasons I've Forgotten
11.
Jo Anne Houston -if We're Not In Love By Monday
12.
Patsy Cline -i've Loved & Lost Again
13.
Billie Jo Spears -sweet Dreams
14.
Cindy Morgan -your Old Love Letters
15.
Marie O'brien -always On My Mind
Disc 1
1.
Lynn Anderson -rose Garden
2.
Loretta Lynn -you're Looking At Country
3.
Tammy Wynette -stand By Your Man
4.
Anne Murray -reason To Believe
5.
Patsy Cline -stop The World (& Let Me Off)
6.
Sandy Posey -single Girl
7.
Deborah Allen -baby I Lied
8.
Billie Jo Spears -blanket On The Ground
9.
Cindy Morgan -you're My Best Friend
10.
Brenda Lee -johnny One Time
11.
Donna Fargo -sticks And Stones
12.
Dolly Parton -(It Wasn't God Who Made) Honky Tonk Angels
13.
Holly Dunn -daddy's Hands
14.
Skeeter Davis -my Last Date (With You)
15.
Dottie West - D-i-v-o-r-c-e
Disc 2
1.
Lynn Anderson -top Of The World
2.
Tammy Wynette -'til I Can Make It On My Own
3.
Sandy Posey -born A Woman
4.
Billie Jo Spears -what I've Got In Mind
5.
Dolly Parton -puppy Love
6.
Anne Murray -there Goes My Everything
7.
Loretta Lynn -coal Miner's Daughter
8.
Lynn Anderson -heaven's Just A Sin Away
9.
Tammy Wynette -rocky Top
10.
Billie Jo Spears -for The Good Times
11.
Patsy Cline -just Out Of Reach
12.
Loretta Lynn -me And Bobby Mcgee
13.
Patsy Cline -walking After Midnight
14.
Anne Murray -buffalo In The Park
15.
Dolly Parton -making Believe
Disc 3
1.
Patsy Cline -crazy
2.
Billie Jo Spears -misty Blue
3.
Marie O'brien -loving Him Was Easier
4.
Jo Anne Houston -let's Love The Bad Times Away
5.
Barbara Fairchild -slippin' Away
6.
Tina Davis -last Days Of Love
7.
Billie Jo Spears -you're My Man
8.
Anne Murray -both Sides Now
9.
Lynn Anderson -blue Bayou
10.
Marie O'brien -for Reasons I've Forgotten
11.
Jo Anne Houston -if We're Not In Love By Monday
12.
Patsy Cline -i've Loved & Lost Again
13.
Billie Jo Spears -sweet Dreams
14.
Cindy Morgan -your Old Love Letters
15.
Marie O'brien -always On My Mind
Sunday, October 12, 2008
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Friday, October 10, 2008
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Tuesday, October 7, 2008
PATSY CLINE MADE LIST IN 1956!
In the August 1956 issue of COUNTRY SONG ROUNDUP, with Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley on the cover, there is a poll of favorite singers compiled from magazine readers and from the Jimmie Rodgers Day Committee in their poll of the Country music trade. The magazine wrote that:
"The achievements of Mr. Presley, of course, need no further explanation. All we can do is agree that he's one of the most dynamic performers to ever hit the music scene - and a wonderful boy besides."
Here are the results for the top singers of 1956:
"The achievements of Mr. Presley, of course, need no further explanation. All we can do is agree that he's one of the most dynamic performers to ever hit the music scene - and a wonderful boy besides."
Here are the results for the top singers of 1956:
Top Ten Male Singers1. ELVIS PRESLEY2. WEBB PIERCE3. FARON YOUNG4. HANK SNOW5. CARL SMITH6. ERNEST TUBB7. WILBURN BROTHERS8. RED FOLEY9. SONNY JAMES10. JIM REEVES
Top Ten Female Singers1. KITTY WELLS2. JEAN SHEPARD3. GOLDIE HILL4. WANDA JACKSON5. JUNE CARTER6. CHARLINE ARTHUR7. PATSY CLINE8. MARTHA CARSON9. HARVIE JUNE VAN10. ANITA CARTER
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9to5 THE MUSICAL 08!
