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Patsy Cline - 12 Greatest Hits | 
 enlarge | Artist: Patsy Cline
Label: Mca
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  47 reviews
Sales Rank: 22098
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 076732001226
EAN: 0076732001226
ASIN: B000002NVT
Release Date: November 1, 1990
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| Tracks:
| • | Walkin' After Midnight - Patsy Cline, Block, Alan | | • | Sweet Dreams - Patsy Cline, Gibson, Don | | • | Crazy - Patsy Cline, Nelson, Willie | | • | I Fall to Pieces - Patsy Cline, Cochran, Hank | | • | So Wrong - Patsy Cline, Dill, Danny | | • | Strange - Patsy Cline, Burch, Fred | | • | Back in Baby's Arms - Patsy Cline, Montgomery, Bobby | | • | She's Got You - Patsy Cline, Cochran, Hank | | • | Faded Love - Patsy Cline, Wills, Bob | | • | Why Can't He Be You - Patsy Cline, Cochran, Hank | | • | You're Stronger Than Me - Patsy Cline, Cochran, Hank | | • | Leavin' on Your Mind - Patsy Cline, Pierce, Webb |
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Amazon.com essential recording
In the late 1950s and the '60s, country music was essentially a singles medium. This album, first released in 1967 and reissued on compact disc in 1988, collects Patsy Cline's biggest hits--all of them from the country singles market--including "Walkin' After Midnight," "Sweet Dreams (Of You)," "Crazy," and "I Fall to Pieces." Producer Owen Bradley surrounds Cline's full-throated, emotionally charged vocals with lush, sophisticated arrangements that set the standard for Nashville's "countrypolitan" sound. Before Shania Twain found a new (though not necessarily improved) way to combine country and pop in the 1990s, this was the top-selling country album of all time by a female artist. --Rick Mitchell
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The Really good Patsy Cline music August 23, 2008
This is a Patsy Cline CD that you will totally enjoy. Other albums can be iffy.
Patsy Cline C.D. July 30, 2008
The used c.d. I received was in great condition, plays great, and was exactly as described.
 Only 3 Stars? For Patsy Cline? August 19, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Well, yes. And I don't apologize. Don't get me wrong, I love Patsy Cline as much as anyone among the many 4- and 5-star reviewers so far, and I really regret breaking the string of assessments. But the fact is, there are many, many more superior compilations available now than this MCA release from 1988 which re-issues an earlier vinyl LP produced by Owen Bradley.
For a few dollars more you can pick up one which has all 19 of her Country hit singles registered between 1957 and 1982, the last ten posthumously following her death in that March 1963 plane crash.
Also, like far too many of the early compilations, they chose NOT to give us the original version of her first hit for Decca in 1957, Walkin' After Midnight. That version went for 2:30 and reached # 2 Country/# 12 Billboard Pop Top 100 in May. What they give you here was a re-recording done in August 1961, shorter by almost 30 seconds and performed at a slightly faster tempo.
The rest are all originals although, technically, tracks 7, 10, and 11 were not among her "12 greatest hits" which is, after all, the title of this album. Back In Baby's Arms was the uncharted B-side of Sweet Dreams (Of You), Why Can't He Be You? was the uncharted flip of Heartaches which, not included here, made it to # 73 Billboard Pop Hot 100 in 1962 (but failed to make the Country charts - go figure), and You're Stronger Than Me was the uncharted flip of So Wrong in 1962.
In addition to Heartaches, legitimate hits left off this volume were the B-side to Walkin' After Midnight - A Poor Man's Roses, Or A Rich Man's Gold [# 14 Country] - the double-sided 1962 hit When I Get Thru (You'll Love Me Too)/Imagine That which reached # 10 Country/# 53 Hot 100 and # 21 Country/# 90 Hot 100 respectively, When You Need A Laugh [# 47 Country in 1964], and He Called Me Baby [# 23 Country in December 1964 and her first immediate posthumous hit].
In 1969 her rendition of the old Eddy Arnold hit, Anytime, reached # 73 Country, followed nine years later by Life's Railway To Heaven which topped out at # 98. Two years after that, in 1980, a release of her cut of the old standard Always went all the way to # 18, followed in December by a re-mix of I Fall To Pieces [# 61]. In late 1981 her duet with Jim Reeves on Have You Ever Been Lonely (Have You Ever Been Blue?] soared all the way to # 5, and in 1982 yet another version of I Fall To Pieces, this time dubbing her voice with that of Jim Reeves, was a # 54.
With the insert you do get two pages of background notes written by Jay Orr and Don Roy, a chronology of Patsy's all-too-brief life, and a list of session personnel involved on each of the 12 tracks. But while these features and the AAD sound reproduction makes this a nice, inexpensive, sampling of Patsy, MCA can easily turn it into a 5-star offering by simply following the lead of others who re-released earlier 10- and 12-track CDs [Elvis, Donovan, Sarah Vaughan as examples] with bonus tracks.
Absolutely Stunning October 6, 2006
Patsy Cline will always be considered one of this country's best female vocalists. Her distinct sound and style made her songs instant classics. The 12 songs compiled here are her best works, in my opinion. If you want to hear how singing should really be done, add this one to your collection. You won't be disappointed.
Patsy, Patsy, Patsy!!!!!.... March 30, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was first intoduced to Ms. Cline by an old girlfriend, Karen. She used to love to sing "Crazy."
Although she could do it serious justice, when I heard Patsy embrace that song, I was blown away!
That's why I bought this CD...I needed more.
"Walking After Midnight" is a classic. You feel like you are there with her as she croons desperately about her guy. "I Fall To Pieces", "She's Got You", "Back In Baby's Arms"... Heck this entire collection is a must have.
Country fan or not, this CD belongs in any music lover's collection.
Karen died a few years ago of a brain tumor, but I can believe she's up in heaven singing "Crazy" with Patsy.
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