One of the few women singers to give me goosebumps during her singing. Whitney Houston another...Karen Carpenter. Others are great as well but only certain voices get those bumps....
Patsy's the best in my opinion anyway. I like Linda Ronstadt a lot and I like Mariah Carey I think Mariah Carey has an amazing voice although I don't listen to a lot of her songs only a few. it's a different style but I do recognize her talent. but that you just have something in her voice I don't know what it is it's like a cry or something and her voice just haunting powerful and beautiful.@@christinepizzi6197
This is one of the best country voices around. Patsy had so many great hits such as "She's Got You", "Walkin' After Midnight", "Sweet Dreams", "So Wrong", "Leavin' on Your Mind", "I Fall To Pieces" "San Antonio Rose", "Blue Moon Of Kentucky", "Half As Much", "He Called Me Baby", "Faded Love" etc. She was only 31 when she died in a plane crash in 1963. In 1985 Jessica Lange starred in the movie about Patsy's life called "Sweet Dreams". "Home Free" does a great cover of "Crazy".
To me Patsy transcends country music even though she was well entrenched in it. She was everything...pop, jazz, she could nail it all, and was gone too soon. She crossed over into pop music and stayed country at he same time...a long time before others like Glen Campbell, Kenny Rodgers, Dolly Parton and today's Taylor Swift. Plane crashes seem to plaque the finest artists: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, Jim Croce, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Ricky Nelson, Jim Reeves, and Car crashes too, like Harry Chapin...
Willie Nelson also sings Crazy. Great listen. Love your reactions and reviews. There are some great movies out there depicting her life! Another great artist with a sad life. Her daughter Julie has been instrumental in keeping her alive and she is still alive today.
When I lived in Nashville, my house backed up to a small airport that Patsy was flying into the night she died. Every year on the anniversary of her death, a single red rose is placed on the runway.
She originally didn’t want to record the song, because she considered it a man’s song after Willie had released it. When you listen to his version, be sure and listen to his original recording. The background vocals on her recording are The Jorenaires, who also backed several of Elvis’ recordings. Also, her biopic “Sweet Dreams” is great.
Willie Nelson wrote this and Patsy took it to glory . I think this would qualify as part of The Great American Songbook. Her vocals were like liquid gold , colorful, rich just an amazing vocalist. -Walking after Midnight - Sweet Dreams are two of my favorites . A different great 50 s track is “Up a Lazy River” by Bobby Darin , hardly ever heard but an amazing track . ☮️
The headband was something she wore for quite awhile after to her accident. It covered her scars as they healed. She took Loretta under her wing to help her her gat through the many pitfalls facing a very backward, an innocent new female singer.
Watch the Coal Miner's Daughter, and you will see how she interacted with Loretta Lynn and coped with a husband who cheated on her and resented her fame. She worked hard to keep her career and home going.
The background vocals were done by the Jordanaires who also backed Elvis and other big names. That was an actual live performance, but someone pasted the studio version over this. There should still be the live version of this video. Patsy's live performances were every bit as good and for me personally even better than the studio recording. Any requests from the commenters are pure gold. Enjoy this rabbit hole.
You should listen to LeAnn Rimes. She does Patsy Cline s songs and sounds just like her! She started her career at age 13! I think you would really like her!
Patsy Cline is a Country Legend. She is considered to be one of the greatest female country singers by artists & fans. Patsy felt every song she sang & you can hear the cry in her voice. She was really crying as she recorded a lot of her songs. Here's a list of Country female singers who broke the door for the Ladies in Country Music: 1 Kitty Wells 2 Patsy Cline 3 Loretta Lynn 4 Dolly Parton 5 Tammy Wynette Before these Ladies, a Country female singer was just the girl singer for the guys who were the stars. Patsy Cline & Loretta Lynn were best friends & Owen Bradley produced Loretta also. My favorite Patsy song is, "Faded Love" & by the end of the song Patsy will be tearing your heart out with her crying. How Patsy can cry & sing at the same time is amazing. She did the same with "Sweet Dreams."
There are few singers that can really make you feel something, in any decade, especially now, but it seems like the 60s were the sweet spot for that kind of thing. The songs weren't necessarily complex, until you got to the late 60s, but Patsy Cline and others could paint a picture with their voice signing the phone book. She almost sounds like she's about to cry and her voice cracks just a little bit, and then she immediately reels it back in. Incredible vocal control while displaying emotion in her voice.
There never has been,nor ever will be a voice like Patsy Cline's. She is unmatched. Her rendition of "Crazy" is the number one most played jukebox song of all time. The word "ICON" doesn't begin to cover her standing in the music industry.
She is one of the original queens of country music. Tragically lost too soon in a place crash. There was an excellent movie made of her life called Sweet Dreams named after o of her biggest hits
I was a toddler when she passed, but her music was still around through my childhood. This is blues. The perfect song, the perfect singer and I'm glad she stayed long enough to record it for us. It's right up there with Etta James ' At Last.
Yes Blues! At one time all the music was interrelated...country had blues and folk music routes. I was about 7 when she passed away. Yes, definitely an Etta James....Patsy had so much natural talent you can smell the it's perfume coming off of the recordings!
Patsy was perfection and it’s tragic that we were robbed of the many years she had ahead of her as an artist. But we are blessed with the velvet depth of her voice in so many great recordings during an era when country was branching into the Nashville sound similar to what Elvis and many other singers like Jim Reeves were incorporating into a more sophisticated sound that crossed over on the radio. “Sweet Dreams” is a film about her volatile life and you will get to see her sassy and quick wit that she was known for in the dialogue. Another film is “Coal Miner’s Daughter” about singer Loretta Lynn who was mentored by Patsy as a younger upcoming artist in the 60’s who wrote her own songs. They shared a lot in a common background and both had challenging marriages in a time when women were supposed to stay home. Their husbands had more than a little trouble with their wives’ super success in the spotlight. Loretta was devastated when Patsy died. She was loved by all the musicians she worked with as she was no diva.
