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Honky tonk angel : the intimate story of Patsy Cline
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Honky tonk angel : the intimate story of Patsy Cline

Author: Ellis Nassour
Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, [1993]
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Patsy Cline, the beloved country singer, soared from obscurity to worldwide fame before her life tragically ended at age thirty. After breaking all the barriers in the Nashville boys' club of the music business in the 1950s, she brought the Nashville sound to the nation with her torch ballads and rockabilly tunes like "Walking After Midnight," "Crazy," and "I Fall to Pieces." Earthy, sexy, and vivacious, she has
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Genre/Form: Biography
Named Person: Patsy Cline; Patsy Cline
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Ellis Nassour
ISBN: 0312088701 9780312088705
OCLC Number: 27108009
Description: xiv, 270 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Responsibility: Ellis Nassour.

Abstract:

Patsy Cline, the beloved country singer, soared from obscurity to worldwide fame before her life tragically ended at age thirty. After breaking all the barriers in the Nashville boys' club of the music business in the 1950s, she brought the Nashville sound to the nation with her torch ballads and rockabilly tunes like "Walking After Midnight," "Crazy," and "I Fall to Pieces." Earthy, sexy, and vivacious, she has been the subject of a major movie and countless articles,

and her albums are still among the top five best-sellers for MCA almost thirty years after her death. In the end it is her music, a standard feature on jukeboxes from Seattle to Siberia, that prevails and keeps on keeping on. Patsy's colorful and poignant life is explored in intimate detail by a veteran of The New York Times, Ellis Nassour. She is remembered in Honky Took Angel by the country stars who knew and loved her, among them Brenda Lee, Roger Miller, Loretta.

Lynn, George Jones, Jimmy Dean, and Ralph Emery. With an introduction by the late Dottie West, a complete discography, and many never-before-published photographs, Honky Tonk Angel lovingly re-creates the life of an American legend whose music lives on forever.

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