Released 1988 Artist Patsy Cline Producer Owen Bradley Genre Country music | Length 66:27 Release date 1988 Label Island Records | |
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Recorded February 4, 1963 — February 7, 1963 The Last Sessions
(1988) Live at the Opry
(1988) Similar Stop - Look & Listen, A Portrait of Patsy Cline, Sentimentally Yours, Live at the Cimarron Ballroom, Here's Patsy Cline | ||
The Last Sessions is a compilation album by American country music artist, Patsy Cline. The album was released in 1988 under MCA Records and was produced by Owen Bradley. The album was a collection material Cline had recorded during her last recording sessions for Decca Records in early 1963.
Contents
Background
The album contains ten tracks of material Cline had recorded between February 4–7, 1963, shortly before her death in a plane crash that March. The album contained the major hit, "Sweet Dreams", which would peak at #4 on the Billboard Magazine Hot Country Songs chart and #44 on the Billboard Pop Chart after her death March 5, 1963. "He Called Me Baby" would also be issued as a single, peaking at #23 on the Billboard Country Chart in 1964. The Last Sessions primarily included a series of Pop standards from the 1940s and 1950s. Songs such as Irving Berlin's "Always" and Pat Boone's "Love Letters in the Sand" were recorded in February. Four country music standards are also featured, such as Bill Monroe's "Blue Moon of Kentucky" and Ray Price's "Crazy Arms."
The material was originally released along with B-sides and other previously-unreleased tracks across three posthumous studio albums The Patsy Cline Story (June, 1963), A Portrait of Patsy Cline (June, 1964) and That's How a Heartache Begins (Nov. 1964). The tracks on this release, save for Faded Love and I'll Sail My Ship Alone which were omitted, are presented in their original production order, as the album was never programmed as a cohesive unit as originally planned.
The album was remastered and was transferred digitally by Glenn Meadows, Milan Bogdan, Jim Loyd and Benny Quinn at Masterfonics. and is available on vinyl, cassette and CD,
The album was given three out of five stars by allmusic.
Track listing
Two tracks from the sessions - the first track recorded on February 4th (Faded Love) and the last track recorded on February 7th (I'll Sail My Ship Alone) do not appear in this compilation.
Musical
Technical
Songs
1Someday (You'll Want Me To Want You) (Single Version) (feat The Jordanaires)The Jordanaires2:53
2Love Letters In The Sand (Single Version) (feat The Jordanaires)The Jordanaires2:26
3Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Single Version) (feat The Jordanaires)The Jordanaires2:11