Country music has like 24 categories. I think this song is Country pop style, but that cry and yodel in her voice gets me every time. her voice is so clear when she sings and she is a great storyteller.
She was a great singer and sweet woman. A good friend of my mothers. I remember when she was killed. Momma just sat and cried. I'd never seen her so heartbroken. When i grew older and in my 60s, lost my dear friend Patty to cancer, i totally understood.
Watch the movie "Sweet Dreams.". She didn't have an easy life. I think she had an element of the blues in her voice reflecting her life. She was a crossover artist and we loved her as much as the country fans did. She had so much left to do.....her passing was a tragedy 💔
Fun fact she was worried about recording this song because she didn’t she could sing it they way Willie wrote it so Willie had to go and talk to her he told her not too worry about singing it the way he did just sing it the way she wanted and the rest is history
I read that when Willy first wrote it, he used the word 'stupid' instead of 'crazy'. He was still heartbroken over a bad relationship ending. I guess crazy sounded better. lol
Patsy Cline, Karen Carpenter and Linda Ronstadt some of the most iconic female voices of all time. Go back even further and listen to Doris Day singing Secret Love.
Have you listened to the ones she recorded about 2 to 3 months before she died? There are several that would have totally gotten wider coverage, just awesome.
Yes, Willie Nelson wrote and she told him that she was going to steal it. She recorded it and it became a huge hit. One of the truly great singing artists!😊
I always get a kick out of watching the "Reaction" of the Reactors the first time they hear Patsy Cline. You are right about the 30's thru 50's being the best time for American music.
Yes, but the temptations sang in the 60s and later, not the 50s. Also, imho, the music of the 60s-80s wasn't too shoddy either! Last-- re reactor's saying Patsy is a pop rather than country singer: so far as I know, she is as country as they come-- and a country icon. One of many details that lets us know it's country: the way she sings the word "worry"-- pure country. Another is the little yodel she puts in here and there, at the most emotional phrases. So far as I know, no pop singer would do that. This song breaks my heart every time.
That recording is from a TV show, not a studio version. She was a True Icon. Yes, the Willie Nelson wrote it and along with many other songs that other Artists covered. My family and I got to see her backstage in Jacksonville Fl in 1960, I was 9. I don't remember seeing her, but my Mom had a handkerchief and she asked her to kiss it, she did, but did NOT sign it. I still have the handkerchief to this day. My mom cried for hours when she died. I still listen to her music and I am 71. You can see the scar on her forehead from the car wreck. 2 other country musicians died along with her, Hawkshaw Hawkins and Cowboy Copas.
Patsy's voice is so great and she recorded this one before Willie "went large" as a performer. Willie also recorded Crazy. His distinctive voice and style of singing behind the beat gives the song a different feel. You should check it out.
Such a beautiful voice, I have her greatest hits and I love it so much. Every song is so wonderful, I can listen to her all day. Sweet Dreams is my favorite ❤ Great reaction.
One of my favorites is "You Belong to Me". I asked my sister to play the piano and sing it for my wedding because it hit so close to home, as I traveled a great deal for work, while my husband stayed in town.
It occurred to me in some way I think we be grateful that the younger generation is just now discovering all these artists from in the past it keeps the music most of us grew up with.
You're not wrong about this not feeling like Country. What Patsy Cline is best known for is being one of the first "crossover" artists who charted on both the country and pop charts. Pretty much no one did that in the early 60s. It frankly wouldn't be until the 90s that you got a significant amount of "country" artists doing, basically, pop. Cline was the inspiration for LeAnn Rimes, Shania Twain, even Dolly Parton! Great reaction to a great voice!
My all time favorite female singer, such a soulful, smooth, & melodic voice like no other. She was the original Queen of Country & one of the first big female stars in that genre. Before Patsy came along, country music was predominately made up of male performers. She broke down the barriers & forged a path for all female country singers to follow. She helped & befriended Loretta Lynn, when she got her first start in the business. They were best friends & after Patsy tragically died in a plane crash, Loretta honored her friend by naming one of her twin girls Patsy a year after the accident. The other twin was named after Loretta's sister, Peggy. Patsy died in 1963 at the young age of only 30 yrs old. That was 4 years before I was born, but my dad was a big fan so I heard her music while growing up. Crazy was one of her biggest hits but she had many others. A few of my top favorites are - I fall to pieces, Walkin' after midnight, She's got you, Tennessee waltz, & Your cheatin' heart. Please check out more of her classic songs, you won't be disappointed. They made a film in 1985 about her life called "Sweet Dreams" starring Jessica Lange as Patsy - great movie & definitely worth a watch! By the way, the reason why she has that head band on in this performance is to cover up a big scar she sustained from the car accident you read about.
The biopic Sweet Dreams is mostly a good movie because of Patsy's vocals Patsy's mom didn't like the movie at all saying it wasn't true to life. I guess mom's can be tough critic's. ruclips.net/video/Bz8pxaEahYA/видео.htmlsi=Oi7Jv6wV5txeH_t6
I love Patsy Cline’s “I fall to Pieces”. Then go listen Lee Ann Rimes Do “Blue” when she was only 14. She can do Patsy Cline perfectly. Loved your reaction!
Supposedly, 'Blue' was originally written for Patsy but she died before she could record it. The composer of the song put it on the shelf until he heard Lee Ann sing and brought out 'Blue' for her because she sounded so much like Patsy.
