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“I Fall to Pieces” by Patsy Cline

Posted by on Feb 29, 2012 in Featured, Songs | Comments Off on “I Fall to Pieces” by Patsy Cline

It was the Billboard Hot Country chart’s number one song for the year 1961. Sometimes those songs become classics, sometimes they...

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Song: “Crazy”

Posted by on Sep 20, 2010 in Songs | 2 comments

Hugh Nelson wrote this song in 1961 for a country singer named Billy Walker. Two good things then happened. Hugh decided he’d prefer...

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Singer: Patsy Cline

Posted by on Nov 16, 2009 in Singer | Comments Off on Singer: Patsy Cline

Patsy Cline had just begun to experience success in the music industry when an airplane crash took her life on March 5, 1963. She was only...

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