Patsy: The Life and Times of Patsy Cline

by Margaret Jones

Book Overview

More than 35 years after her death, "Patsy" offers an intimate look at hard-living, hard-loving Patsy Cline, who surmounted unimaginable odds to become the most popular female country singer in recording history. 27 photos.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060166967
• ISBN13: 9780060166960
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 335 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

The Life and Times of Patsy Cline

I really enjoyed reading this book. If you are a true Patsy Cline fan you would like this book. People who knew Patsy shared some stories and the way Patsy really was. It also shares some of Patsy's ancestors history and the way things were back then and so on. I thought this was a very good book.

Reviews

"...Patsy is a masterful study of an American master. It's the most meticulously researched and insightful of the three Cline biographies published thus far. Jones captures Cline in all of her vitality and passion, while showing how Cline rose from poverty to stardom."Steve Neal, Philadelphia Inquirer"Author Margaret Jones is a virtual unknown, but her book, Patsy, deserves to be the definitive work on the subject. Jones has dug deeper, done more interviews, uncovered more facts, and gotten more history correctly than nearly any book on the market today. Richly detailed, it succeeds both as biography and as a research work on country music of the '50s and early '60s."Rich Kienzle, Country Music Magazine"...[Patsy] Cline has never before been the subject of an unflinching, unbiased and, most important, Nashville-apolitical biography. Author Margaret Jones' Patsy: The Life and Times of Patsy Cline is the first portrait of the hillbilly torch singer with real fur on it--the book offers a depth, breadth and height of reality that is both fascinating and repellent." Jonny Whiteside, L.A. Weekly

Brilliant Bio Of Country's Best Female Vocalist

I've read most of the books out about Patsy Cline and came to the conclusion that this one is the absolute best. It tells everything you'd want to know about her and more. How she decided to make singing her career and how she paid her dues by singing at every country fair and carnival that would have her. Before long her golden voice drew alot of attention, and she was invited to try out on Arthur Godfrey's tv show. Needless to say, Patsy was so well-liked she topped any other competition and won first prize-a recording contract. True music lovers will enjoy reading about how the great Owen Bradley produced and guided her as well as what went on in the studio with Patsy, Owen & her backup band. Patsy was definitely ahead of her time and feared no one. What a tragedy that she only lived to be 31 years old. Her music lives on forever. Highly recommended.

great read!

PATSY had me spellbound -- a page-turner from start to finish. Not only does this book reveal more about the woman and the myth that was Patsy Cline, but it is also the best documentation of the birth of modern country music that you can find anywhere. I loved the photos.

Excellent-great story about one of country's greatest stars

Patsy Cline was one helluva woman. Never afraid of anyone or anything;she was way ahead of her time and unfortunately didn't have enough time in this world. Margaret Jones' book is probably the best source of information about the wife, the mother, the singing star and a good index of her music.