Patsy Cline is from my hometown of Winchester Virginia and my mom went to school with her. I remember exactly where I was the day she died in the plane crash. We were out in the barn milking the cows and my grandmother came out to tell us about the plane crash and she had died 😢😢😢 actually my families burial plots are in the same cemetery where she's buried. 😢😢😢
Oh my! First Reaction! Peace, Love!! You'll be alright, but this is a good curb-bump that lets you recognize that you may have a lot to consider as far as "old" music. My Dad was a huge Patsy fan. It took me a few years to recognize how special she was even in the 70s.😉
Back in the day singers went on tour playing one nighters in different city back to back days so they would hire small planes to take them instead of long bus rides
Patsy had a stunningly beautiful voice, a very crossover style that was ahead of the times. Make the hairs on your arm and back of the neck stand at attention with the silkiness of her vocals. Sweet Dreams sends a shiver down the spine with the hold of a word transitioning to the next effortlessly in tune with the music and orchestra accompaniment. We lost a good one, would of loved to have seen what her future could of been.
PASTY HAD A VELVET VOICE, SOME OF HER OTHER GREATEST HITS YOU MAY WANT TO REACT TO ARE: i FALL TO PIECES, SWEET DREAMS, SHE'S GOT YOU, WALKIN' AFTER MIDNIGHT, ALWAYS, AND SO MAY OTHERS. SHE WAS BEYOND GREAT!!!!!!! HER BEST FRIEND WAS LORETTA LYNN WHO WAS DEVASTATED BY HER DEATH........YES, WILLIE NELSON WROTE CRAZY
That was a live performance in front of a tv audience. It's slightly out of sync because it's such an old video, but it was live...Patsy sounded just as good live as on a record.
Yes, THAT Willie Nelson. Listen to his version sometime. Patsy was incredible - and best friends with Loretta Lynn. Loretta was pregnant with twins when patsy died, and Loretta named one of the twins after her.
I visited her crash site in Camden, Tennessee! It was sad. She was definitely a legend and definitely a one of a kind. She died with two other country stars at that time., Cowboy Copas And Hawkshaw Hawkins as well as her manager Randy Hughes. All dies together. The 1950s was the start of what music is today. 1955 was the magic year and the bread and butter for the music industry, like country, R&B, Blues, Rock and pop.
THIS WAS COUNTRY, young man. NOT the BS that is on the radio now. Listen to Conway Twitty, Ray Price, Buck Owens, Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, these were some of the most awesome country musicians.
This was country, "when country wasn't cool." 😉 Like fine wine, it just gets better with age. I would describe today's country as "southern pop." Some of it is still pretty good -- the simpler arrangements that aren't cluttered and techno-fied with an excess of filler sounds. If it still sounds beautiful when it's stripped down to a few instruments, or just one, then I could call it Good Music.
LeAnn Rimes did a *masterful* job re-singing Patsy Cline's songs due to her fans *begging* for her to do so. I listen to both of them all the time depending on my mood for old-school or new-school.
I believe this performance was shortly after she got out of the hospital after the car wreck and the headband is covering where she still had stitches in her head. It was a live tv performance. I don't know if the recording is off sync because it's so old or if someone dubbed the studio recording over it at some point. Quite a few country singers didn't have that country twang back then just like now. Listen to "Gentleman" Jim Reeves sing He'll Have To Go sometime.
Jim Reeves had such a smooth buttery voice. 🥰 The extended notes that melt your heart at the end, "or will you tell him ... He'll haaaaave tooooo ... go-o-o-o." 🫠
That was a "live" in she did it on a show I do not know which this was recorded on. But something LIKE the Opry or Louisiana Hayride type show. I always thought of Patsy's voice as haunting. It has a quality that most people do not, but it will stick with someone long after hearing it.
Great reaction as always - Patsy's Cry Me A River is another great one. I love your eclectic taste. I hunted through your videos and didn't see any Leonard Cohen. I'd love to hear your reaction to his earlier mythic songs, Suzanne or The Stranger Song, or the later, darker works, Everybody Knows, You Want It Darker, or his London concert version of Hallelujah - covered by everyone but his performance is still the most moving.
The word you looking for is Talent. No auto tune with tiny, low quality mic, and she sounded as good in person as on recordings,. This was a recording of a live TV show.
I agree 100%, not a country song. She was a country singer and hung out with Loretta Lynn, so I guess that is why it was categorized as country. Very modern contemporary for the times. Very nice review & love your bling- nice silver cross. You are picking good songs to review! Hope you do more Patsy. Great songs recommended below by @dagmar.6954!!❤
This was classified as country with a transition to the Nashville Sound sometimes referred to as countrypolitan. Patsy's producer Owen Bradley was one of the pioneers of this style.
@mw7584 Nice - a good description. Just as i would call Chicago a jazz- rock fusion sound and not rock or rock n roll. Countrypolitan gets the idea across. I love Shania Twain and she is not straight country either.
Patsy was a great mentor to the late Loretta Lynn when Loretta started in country music. The head band Patsy was wearing covers the scar on her forehead from the car accident. Also her song Sweet Dreams was the first country song to use violins on a recording. I believe the actress Jessica Lange portrayed her in a biopic several years ago.
If you’ve ever heard Loretta Lynn, you’ll recognize Patsy‘s influence Loretta grew up singing Patsy songs. She met Patsy after her car crash and she named her daughter Patsy after the airplane crash they were that they were best buddies and they toured together, and if you wanna really good luck watch the movie, Cole, Miner‘s daughter about Loretta and you’ll see how her and Patsy got along, they were the two top women at the time
If I remember correctly this was recorded not long after her auto accident and the band she has on her head is to cover up the injuries from her head going through the windshield.
