Patsy Cline Incidents: Patcidents!

courtesy Johnny Franklin/ImagineThat Productions

Patsy Cline doesn't confine herself to surprising us in music, TV shows and movies: she'll show up in your life when you least expect her!

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From Dora:

Recently two strangers selected the same record on a juke box. It was a Patsy Cline song and they got talking. They discovered that almost 40 years before, they had been friends living a few hundred yards apart in a town in a different country. They shared music tastes and Patsy Cline was a favourite they had shared. But they lived in a country where events were to create an un-penetratable barrier between them causing them to separate, lose touch and go their own separate ways. By chance they were singles in the same holiday resort, by chance they went to the same cafe, and by chance there was a Patsy Cline record in the juke box.

Their full story is private and will remain so other than to say the re-union has returned happiness and given a future to two people.

From Guy:

I was at the Chicago Cubs vs. Chicago White Sox game today (May 20, 2006) ... when one of the Sox players was walked, there on the loudspeakers was Patsy singing WAM!

By the way, Sox won 7-0........

From Heather:

I had the weirdest experience today that I just wanted to tell. I am going to school, and today decided for whatever reason, I don't know... to blow off my assignment, and I Googled Patsy Cline. I ended up clicking on your site first, and spent the entire morning, I'm talking four hours, reading and looking at pictures etc. Now, I've always considered myself a fan of hers, but I really had no reason just to spend the day reading about her, and have no idea why she popped in my head this morning.

I read a whole bunch of the 'Patcidents' I believe they are called, when weird things happen, and I was like "Ohhh, weird!" Then as lunchtime rolled around, I clicked off and spent the afternoon working.

The whole reason I am writing is because I am sitting here right now, working on my assignment in front of the TV... and I was watching "The Simpsons" with my nephew... which ended... and he was jumping around, he hit the remote... and the channel turned to a public access station... and what was on? A Patsy Cline documentary, "The Lady Behind the Legend." I seriously have the goosebumps and am totally in awe. So I wanted to share. Thank you for your site and tribute to such a lovely woman.

From Lisa, The Homesick Texan:

New Year's Eve, at about 3 minutes after midnight, I turned on the XM Radio to pull up something festive. I was using the dial instead of the preset buttons, and the first thing I spun it to was the Fifties Channel. I enjoy 50s music when I hear it, but I don't seek it out, because it's my parents' music, for one, and well, I just prefer 70s because that is my music. So here I was on Fifties for no reason, and strangely, Patsy was on the there, and she was performing for me personally, "I Fall to Pieces." First song of 2006! What do you think about that? She tryin' to tell me somethin'?

From Wag:

I went to the Sunbelt Ag Expo in Moultrie, Georgia this past week. This expo is held at Spence Field, "an active airport," each year and draws a huge crowd. There are many exhibits and suppliers there, and most of them are having drawings and giveaways. Well, I was over near the fence of the tarmac on the last day of the expo and I saw a Piper Comanche parked on the end of a row of planes closest to the fence and thought about that being the type of plane that Patsy was killed in, and how lonely that plane looked, when all of a sudden I hear "Crazy" being sung. I turned around and there was a girl wearing cowboy boots, a cowboy hat and a buckskin kinda dress singing "Crazy" on a little trailer for the Farm Credit Bureau. I just stood there and took it all in, looking at her, then the plane, then her... chill bumps went up my back and she was just belting out those songs and singing her ass off. They were going from drawing to drawing and she would sing two or three songs at each one, then move to the next and do it all again. Most all of her songs were Patsy songs and the others were Roger Miller songs. I just closed my eyes and thought about how it was like back when she was singing fair dates. As I listened to her go into "Walking After Midnight" after "Crazy," I wanted to ask her to dance, but that would have blown the moment. Then they had the drawing and moved on to the next one. I watched her sing from a distance as they went on to the next drawing and then the next, until she was out of sight. I guess you can kinda go back in time, even if it is just for a brief moment.

From Kathy:

I mentioned to you several days ago that I heard Bette Midler singing a Patsy song to Nick Nolte in the movie "Down and Out in Beverly Hills." Tonight I'm sitting here with the TV on for company, and the movie "Rudy" is on. During a bar fight scene, "Walking Dream" is playing in the background! Isn't it funny how in tune we can become to her voice? I could barely make any of it out at all, with all the yelling from the fight, and was only half-paying attention anyway... but when the fight broke up, and it continued to play, I was proven right.

From Lisa, The Homesick Texan:

I was doing some updates on this site and spent some time incorporating the pics from the "Come On In" video. When I went to check on the updates to make sure everything looked okay in the browser, the random song generator presented me with "Come On In" as my lucky Patsy song for the day!

