Sixty-five years ago today, Patsy Cline released a single that would become a major hit while she was in the hospital.

January 30, 1961. Patsy Cline’s iconic song, I Fall to Pieces, becomes Billboard’s #1 Country and Western single of the year and a crossover pop hit. Cline’s last concert was in 1963 in Kansas City, ...

(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.

She was a legendary country and pop music crooner of the 1950s and ’60s, known for her smooth-as-silk contralto voice and throaty vocals. Now the life of Patsy Cline is returning to the stage in Point ...