June 14, 1961, marks both one of the darkest and most consequential days of one country musician's career.

Released during a period of mourning, the collection helped ensure that her voice and the timeless songs she recorded would ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the late ’50s, “Don Owens’s TV Jamboree” was a must-see every Saturday for country music fans across the Washington metro area.

Julie Fudge, daughter of Patsy Cline, shares a story about how Cline’s mother fibbed, acting as her manager, in order to get Patsy Cline onto Arthur Godfrey’s CBS show to perform live. Learn which ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “I just sing like I hurt inside. If you can’t do it with feeling, then don’t,” Cline once said of her passion for performing — and ...

The story of country music icon Patsy Cline‘s short career is filled with tragedy. When she flew to Kansas to participate in a memorial concert, her plane never made it back home to Nashville. She and ...

On Mar. 5, 1963, the plane carrying country stars Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas, and Hawkshaw Hawkins crashed in Tennessee, killing everyone on board. Unfortunately, the crash was reportedly due to the ...

With a terrific pop sensibility, instantly recognizable voice and the ability to seemingly effortlessly cross over from country and western into such related genres as honky-tonk, gospel and even ...

New Patsy Cline music is now out in the world. In honor of Record Store Day on April 12, Cline’s Imagine That: The Lost Recordings (1954-1963) was released. The two-LP set is a collection of 48 ...

Loretta Lynn — the “Coal Miner’s Daughter” who died at 90 Tuesday — had a special bond with another female country legend: Patsy Cline. The two singers — who were born just five months apart in 1932 — ...

Country western music icon Patsy Cline was born just one year after the birth of my own mom Peggy. Patsy was born Sept. 8, 1932, and mom Peggy, Aug. 17, 1931. Tragically, Patsy died at age 30 in March ...

Patsy Cline will forever be remembered as one of the most influential country singers of all time. Musically, she made great strides for the genre, but commercially, she proved that the masses wanted ...