I was barely awake on Sunday morning when I received the news: Dolly Parton had rescued the opening night performance of the stage version of 9 to 5 from near certain disaster. I wasn't the least bit surprised.Here are the details: Dolly, who's adapted the hit 1980 film (one of my favorites) for the stage, was just one of dozens of A-listers in the audience for the show's world premiere at LA's Ahmanson Theater on Saturday night. The glitterati included the film's co-stars Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda and the incomparable but underrated Dabney Coleman. (I followed Coleman's successful battle with macular degeneration with close attention.) Also in attendance were Jason Alexander, Blythe Danner and the star of HBO's In Treatment Gabriel Byrne. (Byrne's recent performance as King Arthur in Camelot was so bizarrely morose, it sent half the audience into treatment.)Everyone had settled into their seats. Cell phones were silenced and the chatter subsided as the overture swelled and the curtain rose on a stunning set. The show got off to a delightful start and Dolly was beaming. It looked like another plume in the headdress for country music's "Iron Butterfly." (Dolly is far too colorful for a simple feather in a cap.) Though Dolly and Carl, her notoriously press shy husband of 42 years, have no biological children of their own, it seemed clear to theaterwatchers that Dolly was carrying the next Broadway hit. (Call it her Broadway Baby Bump.)Then, fifteen minutes into the show, it happened. The curtain descended. Dropped without warning. At first the audience thought it was intentional -- some sort of avant-garde directorial stunt. Partonologists knew better: Dolly has never engaged in or endorsed gratuitious tricks or fads. No, something was wrong here. Then came the shocking news via the PA system: the show would be delayed for a "few minutes," due to "technical difficulties."Readers of this blog know that I have long worshiped Dolly Parton. This fourth of twelve kids born to a dirt poor East Tennessee family has defied every expectation, not only in the world of music, where she's topped country, bluegrass, gospel, pop and adult contemporary charts -- but also in film with fantastic performances in both 9 to 5 and Steel Magnolias. (Her one dud was Straight Talk, in which she played a conversion therapist talk show host who "turns" gay callers straight.)Is she a singer who writes songs? A songwriter who acts? An actress who produces? A theme park proprietress who gives away tons of money to charity? She is all these things -- and more. Not just a star, but a constellation.What makes her so appealing, beyond her astonishing talent, is her overwhelming - and undeniablly authentic - spirit of generosity. She embraces her audience completely -- religious and non-religious, black and white, gay and straight, hutu and tutsi. There's not even a hint of judgment in her persona. Dolly isn't post-partisan. She's trans-partisan (though her audience includes a multitude of partisan trannies.) Dolly is a philosophy.And, almost without exception, she's an original. I say "almost" because of one teeny tiny blot on her record:As much as I love Dolly, I am equally devoted to Loretta Lynn. She ranks as my favorite Kentuckian. (Tied with Abraham Lincoln.) Loretta's hit single "Coal Miner's Daughter" is a religious experience for me. As a rule, I never stop it in the middle of play. And I certainly never chit chat when it's on. How much do I love this song? I've instructed the executor of my will to have it played during my funeral!Dolly's "Coat of Many Colors" (1971) is a brash and transparent reaction to "Coal Miner's Daughter" (1969). Dolly may as well have titled her song "I'm Poor, Too!!" I'm sorry, Dolly, that your mother had to sew rags together for a coat. But in the summertime, Loretta "didn't have shoes to wahr"! Simply put, "no shoes" trumps "no coat" on the poverty scale.And yet this proves that Dolly is human. And while she loves us for our flaws, we love her for hers. She is self-deprecating (especially on the subject of her multiple surgeries) yet manages to be supremely dignified. The rest of us can only aspire.Which brings me back to the Ahmanson. The audience was still reeling from the news of the "technical difficulties" when Dolly bounded up onto stage and impromptu began performing! As KTLA reported:As the minutes dragged on and on, a clearly restless audience was cheered when Parton stood-up right from her seat in the middle of the theater and said; 'If they can't perform the show, I'll do some of it from right here.' Parton then proceeded to lead the entire audience in a sing-a-long version of the title song '9 to 5.' That number drew a rousing ovation from the crowd; but the delay wasn't done and neither was Dolly.Audience members could hear construction equipment like power drills and saws at work while Dolly continued to charm the audience with a talk about the origins of the musical show; as well as introducing her '9 to 5' film co-stars. As the delay continued, Parton offered to take questions from the audience; and then asked if the audience would like for her to sing another song; 'I Will Always Love You.' Eventually the scheduled show resumed and ended with an extended standing ovation!Dolly didn't just display good old-fashioned showmanship. (Can you imagine any of today's strumpets-parading-as-talent responding in this way?!) She demonstrated leadership. She assessed the situation, then swung into action. What's more, she acknowledged that there was a problem. Rather than bury her head in the sand, she said, before singing "I Will Always Love You": "Maybe I'll wait, in case things get screwed up again and I have to fill more time."
