Patsy Montana - Back on Montana Plains-1939

Ruby Blevins aka Patsy Montana was born in Beaudry, Arkansas in 1908. In 1929 she travelled to California to study violin at the U. of the West. She won a local talent contest yodeling, singing and playing her guitar. Her prize was a spot on The Breakfast Club on KNX 1070, Hollywood. She travelled to the Chicago World's Fair with her brothers in 1933 to enter a watermelon and to meet two pen pals who claimed to be from from Muleshoe, Texas; Millie and Dollie Good. Mildred and Dorothy were really two farm girls from the Illinois plains. While in Chicago, she auditioned for a singing role but began giggling during her song. The talent scout thought it was part of her act and fell in love with her style. She won a place as the singer for the Prairie Ramblers on Powerful WLS 890 in Chicago. The Prairie Ramblers would accompany her on her ARC, Decca, and RCA Victor recordings. In 1935 she had a million seller with "I Want to be a Cowboy's Sweetheart"-the first female artist to acheive that level, and did it in the middle of the depression. Patsy worked with Gene Autry and made a movie with him in 1939-Colorado Sunset. She also worked with Red Foley and her old pen pals Millie and Dollie Good who now billed themselves as The Girls of the Golden West. Patsy was inducted into the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame in 1987 and into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1996. She died in 1996 in California.

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[dad68601]

Very good memories

[preservationhall01]

@dad68601 Wow, you must be close to 80 dad. Thanks for visiting.

[jpb252]

Really enjoyed the video, but it would be better if more of the snapshots were in focus.

[preservationhall01]

@jpb252 Most were thumbnails, so enlarging them made them lose their sharpness. Can't be fixed.

[rockgor]

I heard Patsy in a radio interview 20-30 years

ago. She demonstated the difference between

a cowboy yodel and a Swiss yodel.

Her great ambition was to be in the Country

Music Hall of Fame. A shame they waited too

long and did it posthumously.

Tx 4 posting

[preservationhall01]

And thanks for your info.

[MrJfpurcell]

Yippee Ky-yo Ky-yay I liked Patsy's tape a lot.'

JF Purcell

Oceanside, NY (Formerly of Billings, MT fame)

[MrJfpurcell]

Yippee Ky-yo Kye-yay I liked Patsy's tape a lot.'

JF Purcell

Oceanside, NY (Formerly of Billings, MT fame)

[MichailZacho]

This woman is truly fantastic, no matter what kind of music you like!

[totovillefranche]

She and the band are also on the * Lone Star * Soundtrack, John Sayles film, that was on pbs in Germany recently; checking out the songs from the film - and their story - makes a lot for a better understanding; thank you