Patsy Cline | Full Documentary | American Masters | PBS

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If you enjoyed this documentary, we think you will also like our new documentary on Brenda Lee! You can watch it here: www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/brenda-lee-documentary

[@kiasax2]

As a Cherokee boy who taught himself to play guitar and sing at age 8 and living in the Appalachian Mountains, county music was the music I heard and began to practice. My family encouraged me to work on county music, of course. I remember being on my Cherokee grandfather's porch as he whistled a Hank Williams song, and I started picking out the chords. My Nan came out and was beaming at me as she saw that I got it together and was singing the lyrics along with my grandfather whistling the melody. That was the first time that it all came together for me. The guitar, singing, and picking out the melody. I got it, finally! Patsy Cline was the first female singer I ever performed singing and playing. It was Sweet Dreams, and my Native grandparents were the ones who wanted me to do that song and knew that my voice was still high enough to sing her voice. Plus, Patsy Cline was from just up the road in Virginia from our rez. They were big fans of Patsy's.

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You can also watch a new show from our friends at Great Performances featuring the music of Patsy Cline: www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/patsy-cline-walkin-after-midnight-about

[@joannaedwards6325]

@@kiasax2 Thank you for sharing. I enjoyed reading your comment very much. ❤ ✌ 💋 👌

[@jethro1963]

I'm surprised kd Lang wasn't in this seeing how Patsy was such a big influence on her early career, She had a big appearance on The Tonight Show singing Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray and her backing group were the Reclines.

[@joannaedwards6325]

@@jethro1963 imo K. D. LANG sings THE BEST rendition of HALLELUJAH out of the many artists who have tried.....maybe a real close 2nd is JEFF BUCKLEY. Both of them understood the orgasmic passion in that song.

[@kegaket6772]

When I was about 20, my parents had just gotten a divorce, I'd flunked out of college, my boyfriend was a drunk and I'd just found out he was cheating on me. After I left him, I scraped myself up off the floor and was on my way back to college to give that life another try and I stopped at a diner somewhere in Texas to get something to eat and just sit and have a good cry. I put my quarter in a little jukebox at the side of my table and chose Crazy as one of my 3 picks, simply because Crazy just about summed up what my life was all about at the time. To be leaving Texas with that beautiful song that I'd never heard before and that beautiful voice just floating in the air, I don't know, it gave me what I needed to push forward. That was 47 years ago and every time I hear that song I remember how the chilling beauty of it gave inspiration to a lost, lonely young girl who wasn't sure what there was to look forward to in life. God put Patsy Cline on this planet for a reason. She is a gift for those of us who have ever really needed a gift from someone, anyone, at some point in our lives.

[@SJ-ni6iy]

Songs can have an impact on our lives, that’s the difference between a good song and a great one

[@UESide]

What a story! Thank you :)

[@sulevisydanmaa9981]

@kegaket6772 I HAD SIMILAR EXPERIENCE with Guy Clark s LA FREEWAY. But my city was Kuopio, Fin 🇫🇮 - the year 1984. Diff strokes ... it was winter, like now, way up heah in N Europe. Heaps of snow, darkness, and now, the threat of war ...

[@janicespann7856]

Pasty Cline will always be remembered as one of the Greatest Female Artists of All Times!!❤❤

[@Wildrover82]

Lovely story there. That's the power of music. Great singer she was.

[@carolynmorris7303]

She's one of the best female singers ever. Just like Karen Carpenter nobody can duplicate her. One of a kind

[@michaelwilharms570]

Listen to Willie Nelson sing a duet with Tami Nielsen, Beyond the stars. Thank me later.

[@nomopayn]

Who knows what other songs that Patsy who was only 30 years old at the time of her tragic death and Karen Carpenter who was only 32 could have given to this world. But we know that they Both left this world to soon. those ladies sang like angels

[@carieyounginsurance]

So true! I absolutely love Karen Carpenter- both are two of my favorite singers

[@g2whatbrodie283]

Karen carpenter was so dismal and depressing.

[@heathermetz6576]

‘Crazy,’ was written by Willie Nelson but, Patsy Cline made that song among many others. Fantastic documentary.

[@cindicarpinelli4893]

Every time I go to Winchester, I visit Patsy's grave. My now husband and I went to Winchester to get married. After we get married we went to see Patsy. She had a voice that was unmistakable. Love, love, love listening to her! ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@heatherestes8995]

I was raised in front Royal VA. My father told me stories of watching her at the fairgrounds

[@joannaedwards6325]

Dear AmericanMasters, Deepest gratitude for this production. So thorough and detailed. Thank you for providing this musical history. Very inspirational.