Sept. 22 (Bloomberg) -- The thrilling Los Angeles premiere of ``9 to 5: The Musical'' will be hard to duplicate on Broadway, for reasons having nothing to do with the presence of Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dabney Coleman in the audience Saturday night at the Ahmanson Theatre.
True, Dolly Parton's co-stars from the 1980 film -- in which three put-upon female office workers exact delicious revenge on their sexist, bigoted and ultimately corrupt male boss -- were on hand for the opening of her musical adaptation. But it was Parton herself, in an endearing impromptu performance when a balky set stopped the first act dead in its tracks, who gave the A-list crowd more thrills than it had bargained for.
About a quarter-hour into Act 1, the curtain unexpectedly came down. After a few uncertain minutes, Parton rose from her orchestra seat, cracked a few jokes and led the cheering audience in a sing-along version of the title song, providing cheerful distraction until the technical glitches were resolved and the show got underway again.
By evening's end -- and it was a long one -- few could recall that the show had stalled. That is mostly a testament to the happily insistent quality of Parton's music and lyrics, Patricia Resnick's generally tight book (the ending falls a bit flat, feeling rushed and not entirely logical) and Joe Mantello's supple direction.
Winkingly Faithful
The show is winkingly faithful to the movie's late 1970s setting -- picture corduroy blazers, pastel-colored long skirts and big hair on both men and women. Resnick makes the most of this with plenty of asides, emphasizing, for example, the absence of computers from the office and placing modern locutions like ``Twenty-four seven'' in the mouths of her characters as others look on quizzically.
Rather than being stale, this tack turns out quite fresh, with ample visual diversions courtesy of Scott Pask's spot-on sets (garish fluorescent lighting, plain metal desks, huge IBM Selectric typewriters, a sofa covered in earth-tone plaid) and William Ivey Long's memory-lane costumes filling the gaps between Parton's catchy songs. It was all choreographed by Andy Blankenbuehler with amusing references to '70s dance moves.
One might have expected the musical numbers, orchestrated by Bruce Coughlin, to be endless variations on that familiar title roof-raiser. And, indeed, it makes at least five appearances. Yet while Parton had never written a musical before, she turns out to be a skilled hand at Broadway-style material, crafting both winning show tunes (the spirited ensemble number ``Tattletales'') and songs that pay homage to her country roots (``Cowgirl's Revenge'').
Allison Janney
The stars, too, deserve credit for the show's feel-good manner. The biggest is film and TV actress Allison Janney (``Hairspray,'' ``The West Wing''). Though Janney's Violet, the Lily Tomlin character in the movie and the mother hen in this incarnation, isn't much of a singer, her comic timing is masterly and she proves a game dancer.
Megan Hilty tackles Parton's role: busty, naive and surprisingly resourceful. That might seem a thankless task (who can compete with memories of Dolly, after all?), but Hilty makes the part her own.
Stephanie J. Block portrays Judy less as a Jane Fonda manque than as a suppressed-housewife-cum-empowered woman (``hear me roar'' and all that). The effect is sensational in the anthemic ``Get Out and Stay Out.''
That leaves Broadway veteran Marc Kudisch in the role of Franklin Hart Jr., the boss from hell who finds no more quarter in the show than Coleman did in the movie. Kudisch looks more like Burt Reynolds than Coleman here, but that's perfectly fine. Being sexier doesn't make Hart any less reprehensible.
With a few song trims and a punchier ending, ``9 to 5'' may well find its approach is very much a way to make a living -- and even a killing -- on Broadway.
Through Oct. 19 at the Ahmanson Theatre, 135 N. Grand Ave., Los Angeles; +1-213-628-2772; http://www.centertheatregroup.org.
