Patsy Cline - The Patsy Cline Collection
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Artist: Patsy ClineEdition: Music CD
Format: Box set, Import
CD Release Date: 1991-10-22
Music Label: Mca UK
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- I'm Walking the Dog [Live]
- It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels [Live]
- Turn the Cards Slowly
- Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye
- Honky Tonk Merry Go Round
- I Love You, Honey
- Come on In (And Make Yourself at Home)
- I Don't Wanta
- Stop, Look and Listen [#]
- I've Loved and Lost Again
- Yes, I Understand
- For Rent [Live]
- Walkin' After Midnight
- Heart You Break May Be Your Own
- Pick Me Up (On Your Way Down)
- Poor Man's Roses (Or a Rich Man's Gold)
- Today, Tomorrow and Forever
- Don't Ever Leave Me Again
- Try Again
- Too Many Secrets
- Then You'll Know
- Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray
- That Wonderful Someone
- In Care of the Blues
- Hungry for Love
- I Can't Forget
- If I Could See the World (Through the Eyes of a Child)
- Just Out of Reach
- I Can See an Angel
- Let the Teardrops Fall
- Never No More
- If I Could Only Stay Asleep
- I'm Moving Along
- I'm Blue Again
- Love, Love, Love Me, Honey Do
- Yes, I Understand
- Gotta Lot of Rhythm in My Soul
- Life's Railway to Heaven
- Just a Closer Walk With Thee
- Lovesick Blues
- How Can I Face Tomorrow
- There He Goes
- Crazy Dreams
- When Your House Is Not a Home [Live]
- Stupid Cupid [Live]
- Loose Talk [Live]
- I Fall to Pieces
- Shoes
- Lovin' in Vain
- Side by Side [Live]
- True Love
- San Antonio Rose
- Wayward Wind
- Poor Man's Roses (Or a Rich Man's Gold)
- Crazy
- Who Can I Count On
- Seven Lonely Days
- I Love You So Much It Hurts
- Foolin' Around
- Have You Ever Been Lonely (Have You Ever Been Blue)
- South of the Border
- Walkin' After Midnight
- Strange
- You're Stronger Than Me
- Come on In (And Make Yourself at Home) [Live]
- Poor Man's Roses (Or a Rich Man's Gold) [Live]
- Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home [Live]
- She's Got You
- You Made Me Love You
- You Belong to Me
- Heartaches
- Your Cheatin' Heart
- That's My Desire
- Half as Much
- Lonely Street
- Anytime
- You Were Only Fooling (While I Was Falling in Love)
- I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love With You)
- You're Stronger Than Me
- When I Get Thru With You (You'll Love Me Too)
- Imagine That
- So Wrong
- Why Can't He Be You
- Your Kinda Love
- When You Need a Laugh
- Leavin' on Your Mind
- Back in Baby's Arms
- Tra le la le la Triangle
- That's How a Heartache Begins
- Leavin' on Your Mind
- Tennessee Waltz [Live]
- Faded Love
- Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You)
- Love Letters in the Sand
- Blue Moon of Kentucky
- Sweet Dreams
- Always
- Does Your Heart Beat for Me?
- Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home
- He Called Me Baby
- Crazy Arms
- You Took Him off My Hands
- I'll Sail My Ship Alone
- Just a Closer Walk With Thee [Live]
Music reviews of The Patsy Cline Collection
Music Review: Stellar box set with nearly all of her studio recordings.
Rating: 5 Stars
Before I start my review, let me just say that I've not yet really fully listened to this set. I've only listened to disc 1 in full and am listening to disc 2 now, and I've skimmed over the other two discs, just to get an idea of sound quality and such.
I was never a big Patsy Cline fan growing up. I never really knew much of her material or anything like that. She just wasn't an artist I was exposed to much until just a few years ago, when I saw the 2003 reissue of her Greatest Hits album at the library and decided to check it out. 35 minutes and twelve songs later, I was a fan. The way she could wrap her rich emotive voice around those twelve songs, most of which were classic songs of heartbreak, captivated me, and I was a bit frustrated at the brevity of the collection and wanted more. Just about a month ago, I finally got my wish.
Whereas Greatest Hits gives you twelve songs that total under 35 minutes and is great for the casual fan or as a start to discovering her catalogue, this set, which gives you nearly four and a half hours of music on four CDs and a total of 104 recordings spanning an all too short eight and a half years between her first radio performances to her final studio sessions and concluding with a priceless live recording of Just A Closer Walk With Thee, with everything in chronological order, with the exception of the aforementioned live performance, in which the date of performance is unknown.
