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March 5, 2007

Faded Love
(John Wills, Bob Wills)

As I look at the letters that you wrote to me,
It's you that I am thinkin of.
As I read the lines that to me were so dear,
I remember our faded love.
I miss you darlin, more and more every day,
As heaven would miss the stars the above....
With every heartbeat, I still think of you,
And remember our faded love.
As I think of the past and all the pleasures we had,
As I watched the mating of the dove,
It was in the springtime that you said goodbye,
I remember our faded love.
I miss you darlin, more and more every day,
As heaven would miss the stars the above....
With every heartbeat, I still think of you,
And remember our faded love....
And remember our faded love.

"DEATH CAN NOT KILL WHAT NEVER DIES ~ LOVE"

January 26, 2007

September 18, 2006

Here's a really neat Patsy thang. First of all, this travel writer expressed great enthusiasm for a "Patsy Cline" sandwich he once enjoyed at Mandan Drug in Mandan, ND. However, he neglected to mention what it's made of! Well, y'all know me -- I called up Mandan's and spoke with Debbie, who as a Patsifan herself, invented the sandwich 19 years ago! The Patsy Cline is a hot toasted number with sliced ham, American cheese and egg salad... not for cardiologists or heart patients, that's for sure! I asked if the ingredients had any apparent meaning with regard to Patsy, but Debbie said no... they're just gooooooooood. Mandan Drug also serves up a Lawrence Welk, an Angie Dickinson, and a Buddy Holly. It's also a terrific antiques store... stop in and see them sometime!

Patsy paper dolls... finally! Thanks to Calvin Champion for bringing this to our attention.

I wanted to let you know Patsy is being featured in "Famous Country Singers Paper Dolls" by famed paper doll artist Tom Tierney. You can purchase your copy from Dover Publications The book ISBN number is 0-486-44741-3. The picture of Patsy featured on the cover shows her wearing the red western outfit with white stars and fringe made by Mom Hensley. You must check it out! I purchased my copies this morning and cannot wait for their arrival!

Click on the image to order yours now!

Just for fun: did you know that tomorrow, September 19th, is Talk Like a Pirate Day? This page will tell you all about it, and you mustn't miss the fun photos page! ARRRHHH, mateys!

September 8, 2006

I decided to wait until Patsy's birthday to share this with you. Many of you already know about this, but it's still phenomenal, and in that case, deserves repetition! Beginning November 17th, the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History will present an exhibition of 150 items entitled "Treasures of American History" at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. Out of literally millions of items from which to choose, one of Patsy's outfits has been chosen! These items were chosen because they represent the greatest treasures of all of American history. The 150 items were winnowed from an original list of 250 chosen by the museum's staff. Here and here are two articles that will tell you more about this amazing exhibit. From Patsifan Philip Martin:

The importance of the recent news about the Smithsonian Museum of American History selecting to display one of Patsy Cline's outfits during their two-year renovation project cannot be overstated. Imagine the grand significance of such an esteemed institution deciding on the importance of displaying one of Patsy's outfits.... out of 3 million objects the Museum has to choose from, for the select 150 objects that will go on display.... this is a big deal and extremely noteworthy. Check out these two articles and look at the marvelous company and significant national treasures comprising the new exhibit.

Patsifan Kathy wrote:

Fantastic job!!!! (You made me waste an entire morning that I SHOULD have been housecleaning... ah, well.) I've loved Patsy since I was a teenager. Something for you to think about -- wouldn't it have been truly awesome if Patsy could have recorded Roy Orbison's "Crying?" I can almost hear it, slowed down and kind of country.... ah, what might have been. Thanks for an absolutely wonderful website -- Kathy

I'm listening to it in my head right now, Kathy, and you're right... it's amazing! Very hypnotic. As you are well aware, we Patsifans have entire jukeboxes in our heads, jukeboxes which consist not only of songs Patsy sang for us, but also those many thousands of songs we would like to hear her sing.

Magic moments for a special day.

Normally, the birthday girl gets the gifts; but Patsy gives us gifts every day!