True, Dolly Parton's co-stars from the 1980 film -- in which three put-upon female office workers exact delicious revenge on their sexist, bigoted and ultimately corrupt male boss -- were on hand for the opening of her musical adaptation. But it was Parton herself, in an endearing impromptu performance when a balky set stopped the first act dead in its tracks, who gave the A-list crowd more thrills than it had bargained for.
About a quarter-hour into Act 1, the curtain unexpectedly came down. After a few uncertain minutes, Parton rose from her orchestra seat, cracked a few jokes and led the cheering audience in a sing-along version of the title song, providing cheerful distraction until the technical glitches were resolved and the show got underway again.
By evening's end -- and it was a long one -- few could recall that the show had stalled. That is mostly a testament to the happily insistent quality of Parton's music and lyrics, Patricia Resnick's generally tight book (the ending falls a bit flat, feeling rushed and not entirely logical) and Joe Mantello's supple direction.
Winkingly Faithful
The show is winkingly faithful to the movie's late 1970s setting -- picture corduroy blazers, pastel-colored long skirts and big hair on both men and women. Resnick makes the most of this with plenty of asides, emphasizing, for example, the absence of computers from the office and placing modern locutions like ``Twenty-four seven'' in the mouths of her characters as others look on quizzically.
Rather than being stale, this tack turns out quite fresh, with ample visual diversions courtesy of Scott Pask's spot-on sets (garish fluorescent lighting, plain metal desks, huge IBM Selectric typewriters, a sofa covered in earth-tone plaid) and William Ivey Long's memory-lane costumes filling the gaps between Parton's catchy songs. It was all choreographed by Andy Blankenbuehler with amusing references to '70s dance moves.
One might have expected the musical numbers, orchestrated by Bruce Coughlin, to be endless variations on that familiar title roof-raiser. And, indeed, it makes at least five appearances. Yet while Parton had never written a musical before, she turns out to be a skilled hand at Broadway-style material, crafting both winning show tunes (the spirited ensemble number ``Tattletales'') and songs that pay homage to her country roots (``Cowgirl's Revenge'').
Allison Janney
The stars, too, deserve credit for the show's feel-good manner. The biggest is film and TV actress Allison Janney (``Hairspray,'' ``The West Wing''). Though Janney's Violet, the Lily Tomlin character in the movie and the mother hen in this incarnation, isn't much of a singer, her comic timing is masterly and she proves a game dancer.
Megan Hilty tackles Parton's role: busty, naive and surprisingly resourceful. That might seem a thankless task (who can compete with memories of Dolly, after all?), but Hilty makes the part her own.
Stephanie J. Block portrays Judy less as a Jane Fonda manque than as a suppressed-housewife-cum-empowered woman (``hear me roar'' and all that). The effect is sensational in the anthemic ``Get Out and Stay Out.''
That leaves Broadway veteran Marc Kudisch in the role of Franklin Hart Jr., the boss from hell who finds no more quarter in the show than Coleman did in the movie. Kudisch looks more like Burt Reynolds than Coleman here, but that's perfectly fine. Being sexier doesn't make Hart any less reprehensible.
With a few song trims and a punchier ending, ``9 to 5'' may well find its approach is very much a way to make a living -- and even a killing -- on Broadway.
Through Oct. 19 at the Ahmanson Theatre, 135 N. Grand Ave., Los Angeles; +1-213-628-2772; http://www.centertheatregroup.org.
Saturday, September 20, 2008
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Friday, September 19, 2008
MORE PATSY CLINE IN WINNY STAR NEWS
Friday, September 19, 2008
‘Sad but sassy’ songs appeal to fans
Australians, crazy for Patsy Cline, make pilgrimage to singer’s hometown
By F.C. Lowe The Winchester Star
Winchester —Two Patsy Cline fans traveled halfway across the globe recently to visit the hometown of the legendary singer.
Janet Pietsch and Linda Pegler of Miduna, Victoria, Australia, have been fans for more than 20 years and have planned the trip for 15.
They landed at Washington Dulles International Airport six weeks ago and drove directly to Winchester to soak up as much Patsy time as they could.
A highlight of the beginning of the visit was seeing the Wayside Theatre’s production of “Always . . . Patsy.”
Janet found information about the play on the Internet before they began the Patsy pilgrimage, but was told the show was sold out at the time they would be in the area.