[@467-k1m]

MY TEARS JUST STARTED FLOWING AND KEPT ON UNTIL THE END OF THE SHOW.

[@PeaceFan1]

My FAVE Country Singer...I am not that big of a Country Fan at ALL, BUT HER Voice just Moves me in a way that no Other Country voice does..Patsy IS Country Music...xoxoxoxoxo

[@TheCarnivalguy]

That woman could SANG! Patsy’s voice was the type that excelled at power ballads. It was there that she found her niche and greatest success. One of the most beautiful popular voices of the 20th century. A life and talent cut short at the height of her success. Patsy left behind, professionally speaking, a wealth of her recorded voice.

[@euchrideucrow1970]

The opening bars of Crazy are the most exquisite ever committed to vinyl. When she hits that first note I just melt. The most perfect voice. ❤❤❤

[@mathgeek7966]

The Patsy Cline Story was the very first LP I bought as a kid - and that was over 10 years after her passing. I can't even count how many hours I've spent listening to her voice over the years. And I'm not even a huge country music fan! Thanks for posting this great documentary!

[@williamtomczak1857]

The expression on the piano player 's face, when Patsy sings Walking After Midnight, shows the joy, she gave us.

[@DigitalLazarus]

Deffo.

[@mistybollinger3312]

I noticed the same thing!! He was blown away!!

[@DeborahFrederick-to9kt]

Owen Bradley....her producer.

[@williamtomczak1857]

Thank you.

[@GM8101PHX]

That Pianist was the famous Floyd Cramer who was a recording star in his own right!! Now his grandson Jason Coleman plays just like his grandfather did, the same slip note style!!

[@marymcclanahan1757]

I grew up on Rock and Roll, so in my teens I discounted country songs and didn’t pay much attention to them. But I discovered Patsy in college (late ‘70s). We all loved her so much! Me and all my friends played her music at parties and most of us had cassettes of her albums to play on road trips. I’ve never loved a female artist more. I still put headphones on, play her songs, turn up the sound really loud, and sing at the top of my lungs. I sound just like Patsy when I do this☺️ and it makes me so happy!

[@antycoco]

Her voice, like Karen Carpenter’s came straight down from heaven. What did they both died so tragically.

[@donnaallgaier-lamberti3933]

I bought a CD of Patsy Cline many years ago and I would sing her songs when I cleaned and worked around the house and in my art studio. Walking after Midnight was my all time favorite!! When I grew up in the 1950's, my dad watched the Green Valley Boys Jamboree (singers) every Saturday night in Kalamazoo, MI so I grew up on this music.

[@dulciehardy5497]

Me too!❤

[@Nunofurdambiznez]

EXCELLENT tribute to a phenomenal singing artist/star and woman!!

[@jevans9359]

Our family watched this on Christmas morning, and it was everything that you would expect from PBS, pure awesomeness, What a legend Patsy is.

[@michaelbaumgardner2530]

I was born 13 months after she passed,even though I've always Loved her voice she was as real as dirt as a singer and a person... Great Video.

[@kitcat1278]

I still cry when I hear Sweet Dreams.

[@MrWayneWhite]

You and I both

[@nabsmad]

This was such a beautiful documentary. Lord I cried watching it. I’m so thankful my mom introduced Patsy Clines music to us at a young age. Miss my mom. Sending everyone love. Pasty was so magical.

[@JC-od8cd]

Her style is so stirring...brings tears to my eyes every time. No one has replicated Patsy's vocal delivery.

[@billystpaul8907]

Truly one of a kind. A special talent who overcame a very difficult life. My dad would listen to her music for all of his life. He never got over her passing...Hank Willams and Johnny Cash and Patsy where the only 3 persons he ever listened to.

[@corkycobon1481]

I remember the first time I ever heard a Patsy song and that was when I watched Coal Miner's Daughter with Beverly D'Angelo as Patsy and I rmember being floored by the way Ms. D'Angelo sang and that made me interested in hearing more. My grandmother loved Patsy and so I went over and asked it I could listen to a record. I was 10 yrs old at the time and sat with my grandmother while she was making a quilt and listened to Patsy absolutely KILL it vocally. Then, I started trying to find books about her as I wanted to know more about her but the books available were about her career. I wanted to know HER, not just her career. I watched Jessica Lange play Patsy but thought Ms. D'Angelo did a better job. After finding a couple books that actually wrote about HER, I came to admire and completely respect Patsy. She was driven by a passion that was evident by anyone willing to see. She was tough when she had to be but soft and compassionate all the time. She spoke her mind and she took no prisoners when it came to her business and she absolutely stood on business. She did things her way or she did not do it at all. She knew what she wanted and she busted her ass day after day to get it. No one could work as hard as this woman did and it shows. The only thing about Patsy that absolutely breaks my heart is that she never got to see what her years of hard work brought her. She was literally on the precipice of superstardom and it was ripped from her on the tragic day her plane went down. The absolute cosmic injustice of this is still hard for me to wrap my head around. So young, so full of talent and life and just about to grab the brass ring.....makes me wanna cry every time.

