"On the night of July 29, 1961, heavy makeup masked deep scars across her face, but nothing could hide the crutches Patsy needed to hobble onto the shell-shaped bandstand at the Cimarron Ballroom in Tulsa, Okla. The 28-year-old legend asked for a stool to sit on, then sang for the first time since a near-fatal car accident in Madision, Tenn...." No, this song is not "rare", as it is from the "Live at the Cimarron Ballroom" CD that was released in the late 90s... but what a blessing it is to hear her sing it! For those of you who are not familiar with the story of the Cimarron tapes: After Patsy died, her widower sold her "dream house" to singer Wilma Burgess. He left some boxes in the basement, telling Wilma he'd be back for them. Well.. he never came back for them, and Wilma sold the house when her career slowed. She sold some of what Charlie never came back for, and gave some of it away. Ten years later, Wilma's brother Ken, a jeweler, sold a tape player to another jeweler, William Frazee, for $50. To sweeten the deal, he threw in a couple of dozen tapes. One of them, he mentioned, was a recording of a Patsy Cline show. More of a rock 'n' roll fan at the time, Frazee left the tape untouched until the early 1990s, when a friend in the music business suggested that it might be valuable.
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cimarron ballrooem
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oklahoma
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live at the cimarron ballroom
when my dreamboat comes home
dreamboat
queen of country music
nashville
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