After more than five years of releasing singles that mostly failed to chart, Cline was just starting to find consistent chart success in the early 1960s. When “I Fall to Pieces” reached No. 1 in 1961, ...

Patsy Cline almost passed on recording "Crazy", a song written by Willie Nelson, which made him believe he was a songwriter.

In the late ’50s, “Don Owens’s TV Jamboree” was a must-see every Saturday for country music fans across the Washington metro area. A promoter and DJ with a carnival-barker’s zeal, Owens was known to ...