This set does something that Greatest Hits doesn't - it contains much of her work for Four Star Records, which includes the original hit version of Walkin' After Midnight. (The version included on Greatest Hits is a remake she recorded for her 1961 Decca album Showcase which turned her original more country-fied mono hit into a more pop-styled stereo recording. That version is also included on this set.) It also shows her progression from more of a pure country sound, which included plenty of honky tonk and even material bordering on rock and roll, to the pop crossover sound she's best known for today.
In addition to most of her studio recordings, this set contains several priceless treasures. Ten performances from radio programs are included on here, most if not all taken from 12 or 16 inch vinyl records. Some live concert performances are also present, as well as a few alternate takes. These live concert recordings and radio performances offer us a chance to hear some songs that Patsy never recorded in a studio or just hear how she interpreted some of her own singles when performing on radio or live in concert.
The sound quality of this set, for the most part, is outstanding. For a box set released in 1991, when digitally remastering music for release on the compact disc format was basically in its infancy and a lot of CDs of classic music were still being released with lousy sound despite the engineers and producers doing the best they could to improve it, (See the 1988 CD issue of the soundtrack to the 1954 film version of A Star Is Born for an example of this.) this sounds like it was just released last week. Excessive noise is removed, but never to the point to where the audio quality is compromised. Whether taken from mono master tapes, two or three track stereo master tapes, or vinyl records, the best possible care was taken to make sure that these songs sound the best they possibly can for an outstanding listening experience.
The loving care given to this set does not stop with the actual music, but also spills over into the packaging. Inside a nice large white box, with a gorgeously color-tinted photo of Patsy on the cover, houses a plastic tray which holds a FANTASTIC 60+ page book with photos, friends and famous fans giving their thoughts on Patsy, essays on her career, and information on recording sessions. Much of the material included in this book is as priceless as the music itself. A foldout page inside includes a reproduction of the front page of The Nashville Banner the day that Patsy's life was ended by a plane crash on one side, and a tinted photo of Patsy in cowgirl garb riding in a car during a 1955 parade on the other side. Wire service bulletins sent out during the night after the fateful plane crash giving incoming info are also included, giving a sense of the anxiety that fans were experiencing that night as more and more details were being reported. Photos of Patsy recording, performing, at home, with friends, etc. make the book a priceless addition to this set. Underneath this book lies the CDs themselves, each one housed in its own jewel case, each one with a different gorgeous tinted photo of Patsy on the cover. When you open the case, on the other side of the front cover is a nice black and white photo of Patsy performing for radio or fans...or in the case of disc 2, just relaxing in a chair wearing a fabulous fur stole.
Sadly, this box set is now out of print, and depending on when you check, used copies can be a bit pricey now, or they can be very reasonable. Whatever you decide to pay for this collection, it's absolutely worth it for the vast array of music you get, as well as the fantastic book that comes with the set. If you're wanting to get a taste of her material outside the 12 measly tracks from Greatest Hits and discover how varied her style actually was, I can't think of anything better to do that with than this set. Almost any Patsy Cline recording you could ever want is in this lovingly packaged and remastered set. Don't hesitate to own it and discover the best of what Patsy had to offer us. Like many of the greats, such as Judy Garland and Karen Carpenter, Patsy's life and career were all too short, and it's saddening to think of what more they could have contributed to entertainment had life not ended so soon for them. However, just like Judy and Karen, as long as there are people to listen to these precious recordings, Patsy will never truly be gone.
Description of The Patsy Cline Collection
The Country Music Foundation offers 104 songs--more than four hours of music--even though Patsy Cline died at 30 after less than a decade of recording. Given the wavering quality of her later string-laden work, four CDs might be excessive, but this set comprehensively follows Cline from upstart country boomer to pop diva. She could take charge of a song from day one, as the two 1954 radio transcriptions prove. On her vibrant late-1950s work, she moves from honky-tonk and rockabilly to soft ballads in commanding fashion. "Walkin After Midnight," her first hit, features Don Helms's gentle steel guitar while her vocals blend raw power with emotional vulnerability. By 1957, vocal groups had entered into the mix, and in 1961, hits such as "I Fall to Pieces," "She's Got You," and Willie Nelson's "Crazy" brought her pop stardom. --Marc GreilsamerClassic Vocalists CDs
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