New Patsy Cline music is now out in the world. In honor of Record Store Day on April 12, Cline’s Imagine That: The Lost Recordings (1954-1963) was released.
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The two-LP set is a collection of 48 previously unreleased recordings from Elemental Music / Deep Digs was released. Fully endorsed by Cline’s estate, the project includes songs from the singer’s earliest works all the way up to music she made just weeks before she died in a 1963 plane crash.
“Our family has been blessed to have the recordings, the videos, and the photos that have remained since Mom’s passing in 1963,” Cline’s daughter, Julia Fudge, told ABC Audio. “But we have been even more blessed because of the fan base that has kept her so alive.”
“Now these recordings, all fresh and new, is something like a dream,” Fudge added. “All the hard work and research, all the time and effort… all have led to something new in a world where we never thought that was possible.”
How the New Patsy Cline Collection Came to Be
The recordings were meticulously restored after being drawn from radio broadcasts, TV shows, and private recordings. NBC Washington reported that two of the collection’s oldest recordings were discovered in a basement. They’d been stored there for 30 years.
Also included are alternates of some of Cline’s biggest hits including “Walking After Midnight,” “I Fall to Pieces,” “Crazy,” and “She’s Got You.”
“It’s just like she’s alive again,” Fudge told NBC Washington. “It is really very personal. And I’m just so impressed with the work that these people did and so glad that we trusted them to do this.”
The project co-produced by archival producer Zev Feldman, Cline discographer and authority George Hewitt, and engineer Dylan Utz.
“Patsy Cline is an icon who really matters,” Feldman told The Washington Post. “And she matters to a lot of different people — to old-school country-music people, to the LGBTQ community, to roots-music people and also to people who may be familiar with only a few country artists. She’s broken down so many walls.”
“She transcends genres and generations,” he added. “There’s something everlasting about Patsy Cline — like Sinatra or Nat King Cole. Her music is so timeless and universal, and all you need to do is listen.”
The collection will also be released as a two-CD set on April 18.
Photo by GAB Archive/Redferns
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