Patsy Cline: Country Music Singer

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Patsy Cline (Virginia Patterson Hensley), world-famous singer, lived in this house. She was born in Winchester Memorial Hospital on 8 Sept. 1932. On 21 Jan. 1957 she won Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts national television show's competition singing "Walkin' After Midnight." In 1961 "I Fall to Pieces" became a hit. Her iconic "Crazy" was released a year later. Her haunting voice took her to the top of the charts, and her style and popularity have never waned. She died in an airplane crash on 5 Mar. 1963 in Camden, Tennessee. In 1973, she was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Cline is interred at nearby Shenandoah Memorial Park.

Department of Historic Resources, 2005

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References/Bibliographic Citation:

Mark Bego, I Fall to Pieces: The Music and Life of Patsy Cline (Holbrook, Mass.: Adams Publishing, 1995; John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, American National Biography (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999); Ellis Nassour, Honky Tonk Angel: The Intimate Life of Patsy Cline (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993); Research conducted by Dr. Douglas Gomery.