Track Listing
1. Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You)
2. Love Letters in the Sand
3. Blue Moon of Kentucky
4. Sweet Dreams
5. Always
6. Does Your Heart Beat for Me?
7. Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home
8. He Called Me Baby
9. Crazy Arms
10. You Took Him off My Hands
| Details | | Playing Time: | 66 min. | | Contributing Artists: | The Jordanaires | | Producer: | Owen Bradley | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | AAD |
Album Notes
Personnel: Patsy Cline (vocals); Ray Edenton, Randy Hughes, Grady Martin (guitar); Floyd Cramer (piano); Bill Pursell (vibraphone); Harold Bradley, Joe Jenkins, Bob Moore (bass); Buddy Harman (drums); The Jordanaires (background vocals).
Includes a chronology and liner notes by Jay Orr and Don Roy.
Recorded in the winter of 1963, THE LAST SESSIONS are the final recordings of Patsy Cline. The songs "Faded Love" and "I'll Sail My Ship Alone" which were recorded at this session are not included in this collection. Includes liner notes by Jay Orr.
Digitally remastered by Glenn Meadows, Milan Bogdan, Jim Lloyd, Benny Quinn (Masterfonics).
Personnel: Patsy Cline (vocals); Grady Martin (electric guitar); Floyd Cramer (piano); Bill Pursell (vibraphone); Joe Jenkins, Bob Moore (acoustic bass); Harold Bradley (electric bass); Buddy Harman (drums); Ray C. Walker, The Jordanaires, Neal Matthews, Gordon Stoker, Hoyt Hawkins (background vocals).
Audio Remasterers: Glenn Meadows; Benny Quinn; Jim Lloyd; Milan Bogdan.
Liner Note Authors: Jay Orr; Don Roy.
Photographer: Michael Ochs.
Unknown Contributor Role: The Jordanaires.
Patsy Cline's last sessions took place over four nights in February of 1963. Like the rest of her recordings, these were produced by Owen Bradley in Nashville with some A-list pickers of the time. Bradley himself played bass on the majority of the cuts, with Floyd Cramer on piano, Grady Martin on guitar, and the Jordanaires on vocals throughout. After eight years with Bradley and three with Decca, a label that allowed her and Bradley more freedom over song selection than her earlier Four Star contract, Cline was going at the pop market full-tilt.
Gone are the crying steel guitars, the raw fiddles, the clanging rockabilly sound that often surfaced on her '50s work. While her voice sails effortlessly through "Blue Moon of Kentucky," for example, the band sounds like they've been cleaned up and put in sober blue suits for the occasion. But by 1963, that wasn't the point anyway; the point was the kind of delicious agony Cline could fill her voice with on tunes like the shivery "Sweet Dreams (Of You)." Two of the 12 tunes from these four final sessions are not included here: "Faded Love" and "I'll Sail My Ship Alone."
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