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Sentimentally Yours (1962)

Where the lyrics of Sentimentally Yours take you, and where it was really made.

Patsy Cline's final studio album came out in 1962, less than a year before she died in a plane crash, and two of its singles became crossover hits.

Key places

Where the album was recorded in Nashville (1962)

Recording site Nashville — The album's sessions were produced by Owen Bradley and held at the Bradley Film and Recording Studios in Nashville. The recordings ran from August 1961 to February 1962. The point is placed at the city centre because the exact building is not confirmed. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Sentimentally Yours: third and final studio album by American country singer Patsy Cline
• Released August 6, 1962
• The last studio album Cline released before her death in a plane crash less than a year later
• Original version: two-sided LP with six songs on each side
• Originally issued by Decca Records

Background

• Two of Cline's major hits of 1962 were included on the album
• 'She's Got You' was the first single, released early in 1962
• A cover of 'Heartaches' was the second single
• Of the twelve songs, only two were new: 'She's Got You' and its flip side 'Strange'
• The other ten were covers of standards
• Cline recorded mainly standards to appeal to the Pop market
• Some 1962 hits were left off the album, including 'So Wrong' and 'When I Get Thru' With You' / 'Imagine That', which were not released on albums

Recording

• The first sessions began August 25, 1961, and the last ended February 28, 1962
• All sessions were produced by Owen Bradley
• The sessions were held at the Bradley Film and Recording Studios in Nashville
• On December 17 Cline recorded 'She's Got You' alone
• Four more sessions between then and February completed the twelve songs

Cover

• After 'Heartaches' became a hit on the Pop charts in late 1962, the text 'and featuring Heartaches' was added to the cover
• The originally released cover did not have the yellow text under Cline's name

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · it.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Born Virginia Patterson Hensley in Winchester, Virginia, on September 8, 1932.
• Began performing in 1948 at local radio station WINC at age 15.
• Took the stage name Patsy Cline, using her middle name Patterson.

Career

• Signed a recording contract with 4 Star Records in 1954; early singles were not hits.
• Breakthrough came in 1957 with "Walkin' After Midnight" after a national TV appearance on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts.
• Moved to Nashville in 1958 and became a member of the Grand Ole Opry in January 1960.
• Moved to Decca Records in 1960, working under producer Owen Bradley, and had two number-one country hits, including "I Fall to Pieces" (1961) and "She's Got You".
• "Crazy" (1961) became her biggest pop hit; she was among the first country artists to cross over successfully into pop.
• Died in a plane crash near Camden, Tennessee, on March 5, 1963, at age 30.

Legacy

• Became the first female solo artist inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1973.
• Received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995.
• Her childhood home in Winchester was restored and opened as a museum in 2011.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

Records

• 'She's Got You' became a #1 hit on the Billboard Country chart
• 'She's Got You' crossed over into the Pop chart at #14
• 'Heartaches' charted only on the Billboard Pop chart in the United States
• Both singles charted on the UK Singles chart in 1962, Cline's first singles to do so
• 'When I Get Thru' With You' and 'Imagine That' were Top 10 hits in 1962 but were not released on albums
• 'So Wrong' was a Top 15 hit in 1962 and was not released on an album
• The album was re-released under the MCA name in 1973
• A third reissue in 1988 was digitally remastered on CD, LP, and cassette and was also released on MCA

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Decca merged with MCA Records in 1962, and the album was re-released under the MCA name in 1973.
• Cline did mainly standards on this album, including Jo Stafford's 'You Belong to Me' and Hank Williams' 'Your Cheatin' Heart'.
• The 'and featuring Heartaches' text was added to the cover only after 'Heartaches' became a Pop hit in late 1962.
• Cline's other 1962 hits, such as 'So Wrong', were left off the album because they were not released on albums.
• The album was her last studio album before her death in a plane crash less than a year after its release.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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