Patsy Cline

Not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Eligible since: 1983

First Recording: 1957

Previously Considered? Yes  what's this?

Patsy Cline
HALL OF FAME INDICATORS
✅Rolling Stone 500 Albums
✅Rolling Stone 500 Songs
🔲Rolling Stone Cover
🔲Saturday Night Live
🔲Major Festival Headliner
🔲Songwriters Hall of Fame
🔲“Big Four” Grammys
✅500 Songs That Shaped Rock & Roll
✅Nat'l Recording Registry
✅Rolling Stone
100 Greatest Singers
Country Music Hall of Fame: 1973
Inducted into Rock Hall Revisited in 1997 (ranked #13 in the Influences - Rock Era category) .
R.S. Top 500 Albums (?)RankVersion
The Ultimate Collection2292020
The Ultimate Collection2352012
R.S. Top 500 Songs (?)RankVersion
Crazy (1961)1952021
Essential Albums (?)WikipediaYouTube
Patsy Cline (1957)☆☊
Showcase (1961)☆☊
Essential Songs (?)WikipediaYouTube
Walkin' After Midnight (1957)☆☊
Crazy (1961)☆☊
I Fall To Pieces (1961)☆☊
She's Got You (1962)☆☊

Patsy Cline @ Wikipedia

Will Patsy Cline be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?
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Crazy if she is not inducted. Long overdue.

Posted by bubba on Monday, 07/28/2014 @ 16:48pm

The fact that Patsy Cline has never been nominated is one of the biggest reasons I question the competency of nominating committee to judge who should be considered for the Hall.

Patsy Cline is icon on the same level of Elvis and Johnny Cash. She is the benchmark for which women in Country are measured. This group includes such crossover artist as Emmylou Harris, Sheryl Crow and Linda Ronstadt.

To understand how Patsy Cline was an influence to all women across genres in the music industry, you have to be aware of societal and music industry attitudes of women in the late 50's and early 60's. In an era when men were the headliners and women were the window dressing on the side, Patsy Cline was a headliner. She played on the same field as the boys and held her own.

1999 - #11 on VH1's 100 Women of Rock and Roll

1992 - honored with a US postal stamp

1999 - Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

2005 - listed in the "Guinness Book of World Records for having the record for the most weeks on the US Charts for an album by a female artist (of all genre): 722 weeks total, with 251 of them at # 1, with 'Patsy Cline's Greatest Hits' "

It should also be noted that over the decades after her death, Patsy Cline has charted with numerous releases.

Posted by Zuzu on Wednesday, 05/27/2015 @ 15:45pm

country to the bone, her influence was country AND never sounded like rock...

Posted by aj on Thursday, 10/8/2015 @ 16:43pm

Crazy and Sweet Dreams wasn't comparable to Can't Help Falling in Love With You by Elvis or True Love Ways by Buddy Holly? Both of those are considered Rock and Roll.

Her influence was on every single woman in the music industry that came after her, not just country. Women were not considered headliners until she came along. This was back in the day when women could not get a loan without their husband.

Posted by Zuzu on Thursday, 10/8/2015 @ 17:17pm

What! Patsy is not in?

Posted by Brett on Friday, 06/24/2016 @ 09:38am

Many assume Patsy Cline is already in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. With Brenda Lee's Induction, I thought Patsy would come next. What a disappointment! Her music is just as relevant today as it was when she was alive.

Posted by Kariann Hopes on Thursday, 11/14/2019 @ 04:40am

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