I agree with you, the 50s were a special time. Yes, we had our problems but by & large it was a good period for many things including music, manufacturing, innovation etc. Add to that, EVERYONE dressed so much nicer in those days. --Patsy has an amazing voice, just a beautiful gift from God she shared with us. Between her, Karen Carpenter & Peggy Lee the top female vocalists ever imo.
My cousin had a vouce that was a dead ringer for Patsy Cline. Whenever we went to Karaoke, she was well known in her circle in Portland to be the "Patsy Cline" singer. ❤ No longer with us, but her memory lives on.
A lot of people think that LeAnn Rimes sounds like Patsy Cline and when LeAnn Rimes was a girl there was one of Patsy Cline's songs that hadn't been recorded and they had LeAnn Rimes do it it's called Blue you should check it out
GREAT REACTION. I am 74 years old and grew up listening to Patsy and others. You need to react to her singing "SWEET DREAMS. The 50's was an era of transaction when rock and roll really came into play.
This is definitely country, Patsy Cline being one of the best country singers ever. There was actually not a genre defined as "pop" in the 50s in the US. That decade was busy birthing rock and roll. If anybody used "pop" to describe music at that time it was Brits. Anybody who used it to describe the blues or rock n roll was clearly not very knowledgeable about music in those days.
Patsy had what’s called “perfect pitch”. I know it’s being said Patsy was one of the greatest country singers; but, Patsy was one of the greatest vocalists of all time, period. She was one of the first to transcend genre in her vocals, even if the music was fundamentally country. If you listen close to each song, you can hear elements of rock-a-billy (precursor to rock n roll), blues, soul and even R&B within her vocal style. Patsy was in a car crash and shortly after she attempted to record Crazy but was in too much pain to hit some of the notes. So she spent another few weeks recovering and then returned to the studio and the recorded version you hear is her first attempt. She was that good. She was definitely a country artist as you will see by watching “Sweet Dreams” and listening to more and more of her collection. These “crossover” songs are what made her a household name. Her greatest hits is a fantastic starting point. Diving deeper into her Decca record years, you will get the full on country version of the Diva. I Fall To Pieces; Leavin’ On Your Mind; Faded Love; Sweet Dreams; She’s Got You; You’re Cheating Heart; You’re Stronger Than Me; why Can’t He Be You; A Poor Man’s Roses.
No auto tune, no synthesizer... Just her voice and her back up. Talent. Just pure talent...
They were ALL like that, back in the day.
Pure talent for sure
Greatest voice EVER!
She was in accident shortly before they recorded this. She sung this with broken ribs.
Patsy was one of the greatest vocalist EVER.
One of the few women singers to give me goosebumps during her singing. Whitney Houston another...Karen Carpenter. Others are great as well but only certain voices get those bumps....
She was one of the greatest singers who ever lived. Such a tragedy we lost her so soon.
Patsy's the best in my opinion anyway. I like Linda Ronstadt a lot and I like Mariah Carey I think Mariah Carey has an amazing voice although I don't listen to a lot of her songs only a few. it's a different style but I do recognize her talent. but that you just have something in her voice I don't know what it is it's like a cry or something and her voice just haunting powerful and beautiful.@@christinepizzi6197
This is one of the best country voices around. Patsy had so many great hits such as "She's Got You", "Walkin' After Midnight", "Sweet Dreams", "So Wrong", "Leavin' on Your Mind", "I Fall To Pieces" "San Antonio Rose", "Blue Moon Of Kentucky", "Half As Much", "He Called Me Baby", "Faded Love" etc. She was only 31 when she died in a plane crash in 1963. In 1985 Jessica Lange starred in the movie about Patsy's life called "Sweet Dreams". "Home Free" does a great cover of "Crazy".
She's just awesome on any song! The best of the best!
To me Patsy transcends country music even though she was well entrenched in it. She was everything...pop, jazz, she could nail it all, and was gone too soon. She crossed over into pop music and stayed country at he same time...a long time before others like Glen Campbell, Kenny Rodgers, Dolly Parton and today's Taylor Swift. Plane crashes seem to plaque the finest artists: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, Jim Croce, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Ricky Nelson, Jim Reeves, and Car crashes too, like Harry Chapin...
Don’t miss this movie!
Willie Nelson also sings Crazy. Great listen. Love your reactions and reviews. There are some great movies out there depicting her life! Another great artist with a sad life. Her daughter Julie has been instrumental in keeping her alive and she is still alive today.
That was a great movie! Jessica Lange did her justice.
When I lived in Nashville, my house backed up to a small airport that Patsy was flying into the night she died. Every year on the anniversary of her death, a single red rose is placed on the runway.
That's so sad and beautiful. I hope it never stops.
So sad and so sweet that they remember her with a rose.
She originally didn’t want to record the song, because she considered it a man’s song after Willie had released it. When you listen to his version, be sure and listen to his original recording. The background vocals on her recording are The Jorenaires, who also backed several of Elvis’ recordings. Also, her biopic “Sweet Dreams” is great.
Willie Nelson wrote this and Patsy took it to glory . I think this would qualify as part of The Great American Songbook. Her vocals were like liquid gold , colorful, rich just an amazing vocalist. -Walking after Midnight - Sweet Dreams are two of my favorites . A different great 50 s track is “Up a Lazy River” by Bobby Darin , hardly ever heard but an amazing track . ☮️
The headband was something she wore for quite awhile after to her accident. It covered her scars as they healed. She took Loretta under her wing to help her her gat through the many pitfalls facing a very backward, an innocent new female singer.
