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Released
  
August 5, 1957

Songs by Patsy Cline (1957)
  
Patsy Cline (1957)

Release date
  
5 August 1957

Label
  
Coral Records

Recorded
  
June 1, 1955

Artist
  
Patsy Cline

Producer
  
Owen Bradley

Genre
  
Country music

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Songs by Patsy Cline is an EP released by American country music singer, Patsy Cline on August 5, 1957. It was Cline's first released EP collection.

Contents

The EP was released at the same date that Cline's self-titled debut album was released. However, none of the four tracks on the EP were included on the album. Two of the songs had previously been released as singles; "A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye" and "Hidin' Out". All four of these tracks were recorded on Cline's first recording session on June 1, 1955. None of these singles were successful hits. Cline eventually had her first major hit with "Walkin' After Midnight" in 1957, which is the key reason Songs by Patsy Cline was released. It would be one of two extended play albums issued before her signing to Decca Records in late 1960.

Songs by Patsy Cline was issued by Coral Records, a Decca subsidiary. Cline's label, Four Star, leased money from Coral to issue her 1957 EP. The cover photograph was provided by Rush Studios.

Track listing

Side 1:

  1. "Honky Tonk Merry Go Round" — (Eddie Miller, W.S. Stevenson) 2:20
  2. "A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye" — (Sammy Masters) 3:02

Side 2:

  1. "Turn the Cards Slowly" — (Miller, Stevenson) 2:35
  2. "Hidin' Out" — (Frank Simon, Stan Gardner) 2:25

Personnel

Recording sessions occurred on June 1, 1955 at Bradley Film and Record Studios in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.

  • Harold Bradley — acoustic guitar
  • Owen Bradley — piano
  • Patsy Cline — lead vocals
  • Farris Coursey — drums
  • Don Helms — steel guitar
  • Tommy Jackson — fiddle
  • Grady Martin — electric guitar
  • Bob Moore — acoustic bass
  • Songs

    1Honky Tonk Merry Go Round2:20
    2A Church - a Courtroom - and Then Goodbye3:02
    3Turn the Cards Slowly2:35

    References

    Songs by Patsy Cline Wikipedia