[@brutusalwaysminded]

Thanks so much, PBS. ❤

[@Yesitisbrett]

Dear Patsy, Your music has been played by me for thousands of hours, on the brightest days and got me through some my darkest nights. Forgotten by anyone who has heard you sing....it's unlikely you could ever be forgotten. I hope your soul rests in piece. And thank you for having lived, you made the world a little more humane.

[@heathermetz6576]

Such a beautiful documentary. ‘Three Cigarettes In An Ashtray,’ etc, and other songs are just fantastic to hear Patsy Cline sing. Wonderful video footage.

[@archiecraven6086]

The tv performance of "I Fall to Pieces" was taped a week or two before she died.

[@DigitalLazarus]

Thanks for sharing this. What an awesome documentary. I have *ALWAYS* considered Patsy Cline absolutely on par with Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. What a legacy. Christ imagine if she lived. What a gift we had for a hot minute. RIP Patsy.

[@anj3595]

Patsy was my entrance to become a Country fan, at 18. I was raised to love all music, a musical, piano playing mother who belonged to Sweet Adeline’s. As a teen I was into 60’s music, mostly Soul. I Fall To Pieces brought me over. However, I am always, to this day brought into fan ship with pure music pitch, taught by my Mom. Patsy’s voice was rich as can be.

[@observer3232]

Very good documentary. Some incredible music made in a short period of time.

[@djjohnson9422]

Country Queen of my heart there is no one else like Ms.Patsy Cline, her short time in the Country Music scene is one of the most impactful, we only can imagine what Country Music would have become had she lived. But we know that what Country Music is would be lacking without Ms.Patsy Cline. R.I.P. Ms.Patsy. your fans will never forget you in the depths of their hearts. As your legacy of the gift of song, and of music that G-D gave you will remain until His return. He gave you the most perfect voice.

[@caroleminke6116]

My mother’s age… cannot comprehend how tough those times were & what it did to that generation! It either broke you or it made you into one tough survivor…

[@huascar66]

As a fan of the late Patsy Cline, I must say this documentary is excellent!

[@ritamulloy3522]

Patsy Cline was one in a million! ❤

[@williaminadonn7412]

She was fabulous 😢😢RIP Patsy xxx

[@ajsway7134]

Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn turned me on to Country Music❤

[@nativeflutterbynails3016]

I love Loretta Lynn

[@JoshuaTraffanstedt]

Not only did she cross genres , she spans generations! I was born in 1987, and i love her music. Her music reminds me of being a kid, riding in the backseat of my grandparents car while i visited them on weekends or the yearly vacation i took with them to California to visit my grandpa's folks. Its like her music instantly takes me back there and i cant help but smile. What an amazing talent!

[@BearLee]

HER singing Sweet Dreams, Always makes me cry. Forever The Queen. 💜

[@kimberleenash1742]

I was introduced to the music of Patsy Cline by my uncle (God rest his soul). He loved her music and stated he danced to all of her songs. After listening to her music I could see why. She was a phenomenal artist and I love her music to this day. There will never be another like her.

[@phillipsmom6252]

Loretta Lynn said Patsy was a very colorful person. Her house was colorful, her cloths were colorful, she liked everything bright. And she said it was too bad the public never got to see that side of her because most of what we, the public saw of her was black and white photographs and black and white film clips of her.

[@joeswife]

Patsy Cline is my 5th cousin, once removed. We both descend from Frederick Secrist of Hampshire County VA (now in WV). I'm also a singer. Must be in the blood!

[@Cherie5353]

I was lucky enough to see the last show of “Always Patsy Cline” at the Grand Ole Opry/Ryman Auditorium. I wish I could have remembered her while she was alive but I was too young.

[@thecthonian4976]

This documentary was so well done and so venerable to Patsy. She opened so many doors. That sweet voice rings heartache, loneliness, and pain in such an organic and genuine way. We will never forget her.

[@MayheM_72]

My Mom always LOVED Patsy Cline! She passed before I was born, but I heard her songs a lot growing up. I never heard her story before, and it makes her songs so much more meaningful.

