Patsy Cline - I Fall To Pieces (Original Stereo)

"I Fall To Pieces" was the first song that the songwriting team of Hank Cochran and Harlan Howard composed together. They brought the song to record producer Owen Bradley in Nashville who first offerred it to Brenda Lee who turned it down ("too country for me"), and then Roy Drusky (it's not a man's song"), and then Patsy Cline. Patsy recorded it in November of 1960 with vocal backing by the Jordanaires, but the song didn't immediately gain country radio station acceptance when it was released in January of 1961. A pop station in Columbus, Ohio began playing it, and the song first captured some crossover appeal before the country audience discovered it. By the late spring of the year, both pop and country audiences had "found" the recording, but Patsy was involved in a car accident in June of 1961 which kept her from promoting the song. Still "I Fall to Pieces" reached #12 on the pop charts by July of that year, and the song's success garnered her an invitation to join the Grand Ole Opry.

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Music

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• Patsy Cline
• I Fall To Pieces
• Hank Cochran
• Harlan Howard
• Owen Bradley

[simonbaker4]

I love this music. But what's with the advertisement before it begins? Who gets the revenue from that? Patsy Cline?

[Nocaro]

@simonbaker4 Sorry, about the ads, but YouTube has started placing them in front of many of my videos. YouTube gets the revenue...they ought to at least pay me a commission, but I'm not holding my breath on that.

[simonbaker4]

@Nocaro I was wondering because YouTube sent out invitations for us to join some revenue-sharing ads program with our videos, so long as we comply with heavy requirements of originality on the content, I think even requiring formal copyright registration by us. However, I guess they can slap ads wherever they want on anyone's content?

[Nocaro]

@simonbaker4 This is a development that I'd like to know more about especially who is or is not benefiting from these ads financially other than YouTube.

[ayuche1954]

Unbelievable. The modulation, the quiver in her voice says so much. I can just listen to it over & over again & I always feel the same pain & sadness she descibes in the song. What a voice,

what delivery. It's uncanny.

[DrSylva22]

I fall to pieces

When I hear your voice

Dear Patsy Cline

After almost five decade have passed

You are singing for everyone who lost love

Pray for thee to gain...

Remembering you and your songs

That forever will last...

[60srocker46]

beautiful

[MrStanley4me]

oh my golly gosh

[ruswhit60]

eat your hearts out Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood !! You will never be as good as Patsy

[meliharm]

I love her and There will be no one like her again! TRUE TALENT

[bibeaultj]

my mom died on the same day that patsy died i can remember hareing her playing patsys songs after my father left her for many years in miss them both very much . i would give anything to have here back in my life alwayls kim

[notbendable]

so... so good!

[5roses1]

A voice that the world should hear more of I have her Greatest Hits and it is greater because it is on a "CD' all the songs can be a hit today but who can take Patsy Cline voice no/one a Pearl now in the Angels choir..

[kenhamlett1]

@STANGUNN1 ... and "Sweet Dreams."