“I just sing like I hurt inside. If you can’t do it with feeling, then don’t,” Cline once said of her passion for performing — and she sadly hurt a lot throughout her too-short career. The ...

Patsy Cline has one of the best voices in music. With a voice that travels through time, Cline made an indelible mark on music before her untimely passing in a plane crash in 1963 when she was 30. In ...

We've all heard the old saying "adversity breeds success," a quotation from a famous philosopher many years ago. But in the case of songwriters, it should have been added that "adversity plus talent – ...

Editor’s note: This segment was rebroadcast on Sept. 29, 2025. Click here for that audio. Singer Patsy Cline helped create the Nashville sound, a crossover between country and pop, in the 1950s and ...

“Often imitated, never duplicated,” they say, a sentiment that can certainly be applied to Patsy Cline and one that Nicole Rasmus, who has portrayed the country singer 50-plus times, absolutely ...

Alan Stoker talks about Patsy's gift as a singer and an artist. CLIP: 2:09 Listen to how Patsy Cline "fibbed" to perform on CBS How Patsy Cline fibbed in order to get onto Arthur Godfrey's CBS show to ...

When Patsy Cline began working in country music, female headliners were rare. Her tenacity and talent allowed her to overcome bias and become one of the first female solo artists in country music.