Watch the Coal Miner's Daughter, and you will see how she interacted with Loretta Lynn and coped with a husband who cheated on her and resented her fame. She worked hard to keep her career and home going.
She was played on EVERY music station. Incredible how truly gifted these artists were.❤
The background vocals were done by the Jordanaires who also backed Elvis and other big names. That was an actual live performance, but someone pasted the studio version over this. There should still be the live version of this video. Patsy's live performances were every bit as good and for me personally even better than the studio recording. Any requests from the commenters are pure gold. Enjoy this rabbit hole.
You should listen to LeAnn Rimes. She does Patsy Cline s songs and sounds just like her! She started her career at age 13! I think you would really like her!
I was just going to mention the Jordanairs.
I actually had one of Elvis 78 speed record with the Jordanairs and I got so mad when it got broken 😢😢😢
The violinist was fiddling with air bro. This wasn't a live performance......hate to burst your bubble...
Patsy Cline is a Country Legend. She is considered to be one of the greatest female country singers by artists & fans. Patsy felt every song she sang & you can hear the cry in her voice. She was really crying as she recorded a lot of her songs. Here's a list of
Country female singers who broke the door for the Ladies in Country Music:
1 Kitty Wells
2 Patsy Cline
3 Loretta Lynn
4 Dolly Parton
5 Tammy Wynette
Before these Ladies, a Country female singer was just the girl singer for the guys who were the stars.
Patsy Cline & Loretta Lynn were best friends & Owen Bradley produced Loretta also.
My favorite Patsy song is, "Faded Love" & by the end of the song Patsy will be tearing your heart out with her crying. How Patsy can cry & sing at the same time is amazing. She did the same with "Sweet Dreams."
There are few singers that can really make you feel something, in any decade, especially now, but it seems like the 60s were the sweet spot for that kind of thing. The songs weren't necessarily complex, until you got to the late 60s, but Patsy Cline and others could paint a picture with their voice signing the phone book. She almost sounds like she's about to cry and her voice cracks just a little bit, and then she immediately reels it back in. Incredible vocal control while displaying emotion in her voice.
There never has been,nor ever will be a voice like Patsy Cline's. She is unmatched. Her rendition of "Crazy" is the number one most played jukebox song of all time. The word "ICON" doesn't begin to cover her standing in the music industry.
Leanne Rhymes can sing patsy' s songs just outstanding
@@nedrawarwick3840 I agree, Leanne Rhymes is a gifted singer with a beautiful voice, but in my opinion...she's no Patsy Cline.
She is one of the original queens of country music. Tragically lost too soon in a place crash. There was an excellent movie made of her life called Sweet Dreams named after o of her biggest hits
I was a toddler when she passed, but her music was still around through my childhood. This is blues. The perfect song, the perfect singer and I'm glad she stayed long enough to record it for us. It's right up there with Etta James ' At Last.
Yes Blues! At one time all the music was interrelated...country had blues and folk music routes. I was about 7 when she passed away. Yes, definitely an Etta James....Patsy had so much natural talent you can smell the it's perfume coming off of the recordings!
@@thomastimlin1724 Our young man hasn't heard enough Hank Williams. His Lovesick Blues is definitely Country and Western, and who can resist yodeling?
Absolutely! Two of the best she and Ettas at last can't be beat!
Patsy’s voice gives me goosebumps. Every time. You need to hear her singing “Sweet Dreams”. Perfection!!
Patsy was one of my favorites back in my younger days. Her, Jim Reeves, and some others are really worth listening to.
Yes, plane crash... 😢
Patsy was perfection and it’s tragic that we were robbed of the many years she had ahead of her as an artist. But we are blessed with the velvet depth of her voice in so many great recordings during an era when country was branching into the Nashville sound similar to what Elvis and many other singers like Jim Reeves were incorporating into a more sophisticated sound that crossed over on the radio. “Sweet Dreams” is a film about her volatile life and you will get to see her sassy and quick wit that she was known for in the dialogue. Another film is “Coal Miner’s Daughter” about singer Loretta Lynn who was mentored by Patsy as a younger upcoming artist in the 60’s who wrote her own songs. They shared a lot in a common background and both had challenging marriages in a time when women were supposed to stay home. Their husbands had more than a little trouble with their wives’ super success in the spotlight. Loretta was devastated when Patsy died. She was loved by all the musicians she worked with as she was no diva.
Country music has like 24 categories. I think this song is Country pop style, but that cry and yodel in her voice gets me every time. her voice is so clear when she sings and she is a great storyteller.
Crossover.
It's called Countrypolitan
@@trixiebelle9460 Pop Goes The Country.
She was a great singer and sweet woman. A good friend of my mothers. I remember when she was killed. Momma just sat and cried. I'd never seen her so heartbroken. When i grew older and in my 60s, lost my dear friend Patty to cancer, i totally understood.
Watch the movie "Sweet Dreams.". She didn't have an easy life. I think she had an element of the blues in her voice reflecting her life. She was a crossover artist and we loved her as much as the country fans did. She had so much left to do.....her passing was a tragedy 💔
One of the best country songs by one of the best country vocalists.
Fun fact she was worried about recording this song because she didn’t she could sing it they way Willie wrote it so Willie had to go and talk to her he told her not too worry about singing it the way he did just sing it the way she wanted and the rest is history
I read that when Willy first wrote it, he used the word 'stupid' instead of 'crazy'. He was still heartbroken over a bad relationship ending. I guess crazy sounded better. lol
Patsy killing it singing the song that Willie Nelson wrote! This performance was not long after her terrible car accident.
Willie initially titled this song "Stupid"
She sang this performance with broken ribs when the video was shot.
