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| Walkin' After Midnight, Crazy, I Fall To Pieces, Sweet Dreams (Of You), She's Got You, Lovesick Blues, San Antonio Rose, So Wrong, 14 more. |
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| 1 Walkin' After Midnight |
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| 2 A Poor Man's Roses (Or a Rich Man's Gold) |
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| 3 Lovesick Blues |
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| 4 I Fall to Pieces |
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| 5 True Love |
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| 6 San Antonio Rose |
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| 7 Crazy |
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| 8 Strange |
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| 9 She's Got You |
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| 10 Heartaches |
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| 11 Half as Much |
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| 12 When I Get Thru with You (You'll Love Me Too) |
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| 13 Imagine That |
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| 14 So Wrong |
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| 15 Why Can't He Be You |
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| 16 Leavin' on Your Mind |
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| 17 When You Need a Laugh |
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| 18 Back in Baby's Arms |
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| 19 Faded Love |
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| 20 Always |
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| 21 He Called Me Baby |
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| 22 Sweet Dreams (Of You) |
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Album Review
One could easily point out that there have been a lot of Patsy Cline compilations, many of them in print on the day this one was released, and validly ask just why the world (or even the U.S.) needs another one. Here is the likely answer that major label Universal Music Entertainment (UME), which controls Cline's original recordings for Decca Records, would give. Most of those collections you see in the record store and online are cheap, unauthorized packages with questionable selections and doubtful sound quality. As far as in-print, authorized domestic hits compilations issued by a UME imprint such as MCA or UTV (as of June 22, 2004, anyway), there is, first of all, the perennial seller "Patsy Cline's Greatest Hits" (aka "12 Greatest Hits"), originally issued by Decca in 1967 and available ever since, having sold in excess of seven million copies, presently listed at the discount list price of $12.99. There is also a Cline entry in UME's "20th Century Masters/The Millennium Collection" series, again boasting 12 tracks and selling for $12.99. (Some real overlap there.) On the high end, there is the 1991 four-CD box set "The Patsy Cline Collection" ($56.99) and the 2000 two-CD set "The Ultimate Collection" ($21.99). Thus, from UME's point of view, there remains an unfilled niche in the marketplace for a full-length CD compilation selling for more than the short discount albums but less than the multi-disc sets. That is where "The Definitive Collection", with its 22 tracks, selling for a mere $14.99, comes in. The track list, sequenced in roughly chronological order, presents all 14 of Cline's country chart hits, among them "Walkin' After Midnight" (heard here in the original hit recording, not the re-recording found on "Patsy Cline's Greatest Hits"), "I Fall To Pieces," "Crazy," and "She'S Got You." The eight additional tracks have been judiciously selected and include two songs that made the pop, but not the country, singles charts ("Heartaches" and "Strange"); two B-sides written by noteworthy country artists (Hank Cochran's "Why Can'T He Be You," and Bob Montgomery's "Back In Baby'S Arms"); and a handful of pop and country standards (Hank Williams' "Lovesick Blues" and "Half As Much," the Bing Crosby/Grace Kelly hit "True Love," written by Cole Porter, and Bob Wills' "San Antonio Rose"). The result is a well-rounded 58-plus minutes of Cline (about one-fifth of her total recorded output) that presents the highlights of her career. True, a few more tracks could have fit on the CD, but then the publishing royalties might have necessitated a higher price. For 15 dollars, "The Definitive Collection" is an excellent single-disc sampler of Patsy Cline. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
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