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Love Always, Patsy: Patsy Cline's Letters to a Friend Book

Patsy Cline's epistolary voice is as warm and direct as the rich alto that throbs through "I Fall to Pieces" and "Crazy." "He told me if I was gonna sing, I wasn't going to live with him," she writes of her soon-to-be-ex-husband, "so I'm back home." Second husband Charlie Dick gets better press: "he is my life, my world, just my everything." But she's not exactly starry-eyed about the joys of childbirth: "those labor hours are living hell ... I was a screaming mess." These letters, written between 1955 and 1959 to a Tennessee teenager who became president of her fan club, chronicle the years of Cline's rise to stardom. "Walkin' After Midnight" was her first big hit, in 1957, but the correspondence ends before songs like "Sweet Dreams" put this country girl on the pop charts. Editors Hazen and Freeman (who own the letters) are the kind of memorabilia collectors who tell you on the book jacket that they "currently live in the house Elvis owned before he bought Graceland," which makes them the perfect people to annotate Cline's casual references to contemporary variety shows and artists with interesting and often obscure information about record companies, television programs, and other pop culture tidbits. --Wendy SmithRead More

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  • Product Description

    A must for fans, these rare letters from Patsy Cline reveal a surprising, poignant, and fascinating look inside the heart and soul of a country music legend.

    In 1955, Treva Miller Steinbicker, a starstruck girl from East Tennessee, approached an up-and-coming country western singer in the hopes of establishing her fan club. Patsy Cline cheerfully accepted the honor. Over the next four years, through an intimate exchange of letters, she would become Treva's close friend and confidante.

    Love Always, Patsy is the collection of that remarkable, cherished correspondence--poignant, colorful, humorous, and genuinely revealing in its honesty and warmth. We meet the aspiring young singer from Winchester, Virginia, excited at the prospects of her burgeoning career--and devastated by its impact on a volatile and demanding marriage. We experience the joy of the birth of her daughter, the strains of stardom, and her loneliness on the road to success, and share in the rewards of a relationship with the one man who would become the love of her life. Above all, these intimate letters reveal the dreams and aspirations, the private heartbreak and the public pressures of an ordinary woman who would become one of the most recognized and beloved names in the history of country music.

    Love Always, Patsy is a rare treasure for fans--an intimate self-portrait told in a voice that rings as true, as unique, and as powerful as the music that made Patsy Cline a legend.

    * Patsy Cline is a legend, as popular today as ever
    * Fully illustrated with many photos of Patsy Cline
    * This is the first time the entire collection of letters will be available to the public
    * Full reproductions of each letter

  • 042517168X
  • 9780425171684
  • Patsy Cline, Cindy Hazen, Mike Freeman
  • 1 October 1999
  • Berkley Pub Group
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 272
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