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On this day, March 3, 1963, Patsy Cline performed a benefit concert in Kansas City, Kansas.
Thu Mar 3, 2022: On this day, March 3, 1963, Patsy Cline performed a benefit concert in Kansas City, Kansas.
Patsy Cline
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On March 3, 1963, Cline performed a benefit at the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall, Kansas City, Kansas, for the family of disc jockey "Cactus" Jack Call; he had died in an automobile crash a little over a month earlier. Also performing in the show were George Jones, George Riddle and The Jones Boys, Billy Walker, Dottie West, Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper, George McCormick, the Clinch Mountain Boys as well as Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins. Despite having a cold, Cline gave three performances: 2:00, 5:15 and 8:15 pm. All the shows were standing-room only. For the 2 p.m. show, she wore a sky-blue tulle-laden dress; for the 5:15 show a red shocker; and for the closing show at 8 p.m., Cline wore white chiffon. Her final song was the last she had recorded the previous month, "I'll Sail My Ship Alone".
Cline, who had spent the night at the Town House Motor Hotel, was unable to fly out the day after the concert because Fairfax Airport was fogged in. West asked Patsy to ride in the car with her and husband, Bill, back to Nashville, a 16-hour drive, but Cline refused, saying, "Don't worry about me, Hoss. When it's my time to go, it's my time." On March 5, she called her mother from the motel and checked out at 12:30 p.m., going the short distance to the airport and boarding a Piper PA-24 Comanche plane, aircraft registration number N7000P. On board were Cline, Copas, Hawkins and pilot Randy Hughes.
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On March 3, 1963, Cline performed a benefit at the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall, Kansas City, Kansas, for the family of disc jockey "Cactus" Jack Call; he had died in an automobile crash a little over a month earlier. Also performing in the show were George Jones, George Riddle and The Jones Boys, Billy Walker, Dottie West, Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper, George McCormick, the Clinch Mountain Boys as well as Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins. Despite having a cold, Cline gave three performances: 2:00, 5:15 and 8:15 pm. All the shows were standing-room only. For the 2 p.m. show, she wore a sky-blue tulle-laden dress; for the 5:15 show a red shocker; and for the closing show at 8 p.m., Cline wore white chiffon. Her final song was the last she had recorded the previous month, "I'll Sail My Ship Alone".
Cline, who had spent the night at the Town House Motor Hotel, was unable to fly out the day after the concert because Fairfax Airport was fogged in. West asked Patsy to ride in the car with her and husband, Bill, back to Nashville, a 16-hour drive, but Cline refused, saying, "Don't worry about me, Hoss. When it's my time to go, it's my time." On March 5, she called her mother from the motel and checked out at 12:30 p.m., going the short distance to the airport and boarding a Piper PA-24 Comanche plane, aircraft registration number N7000P. On board were Cline, Copas, Hawkins and pilot Randy Hughes.
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Patsy Cline - I'll Sail My Ship Alone (1963).**
mrblindfreddy9999
48.1K subscribers
** Final Recording
(Written by:
Moon Mullican aka Morry Burns
Henry Bernard aka Henry Glover
Lois Mann aka Sydney Nathan
Henry Thurston).
1st. Recorded 1949 by Moon Mullican
Issued on SINGLE 31552 B. and EP 2770
Charted 1964 #23
Recorded 7 February 1963 [19:00-22:00] Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Ave. South, Nashville, TN – Patsy Cline [vcl], Wayne Moss [6 string el bass], Grady Martin [el gt], Ray Edenton [rh gt], Randy Hughes [ac gt], Bob Moore [ac bass], Buddy Harman [drums], Floyd Cramer [piano], Bill Pursell [vibes], Byron Bach [violin], Brenton Banks [violin], George Binkley 111 [violin], Cecil Brower [violin], Solie Fott [violin], Howard Carpenter [violin], Lillian Hunt [violin], Martin Katahn [violin], Verne Richardson [violin], Mildred Onk [violin], Gary Williams [violin] + Jordanaires. Producer: Owen Bradley.
Born Virginia Patterson Hensley in Gore,VIRGINIA. (1932 - 1963).
Country Music Hall of Fame 1973
mrblindfreddy9999
48.1K subscribers
** Final Recording
(Written by:
Moon Mullican aka Morry Burns
Henry Bernard aka Henry Glover
Lois Mann aka Sydney Nathan
Henry Thurston).
1st. Recorded 1949 by Moon Mullican
Issued on SINGLE 31552 B. and EP 2770
Charted 1964 #23
Recorded 7 February 1963 [19:00-22:00] Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Ave. South, Nashville, TN – Patsy Cline [vcl], Wayne Moss [6 string el bass], Grady Martin [el gt], Ray Edenton [rh gt], Randy Hughes [ac gt], Bob Moore [ac bass], Buddy Harman [drums], Floyd Cramer [piano], Bill Pursell [vibes], Byron Bach [violin], Brenton Banks [violin], George Binkley 111 [violin], Cecil Brower [violin], Solie Fott [violin], Howard Carpenter [violin], Lillian Hunt [violin], Martin Katahn [violin], Verne Richardson [violin], Mildred Onk [violin], Gary Williams [violin] + Jordanaires. Producer: Owen Bradley.
Born Virginia Patterson Hensley in Gore,VIRGINIA. (1932 - 1963).
Country Music Hall of Fame 1973
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Mom and dad loved country music, but the only country singers I liked was Patsy Cline and Tennessee Ernie Ford because I liked their voices so much. I Fall to Pieces is just extravagantly awesome, so poignant and powerful, one of the all time best songs IMO.
Thanks for posting her music. 