Patsy inspires yet again.

Iconic country singer Patsy Cline possessed such a beautiful voice that envious meadowlarks would stop their singing just to listen. Well, maybe that's an exaggeration. (No, it isn't. -- LF) But Cline's music did cause a Vacaville boy to take pause.

Robbie McCown is now a grown man. And it was his ear that was attentively bent toward Cline's voice every time his parents spun one of her records. The sound of a woman singing has stuck with McCown to the point, where, two years ago, he created and dedicated a Web site, Womenfolk.net, to female crooners.

"I've always just enjoyed women artists, and when I decided to do a MP3 blog, I wanted to feature women artists to fill a niche," says McCown, 29, who, besides Cline, also tuned his youthful ears during the 1980s and '90s to female performers like Stevie Nicks and the one-of-a-kind lungs of Annie Lennox of The Eurythmics. "I felt comfortable doing it. I knew a lot about them, so I had some expertise doing it. I've always gravitated toward the female voice." more

June 7, 2006

Do you have your menu yet for July 4th? Check out this book -- Dr. BBQ's Barbecue All Year Long! Cookbook by Ray Lampe, aka Dr. BBQ. He's got to be a Patsifan, he's just got to be. A review:

Here's a cookbook with character, written by a character.

Lampe is a former Chicago truck driver who became one of the country's top barbecue champs.

He promotes year-round barbecue with a calendar year of menus for celebrations ranging from the usual Super Bowl and Memorial Day gatherings to the more obscure, such as Patsy Cline's birthday. (His Patsy Cline menu suggests All-Star Showdown Beef Brisket, Crazy French Fries and Sweet Dreams Potato Pie).

"I love barbecue," Lampe says in the book's introduction. "I love it when it's a noun, a verb or an adjective. I love it spelled BBQ, Barbecue, Barbeque or Bar-B-Q.

"I love it cooked over wood, charcoal, pellets, gas, or even an electric heat source. So I see no reason to limit my barbecue activity to a few historically and politically correct occasions. And I absolutely refuse to limit my participation to the warm weather."

You've gotta love that attitude.

Up here in the Snow Belt, folks love to grill in the snow, so living up here has certainly made me receptive to the idea of year-round grilling. Dr. BBQ also has menus for Daytona 500 Day, Jack Daniel's Birthday, and much more. I know there's a Patsifan out there with BBQ stains on his t-shirt who'd appreciate this book... check it out!

Thanks to Philip Martin for this heads-up:

Mark Your Calendars -- Tell Your Friends

In July, ABC will air a two-hour television special about the CMA Music Festival. The summer special, "CMA Music Festival: Country Music's Biggest Party," will be taped during the June 8-11 festival in Nashville.

Brooks & Dunn, Martina McBride, Brad Paisley, and Hank Williams Jr. are among the country music recording artists scheduled to appear on the special. Taped exclusively for the special, cameras will follow the stories of several festival attendees, who will be granted a surprise meeting with their favorite country-music stars. The special will air 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. on July 24.

The annual festival, which began in 1972 as Fan Fair, features concert performances and autograph signings. Last year, the event's attendance exceeded 145,000. The 2006 CMA Music Festival is organized and produced by the Country Music Association.

ABC's "Good Morning America" will air a live segment on the festival with feature correspondent Mike Barz on June 8. Barz will be joined by artists Sara Evans, Billy Currington and Josh Turner from the outside patio at Rippy's Smokin' Bar & Grill on Broadway in downtown Nashville across the street from the Gaylord Entertainment Center.

