"I Fall to Pieces" by Patsy Cline featuring The Jordanaires.

OK, girls and boys, back to the 60s: Patsy Cline just happened to be in the studio hallway when she overheard an argument between composer Harlan Howard and another artist about recording a tune that Howard wad just co-written with Hank Cochran. She approached Howard and they agreed that she would record it instead. A 1961 torch song that has become a Country music standard. According to Howard, "we knew we had magic in the can when, on the fourth take, every grown man in that studio was bawling like a baby and the producer said `That's the one' ". Elvis' backup group The Jordanaires laid down the background vocal track. One of Cline's greatest hits, it topped the Country charts and crossed over to #12 Pop. #238 in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Unfortunately, Patsy had just been involved in a serious car accident, spending two months in the hospital and was unable to tour to promote the song. Sissy Spacek sang it herself on the 1980 "Coal Miner's Daughter" soundtrack. Aaron Neville and Trisha Yearwood won a Grammy for their 1994 collaboration. Song? Answer: "I Fall to Pieces" by Patsy Cline featuring The Jordanaires. Hank Cochran discovered Willie Nelson at Tootsie's Orchard Lounge in Nashville. Among many other classics, Cochran wrote "Make the World Go Away", "A Little Bitty Tear" and "The Chair", my favorite George Strait song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEcZ8BlsJhI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX8no-zwArg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yGIPWO5riQ

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