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Track Listing
1. Pick Me up on Your Way Down
2. Stop the World (And Let Me Off)
3. Crazy Dreams
4. Then You'll Know
5. Love Me Honey Do
6. Just Out of Reach
7. If I Could Only Stay Asleep
8. Let the Teardrops Fall
9. Dear God
10. Hungry For Love
11. Just a Closer Walk With Thee
12. Poor Man's Roses, A (Or a Rich Man's Gold)
| Details | | Distributor: | BCI-Eclipse Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Mixed | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Patsy Cline made her first recordings for Four Star between 1955 and 1960. During that time, her producer Owen Bradley experimented with all kinds of material, styles, and instrumentation to see what would make a pop sensation out of an obviously talented singer. By 1960, the formula had been found: lush vocal and string arrangements, subdued rhythm tracks, and a combination of classic pop material and the work of new Nashville songwriters like Harlan Howard, Willie Nelson, and others.
Up until then, however, someone stumbling upon just one or two Cline singles could suppose they had discovered either a new rockabilly singer, an R&B crooner, or a hard-core honky-tonk artist. Eclipse's collection, being drawn from the earlier Four Star material, includes examples of Cline trying her hand at all these styles. "Let the Teardrops Fall" and "Hungry For Love" tear it up with twanging, reverbed guitars and pounding piano; "Love Me Honey Do" bops like early Elvis, and "Crazy Dreams" is weeping steel guitar honky tonk. Meanwhile, "If I Could Only Stay Asleep" and "Then You'll Know" offer a taste of the pop direction Cline would embrace wholeheartedly a few years later.
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