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The Best of Patsy Montana
Patsy Montana
The Best of Patsy Montana
Genres: Country, Pop
 
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It's been over 60 years since Patsy's heydey, but she is still one of America's favorite cowgirls. She was a native of Hope, Arkansas. This CD is a terrific collection of 24 of herclassic recordings from 1935-1940. Include...  more »

     
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All Artists: Patsy Montana
Title: The Best of Patsy Montana
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Collector's Choice
Release Date: 7/10/2001
Genres: Country, Pop
Styles: Cowboy, Classic Country
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 617742018523, 0617742018523

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It's been over 60 years since Patsy's heydey, but she is still one of America's favorite cowgirls. She was a native of Hope, Arkansas. This CD is a terrific collection of 24 of herclassic recordings from 1935-1940. Includes track-by-track annotation, rare pictures and memorabilia. Standard jewel case. 2001 release.
 

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Sweetheart of thirties cowboys
Peter Durward Harris | Leicester England | 05/09/2003
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Patsy's most successful years were 1934 to 1940, the period covered by these recordings. Patsy later re-recorded some of her songs, but these are the originals. Her most famous song, I wanna be a cowboy's sweetheart, sold a million copies - no mean feat for a country record in the 1930's.That song is a good example of Patsy's style, mixing mountain ballads with cowboy songs and plenty of yodelling. The melody was written by Stuart Hamblen, most famous as the writer of This ole house, a major international hit for Rosemary Clooney in the fifties and a British number one hit for Shaking Stevens in the eighties.Woman's answer to nobody's darling is a reply to the Jimmie Rodgers classic Nobody's darling but mine. I only want a buddy not a sweetheart was a popular song in the thirties although nobody had a hit with the song - this surprises me, as I have come across several excellent versions of this song.Patsy was the first woman to succeed in country music but she did not blaze the trail for those that followed, as country remained a male bastion for many years. The Dinning sisters and Patti Page emerged from Oklahoma in the forties, but they found success as pop singers. Rose Maddox had some success as lead singer of the Maddox brothers and Rose, but it was not until Kitty Wells and Patsy Cline emerged in the fifties that women were taken even half-seriously as country singers.So Patsy must be regarded as a one-off. Her music was of its time, unlike anything ever recorded by other female country singers in the decades that followed. This is the best collection of Patsy's music available, or ever likely to be."
Nice Yodeling Swing
Peter Durward Harris | 10/01/2001
(4 out of 5 stars)

"Enjoying this album. As with any album which has 24 selections from one artist, you can't listen to it in one sitting! Vocalion/Conqueror 78's from 1935 to 1940. Some were written by tin-pan-alley-type professional writers and therefore artificial. The best ones were written by her. Great band."
If I could give this ten stars, I would...
Joe Sixpack -- Slipcue.com | ...in Middle America | 08/28/2002
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Was there ever another country performer as adorable as Patsy Montana? I doubt it. Montana was the greatest of the "cowgirl" singers, and now at last we get a chance to really check out Montana at her peak form -- perkily yodelling away on these delightfully antiquated, sentimental "western" tunes. This is a long-overdue American edition collecting her best work from the 1930s and '40s -- two dozen old tracks from Vocalion and several smaller labels that have been out of print for decades, available only on teeny specialty labels, and in dribs and drabs on various compilation albums. The songs are corny, but Montana's delivery is not, especially later on as her band put more and more swing into their sound -- and you can hear that progression as it actually happened, since these songs are presented in straight chronological order. A particular highlight is a tune Montana penned herself, "Cowboy Rhythm," which demonstrates how strange musical fads such as opera and jazz can't hold a candle to a coyote's howl and a lonesome guitar as the moon starts to rise... Fans of swing-string revivalists such as The Hot Club of Cowtown are strongly urged not to let this one slip by -- records this fun don't come along that often."