Patsy Cline

Nicholas Dawidoff, Vintage Books, 1998, ISBN 0-375-70082-x.
. "I Fall to Pieces" was voted #107 on the RIAA list of the Songs of the Century. Today, Darude is considered a strong trance/electronic artist by many, and Sandstorm can still be heard at dance clubs worldwide. However, its depiction of the plane crash as occurring in high desert mountains totally unlike any terrain found in West Tennessee is wildly inaccurate. This album was less of a success than his previous works, but is still considered relatively good. The 1985 movie Sweet Dreams starring Jessica Lange, is based on her adult life and is said by some familiar with her to be fairly accurate in many respects, although some have disputed its portrayal of her mercurial relationship with second husband Charlie Dick (portrayed in the film by Ed Harris). In 2002 he released his second album Rush.

Among her many honors, she has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6160 Hollywood Blvd, she was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1973, in 1993 she was honored with her image on a United States postage stamp and in 1995, she was awarded posthumously a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Darude toured the world for nine months in 2001. Cline is interred in the Shenendoah Memorial Park cemetery, in her hometown of Winchester, Virginia. The second single Feel the Beat followed in Sandstorm's success, becoming a #1 hit in Finland before becoming a worldwide smash. Since most of the parties mention to have been involved in these affairs were deceased, these affairs could not be proven.*) After Cline's death, Charlie Dick married and divorced Jamey Ryan, also a singer, and had a son, Charles Allen Dick, Jr. The song was the worldwide number one selling vinyl record in the year 2000, a record of sorts for a trance number. Most of these interviews were for use in the makings of books and such about Miss Cline. In June 2000 Darude became the first Finnish artist ever to reach top 3 position on UK's single chart.

(*The reports of Miss Cline's affairs are personal assumptions from various persons interviewed many years after her death. The song first conquered the Finnish and other European charts before creeping onto the UK charts (via the Internet at first, getting airplay in discos and clubs before it was officially released to a waiting audience), and finally taking the world by storm. In addition to her affair with Randy Hughes, Cline also had an affair with Bill Peer, her first manager. His first hit single Sandstorm, was a result of a collaboration with Finnish producer and artist JS16 or Jaakko Salovaara, the man behind successful artists like Bomfunk MC's and Dallas Superstars. Darude landed a deal with JS16's 16 Inch Records, and co produced the song with him. Were she alive today, she would have had four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Hoping his tracks would be big hits someday, Darude started making his music on a PC first, and then moved on to samplers and decks. They had a daughter, Julia Simadore Dick (1958-; now known as Julie Fudge), and a son, Allen Randolph "Randy" Dick (1961-). The name evolved to the Rude, da Rude, and finally Darude.

In 1957, Cline married Charles Allen Dick, who worked as a linotype operator for the Winchester Star. His friends started calling him Rude Boy after the track. Country singer Jack Anglin died in an automobile accident while driving to her funeral. At a party with some friends, he played Swedish artist Leila K's track Rudeboys several times in a row. Hughes, then Cline's lover and manager, was the plane's pilot. His artist name Darude comes from the start of his career. On the airplane with her and also killed were three other country music figures who were fairly well-known at the time, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Randy Hughes, and Cowboy Copas. Darude (Ville Virtanen) is a Finnish DJ.

Cline died in a plane crash at Camden, Tennessee while returning from Kansas City, Missouri at the age of 30, in 1963. Official JS16 site (http://www.js16.com/). When she left the hospital, her forehead was still visibly scarred. 16 Inch Records (http://www.16inchrecords.com/). Suffering from a jagged cut across her forehead that required stitches, a broken wrist, and a dislocated hip, she spent a month in the hospital. Blue Chip Records (http://www.bluechiprecords.com/). The impact of the accident threw Patsy through the windshield, nearly killing her. Official Darude site (http://www.darude.com/).

On June 14, 1961, Patsy Cline and her brother were involved in a head-on car collision. Some signature songs are "Crazy" (written by Willie Nelson but forever linked to Cline), "She's Got You," "I Fall To Pieces", and "Sweet Dreams.". Though she began her career recording rockabilly, it became clear that Cline's voice was best suited for pop/country crossover tunes. She became a mainstay on the country music showcase "Grand Ole Opry" in 1960.

Her breakthrough hit was "Walkin' After Midnight" (1957), written by Don Hecht and Alan Block. Cline was the last name of her first husband, Gerald Cline, a construction industry mogul, from whom she married in 1953 and divorced in 1957. Born Virginia Patterson Hensley in Winchester, Virginia, United States, she received her first contract as a country singer in 1953 and, despite her short life, would become one of the most influential singers in history. Patsy Cline, (September 8, 1932 – March 5, 1963) was an American country music singer.

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