Tonight's Listen:Patsy Cline - Imagine That: The Lost Recordings (1954-1963)What a godsend for fans of classic country music: Nearly two hours of rare radio, TV, and concert performances from one of Nashville's greatest-ever singers. Patsy Cline was one of those vocalists who could make a weak song compelling and a good song timeless. Despite looking like a budget compilation at a glance, Imagine That: The Lost Recordings is the real deal, presenting these unreleased performances in (generally) good sound and accompanied by a beefy booklet. The main draw here is the inclusion of numerous songs she never recorded in the studio, even if the renditions are sometimes woefully short, and occasionally with audio quality more akin to Patsy Montana's era than Cline's. A number of the tracks are duets where she sings circles around various yokels who never come close to matching her prowess. The demo version of "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You" justifies this entire set, which is one of the best testaments to a talent lost far too soon. Essential for any fan of Patsy or classic country in general. 9.1/10https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ffrGJw_HmPI
as Cuckgau had noted, her studio recordings are cursed with dated 50s-60s pop effects like doo-wop backing vocals so live recordings are better.
>>131705527I would argue that she's one of the few country singers for whom the "Nashville sound" production actually works because her voice was strong enough not to get drowned out and classy enough that it sounds fitting, but fair enough
So this is the ick on eck poster right?
>>131705770He said before he's a different guy who was "inspired" by him.
>>131705797He was inspired to get the same physical build too? Bullshit. This guy jerks off on his Steam Deck for the amusement of /v/
>>131705806OP here, >>131705797 is right"Fat and hairy" isn't exactly an uncommon buildI don't even own a Steam Deck
>>131705844post 'ick for proof
>>131705379based
>>131705379We have to go back in time and save Patsy
King shit
>>131705379Based
>>131707952convince Teresa Brewer to get on the plane instead?
my grandma went to school with PC in Winchester. everyone loved her even though she was known as the town bicycle.
>>131710627That could work.
>>131707952not even 30 yet. she had so much more to give us.
>>131710963That seems to have been the case with a lot of big-voiced female singers
>>131712240>>131710963i really don't want to know what Eydie Gorme got up to
>>131712295Or Teresa for that matter.
>>131712240Mariah...
>>131711854it's hard to say how her career would have played out, though maybe she'd fall off since she peaked pretty early. a lot of her peers like Loretta Lynn didn't peak until they were middle aged.
>>131712710I wonder the same thing about Buddy Holly. From a cynical industry point of view it's very likely that he would've gone the way of his rockabilly peers in the 60s and 70s of trying to crossover into pop before reteating into country. His last single being a Paul Anka ballad with strings would suggest that. But at the same time he was known to be a pretty ambitious and hip artist who dreamed of moving to New York and learning jazz and flamenco guitar before he died, so he could've gone in a completely different direction too.
>>131712710Insofar as Patsy was always pop country instead of country country like Loretta et al.
>>131705379BUT NOW THERE'S NOWHERE TO HIDEEEEEEESINCE YOU PUSHED MY LOVE ASIDEI'M OUT OF MY HEADHOPELESSLY DEVOTED TO YOUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuu
>>131712759yes and the doo-wop vocals on her albums prove that point. give her 13 more years and she would have made an album with disco strings something Loretta never did.
>>131712929https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0aDzxqC3gYput on later Brenda Lee and suspect this is where Patsy would have ended up--singing over the "Car Wash" backing track lol
>>131712759but then Loretta wouldn't have gotten to do that tribute album to her memory
Dinah Washington also died in 63 but she was older and maybe would have been washed up soon after the Beatles and Motown came up.
>>131713374again who knows? Sarah Vaughan released pretty good music all the way to her last albums in the 80s.
>>131712929To be fair, virtually every country singer who worked with Owen Bradley in the late 50's and early 60's had the Jordanaires or Anita Kerr Singers foisted upon them
it never occurred to me that big-voiced chicks were sluts
>>131712710I imagine more like her contemporary Johnny Cash where most of her prime material was out in the 50s-60s and she'd still be cranking out mid material afterward that gets airplay thanks to her rep and industry connections but is inferior to the 50s-60s stuff. She'd retire as she aged and the business moved on to younger, fresher talent.
>>131712348PC, Brewer, and Jaye P. Morgan were all contemporaries who came up in the same era and were quite similar in a lot of ways; they were all products of the 50s when being loud and tasteless was "in."
>>131705379I JUST DISCOVERED PATSY CLINE'S MUSIC TODAY.THE FIRST SONG OF HERS TO WHICH I LISTENED IS THE ONE TITLED «CRAZY».CRAZY SYNCHRONICITY.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXWCaQPXE_0
>>131715508That mouth ain’t just for singin, sugar
>>131712758Most of the OG 50s rock-and-rollers (who I should note were all Southerners) went country as they got older--Jackie DeShannon was an exception as she went the singer-songwriter route for her "adult" music and there's every reason to believe Holly would have too.
>>131715922>and there's every reason to believe Holly would have too.*there's every reason to believe Holly would have gone country, I mean
>>131715832I've read that song holds the record for most jukebox plays of all time
>>131715940CRAZY.
>>131715664Cline could have been at a disadvantage since she wasn't a writer and only had the material Nashville fed her whereas most male country singers (and some of the female ones) could write.
>>131715922Pat Boone was the one sad sack out-of-touch guy from that 50s Southern scene who wanted to be a crooner and wished he'd been born 15 years earlier.
