{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = The Patsy Cline Story | type = compilation | artist = Patsy Cline | cover = Patsy Cline - The Patsy Cline Story 1963.jpg | alt = | released = June 10, 1963 | recorded = November 16, 1960 – February 5, 1963 | venue = | studio = | genre = Country, traditional pop | length = {{duration|m=60|s=53}} | label = Decca (1963) <br> MCA (1988) | producer = Owen Bradley | prev_title = Sentimentally Yours | prev_year = 1962 | next_title = A Portrait of Patsy Cline | next_year = 1964 | misc = {{Extra album cover | header = 1988 Re-issued cover | type = compilation | cover = Patsy Cline - The Patsy Cline Story.jpg | border = | alt = | caption = In 1988, the album was digitally remastered on a CD format with a new cover, as shown above. }} {{Singles | name = The Patsy Cline Story | type = Compilation | single1 = Leavin' on Your Mind | single1date = | single2 = Sweet Dreams (Of You) | single2date = }} }} {{Music ratings |rev1 = Allmusic |rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r92019|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]</ref> }}<!-- Automatically generated by DASHBot-->
'''''The Patsy Cline Story''''' is a double compilation album consisting of American country music singer Patsy Cline's best-known songs between 1961 and 1963. The album was released on June 10, 1963, three months following Cline's death.
==Background== ''The Patsy Cline Story'' is a 24-track two-disc collection Cline's label, Decca Records released following Cline's death in a plane crash in March of that year. The album contains Cline's biggest hits, including "Walkin' After Midnight" (the 1961 remake), "I Fall to Pieces," "Crazy," "She's Got You," and "Sweet Dreams." It also contains lesser-known songs that weren't hits for Cline, including "You're Stronger Than Me."<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r92019|pure_url=yes}}|title=''The Patsy Cline Story'' album review|last=Thomas Erlewine|first=Stephen|website=allmusic|accessdate=2008-09-28}}</ref> ''The Patsy Cline Story'' replaced Cline's fourth studio album that was supposed to be released in the end of March 1963, ''Faded Love,'' but due to her death in early March, it was never released.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.patsified.com/bio/bio14.htm |title=Patsy Cline biography - Trouble & Honey |last=Flood |first=Lisa |accessdate=2008-09-28 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080927014839/http://www.patsified.com/bio/bio14.htm |archivedate=September 27, 2008 }}</ref> The album included two singles that were released posthumously in 1963, "Leavin' on Your Mind" and "Sweet Dreams (Of You)," both of which reached the Top 10 on the Billboard Country Chart.
When Decca Records changed to MCA Records in 1973, the album was re-issued and the insert in the gatefold was also changed. Shortly afterward, copies eliminated the gatefold completely, and therefore both of the records were contained in a single sleeve. In 1988, the album was digitally remastered and reissued again on a CD format with a new cover.<ref name="info">{{cite web|url=http://patsycline.info/records/dxsb-7176.html|title=''The Patsy Cline Story'' profile|publisher=Patsy Cline.info|accessdate=2008-09-28}}</ref>
==Individual tracks== While the album features Cline's most well-known hits, the album also contains additional extras <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Patsy-Cline-Story/dp/B000002O0U|title=Amazon.com review for "Patsy Cline Story"|last=Altman|first=Billy|website=Amazon |year=1990 |accessdate=2008-09-28}}</ref> including Bob Wills' "San Antonio Rose" and Gogi Grant's "The Wayward Wind," both from Cline's 1961 studio album, ''Patsy Cline Showcase.'' It also contains her 1962 hits, "So Wrong" and "Imagine That," which were never released on albums before.
