The Best of Patsy Montana

Product Description:
It's been over 60 years since Patsy's heydey, but she is still one of America's favorite cowgirls. She was a native of Hope, Arkansas. This CD is a terrific collection of 24 of herclassic recordings from 1935-1940. Includes track-by-track annotation, rare pictures and memorabilia. Standard jewel case. 2001 release.

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Average customer rating: La première dame de la country... Old-time cowboy hillbilly yodelling music Sweetheart of thirties cowboys If I could give this ten stars, I would... Nice Yodeling Swing

The Best of Patsy Montana Patsy Montana Manufacturer: Collector's Choice ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Cowboy | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Traditional Country | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Cowboy's Sweetheart Yodeling Mad: Best of Country Yodel I Love To Yodel!: The Best Of Country Yodel, Vol. 2 Ultimate Yodelling Collection Cowboy and Yodel Songs ASIN: B00005LN3X Release Date: 2001-07-10

Tracks:

1. I Wanna Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart
2. Gold Coast Express
3. The She Buckaroo
4. The Wheel Of The Wagon Is Broken
5. Lone Star
6. Woman's Answer To Nobody's Darling
7. Echoes From The Hills
8. Pride Of The Prairie
9. I Only Want A Buddy Not A Sweetheart
10. My Dear Old Arizona Home
11. Cowboy Rhythm
12. Little Sweetheart Of The Ozarks
13. Rodeo Sweetheart
14. Shine On Rocky Mountain Moonlight
15. I Wanna Be A Western Cowgirl
16. Old Nevada Moon
17. My Million Dollar Smile
18. My Poncho Pony
19. Back On Montana Plains
20. The Moon Hangs Low (On The Ohio)
21. My Song Of The West
22. Swing Time Cowgirl
23. Leanin' On The Old Top Rail
24. I Want To Be A Cowboy's Dreamgirl

Album Description

It's been over 60 years since Patsy's heydey, but she is still one of America's favorite cowgirls. She was a native of Hope, Arkansas. This CD is a terrific collection of 24 of herclassic recordings from 1935-1940. Includes track-by-track annotation, rare pictures and memorabilia. Standard jewel case. 2001 release.

Customer Reviews:

La première dame de la country..........2006-07-11

Pas de surprise... Un vrai plaisir de retrouver cette dame de la country et son yodel si particulier...

Old-time cowboy hillbilly yodelling music.......2006-02-14

Patsy Montana was the female equivelant to Jimmie Rogers. She was arguably the first female country music star. And like Rogers, she may not have been the best yodeller in the world, but what she lacked in substance she certainly made up for in style. Most of Patsy's songs are upbeat, happy songs - and you can even hear Patsy's smile shining through these 75 year old tunes. Patsy started out singing with the Prairie Ramblers, a group which most afficianados label as the finest string band ever. And luckily, many of these tracks were recorded while she was still with that band, so you can hear their wonderful playing accompanying Patsy's voice. Shortly after she had gained famed by selling over a million copies of her trademark hit "I Want To Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart", she took off on a solo career that lasted until her death in the 1980's. Her yodelling actually improved with her age and you can find one of her yodelling CD's from the 80's here on Amazon and listen to her unique "yodelling grandma" style on those. But although the yodelling may be superior on those CD's, the actual songs from this CD are the cream of Patsy's crop and provide a window into a bygone era of American history that no history book can! If you want to up the ante after Patsy, I would recommend searching out songs from the phenomonally talented Rosalie Allen, who had an excellent yodelling talent and style. Unfortunately, time has not been kind to Rosalie's legacy and she has yet to receive a domestic CD release of her many wonderful tracks she recorded for RCA. So you have to find her on one of the many compilations she is featured on or on one of her duets with fellow outstanding yodeller, Elton Britt.

Sweetheart of thirties cowboys.......2003-05-09

Patsy's most successful years were 1934 to 1940, the period covered by these recordings. Patsy later re-recorded some of her songs, but these are the originals. Her most famous song, I wanna be a cowboy's sweetheart, sold a million copies - no mean feat for a country record in the 1930's.

That song is a good example of Patsy's style, mixing mountain ballads with cowboy songs and plenty of yodelling. The melody was written by Stuart Hamblen, most famous as the writer of This ole house, a major international hit for Rosemary Clooney in the fifties and a British number one hit for Shaking Stevens in the eighties.

Woman's answer to nobody's darling is a reply to the Jimmie Rodgers classic Nobody's darling but mine. I only want a buddy not a sweetheart was a popular song in the thirties although nobody had a hit with the song - this surprises me, as I have come across several excellent versions of this song.

Patsy was the first woman to succeed in country music but she did not blaze the trail for those that followed, as country remained a male bastion for many years. The Dinning sisters and Patti Page emerged from Oklahoma in the forties, but they found success as pop singers. Rose Maddox had some success as lead singer of the Maddox brothers and Rose, but it was not until Kitty Wells and Patsy Cline emerged in the fifties that women were taken even half-seriously as country singers.

So Patsy must be regarded as a one-off. Her music was of its time, unlike anything ever recorded by other female country singers in the decades that followed. This is the best collection of Patsy's music available, or ever likely to be.

If I could give this ten stars, I would..........2002-08-28

Was there ever another country performer as adorable as Patsy Montana? I doubt it. Montana was the greatest of the "cowgirl" singers, and now at last we get a chance to really check out Montana at her peak form -- perkily yodelling away on these delightfully antiquated, sentimental "western" tunes. This is a long-overdue American edition collecting her best work from the 1930s and '40s -- two dozen old tracks from Vocalion and several smaller labels that have been out of print for decades, available only on teeny specialty labels, and in dribs and drabs on various compilation albums. The songs are corny, but Montana's delivery is not, especially later on as her band put more and more swing into their sound -- and you can hear that progression as it actually happened, since these songs are presented in straight chronological order. A particular highlight is a tune Montana penned herself, "Cowboy Rhythm," which demonstrates how strange musical fads such as opera and jazz can't hold a candle to a coyote's howl and a lonesome guitar as the moon starts to rise... Fans of swing-string revivalists such as The Hot Club of Cowtown are strongly urged not to let this one slip by -- records this fun don't come along that often.

Nice Yodeling Swing.......2001-10-01

Enjoying this album. As with any album which has 24 selections from one artist, you can't listen to it in one sitting! Vocalion/Conqueror 78's from 1935 to 1940. Some were written by tin-pan-alley-type professional writers and therefore artificial. The best ones were written by her. Great band.

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The Best of Patsy Montana Patsy Montana Manufacturer: Phantom Sound & Vision ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Cowboy | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music ASIN: B000A2P01M Release Date: 2002-01-22

Tracks:

1. I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart
2. Gold Coast Express
3. She Buckaroo
4. Wheel of the Wagon Is Broken
5. Lone Star
6. Woman's Answer to Nobody's Darling
7. Echoes from the Hills
8. Pride of the Prairie
9. I Only Want a Buddy Not a Sweetheart
10. My Dear Old Arizona Home
11. Cowboy Rhythm
12. Little Sweetheart of the Ozarks
13. Rodeo Sweetheart
14. Shine on Rocky Mountain Moonlight
15. I Wanna Be a Western Cowgirl
16. Old Nevada Moon
17. My Milliion Dollar Smile
18. My Poncho Pony
19. Back on Montana Plains
20. Moon Hangs Low (On the Ohio)
21. My Song of the West
22. Swing Time Cowgirl
23. Leanin' on the Old Top Rail
24. I Want to Be a Cowboy's Dreamgirl

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