Patsy Cline - Patsy Cline's Greatest Hits
|
List Price: Our Price: $4.01 You Save: $5.97 (60%) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Buy Used: from $2.79 (click here) Category: Music CD See more new music releases 
|
|---|
Canadian Music Store
Free Music Notes for Patsy Cline's Greatest Hits
Free Music Review: Fall In Love With Patsy All Over Again
Hit: 5 Stars
Breathtaking. Chilling. Awe inspiring. Unparalleled. What else can I say about this album? Like most Patsy Cline fans, I own a copy of the original 1988 CD release of Patsy Cline's "12 Greatest Hits." So, why would I need to buy this edition? The advances in remastering technology that have been reflected in more recent compilations of Patsy's recordings intrigued me enough to see what MCA Nashville could accomplish with the best selling album in Patsy's catalogue. From the moment "Walkin' After Midnight" begins playing, you realize this CD is like no other Patsy Cline album currently available. Utilizing the original two and three track Decca recordings, Engineer Bob Ludwig used state of the art digital technology to "bring Patsy into the 21st Century." The result: you would swear that Patsy recorded these tracks just yesterday. The nuances that can be heard are incredible. The brush strokes on the drums in "I Fall To Pieces." The glide of the bows across the strings in "Sweet Dreams." The catch in Patsy's voice and that indescribable breath at the end of "Faded Love." Just absolutely amazing. For collectors, the original 1967 Decca LP cover art has been restored for this edition. Also, the CD booklet includes the original 1967 liner notes, the liner notes from the 1988 reissue, and a brand new interview with Harold Bradley, who played on most all of Patsy's recording sessions and is the brother of Producer Owen Bradley. If you're beginning a Patsy Cline collection, this is the album to start with. If you already own "12 Greatest Hits," you'll want to add this to your collection. You'll fall in love with Patsy all over again.Free Music Review: This remastered collection sounds better than ever!
Hit: 5 Stars
This Patsy Cline primer was first released in 1967, and its first CD incarnation in 1988 was acceptable but Patsy's voice (we'll get to that in a minute) sounded muted and lost. What a nice surprise (even though I shelled out money for the 1988 CD) it is to hear a much improved mix that brings Patsy to the front.This CD is a must for casual listeners of her country-soul sound as it showcases a musical powerhouse that knocks you off your feet with its subtle intensity and melody. She does not resort to the histrionics of other artists and she knew that sometimes you can express much more by being less showy.
This collection includes a dozen simply brilliant songs from Cline's catalog. The biggest and best-known hits are here, such as: "Walkin' After Midnight," "Crazy," "Sweet Dreams," "He's Got You", and some that you may not have heard before ("You're Stronger Than Me", "She's got you," and "Why Can't He Be You)."
Patsy in an amazing artist who was a pioneer by setting a well-deserved place on the table for female country artists. In short, if you're a casual listener looking for a good single-disc Patsy Cline collection, for more hard-core fans there is the amazing 4 set box set titled "The Patsy Cline Collection", which gathers it all.
Some professional reviewers have been a little harsh about this CD in that its cover is exactly the same as when it was first released and it has the original notes. I actually love that. You'll also find an updated perspective of how her work has been perceived since this collection was initially released. A no-brainer 5 stars if there ever was one.
Free Music Review: Discover This (if you haven't)
Hit: 5 Stars
A few seasons ago I was watching Lost and in Ana Alicia's flashback she was listening to Patsy Cline's "Crazy". I thought to myself, "That really is a great song. I should buy me some Pasty." Then when
I went to Hairspray at the Pantages, we stopped for cocktails at the Frolic Room, a small Hollywood bar (and oh so frickin' cool) next to the theater. As some old man danced his last dance to a blues song, Patsy's "She's Got You" came on the jukebox and in the closeted spots of that bar, I realized Patsy Cline was a vocal genius and I was going to buy one of her albums.
As luck would have it, I found this remastered album from 1968 with 12 of her songs (and really the only Patsy compilation I could find that had all the songs I was looking for). While listening to the glory that really is Patsy Cline I read the liner notes which informed me this album holds the record as spending the most weeks on the Billboard country charts than any other album on any other Billboard chart.
It also mentions how for years and years people are rediscovering Patsy's talent and of course this certainly rings true for I am a new Patsy convert. All you have to do is listen to her country/blues/pop stylings and realize this was one amazing woman. I can't believe how talented she really was. But I have to admit my favorite track, though "Walking After Midnight", "Crazy" and a whole slew of others may be personal favs of others, one dose of "She's Got You" and you will be hooked on country, or at least Patsy's country.
Free Music Review: Immortal
Hit: 5 Stars
The description of Cline that comes to mind for me every time one of her songs is played or even just her name comes up, was this one by David McGee in the 1992 Rolling Stone album guide: "Kitty Wells had retreated to less controversial ground after her 1952 hit, `It Wasn't God Who Made Honky-Tonk Angels' had found a sizable audience for its distaff point of view; Cline, on the other hand remained a bulwark of feminine fortitude to the end of her life."And this strength is apparent in every song the woman sings, no matter how much heartbreak the lyrics include. Patsy would probably reject the word `feminist' and all the negative connotations its picked up over the years, but if we limited its meaning to that of unshakable confidence and self-awareness it would certainly encompass Patsy. Her every performance suggests a woman keenly aware of the scope of her talent, and she applied like the unerring pro she was.
Songs like "She's Got You," "I Fall To Pieces" and especially "Crazy" were substantially crossing over to the pop charts and pulling in even young rock and roll fans like I already was by that time. Had she lived, Patsy would surely have continued this accomplishment to even greater heights. Her first No. 1 pop hit was only one or two records away, no doubt. But once I heard her, even this 50-year-old R&B fan knew the Real Deal when I came upon it, and Patsy Cline is IT.
Free Music Review: Everyone should be obliged to have this CD!
Hit: 5 Stars
This original record from 1967, the best selling one in country history,
was released for the first time 4 years after Patsy's tragic death. It
was then remastered in 1988 and now we have this 2003 re-remastered
copy of those 12 worldwide known songs. The quality is so outstanding
that it seems to have Patsy singing it in your living-room right in
front of you. Her voice as well as the music backed up with the Jorda-
naires sounds so perfect and clear that it's unbelievable that these
songs were recorded between 1957 and 1963. Patsy has become an icon
since the day she died in that plane crash. At that time she was at
the peak of her success (after surviving from a terrible car
accident a year earlier) with 9 top ten hits in both the C&W and Top 100 hits
in less than a 24 months period.
She was the first female "cross-over" artist; that means her country
hits also scored on Billboard's POP/Rock charts.
Those who just enjoy beautiful music, should owe this special edition from 2003
of the queen of "country blues". She was the inspiration of artists like Brenda Lee,
Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dottie West, Wanda Jackson etc. etc.
Absolutely A MUST!