And she still had a visible head injury, which she covered up with the scarf.
Patsy's voice was one of a kind. She has many more songs in this style, but my personal favorite is one of her earliest songs "Lovesick Blues"...
She had some crazy vocal control. ❤
She is also native American Cherokee
Patsy Cline, Karen Carpenter and Linda Ronstadt some of the most iconic female voices of all time. Go back even further and listen to Doris Day singing Secret Love.
Lets add Joni Mitchell and Nancy Wilson to this list.
Let's also add k.d. lang
Loretta Lynn, Pat benatar and Reba 😊
@@Brandysky1 Hell yes!!!
Add Stevie Nicks the list.
"Sweet Dreams" is the movie of her story....check it out, with tissues
Great movie, but sad 😔
She was the first crossover artist. She would have been a superstar had she lived.
Have you listened to the ones she recorded about 2 to 3 months before she died? There are several that would have totally gotten wider coverage, just awesome.
Yes, Willie Nelson wrote and she told him that she was going to steal it. She recorded it and it became a huge hit. One of the truly great singing artists!😊
I always get a kick out of watching the "Reaction" of the Reactors the first time they hear Patsy Cline. You are right about the 30's thru 50's being the best time for American music.
Yes, but the temptations sang in the 60s and later, not the 50s.
Also, imho, the music of the 60s-80s wasn't too shoddy either!
Last-- re reactor's saying Patsy is a pop rather than country singer: so far as I know, she is as country as they come-- and a country icon. One of many details that lets us know it's country: the way she sings the word "worry"-- pure country. Another is the little yodel she puts in here and there, at the most emotional phrases. So far as I know, no pop singer would do that.
This song breaks my heart every time.
Largely considered the greatest female country voice of all time.
Yes, and this is absolutely Country music.
That recording is from a TV show, not a studio version. She was a True Icon. Yes, the Willie Nelson wrote it and along with many other songs that other Artists covered. My family and I got to see her backstage in Jacksonville Fl in 1960, I was 9. I don't remember seeing her, but my Mom had a handkerchief and she asked her to kiss it, she did, but did NOT sign it. I still have the handkerchief to this day. My mom cried for hours when she died. I still listen to her music and I am 71. You can see the scar on her forehead from the car wreck. 2 other country musicians died along with her, Hawkshaw Hawkins and Cowboy Copas.
Patsy's voice is so great and she recorded this one before Willie "went large" as a performer. Willie also recorded Crazy. His distinctive voice and style of singing behind the beat gives the song a different feel. You should check it out.
Such a beautiful voice, I have her greatest hits and I love it so much. Every song is so wonderful, I can listen to her all day. Sweet Dreams is my favorite ❤ Great reaction.
One of my favorites is "You Belong to Me". I asked my sister to play the piano and sing it for my wedding because it hit so close to home, as I traveled a great deal for work, while my husband stayed in town.
It occurred to me in some way I think we be grateful that the younger generation is just now discovering all these artists from in the past it keeps the music most of us grew up with.
You're not wrong about this not feeling like Country. What Patsy Cline is best known for is being one of the first "crossover" artists who charted on both the country and pop charts. Pretty much no one did that in the early 60s. It frankly wouldn't be until the 90s that you got a significant amount of "country" artists doing, basically, pop. Cline was the inspiration for LeAnn Rimes, Shania Twain, even Dolly Parton! Great reaction to a great voice!
My all time favorite female singer, such a soulful, smooth, & melodic voice like no other. She was the original Queen of Country & one of the first big female stars in that genre. Before Patsy came along, country music was predominately made up of male performers. She broke down the barriers & forged a path for all female country singers to follow. She helped & befriended Loretta Lynn, when she got her first start in the business. They were best friends & after Patsy tragically died in a plane crash, Loretta honored her friend by naming one of her twin girls Patsy a year after the accident. The other twin was named after Loretta's sister, Peggy. Patsy died in 1963 at the young age of only 30 yrs old. That was 4 years before I was born, but my dad was a big fan so I heard her music while growing up. Crazy was one of her biggest hits but she had many others. A few of my top favorites are - I fall to pieces, Walkin' after midnight, She's got you, Tennessee waltz, & Your cheatin' heart. Please check out more of her classic songs, you won't be disappointed. They made a film in 1985 about her life called "Sweet Dreams" starring Jessica Lange as Patsy - great movie & definitely worth a watch! By the way, the reason why she has that head band on in this performance is to cover up a big scar she sustained from the car accident you read about.
The biopic Sweet Dreams is mostly a good movie because of Patsy's vocals Patsy's mom didn't like the movie at all saying it wasn't true to life. I guess mom's can be tough critic's.
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I love Patsy Cline’s “I fall to Pieces”. Then go listen Lee Ann Rimes Do “Blue” when she was only 14. She can do Patsy Cline perfectly. Loved your reaction!
Supposedly, 'Blue' was originally written for Patsy but she died before she could record it. The composer of the song put it on the shelf until he heard Lee Ann sing and brought out 'Blue' for her because she sounded so much like Patsy.
Patsy Cline is from my hometown of Winchester Virginia and my mom went to school with her. I remember exactly where I was the day she died in the plane crash. We were out in the barn milking the cows and my grandmother came out to tell us about the plane crash and she had died 😢😢😢 actually my families burial plots are in the same cemetery where she's buried. 😢😢😢
Oh my! First Reaction! Peace, Love!! You'll be alright, but this is a good curb-bump that lets you recognize that you may have a lot to consider as far as "old" music. My Dad was a huge Patsy fan. It took me a few years to recognize how special she was even in the 70s.😉
One of my all time favorite voices ❤
Back in the day singers went on tour playing one nighters in different city back to back days so they would hire small planes to take them instead of long bus rides
She is considered one of the best female country singers of all time. Unbelievable
My favorite of Patsy's. What a voice!!! I get chills when I hear her singing.