That didn’t stop her. She contacted the sponsor of one of the shows, Q102 Radio, and they were invited to be special guests.
They found the musical so enjoyable they were still quoting material from it weeks later.
Now at the end of their journey — they leave Monday — the duo returned Tuesday for just a little more Patsy time.
“We needed to come back,” Janet said.
A stop at the 608 S. Kent St. home of the singer, who died in a plane crash in 1963, was part of the tour led by Celebrating Patsy Cline’s president, Judy Sue Huyett-Kempf, whom they met at the Wayside production.
She conducts the tours by request for visitors and on this day was making the most of the empty house which will be rented soon.
The enthusiasm of the visitors did not surprise Judy Sue.
“Most Patsy fans are like this,” she said. “Most have a great deal of energy, but these ladies have gone beyond.”
It was Linda’s first trip outside Australia, but Janet has traveled to most continents and had visited the United States.
But entering the small wooden frame house caused them both to squeal with joy.
“I can’t believe we are in the house where Patsy lived,” Janet said. “It is unbelievable.”
The two avid fans call each other “Pats” because of their admiration of the award-winning singer.
“Some people think that’s our names,” Linda said.
But it is a nickname reserved only for the two of them. Janet said they are offended when others call them that. “She’s my Pats.”
For them, the attraction of Patsy’s music is the sentiment behind the songs.
“They are sad but sassy,” Linda said. “I also liked the way she dressed — buxom and gorgeous.”
While they said they don’t like country music, Patsy’s voice and songs called to them.
“It is music about life,” Janet said. “Stories you can relate to.”
When they bought CDs years ago, they would play them so others could also enjoy them in the small town they compare to the size of Winchester.
“We’d sing along going to visit our daughters in college,” Janet said.
“We’d blast it in the car and roll the windows down,” Linda added.
They also call each other “best mates” and met at work — Janet, 52, a high school principal and Linda, 53, a high school technical assistant.
They decided to make the pilgrimage now with the blessing of their families and while they are still healthy and up for the challenge — especially since they rented a car and had to drive not only sitting on the opposite side of the car, but also steering on the side of the road alien to their country.
Janet did the driving while Linda navigated after they picked up the car at Union Station and had to drive through Washington.
“I just pointed the car and kept driving,” Janet said.
In addition, she said, the indicator (signal) lights were not where she expected them to be and she kept turning on the wiper blades instead.
“It was a bit of a hoot,” Janet added, and worries if it will seem strange to drive on the left side of the road again when she returns home.
Originally, they had planned to travel south and made it as far as Tennessee. Once they headed toward Mississippi, hurricanes were threatening, so they changed their itinerary.
“We drove through 24 states in a figure-eight pattern — from D.C. to Tennessee, including Niagara Falls and Maine,” Linda said.
“We even swam in the Atlantic Ocean,” added Janet.
They found the complaints about “petrol” amusing since their country has much higher gasoline prices than the United States.
They are used to paying about $1.65 a liter (a gallon contains about 3.8 liters).
“We’ve laughed about the complaints about gas,” Janet said, explaining that the rental car they used, a General Motors sedan, cost about $40 to fill up here, but would require about $80 in Australia.
They said their weeks in the states have been a wonderful experience.
“Everyone has been really, really helpful and friendly,” Linda said.
While visiting Winchester, they learned so much more about Patsy Cline’s early years and personal information, Linda said. “It is the trip of a lifetime.”
They aren’t sure they will come back, but Janet expressed the feelings of both of them. “We hope so.”
Thursday, September 18, 2008
PATSY CLINE EBAY AUCTION: "MARLIN PAYNE' S HOLIDAY MUSIC SPECTACULAR"
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
PATSY SPOKEN BOUT IN NEW TUNE!!!!
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FROM CMT NEWS:
I’ve been waiting for this day for weeks. Not very patiently, I might add. I’m so crazy about Darius Rucker’s new country album, Learn to Live, that I wanted this album release day to get here so the rest of the world could hear it.
Because this is not just another rocker who’s gone country. This is a man who clearly established he could sing when he was fronting Hootie & the Blowfish. But now he’s proven that the country roots — the ones so many claim to have had all along — are genuinely his.
