Patsy Cline "I Fall to Pieces" due to her hospital stay, Cline sought another recording to re-establish herself. When introduced to "Crazy", a song written by Willie Nelson, Cline expressed dislike because of the narrative on Nelson's demo recording. On Thursday, August 17, 1961, with Cline on crutches, the session was the rare time that Cline couldn't complete a recording in one take. Working in a Quonset hut (where the original Bradley's Barn Studio was located before moving to Opryland), she tried to follow Nelson's idiosyncratic narrative style. Cline claimed this was too difficult. Her ribs, injured in the crash, were making
Remembering Patsy Cline & Jim Reeves of Jim Reeves & Patsy Cline" As the original Decca label with which Cline had been affiliated had since been merged with MCA, six Patsy Cline songs and five Jim Reeves songs are featured on that album, plus the duet. Jim Reeves had been affiliated with RCA, so the RCA album has the reverse — six Jim Reeves hits and five Patsy Cline hits, plus a duet of "Have You Ever Been Lonely?", produced during the same sessions as the duet for "I Fall to Pieces". The songs were both released as a single from the albums in question. Have