The Queen of country music, Patsy Cline released her first #1 hit I Fall to Pieces, January 30, 1961. It was mainly ignored by radio stations at first, but soon found an audience. It entered the Billboard Country charts in April and made a slow rise to #1, to #12 on the Billboard Pop chart and #6 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart. Cline proved that a female could have cross-over hits on both charts.
The success of I Fall to Pieces gained Cline an invitation to join the Grand Ol' Opry. Rolling Stone magazine ranked it #238 of the top 500 Songs of All Time. RIAA ranked it as 107 on the list of Songs of the Century.
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