Like with the stand-out banjo in “Forever Road.” The mournful fiddle in the near-death “I Hope They Get to Me in Time.” The robust steel in the debut single, “Don’t Think I Don’t Think About It.” The shoutout to Patsy Cline in “Alright.” And hook of all country hooks in the shuffle, “All I Want”: “All I want you to leave me is alone.” Every song has something that feels honest-to-goodness country. And those are all just small details of the bigger country picture.
When other artists have come to Nashville to add a country edge to their music, I have a hard time hearing it as country. Mostly because good country requires a blending of the right arrangements, traditional instruments, distinctive vocals and lyrics that tell a story. Having one without the others just isn’t enough. That’s where some new-to-country artists fail. Twangy vocals on nonsense lyrics. Or a hooky chorus with no steel guitar. Or layer upon layer of guitar disguising a mediocre voice. But Rucker has everything, in all the right doses. Download any three songs, and you’ll see what I mean. And whether you agree or disagree, come back here and give us your two cents.
FROM CMT NEWS:
I’ve been waiting for this day for weeks. Not very patiently, I might add. I’m so crazy about Darius Rucker’s new country album, Learn to Live, that I wanted this album release day to get here so the rest of the world could hear it.
Because this is not just another rocker who’s gone country. This is a man who clearly established he could sing when he was fronting Hootie & the Blowfish. But now he’s proven that the country roots — the ones so many claim to have had all along — are genuinely his.
Like with the stand-out banjo in “Forever Road.” The mournful fiddle in the near-death “I Hope They Get to Me in Time.” The robust steel in the debut single, “Don’t Think I Don’t Think About It.” The shoutout to Patsy Cline in “Alright.” And hook of all country hooks in the shuffle, “All I Want”: “All I want you to leave me is alone.” Every song has something that feels honest-to-goodness country. And those are all just small details of the bigger country picture.
When other artists have come to Nashville to add a country edge to their music, I have a hard time hearing it as country. Mostly because good country requires a blending of the right arrangements, traditional instruments, distinctive vocals and lyrics that tell a story. Having one without the others just isn’t enough. That’s where some new-to-country artists fail. Twangy vocals on nonsense lyrics. Or a hooky chorus with no steel guitar. Or layer upon layer of guitar disguising a mediocre voice. But Rucker has everything, in all the right doses. Download any three songs, and you’ll see what I mean. And whether you agree or disagree, come back here and give us your two cents.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
PATSY CLINE LINK OF THE DAY: NEW PATSY SITE COMING SOON......
LINK OF THE DAY:
RECLINER & FAN CLUB MEMBER BETHANY WILL START WORK ON HER OWN ONLINE CLINE TRIBUTE! LINK IN TITLE! GOOD LUCK GAL & WELCOME!
CLINE DATES: THIS WEEK IN SEPT.
YESTERDAY IN 1957 PATSY & CHARLIE WED!
TONIGHT PATSY RETURNS TO OPRY STAGE AFTER CAR ACCIDENT!!! 1961
TONIGHT PATSY RETURNS TO OPRY STAGE AFTER CAR ACCIDENT!!! 1961
Sunday, September 14, 2008
TODAY IN DECCA HISTORY....
TODAY DECCA RELEASED: "BILL BAILEY, WON'T YOU PLEASE COME HOME" & "HE CALLED ME BABY". TWO OF MY FAVS!!! LINK IN TITLE TOO.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
ANOTHER OPRY STAR PASSES
Grand Ole Opry Member Charlie Walker Dies at Age 81
September 12, 2008
Grand Ole Opry member Charlie Walker died Friday morning (Sept. 12) in Hendersonville, Tenn., at age 81. A honky-tonk singer best known for his 1958 recording of Harlan Howard's "Pick Me Up on Your Way Down," he also enjoyed a successful career as a radio broadcaster and was inducted into the Country Radio DJ Hall of Fame in 1981. Born Nov. 26, 1926, in Copeville, Texas, Charles Levi Walker began his professional music career in Dallas during the 1940s as singer and guitarist with Bill Boyd's Cowboy Ramblers. After serving in the Army, he formed the Texas Ramblers and began performing in the Corpus Christi, Texas, area in 1947. He moved to San Antonio in 1951 and gained a fan base as a disc jockey on radio station KMAC. As a singer, Walker's first appearance on the country charts came in 1956 with "Only You, Only You," which reached No. 9. Walker scored three other Top 10 country hits during his recording career on the Decca, Columbia, RCA Victor and Capitol labels. "Pick Me Up on Your Way Down" failed to reach No. 1, but it spent four weeks at No. 2 on the Billboard country chart. His other Top 10 singles include "Wild as a Wildcat" (1965) and "Don't Squeeze My Sharmon" (1967). He became an Opry member in 1967 and was cast as country singer Hawkshaw Hawkins in Sweet Dreams, the 1985 film biography of Patsy Cline which starred Jessica Lange. Walker, who was recently diagnosed with colon cancer, is survived by his wife Connie and 10 children.