This book review uses lots of fifty-dollar words, but the ideas presented here are quite interesting. From the NY Times Sunday Book Review for June 4, 2006:

ECHO AND REVERB: Fabricating Space in Popular Music Recording, 1900-1960. By Peter Doyle. (Wesleyan University, cloth, $65; paper, $24.95.) Doyle, an Australian crime novelist and musician, brings a voraciously catholic sensibility to this study of "created" sonic space. Floating freely through the disciplines of music recording, film sound design and semiotics, as well as lived experience, he takes up the question of what "space" has meant to us over time, and how recordings manipulate assumptions about escape, adventure, pleasure, the idealized outside, the comfortably intimate, the dangerous other and the imagined past. His book stops just before the Beatles and others revolutionized pop recording by rejecting the pursuit of "authentic" sound and at times willfully courting the "depthlessness" that Doyle says characterized the technologically limited recordings of the 1920's. "Echo and Reverb" is filled with interesting tidbits, like the guitarist Ry Cooder's claim that Robert Johnson's famously antisocial decision to face a corner while recording was really an attempt to capture the sonic power of sound waves knocking off perpendicular walls. Exploring the interplay between Hollywood film sound and West Coast musical recordings, Doyle traces the lineages of both a fabricated "Hawaii" and sonic signposts connoting the American West. Refreshingly, in the midst of linking Sun Records' and Chess Studios' use of reverb to ideas of male mobility and virility, he looks at the ways the technique rendered more subversive the work of Patsy Cline, Wanda Jackson and Big Maybelle. His ideas about artists turning "fleetingly occupied, briefly deterritorialized affective zones" into power lend themselves well to thinking about the current era of sonic pastiche, when sampling and superimposition create hybrid places and so deftly mimic the processes of association and memory. L.S.

May 21, 2006:

Regarding the recent flap in PatsyLand about the apparent unauthorized use of Patsy performance video footage elsewhere in cyberspace:

1. I absolutely support the right of those who own Patsy's television material to profit financially from the material that has been released to date. We thank you; we are in your debt.
2. I absolutely believe that webmasters who provide Patsy's music or videos in their entirety are effectively taking food out of the mouths of Patsy's children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free? Patsy was known to pay musicians out of her own thin pockets rather than see them forced to perform for free.
3. I absolutely believe that if Patsy fan site webmasters provide small, legal samples of Patsy's music or videos, it serves to promote Patsy and whets the appetite for purchase of such material. Such activity, when done respectfully, serves as free marketing for Patsy Cline. There is no need to thank us, O Great Powers-That-Be; we do it out of sheer love for Patsy. We are happy to do it. No problemo here.
4. I absolutely believe that it is not in Patsy's best interests to continue to keep the remainder of her television material withheld from distribution for decades upon decades, as it effectively keeps legions of new fans from discovering Patsy Cline. I am concerned that young people today have heard more Patsy Cline impersonators than Patsy herself.

... and that's all I'm going to say about that...!

The propeller of the airplane which failed to bring our girl home in March of 1963 failed to sell at eBay recently.

I hate the thing. It failed to do its job. It was supposed to keep turning and turning and turning, all the way to Cornelia Fort Air Field.

It failed.

I hate the thing.

... and that's all I'm going to say about that...!

Thanks, Guy, for finding at Bob Wills' site this lovely pic of Patsy in performance in Kansas City, 1958... click here to check it out! I thought about posting it here, but they surely must be proud to have that gem at their site; why should I steal their glory?

By the way, whoever vandalized Wills' statue in Gruene, Texas (it was irreparably damaged) is going to have hell to pay. A pox upon thee from The Homesick Texan! story and photo.

In the grocery store last week, they were playing an R&B version of "True Love." Oh my.

... and that's all I'm going to say about that...!

Nice to see that Patsy's passion is always appreciated.

'Crazy' demands correct context
Mind Matters
by Lawson Wulsin

I heard Patsy Cline's song "Crazy" on the radio the other day.

What a fantastic, even gymnastic word. Crazy: It swings out to the heights of Patsy Cline's passion.

And crazy swings the other way, to the farthest reaches of what terrifies us -- the possibility of losing our minds. In between are the kinds of crazy that we admire: crazy about the kids, crazy about the home team, crazy about writing love songs.