[@epsilonsaona9062]

I'm a dedicated metal head, but when I listen to her, there's a delicate smooth tone that moves me. It's soothing and flows with emotions!!! I love her music

[@hadawson72268]

Thank you to the algorithm for choosing this for me today ... I need a brain wring out ... this is perfect

[@billiejomcmillan7632]

My mom loved Patsy and I grew up listening to her music. I just love her music and enjoy singing it even though she passed before I was born. Thanks for creating this video about her.

[@arieldaemon]

I had never heard of Patsy Cline before, I hear her songs on TikTok all the time. Wow she had a amazing career in such a short time. I hate that she died so early!!! I also love the graphic designs of her time period. Great watch! Watching for the second time!

[@ibosquez5238]

Patsy Cline is on tik tok??

[@arieldaemon]

@ yup I fall to pieces is a popular sound

[@ibosquez5238]

@@arieldaemon I'm happy to hear that 👩‍🦳

[@kimberlyokeeffe5360]

I was quite young when Patsy died but I have memories of hearing her on the radio before her death. It wasn't until I was divorced with a young child that I started to learn about her life. And the older I get, the more I'm humbled by what she accomplished in her short life and as many have stated, what could have been.

[@cynthiapena1141]

Excellent job on Miss Patsy, PBS 👏👏👏.... still a Patsy Cline fan at 61.

[@carlariggs525]

I love her music because my mom worshipped her. I never appreciated her music until I got older.

[@sam4soph1]

Crazy is one of those songs that can make you cry and you don't know why.

[@sulynn72]

Put it this way I grew up listening to rock and roll. But I love Patsy Cline.

[@Dangergirl88]

Love her music. Incredible voice! Tragic she passed so young.

[@GalGiddyUP]

One of my all-time favorite singers...🤍

[@christinagiannaros9817]

We used to sing Patsy a capella when the radio in the Fiat broke in the 90s, happy memories.

[@katmandudawn8417]

Arthur Godfrey had an estate in Leesburg, Va . So he was a neighbor to Winchester. Many of the places Patsy frequented are still to be seen in Winchester. She’s buried there too.

[@JeffDoerr]

Patsy was a great artist and vocalist. We lost her far too soon.

[@sulevisydanmaa9981]

Is that so. The recordings testify, and will testify...

[@dguttowsky1]

I'm so glad Patsy felt love and happiness while alive. Also, she was Rock and Roll...and soul and country. Because there is no such thing as genre

[@JeffHorne-n5d]

I loved her songs. Used to play her songs over and over!

[@vickihopsin128]

Wow what good timing for this. Thank you PBS. Love Patsy

[@JAD73567]

This woman can flat out sing.

[@dunkelmonkey]

Patsy Cline had a voice that I can only describe as "pure magic"

[@maybeebuzzy2265]

WOW Excellent documentary. I've always loved her voice. In some of this footage, Patsy reminds me of Kelly Clarkson. The facial feature similarities are uncanny!

[@glengamble526]

My Mother LOVED Patsy and sang her songs (well, I might add) around the house, all of the time.

[@andreasmodugno]

Jimmy Buffet' wrote the song "Miss You So Badly." There is a line in the song that says: "I got a head full of being higher and an earful of Patsy Cline. There's just no one who can touch her. Hell, I'll hang on every line". He wrote that song and those words because people were comparing Linda Ronstadt to Patsy Cline. He was right of course.

[@robinreece920]

I was thinking the exact same thing. Jimmy hit it right. Patsy was one in a million.

[@GM8101PHX]

I am 67, but remember hearing I Fall to Pieces on the car radio, prior to the song coming my bother and I earned getting smacked by dad for being too loud. We didn't cry but sat right down as expected, then the song starts to play and still remember as a four year old sitting there hearing the instruments and the vocals and loving it!! Then when I was 17 Mom played the song again, I cried because I had remembered Dad as he has passed away 3 years prior. I still cry hearing I Fall to Pieces, but love it and I can sing it. There will never be another Patsy Cline in my lifetime!!!

[@codzy3532]

great singer no woman could sing crazy like patsy........true story.......im dark australian and my brother married a canadian native american woman and one day she showed me a picture of her mum......i kid u not.....i said to her did anyone tell u your mum looks like patsy cline she had a chuckle an said no when u look at patsy u can see it in her she had features dark eyes and big lips too.......but as my dear old mum used to say no one can sing like patsy cline thats for sure rip sweet patsy ☺❤💐🥀🎤👠🎶🎙

[@sylviaboudreau5967]

I loved Patsy Cline. My mother used to sing a lot of her songs.