September 12, 2008
Grand Ole Opry member Charlie Walker died Friday morning (Sept. 12) in Hendersonville, Tenn., at age 81. A honky-tonk singer best known for his 1958 recording of Harlan Howard's "Pick Me Up on Your Way Down," he also enjoyed a successful career as a radio broadcaster and was inducted into the Country Radio DJ Hall of Fame in 1981. Born Nov. 26, 1926, in Copeville, Texas, Charles Levi Walker began his professional music career in Dallas during the 1940s as singer and guitarist with Bill Boyd's Cowboy Ramblers. After serving in the Army, he formed the Texas Ramblers and began performing in the Corpus Christi, Texas, area in 1947. He moved to San Antonio in 1951 and gained a fan base as a disc jockey on radio station KMAC. As a singer, Walker's first appearance on the country charts came in 1956 with "Only You, Only You," which reached No. 9. Walker scored three other Top 10 country hits during his recording career on the Decca, Columbia, RCA Victor and Capitol labels. "Pick Me Up on Your Way Down" failed to reach No. 1, but it spent four weeks at No. 2 on the Billboard country chart. His other Top 10 singles include "Wild as a Wildcat" (1965) and "Don't Squeeze My Sharmon" (1967). He became an Opry member in 1967 and was cast as country singer Hawkshaw Hawkins in Sweet Dreams, the 1985 film biography of Patsy Cline which starred Jessica Lange. Walker, who was recently diagnosed with colon cancer, is survived by his wife Connie and 10 children.
Monday, September 8, 2008
Sunday, September 7, 2008
RECLINER TABBY'S NEW PATSY TATTOO!
THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE KIND WORDS IN YOUR EMAIL FROM LAST WEEK GAL! YOUR TATTOO IS VERY WELL DONE! GOOD FOR YOU! THANKS FOR SHARING!!!
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
RARE PIC FROM ET'S RECORD SHOP 1962!
RARE PIC FOUND OF ET AT HIS FAMOUS RECORD SHOP DOWNTOWN NASHVILLE 1962! LOOK BY ET'S ARM, 2 PATSY EP'S ARE ON THE HOT EP SELLER STAND! SO WRONG & SHE'S GOT YOU MINI'S!!!
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
NEW PATSY PICTURE FOUND!
RECLINER JIMMY FOUND A RARE 8X10 AT THE RUDI CAFE. NOTICE RANDY BEHIND OUR GAL! I WENT TODAY TO TRY AND TAKE A BETTER PICTURE BUT WAS JUST TO HIGH UP ON WALL. LOOKS LIKE SAME OUTFIT FROM THE BRIAN MANSFIELD BOOK ON PG 55? HERE'S A SMALL COPY. ITS TOO BLURRY IN COLOR. LINK IN TITLE OR CLICK ON PIC TO ENLARGE.
JERRY REED PASSES....
Guitarist, Singer Jerry Reed Dies at 71
September 2, 2008
September 2, 2008
Jerry Reed, the singer, songwriter, guitarist and actor whose No. 1 country hits include "When You're Hot, You're Hot," "Lord, Mr. Ford" and "She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft)," died Monday (Sept. 1). He had been diagnosed with emphysema and was in hospice care. Although he was nicknamed "The Guitar Man," Reed was also known for his comedic roles in the films Smokey and the Bandit and The Waterboy. Elvis Presley recorded two of Reed's songs, "U.S. Male" and "Guitar Man," and was invited by Presley's producer to play his distinctive "claw-style" guitar licks on the studio recordings as well. Reed's other hits as a performer include "East Bound and Down" (from Smokey and the Bandit) and "The Bird" (which included impressions of Willie Nelson and George Jones).
