Seventy years ago today, Patsy Cline stepped into the studio to begin sessions for the album that would help put her on the map.

Cline is proof that chart success cannot measure the true quality of an artist’s work. She released 24 singles between 1955 and 1963. Two of those topped the country chart. Four more tracks broke the ...

Singer Patsy Cline helped create the Nashville sound, a crossover between country and pop, in the 1950s and 1960s. But in 1963, she died in a plane crash at just 30 years old. Still, her legacy lives ...

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 ...

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 ...