The song reminded me of the man I saw in the emergency room recently. The first thing he said to me was, "I'm not currazy." He was a trial lawyer wearing his three piece suit, inside out. The police had found him disturbing the peace in a dangerous neighborhood. more

"Patsy Cline knew how to cry on both sides of the microphone."
~ songwriter Donn Hecht

I'll close tonight on a very serious note: our prayers are with Billy Walker's family. link

I lit a candle for him and for his family here.

April 26, 2006:

I was intrigued to find this tidbit earlier this month... one of those "On This Day in History" bits of trivia:

April 11, 1956
Virginia Hensley Cline of Winchester, known to television fans as Patsy Cline, was uninjured today when her car collided with a truck on US Rt. 50 west of the city at Round Hill. The popular singer, who gave her address as 608 S. Kent St., was unhurt, as was the driver of the truck.

Yikes! Must have been one of those women drivers Patsy told us about!

Patsifans in Quebec have hopefully all had a chance to catch "C.R.A.Z.Y." -- a movie about five brothers in Montreal, each with his own unique traits. Here in the States, we're still looking and hoping for a release date, and they say the soundtrack is phenomenal. My favorite bit from this article:

"C.R.A.Z.Y." brims with invention, sweetly comic vignettes and heartbreaking loss. From Zac's fantasies of a cathedral choir singing "Sympathy for the Devil'' to the running story of his attempts to replace his father's rare Patsy Cline album and the spiritual advice of the "Tupperware Lady,'' director and co-writer Vallee may be the missing link between Frank Capra and David Lynch.

Hey, no one understands the desperation of someone frantically trying to replace a rare Patsy album better than we do, right? I have to see this movie just to see if poor Zac succeeds in this one endeavor....

A shout out to Gretchen Wilson -- I constantly see her mention Patsy Cline as an important influence for her. THAT is how it's done. She doesn't get out there and try to mimic Patsy or to dress like her -- she gets out there and does it her way. I think Patsy would approve. Hell, yeah....

Here's another fun historical tidbit:

April 21, 1956
Patsy Cline, local country music singer who appears weekly on "Town and Country Time" over Washington's WMAL-TV, will ride in the Firemen's parade of the Apple Blossom Festival, Thursday night, the Firemen's parade committee announced today. She will also ride on Friday in the Grand Feature parade. Miss Cline will visit the Young People's dance of the Festival on Friday night and the Square dance.

Oh my, it's oh-so teddibly-teddibly hoity-toity, ain't it? I bet when Miss Cline showed up at the Young People's dance that night, instead of prim couples dancing, she had all o' them Young People gettin' with the jive and yellin' for more, more, more! No white gloves for Patsy, unless they're the kind with fringe, ok?

courtesy MCA

Good thing there were firemen around... you know what happens to stages where Patsy's been singing:

While I'm saddened that Patsy is even on a list such as the UK Mirror's "25 Worst Things to Happen to Music" (here), much less in an item which placed sixth, I do appreciate that someone still notices after all of these years.

6. Light air craft: Responsible for the early retirement of Patsy Cline, half of Lynyrd Skynyrd, John Denver, Ricky Nelson, Stevie Ray Vaughan and - on the day the music died - Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens. There's a good reason the tour bus is still so popular.

 Some of this list I agree with, some of it I disagree with, but I sure do agree with Number One:

1. Kids today!: Snivelling whipper-snappers who have no idea of the pleasures of cycling for miles to the local record shop (uphill both ways) to hear the latest releases -- because they have already downloaded them on to the iPod cameraphone hanging from the ring in their lower lip.

Patsifans are the best. Here are two nice graphics which McCade wanted to share with everyone... thanks, these are terrific!

I'd like to take a moment to remember a 17-year-old Patsifan named Chelsi Gregory. She died in an accident one year ago. I never knew her, but she loved Patsy, and that's enough for me. Heck, maybe she lurked at our websites here in PatsyLand. But she was a part of us simply because she was a Patsifan. Recently her friends and family in Polk City, Florida held a vigil for her and played Patsy (here). May she be at peace.

As the sun sinks in the west,
Lord, may I have done my best,
May I find sweet peace and rest
In that happy home of the blessed.

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