20 Golden Hits
7/13/2005, AMG
20 Golden Hits is an adequete run-through of most of Patsy Cline's standards -- "I Fall to Pieces," "Walking After Midnight," "Crazy" -- but the cheap packaging and...
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A Portrait Of Patsy Cline
7/13/2005, AMG
Country standards and some lesser-known material are included. Among the highlights: "Faded Love" and "Blue Moon of Kentucky." ~ George Bedard, All Music...
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A Portrait Of Patsy Cline/Country Great
7/13/2005, AMG
MCA repackaged two Patsy Cline albums, Country Great and Portrait, as a single-cassette release in the early '80s. It's not necessarily a bad way to purchase the albums, but...
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Always
1/1/1980, Yahoo! Music, Brian Mansfield
As on the Sweet Dreams soundtracks, Cline's producer Owen Bradley ostensibly updates the arrangements of his original recordings for a modern audience. One listen to the...
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Heartaches
7/13/2005, AMG
Music Club's Heartaches is a basic 18-track collection that features many of Patsy Cline's biggest hits, including "Crazy" and "I Fall to Pieces." Since it overlooks some...
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Best Of Patsy Cline
7/13/2005, AMG
Best of Patsy Cline is a 12-track budget-priced collection that features one big hit, "Walkin' After Midnight," and a slection of lesser-known singles, minor hits and...
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Classics Collection
7/13/2005, AMG
Classics Collection has a weird cross-section of songs from Patsy Cline, featuring hits ("Lonely Street," "Lovesick Blues"), lesser-known singles, and B-sides. Most of the...
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Country Great
7/13/2005, AMG
Country Great is essentially a retitled re-release of Patsy Cline's eponymous first album for Decca. Working with Owen Bradley, Cline tackles a number of different styles,...
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Country Spotlight
7/13/2005, AMG
Although this is the only entry in the Country Spotlight series that features original recordings, this disc pales next to other Cline collections available on MCA. Still,...
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12 Greatest Hits
1/3/1988, Yahoo! Music, Brian Mansfield
This contains a posthumous, studio-created duet between Cline and Reeves on "Have You Ever Been Lonely (Have You Ever Been Blue)" and alternates solo hits for the rest of...
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Greatest Hits
7/13/2005, AMG
It's not especially difficult to compile a satisfying and listenable album from Patsy Cline's chart hits, and this solid and serviceable set offers a dozen simply brilliant...
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Walkin' Dreams: Her First...Vol. 1
7/13/2005, AMG
Although Cline recorded quite a bit during the last half of the 1950s, it was a frustrating period for her, both commercially and artistically. Commercially, there was only...
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Hungry For Love: Her First...Vol. 2
7/13/2005, AMG
The second installment of Her First Recordings, with 14 tracks from 1957-59, is more pop-oriented than volume one, and perhaps less interesting because of that. It does show...
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The Rockin' Side: Her First...Vol. 3
7/13/2005, AMG
Patsy Cline--rocker? Well, sort of. At the outset of her recording career in the late '50s, Cline tried a variety of approaches, including rockabilly and uptempo hillbilly....
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Sentimentally Yours
1/1/1962, Yahoo! Music, Brian Mansfield
By Cline's third album (and last to be released during her lifetime), the singer and producer Owen Bradley had their formula down: a big single (in this case, "She's Got...
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Sentimentally Yours
7/13/2005, AMG
There is an exact blend of country and pop that went into the classic albums by this enchanting country songstress. Anyone capable of reproducing this formula would be...
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In Care Of The Blues
7/13/2005, AMG
Although they leave themselves open to the charges of catalog ravaging and exploitation with these special edition packages, Rhino keeps them coming. Their second Cline CD...
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Live At The Opry
1/1/1988, Yahoo! Music, Brian Mansfield
These recordings, which include versions of "Walkin' After Midnight," "Crazy" and "She's Got You," came from Grand Ole Opry radio shows between 1956 and 1962. In 1988, MCA...
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Live At The Opry
7/13/2005, AMG
In 1988 -- 25 years after Patsy Cline's untimely death at the age of 30 -- MCA released this collection of previously unreleased Grand Ole Opry broadcasts, which span...
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Live Volume 2
7/13/2005, AMG
A sequel to Live at the Opry, it's not called Live at the Opry Vol. 2 because it wasn't taken from Opry broadcasts, but from radio shows produced for the U.S. Navy and Armed...
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Patsy Cline (1st LP)
1/1/1957, Yahoo! Music, Brian Mansfield
When Cline released her first LP in 1957, Decca was licensing her masters from 4 Star Records, which required her to record songs from its publishing company. As a result,...
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Showcase - With The Jordanaires
1/1/1961, Yahoo! Music, Brian Mansfield
Cline's music has been repackaged so often and so well that Greatest Hits or The Patsy Cline Collection may be preferable starting points, but Showcase With The Jordanaires...
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Showcase - With The Jordanaires
7/13/2005, AMG
One of only three albums released in her lifetime, Showcase was the first set of sessions after her near-death in a car crash in 1961. The recordings teamed her up with the...
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The Last Sessions
1/1/1963, Yahoo! Music, Brian Mansfield
Cline recorded her last sessions February 4-7, 1963. Three of the 12 songs she cut during those four days became posthumous hits; two of them--"Sweet Dreams (Of You)" and...
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Sentimentally Your/Showcase
7/13/2005, AMG
MCA repackaged two Patsy Cline albums, Showcase and Sentimentally Yours, as a single-cassette release in the early '80s. It's not necessarily a bad way to purchase the...
