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

On this day (August 5) in 1957, Patsy Cline released her self-titled debut album. The album produced Cline’s first top-10 hit single and helped to launch her career. Cline’s career was tragically ...

“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 she sadly hurt a lot throughout her too-short career. The ...

On March 7, 1953, Cline married her first husband, Gerald Cline. She signed a record contract the following year and recorded her first songs. Her husband reportedly hoped she would be a more ...

(AP) Forty years after Virginia-born country singer Patsy Cline died in a plane crash near the marshy banks of the Tennessee River, fans leave plastic flowers and written messages at the crash site.

Patsy Cline," a toe-tapping musical tribute, runs through Sunday at The Barn Theatre in Willmar. For those of us too young to know Patsy Cline's musical hits (1957-1963), this is an opportunity to ...