Artist:Jim Reeves & Patsy Cline
Song:Have You Ever Been Lonely
Album:Greatest Hits
I was listening to this today and I was wondering when country music legends Jim Reeves and Patsy Cline recorded together. Of course both died in plane crashes in the 60s. They didn't record together. This duet album was produced in 1981 using previously recorded versions. Believe it or not, Have You Ever Been Lonely was a top five country hit. The story is that Jim Reeves' widow Mary Reeves Davis approached producer Owen Bradley with the idea of producing an album of Jim Reeves and Patsy Cline duets. Mary already had the approval of the Patsy Cline Estate and RCA and MCA. Among the songs that both recorded were He'll Have To Go, Crazy, Sweet Dreams and I Fall To Pieces. Bradley mixed the vocals and engineers remixed them so they sounded decent. Then he added new orchestrations and the album was finished. Have You Ever Been Lonely reached #5 on the Country Singles chart. That was written by Peter DeRose and Billy Hill and popularized by Ernest Tubb in 1949. Neither artist had a hit with the song. Fans may have thought it was newly discovered. Of course similar technology had Natalie Cole singing with her father Nat King Cole. This album is available on CD. Here's a video for Have You Ever Been Lonely by Jim Reeves & Patsy Cline.
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