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The Patsy Cline Collection
7/13/2005, AMG
If an artist ever deserved a box set chronicling her entire career, it is Patsy Cline. Having recorded 102 sides between 1955 and her death at the age of 30 in 1963, Cline...
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The Patsy Cline Story
7/13/2005, AMG
The Patsy Cline Story is a double-record, 24-track collection that Decca released in 1963, shortly after her tragic death. The compilation remains one of the strongest and...
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Walkin' After Midnight (Rhino)
7/13/2005, AMG
Patsy Cline has been reissued, anthologized, and featured in a comprehensive box set, so it is hard to believe that anyone who wanted to hear her wonderful music has not yet...
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Remembering
1/1/1982, Yahoo! Music, Brian Mansfield
This contains a posthumous, studio-created duet between Cline and Reeves on "I Fall To Pieces" and alternates solo hits for the rest of the...
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20 Great Hits
7/13/2005, AMG
The budget-priced 20 Great Hits features ten hits from Patsy Cline and ten hits from Kitty Wells. For casual fans of both vocalists, this is a nice bargain, since it...
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Crazy Dreams
7/13/2005, AMG
Patsy Cline's early recordings for the 4 Star label show that this country music legend was far from infallible. Her musical instincts weren't always good, as evidenced by...
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Sings Songs Of Love
7/13/2005, AMG
MCA Special Products' Patsy Cline Sings Songs of Love is a budget-priced collection that features ten love and heartbreak songs, including the hits "I Fall to Pieces,"...
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The Birth Of A Star
6/18/1996, Yahoo! Music, Brian Mansfield
Cline's series of appearances on the "Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts" television show were a benchmark in her career. This album collects, for the first time, 19 recordings...
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The Birth Of A Star
7/13/2005, AMG
Although Cline only had one hit in the late '50s ("Walking After Midnight"), she managed to appear on Arthur Godfrey's popular network television show several times in...
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Classics
7/13/2005, AMG
Classics is a budget-line collection that features some of Patsy Cline's hits. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music...
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Sings More Great Songs Of Love
7/13/2005, AMG
Like its predecessor, MCA Special Products' Patsy Cline Sings More Great Songs of Love is a budget-priced collection that features ten love and heartbreak songs. There...
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Live At The Cimmarron Ballroom
7/13/2005, AMG
Recorded at a Tulsa, OK, show on July 29, 1961, this newly released concert performance captures Patsy Cline at what was then a new peak in her professional career, enjoying...
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Walkin' After Midnight: Very Best Of
7/13/2005, AMG
Don't take the title of Walkin' After Midnight: The Very Best of Patsy Cline too literally, because the disc is not a hits compilation. Instead, it's a collection of 24...
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At Her Best
7/13/2005, AMG
Not strictly a hits collection, At Her Best is an excellent but brief, nine-track album that features several of Patsy's most familiar songs ("Walkin' After Midnight," "Just...
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Critique Country Classics...1
7/13/2005, AMG
Country Classics is a budget-priced collection that features a few of Patsy Cline's biggest hits -- including "Walkin' After Midnight" and "Lovesick Blues" -- plus a...
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Today, Tomorrow & Forever
7/13/2005, AMG
Today, Tomorrow and Forever is easily one of the most popular titles in Patsy Cline's catalog -- and, in this case, the word "title" refers to the name of the record, not...
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True Love: A Standards Collection
7/13/2005, AMG
True Love: A Standards Collection presents Patsy Cline's pop side with a variety of classic songs like "I Love You So Much It Hurts," "You Belong to Me," "Bill Bailey, Won't...
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Live Broadcasts
7/13/2005, AMG
EMI-Capitol Special Markets and Razor & Tie released Live Broadcasts in 1997. The disc was a distilled ten-track version of Razor & Tie's The Birth of a Star, which featured...
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25 All-Time Greatest Recordings: 4-Star...
7/13/2005, AMG
Varese's 2000 collection is billed as 25 All-Time Greatest Recordings but pay attention to the subtitle -- it makes clear that this is "The 4-Star Sessions 1955-1960,"...
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Walkin' After Midnight: The Best Of...
7/13/2005, AMG
There are at least 14 different albums by singer Patsy Cline that contain the title Walkin' After Midnight, many on reputable labels like Collectables and Rhino, the latter...
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20 Golden Pieces Of Patsy Cline
7/13/2005, AMG
In contention for the place to start -- mainly because of the large number of songs included -- this British collection may be difficult to find. It's heavy on the honky...
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20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection
7/13/2005, AMG
Patsy Cline's 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection gathers some of her better-known songs, including "Your Cheatin' Heart," "Crazy Arms," "I Love You So Much,"...
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The Ultimate Collection: Patsy Cline
7/13/2005, AMG
UTV's 2000 release The Ultimate Collection spans two discs and 32 songs, considerably more than the 12 Greatest Hits that previously stood as the best, most concise overview...
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The Definitive Collection
7/13/2005, AMG
One could easily point out that there have been a lot of Patsy Cline compilations, many of them in print on the day this one was released, and validly ask just why the world...
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Gold
7/13/2005, AMG
Does the world really need another Patsy Cline collection? It's a reasonable question, given how many are out there and how many feature the same material, and Gold in...
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The Essential First Recordings
7/13/2005, AMG
Patsy Cline had a voice in a million from the first moment she opened her mouth in front of a microphone, but it took a few years for her to fully hit her stride as a singer...
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12 Greatest Hits
7/13/2005, AMG
12 Greatest Hits is exactly what it says it is -- 12 of Patsy Cline's biggest hits, including all of her classic singles: "Walkin' After Midnight," "I Fall to Pieces,"...
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