[@celestialgutter]

When I was knee-high to a grasshopper on the Texas prairie, I'd daydream of becoming two things: the second coming of Patsy Cline or a storm chaser. Soar on, beautiful songbird! 🎙️💖🎶

[@Marycedarcreek]

I love that beautiful woman. Her sweet voice touched me deeply. I don't think there will ever be someone to sound exactly like her. She had a tone that was operatic, symphonic, bell tone quality. She'd captivate you with some songs. What a legacy. I do believe Randy cultivated in her what was there really all along. That he helped bring it out with songs worthy of her voice. Love her always ⚘

[@nancycornett9949]

What a beautiful documentary! So well done! Thank you!❤❤❤

[@waltmooredanwilson8754]

Great documentary. Thanks for sharing this. Happy New Year. Take care and God Bless.

[@SJ-ni6iy]

It’s sad that Patsy had such a tough life and never got to fully experience being a mother or enjoying her fame.

[@timmygilbert1371]

I fell in love with her music around 15 , and im 63 now an still love it . She was something else .❤❤

[@limaclark8404]

I didn't grown up in a house that played this type of music I was almost grown when I ran across her and how I just fell in love with her ❤❤❤❤❤ and everything about her she is one of my favorite I love country music

[@SteamLeak]

I had always been a fan of Patsy Cline growing up through the 60s and 70s. My love for her music was reinforced after I saw the movie Sweet Dreams in 1985/86. She had a beautiful voice and was a wonderful talent. I have been forever regretful that she couldn’t stay with us longer.

[@lovelight4763]

For me, there are no words that describe Patsy Cline and her music. I'm in Aw!!!

[@joannaedwards6325]

P.S. your presentation on Brenda Lee was also a winner.

[@kentkearney6623]

❤❤❤Share my birthday and house street with Patsy. Always felt a relationship because we know hard work for little pay and do what we love.

[@heathermetz6576]

Wanda Jackson’s interviews on here are epic. She was a powerhouse on her own.

[@rebeccawhite5642]

I found her music in my early 20's. I just love her voice. RIP Patsy ❤

[@deirdreyearwood3383]

This was an excellent synopsis of the beautiful Patsy Kline's life. She lived and died before my time, but I have always loved her voice and music. What a tragedy to have lost her so early. Rest in peace Beautiful. Your legacy is secure ❤❤❤

[@patriciadalton1454]

What a beautiful lady and and a example to us all,very resilient a wonderful and beautiful lady. ❤❤❤❤

[@bieberfrau6660]

Her voice will never be copied!!!!

[@mistybollinger3312]

I wish i had been alive back then and had the chance to meet her!! I grew up listening and singing along with patsy and have actually been told i sound just like her and that probably the best compliment ive ever had ❤❤

[@golden8972]

Beverly D'Angelo did an INCREDIBLE job portraying Patsy in "Coal Miner's Daughter". And Jessica Lange as well in "Sweet Dreams". Both gals did Patsy justice.

[@ogdvb]

Sometimes PBS makes it just right👌🏼♥️

[@shawnastephens1536]

Every time I hear Crazy I get goose bumps.

[@dr.aniasara7038]

I never hear anyone talk about Arthur Goffrey. I loved him, and the show.

[@MisterMasterShafter1]

RIP Patsy. You earned it.

[@yxxng1z943]

i recently became obsessed with her music and my god, she really is sensational

[@markread8650]

Elvis golden hits volume 3 and Patsy Clines greatest hits were wonderful music to grow up to

[@GerardiDemelio]

Judy Garland, Patsy Cline, Karen Carpenter, Billie Holiday, you can count on your hand how many female singers who have changed music and the world they lived in during and long after their lives tragically ended

[@carieyounginsurance]

Her voice is absolutely golden

[@jennoury249]

Holy cow her dad was 43 and her mom was 17 when she was born😮

[@khanysafan1705]

Today that would have been grooming and rape. Crazy (no pun intended) how it was apparently okay back then.

[@patriciadalton1454]

Patsy was an example to all women, she was a strong and a very talented woman,and she had to fight her corner in a time when women used to be ignored and ridiculed, but she showed us all, not only women or men if you,have that strength and dedication you can achieve anything. ❤❤

[@msr1116]

5:02.....I have the same treadle sewing machine and cabinet that once belonged to my grandmother. I bet it still works too.

[@suzanne-dy5zc]

Have loved Patsy for decades. Singing along w her? The best.

[@csmith7262]

My sisters and I would sing Patsy's songs while doing the dishes with our mom back in the 70s!

[@juliepeterson6639]

Thank you!