==Track listing== {{Track listing | headline = Record one | extra_column = Original album
| title_width = 40% | writing_width = 30% | extra_width = 30%
| title1 = Heartaches | writer1 = {{hlist|Al Hoffman|John Klenner}} | extra1 = ''Sentimentally Yours'', 1962 | length1 = 2:08
| title2 = She's Got You | writer2 = Hank Cochran | extra2 = ''Sentimentally Yours'' | length2 = 2:58
| title3 = Walkin' After Midnight | writer3 = {{hlist|Alan Block|Don Hecht}} | extra3 = ''Showcase'', 1961 | length3 = 1:58
| title4 = Strange | writer4 = {{hlist|Fred Burch|Mel Tillis}} | extra4 = ''Sentimentally Yours'' | length4 = 2:12
| title5 = Leavin' on Your Mind | writer5 = {{hlist|Webb Pierce|Wayne Walker}} | length5 = 2:25
| title6 = South of the Border (Down Mexico Way) | writer6 = {{hlist|Michael Carr|Jimmy Kennedy}} | extra6 = ''Showcase'' | length6 = 2:25
| title7 = Foolin' 'Round | writer7 = {{hlist|Harlan Howard|Buck Owens}} | extra7 = ''Showcase'' | length7 = 2:11
| title8 = I Fall to Pieces | writer8 = {{hlist|Howard|Cochran}} | extra8 = ''Showcase'' | length8 = 2:48
| title9 = A Poor Man's Roses (Or a Rich Man's Gold) | writer9 = {{hlist|Milton DeLugg|Bob Hillard}} | extra9 = ''Showcase'' | length9 = 2:34
| title10 = Tra Le La Le La Triangle | writer10 = {{hlist|Burch|Marijohn Wilkin}} | length10 = 2:14
| title11 = True Love | writer11 = Cole Porter | extra11 = ''Showcase'' | length11 = 2:06
| title12 = Imagine That | writer12 = Justin Tubb | length12 = 2:53}}
{{Track listing | headline = Record two | extra_column = Original album | total_length = 60:53
| title_width = 40% | writing_width = 30% | extra_width = 30%
| title1 = Back in Baby's Arms | writer1 = Bob Montgomery | length1 = 2:03
| title2 = Crazy | writer2 = Willie Nelson | extra2 = ''Showcase'' | length2 = 2:42
| title3 = You're Stronger Than Me | writer3 = {{hlist|Cochran|Jimmy Key}} | length3 = 2:52
| title4 = Seven Lonely Days | writer4 = {{hlist|Marshall Brown|Alden Shuman|Earl Shuman}} | extra4 = ''Showcase'' | length4 = 2:11
| title5 = Sweet Dreams (Of You) | writer5 = Don Gibson | length5 = 2:35
| title6 = Your Cheatin' Heart | writer6 = Hank Williams | extra6 = ''Sentimentally Yours'' | length6 = 2:20
| title7 = San Antonio Rose | writer7 = Bob Wills | extra7 = ''Showcase'' | length7 = 2:19
| title8 = Why Can't He Be You | writer8 = Cochran | length8 = 3:26
| title9 = The Wayward Wind | writer9 = {{hlist|Stanley Lebowsy|Herb Newman}} | extra9 = ''Showcase'' | length9 = 3:20
| title10 = So Wrong | writer10 = {{hlist|Carl Perkins|Danny Dill|Mel Tillis}} | length10 = 3:00
| title11 = I Love You So Much it Hurts | writer11 = Floyd Tillman | extra11 = ''Showcase'' | length11 = 2:12
| title12 = You Belong to Me | writer12 = {{hlist|Pee Wee King|Chilton Price|Redd Stewart}} | extra12 = ''Sentimentally Yours'' | length12 = 3:03}}
==Personnel== * Harold Bradley – electric bass * Owen Bradley – producer * Patsy Cline – vocals * Floyd Cramer – piano * Ray Edenton – rhythm guitar * Hank Garland – electric guitar * Buddy Harman – drums * Hoyt Hawkins – background vocals * Walter Haynes – steel guitar * Randy Hughes – rhythm guitar * Joe Jenkins – acoustic bass * The Jordanaires – background vocals * Ben Keith – steel guitar * Douglas Kirkham – drums * Millie Kirkham – background vocals * Grady Martin – electric guitar * Neal Matthews Jr. – background vocals * Bob Moore – acoustic bass * Bill Pursell – organ, vibraphone * Hargus "Pig" Robbins – piano * Gordon Stoker – background vocals * Ray C. Walker – background vocals * Rita Faye Wilson – autoharp
==Charts== '''Album''' – ''Billboard'' (North America) {| class="wikitable" !Year !Chart !Position |- |rowspan="2"|1963 |Country Albums |align="center"|9 |- |Top LP's<ref name="Whitburn">{{cite book | last = Whitburn | first = Joel | title = Top LPs, 1955–1972 | year = 1973 | publisher = Record Research | page = 33 | url = https://archive.org/details/joelwhitburnstoplp00whit/page/33/mode/2up | access-date = 2025-10-24}}</ref> |align="center"|74 |}
'''Singles''' - ''Billboard'' (North America) {| class="wikitable" !Year !Single !Chart !Position |- |rowspan="5"|1963 |rowspan="2"|"Leavin' on Your Mind" |Country Singles |align="center"|8 |- |Pop Singles |align="center"|84 |- |rowspan="3"|"Sweet Dreams (Of You)" |Country Singles |align="center"|5 |- |Pop Singles |align="center"|44 |- |Adult Contemporary Singles |align="center"|15 |}
==References== {{Reflist}}
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