Patsy Cline - Patsy Cline – The Complete Releases 1955-62 (CD)

Patsy Cline is one of the most important and revered female artists in the history of country music, a situation made all the more remarkable by the fact that she only had a few years at the top before her tragic death in a plane crash in 1963 at the age of 30 - an event which only served to heighten her legendary status. Her career was a strange one, in that, having eventually scored a debut No. 2 in 1957 with "Walkin' After Midnight", the fact that she was obliged to record unsuitable material by her deal with Four Star meant she did not have another hit until she signed directly to Decca in 1960. After that, she had huge country and pop hits with the classics "I Fall To Pieces", "Crazy" and "She's Got You", by hot new writers like Hank Cochran, Harlan Howard and Willie Nelson, with producer Owen Bradley using contemporary Nashville pop crossover arrangements which were very different from her earlier honky-tonk and rockabilly recordings. This great value 75-track 3-CD set, comprises every record she released from her debut on Coral in 1955, through her Four Star and Decca years until the end of 1962 a couple of months before her death. It includes the A and B sides of all her singles, plus the tracks from her three albums "Patsy Cline", "Showcase" and "Sentimentally Yours" which were not otherwise released on singles. It therefore represents a comprehensive and definitive overview of her releases during her career, and is a worthy tribute to a unique talent

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. A Church a Courtroom and Then Goodbye
2. Honky Tonk Merry Go Round
3. Hidin' Out
4. Turn the Cards Slowly
5. I Love You Honey
6. Come on in (And Make Yourself at Home)
7. Stop Look and Listen
8. I've Loved and Lost Again
9. Dear God
10. He Will Do for You (What He's Done for Me)
11. Walkin' After Midnight
12. A Poor Man's Roses (Or a Rich Man's Gold)
13. Today, Tomorrow and Forever
14. Try Again
15. Three Cigarettes in An Ashtray
16. A Stranger in Your Arms
17. Then You'll Know
18. I Don't Wanta
19. Stop the World (And Let Me Off)
20. Walking Dream
21. Never No More
22. I Can See An Angel
23. If I Could See the World
24. Just Out of Reach
25. Yes, I Understand

Disc: 2

1. Cry Not for Me
2. Come on in (And Make Yourself at Home)
3. Let the Teardrops Fall
4. I'm Blue Again
5. Gotta Lot of Rhythm in My Soul
6. Lovesick Blues
7. How Can I Face Tomorrow
8. Crazy Dreams
9. There He Goes
10. I Fall to Pieces
11. Lovin in Vain
12. Crazy
13. Who Can I Count on
14. She's Got You
15. Strange
16. When I Get Thru with You
17. Imagine That
18. So Wrong
19. You're Stronger Than Me
20. Heartaches
21. Why Can't He Be You
22. Leavin' on Your Mind
23. Tre Le la Le la Triangle
24. That Wonderful Someone
25. In Care of the Blues

Disc: 3

1. Hungry for Love
2. Too Many Secrets
3. Don't Ever Leave Me Again
4. Ain't No Wheels on This Ship
5. I Can't Forget
6. Fingerprints
7. Foolin' Around
8. The Wayward Wind
9. South of the Border
10. I Love You So Much It Hurts
11. Seven Lonely Days
12. San Antonio Rose
13. True Love
14. Walkin' After Midnight
15. A Poor Man's Roses (Or a Rich Man's Gold)
16. Have You Ever Been Lonely (Have You Ever Been Blue)
17. That's My Desire
18. Your Cheatin' Heart
19. Anytime
20. You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)
21. You Belong to Me
22. You Were Only Fooling (While I Was Falling in Love)
23. Half As Much
24. I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You)
25. Lonely Street