Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “I just sing like I hurt inside. If you can’t do it with feeling, then don’t,” Cline once said of her passion for performing — and ...

We've all heard the old saying "adversity breeds success," a quotation from a famous philosopher many years ago. But in the case of songwriters, it should have been added that "adversity plus talent – ...

Patsy Cline has one of the best voices in music. With a voice that travels through time, Cline made an indelible mark on music before her untimely passing in a plane crash in 1963 when she was 30. In ...

Detective work locates dozens of recorded live performances, including 15 songs the late country icon never released Nancy Kruh is a Nashville-based writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has covered the ...

Country western music icon Patsy Cline was born just one year after the birth of my own mom Peggy. Patsy was born Sept. 8, 1932, and mom Peggy, Aug. 17, 1931. Tragically, Patsy died at age 30 in March ...

The music of the late great Patsy Cline has filled the kitchen of our farm for decades, long after the country and western singer’s tragic death at age 30 in a plane crash on March 5, 1963. Cline ...

The narrator, Louise glues Patsy's musical tribute together. As Louise shares her recollections -- from the first time she heard Patsy's music, to her later years of friendship and shared letters with ...

Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcast on Sept. 29, 2025. Click here for that audio. Singer Patsy Cline helped create the Nashville sound, a crossover between country and pop, in the 1950s and ...