Remembering Patsy Cline & Jim Reeves | |||||
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Compilation album by Patsy Cline & Jim Reeves | |||||
Released | 1982 | ||||
Genre | Country | ||||
Length | 27:15 | ||||
Label | MCA | ||||
Producer | Chet Atkins, Owen Bradley, Bob Ferguson | ||||
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Remembering Patsy Cline & Jim Reeves is a tribute album released in 1982 remembering the music of country stars Patsy Cline and Jim Reeves who were both killed in plane crashes in the early 1960s. It was released by MCA Records.
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The album contains popular hit singles by both artists on each side of the album. However the first Jim Reeves track, I Fall to Pieces was overdubbed with Patsy Cline's version to form a duet. This was possible only because in Nashville's early 60's music scene when both hits were recorded, both Chet Atkins at RCA and Owen Bradley at Decca had access to then-brand-new 3-track mastering recorders. In this format, the orchestra was recorded on one, the backup singers on two, and the lead vocal on three, all intended for mixdown to mono in the end.
In 1979, Owen simply played the original 3-track tape and recorded Patsy's isolated vocal onto a 24-track tape, and Chet Atkins did the same for Jim Reeves on another 24-track tape. As the two performances were recorded a semitone apart in key, subsequently, at Columbia Studios, Nashville, producers matched the keys for the two vocals, edited it all down and recorded the final onto still another 24-track tape onto which they added new orchestration, new backing tracks and remixed for stereo. Another album Greatest Hits, Patsy Cline and Jim Reeves RCA used the same format, in reverse.
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, and as Jim Reeves had been affiliated with RCA, we have the reverse condition of six Jim hits and five Patsy hits on that album plus another duet Have You Ever Been Lonely? produced during the same sessions as the duet forI Fall to Pieces.
The songs were both released as a single from the albums in question and charted at #54 and #11 respectively in 1982. Each was the only song overdubbed on its respective album.
The tracks recorded by Cline (including the duet) were produced by Decca/MCA's Owen Bradley, Cline's original record producer. Reeves' recordings were produced by RCA's Chet Atkins on the first side of the record and the recordings from the other side of the record were produced by Bob Ferguson. The album was digitally remastered on a CD in 1988.[2]
In 1997 the album was certified Gold by the RIAA for a shipment of over 500,000 copies in the United States.[3]
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Album – Billboard (North America)
Year | Chart | Position |
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1982 | Country Albums | N/A |
Pop Albums | N/A |
Singles - Billboard (North America)
Year | Single | Chart | Position |
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1982 | "I Fall to Pieces" | Country Singles | 54 |
Canadian Country RPM singles | 41 |
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