I remember hearing her singing on the radio station in Winchester Virginia and it was WINC
She is my favorite female vocalist of all time. Love her song Sweet Dreams!
Her voice makes me so emotional 😢😢😢
This was my favorite, but Walking After Midnight is another great one!
Patsy Cline!! Classic!!
Patsy had a stunningly beautiful voice, a very crossover style that was ahead of the times. Make the hairs on your arm and back of the neck stand at attention with the silkiness of her vocals. Sweet Dreams sends a shiver down the spine with the hold of a word transitioning to the next effortlessly in tune with the music and orchestra accompaniment. We lost a good one, would of loved to have seen what her future could of been.
Patsy was also the first country star to play in Carnegie Hall. The back up singers were the "Jordanaires".
Thanks for the information. I never knew that! 🎉🎉🎉
PASTY HAD A VELVET VOICE, SOME OF HER OTHER GREATEST HITS YOU MAY WANT TO REACT TO ARE: i FALL TO PIECES, SWEET DREAMS, SHE'S GOT YOU, WALKIN' AFTER MIDNIGHT, ALWAYS, AND SO MAY OTHERS. SHE WAS BEYOND GREAT!!!!!!! HER BEST FRIEND WAS LORETTA LYNN WHO WAS DEVASTATED BY HER DEATH........YES, WILLIE NELSON WROTE CRAZY
That was a live performance in front of a tv audience. It's slightly out of sync because it's such an old video, but it was live...Patsy sounded just as good live as on a record.
The background vocalists are The Jordanaires. They backed her on every hit. You've also seen them behind Elvis on his Ed Sullivan appearances.
OMG. I don't know how many time I've heard this song and it still makes me cry. That voice, the words, the music. No words.
Her voice is singular, you ALWAYS know when it’s Patsy.
Yes, THAT Willie Nelson. Listen to his version sometime. Patsy was incredible - and best friends with Loretta Lynn. Loretta was pregnant with twins when patsy died, and Loretta named one of the twins after her.
She’s got some amazing, beautiful and just chef kiss songs in her collection and deserves her flowers. Love her!
I visited her crash site in Camden, Tennessee! It was sad. She was definitely a legend and definitely a one of a kind. She died with two other country stars at that time., Cowboy Copas And Hawkshaw Hawkins as well as her manager Randy Hughes. All dies together. The 1950s was the start of what music is today. 1955 was the magic year and the bread and butter for the music industry, like country, R&B, Blues, Rock and pop.
THIS WAS COUNTRY, young man. NOT the BS that is on the radio now. Listen to Conway Twitty, Ray Price, Buck Owens, Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, these were some of the most awesome country musicians.
This was country, "when country wasn't cool." 😉 Like fine wine, it just gets better with age.
I would describe today's country as "southern pop." Some of it is still pretty good -- the simpler arrangements that aren't cluttered and techno-fied with an excess of filler sounds. If it still sounds beautiful when it's stripped down to a few instruments, or just one, then I could call it Good Music.
thank you for the recommendations! Such a pleasure to discover!
Country, Rhythm, and Blues used to be together back when I was younger. TY so much for listening to this lovely lady with us.
LeAnn Rimes did a *masterful* job re-singing Patsy Cline's songs due to her fans *begging* for her to do so. I listen to both of them all the time depending on my mood for old-school or new-school.
I think she's about the only one I've heard that can sing Patsy
Only patsy can sing patsy.
Home Free has a cover that will blow your mind...5 Guys --done in her key..Check it out!!
LeAnn did a beautiful job with her songs. My dad used to tear up hearing LeAnn singing her songs.
Interesting fact about LeAnn she was known in studios not only for her pure sound but #1 One shot flawless recording.and #2 No Auto-Tune!
I believe this performance was shortly after she got out of the hospital after the car wreck and the headband is covering where she still had stitches in her head. It was a live tv performance. I don't know if the recording is off sync because it's so old or if someone dubbed the studio recording over it at some point.
Quite a few country singers didn't have that country twang back then just like now. Listen to "Gentleman" Jim Reeves sing He'll Have To Go sometime.
The live performance of this clip is on RUclips if you search Crazy live. This is definitely the studio track.
Jim Reeves had such a smooth buttery voice. 🥰 The extended notes that melt your heart at the end, "or will you tell him ... He'll haaaaave tooooo ... go-o-o-o." 🫠
K.D.Lang does an awesome rendition of this song❤❤❤❤❤
I love your reactions to my old music, brings tears to my eyes:)
Yes, Patsy was a very special singer❤️
That was a "live" in she did it on a show I do not know which this was recorded on. But something LIKE the Opry or Louisiana Hayride type show. I always thought of Patsy's voice as haunting. It has a quality that most people do not, but it will stick with someone long after hearing it.
Great reaction as always - Patsy's Cry Me A River is another great one. I love your eclectic taste. I hunted through your videos and didn't see any Leonard Cohen. I'd love to hear your reaction to his earlier mythic songs, Suzanne or The Stranger Song, or the later, darker works, Everybody Knows, You Want It Darker, or his London concert version of Hallelujah - covered by everyone but his performance is still the most moving.
The word you looking for is Talent. No auto tune with tiny, low quality mic, and she sounded as good in person as on recordings,. This was a recording of a live TV show.
Patsy was the first to actually achieve crossover in her music.
