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Article: PATSY CLINE REMEMBERED\ APPEAL ENDURES 40 YEARS.(News)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- March 5, 2003
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Forty years after country singer Patsy Cline's career was cut short in a plane crash near the marshy banks of the Tennessee River, fans leave plastic flowers and written messages at the crash site near Camden, Tenn.
"I wish I could of met you, Patsy," one says. "Patsy, you're my inspiration in music," another reads.
Cline, a brassy woman who helped define the emerging Nashville sound, expressed longing and heartache in classics such as "Crazy" and "I Fall to Pieces."
Her influence continues. Cline recently topped Country Music Television's 40 Greatest Women in Country, a list selected by industry insiders; MCA plans to release a tribute album ...