Patsy Cline was Taylor Swift before Taylor Swift

BRUCE R. MILLER
Nov 22, 2024
Nov 22, 2024 Updated Jul 3, 2026

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Julie Fudge, daughter of singer Patsy Cline, is charged with keeping her memory going.

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A Great Performances celebration of Patsy Cline will include remembrances from Barbara Hall, daughter Julie Fudge and actress Beverly D'Angelo, who played Cline in "Coal Miner's Daughter."

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1973: Patsy Cline inducted into Country Music Hall of Fame

Singer Patsy Cline died in 1963 in a plane crash along with fellow country musicians Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins; she was only 30. A decade later, Cline became the first solo female artist inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

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BRUCE R. MILLER

LOS ANGELES – Julie Fudge can guess the Top Five questions people will ask about her mother, singer Patsy Cline.

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Bruce Miller is editor of the Sioux City Journal.