I agree 100%, not a country song. She was a country singer and hung out with Loretta Lynn, so I guess that is why it was categorized as country. Very modern contemporary for the times. Very nice review & love your bling- nice silver cross. You are picking good songs to review! Hope you do more Patsy. Great songs recommended below by @dagmar.6954!!❤
This was classified as country with a transition to the Nashville Sound sometimes referred to as countrypolitan. Patsy's producer Owen Bradley was one of the pioneers of this style.
Not only was Patsy Cline a country singer, but the song was written by country singer Willie Nelson.
@mw7584 Nice - a good description. Just as i would call Chicago a jazz- rock fusion sound and not rock or rock n roll. Countrypolitan gets the idea across. I love Shania Twain and she is not straight country either.
@cherylwilkinson3228 Yes, I would agree she was a country singer, but the song is not traditional country.
Willie still plays the guitar he wrote this on. Patsy still influences music today and praise be Willie is still with us.
❤❤❤ her, this song, and your reaction
Her voice and her presents literally filled the entire space she was in. It’s palpable it’s tactile it’s amazing.
Sweet Dreams is one of my favorites. You touched on a point about the vocals. The were raw. No sound boards to tweak them.
Patsy was a great mentor to the late Loretta Lynn when Loretta started in country music. The head band Patsy was wearing covers the scar on her forehead from the car accident. Also her song Sweet Dreams was the first country song to use violins on a recording. I believe the actress Jessica Lange portrayed her in a biopic several years ago.
The bass was played by Bob Moore and piano was by Floyd Cramer. Both were close neighbors growing up.
If you’ve ever heard Loretta Lynn, you’ll recognize Patsy‘s influence Loretta grew up singing Patsy songs. She met Patsy after her car crash and she named her daughter Patsy after the airplane crash they were that they were best buddies and they toured together, and if you wanna really good luck watch the movie, Cole, Miner‘s daughter about Loretta and you’ll see how her and Patsy got along, they were the two top women at the time
Before "Voice-tuners" ... respect. Another great song from her - _"Your Cheatin Heart"_ (1962)
If I remember correctly this was recorded not long after her auto accident and the band she has on her head is to cover up the injuries from her head going through the windshield.
Patsy Cline.... I remember hearing her on the radio. Like nobody else.
She is one of my all-time greatest artists. I love Patsy Cline, my Mom did too, so I grew up listening to her music.
First time watcher of this channel. Subbed. Enjoyed it. I appreciate you doing a research and info portion for those who do not know of an artist.
Baby, there is so many talented singers from the past that it's one great find after another! Enjoy!
In 1959 Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens also died in a place crash
I'm 76,i heard her first as a little girl, she became an instant favorite and that never changed.... One of the best voices any genre of all time!
Im not a fan of country, but I do like Patsy Cline. What a voice.
That cry in her voice makes our country of her time.
I agree with you, the 50s were a special time. Yes, we had our problems but by & large it was a good period for many things including music, manufacturing, innovation etc. Add to that, EVERYONE dressed so much nicer in those days. --Patsy has an amazing voice, just a beautiful gift from God she shared with us. Between her, Karen Carpenter & Peggy Lee the top female vocalists ever imo.
My cousin had a vouce that was a dead ringer for Patsy Cline. Whenever we went to Karaoke, she was well known in her circle in Portland to be the "Patsy Cline" singer. ❤ No longer with us, but her memory lives on.
A lot of people think that LeAnn Rimes sounds like Patsy Cline and when LeAnn Rimes was a girl there was one of Patsy Cline's songs that hadn't been recorded and they had LeAnn Rimes do it it's called Blue you should check it out
The best ones leave this world too soon. Patsy is an icon.
I see you like this one well you got to check out her song Sweet Dreams I know you will LOVE IT
My favourite. Gives me goosebumps every time
GREAT REACTION. I am 74 years old and grew up listening to Patsy and others. You need to react to her singing "SWEET DREAMS. The 50's was an era of transaction when rock and roll really came into play.
This is definitely country, Patsy Cline being one of the best country singers ever. There was actually not a genre defined as "pop" in the 50s in the US. That decade was busy birthing rock and roll. If anybody used "pop" to describe music at that time it was Brits. Anybody who used it to describe the blues or rock n roll was clearly not very knowledgeable about music in those days.
My granpa introduced me to her music when I was a baby. Loved her my whole life. Now my 30 year old daughter loves her and sings her music.😮
This is classic country. Funny, she didn’t want to sing this song because she thought Willie Nelson to be a “weird little man”, lol.
Patsy had what’s called “perfect pitch”. I know it’s being said Patsy was one of the greatest country singers; but, Patsy was one of the greatest vocalists of all time, period. She was one of the first to transcend genre in her vocals, even if the music was fundamentally country. If you listen close to each song, you can hear elements of rock-a-billy (precursor to rock n roll), blues, soul and even R&B within her vocal style. Patsy was in a car crash and shortly after she attempted to record Crazy but was in too much pain to hit some of the notes. So she spent another few weeks recovering and then returned to the studio and the recorded version you hear is her first attempt. She was that good. She was definitely a country artist as you will see by watching “Sweet Dreams” and listening to more and more of her collection. These “crossover” songs are what made her a household name. Her greatest hits is a fantastic starting point. Diving deeper into her Decca record years, you will get the full on country version of the Diva. I Fall To Pieces; Leavin’ On Your Mind; Faded Love; Sweet Dreams; She’s Got You; You’re Cheating Heart; You’re Stronger Than Me; why Can’t He Be You; A Poor Man’s Roses.
patsy was and is the greatest as far as I'm concerned.
Her voice is like....rich velvet. Effortless. Perfect. Unmatched.
Sweet Dreams is a must listen.
My favorite