Patsy Cline was born on September 8, 1932, she started playing piano at eight years of age, and
later in her teens she began to sing.  Her original name was Virginia Patterson Hensley, and she
was described as a child prodigy.  She first perfomed when she was only four years old.  She
was learning to play the pinao at eight years of age.  At sixteen she played with Wally Fowler,
from the Grand Ole Opry on some of his gigs and before long she would venture to Nashville
to try to make it in the biz herself.

Later she did the "Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts" on TV and was discovered by Decca Records.
In January 1957, Patsy appeared as a contestant on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scout Show on
CBS, the song and her first record "Walkin' After Midnight", was both a country and pop hit in
1957.  In 1961 she had a hit with the Willie Nelson penned song "Crazy" and it became one of the
biggest hits of the year as did her next song "I Fall to Pieces," which went to number one on the
country charts. In 1963 she had a hit with "Faded Love" and "Sweet Dreams of You."  She
fought the "good-ole-boy" network in Nashville and became a country superstar.

Patsy Cline would soar from obscurity to worldwide fame before she died in a plane crash at
age 30, on March 6, 1963 in Camden, Tennessee, also killed in the crash was Cowboy Copas
and Hawkshaw Hawkins.  Ellis Nassour told her life story in the book Honky Tonk Angel and
in the late 1980s, her life story was told in the movie Sweet Dreams, starring Jessica Lang as
Pasty.  MCA released her Greatest Hits album and it became a huge hit reaching number one
on the Billboard's Top Country Catalog Albums.  Life magazine listed her as one of the top
stars in country music history.

In 1960 she joined the Grand Ole Opry and in 1973, she was elected to the Country Music Hall
of Fame.  Thirty years after her death she is still a top selling artist at MCA.