From Pam:

My daughter is like many 14 yr olds. She thinks her mother is so un-cool. At school one day, she and some friends were laughing about some "weird ways" of their moms. She thought she had the ultimate example when she told her friends that her mom listened to...PATSY CLINE! Expecting much joking, to her surprise both friends said they loved Patsy's music! That was a day of triumph for mom and Patsy!

From Brannon:

A friend of mine and myself were on our way to the beach for a few days and we were on the interstate looking for a radio station, for we had not had a signal from one we liked in some time. I said, "If I don't find something soon, I have a Patsy Cline CD with me that we will listen to." Well hoss, I no more than got the words out of my mouth and the first note of "Crazy" came over the airwaves! We were shellshocked! So it was like the movie "ToWongFoo," Patsy was our mentor for the rest of the trip and we kept my CD in the rest of the time and her "Heartaches" CD (she has on the gold booties on the cover) either in the car or on our bedside! So when we are goin anywhere now, we are pretty liberal with the name Patsy Cline, as we know she is somewhere listenin'! I wish that girl was still here with us! She left too soon!

From Jennifer:

I am a college student at Winona State University in southeast Minnesota. In the two years I have been there I have read the Winona Daily newspaper only a handful of times, choosing to keep up with the news instead with the larger Star Tribune newspaper. One morning this past February I felt the need to pick up the Winona paper, and the page I just happen to open up to says "Patsy Cline Tribute Show to be Performed." Well I nearly fainted, but I got out my map to find where this little town of Plainview was located, stayed at school a couple days into my spring break, suffered through a blizzard, and drove an hour the day after the blizzard, just so I could go to this show and drag a few friends with. It was a lady who did not try to impersonate Patsy, but instead wanted to share Patsy's life story and songs with the audience. The small theater was pretty packed, and I was about half the age of several people there. But I knew every trivia question the performer asked about Patsy. And to think I would have missed out on everything had I not picked up that newspaper.

From Courtney:

I think I found out about Patsy in the strangest way possible... I was in Biology class with my friend, and we were dissecting a chicken wing. The slimy chicken wing had to be placed on a newspaper, of course, and it just so happens that there was a small article about a Patsy Cline TV special on our newspaper. For some reason, I noticed the picture and pointed it out to my lab partner. "Pasty Cline" she read, and we both burst into laughter. You see, since she misread the name as "Pasty" we thought that it was extremely funny! We thought it was so funny that we actually cut out the picture! Over the next week or so, we began to discover more about "Pasty" by asking our parents about her. It was then that we discovered that her name was in fact Patsy! Since the chicken wing incident, our love for "Pasty" has always remained.

From Theresa

I think I Patsified a young guy in his 20's during my commute home from work. There is a long stretch of highway under construction ( a constant in good ol' Pennsylvania), and we were crawling along bumper to bumper. I had my windows down, and was blasting Patsy (12 Greatest Hits CD) when this kid next to me honks his horn to get my attention. I figured he was gonna tell me to turn it down, and I'd have to get out of the car and have it out with him, but he asks me who that was singing. I told him it was Patsy Cline, and he asks me where he can get a copy of the CD, because he was just loving her voice. I tell you, I was thrilled!! It's great to be able to Patsify the young, they are in such need... Here's to keeping Patsy's music alive!! Patsy4ever!

From Theresa:

I was really wishing that something would come on TV about Patsy, and I was channel surfing the other day, and there was Coal Miner's Daughter, right where Loretta sings "I Fall to Pieces" for Patsy, and she gets to meet her. Don't get me wrong, I like Loretta, but the best damn part of the movie is where the Patsy stuff is. I cried at the part where Patsy is lost, as I do every time I think of it, I know I can admit this to all of the other Patsified folks here.

From The Tucson Bender:

Unexpected Impulse Purchase
When: 27 February 2002; 12:30 MST
Where: Borders Books, Music & Cafe; Tucson AZ USA [eastside]
Taking 3 steps inside store, I noticed a shiny black book on an elegant display to the left. I picked it up, looked briefly inside and carried it to an island of Compact Discs only a short jaunt. A CD jewel box with a shiny mauve (pinkish) and black cover caught my eye. I also grabbed it and the next thing I knew I was back en route to work. The Goods -- The Best of Patsy Cline, Revised. 1994. Hal Leonard Corporation. [Note -- It's 38 of Patsy's sheet music tunes for keyboard, guitar or vocalist]. Price -- $16.95 Patsy Cline - Live at The Opry. 1988. MCA Records. Price -- $9.95 Tax @ 7.6% -- $2.04 Total -- $28.94 Oh Dear Lord! There's no longer a keyboard or guitar in the house! I am pretty handy with a Blues Harp (some folks call it a "harmonica"), but the accompaniment (think of the left hand on keyboard) on "Crazy" is a killa! Gimme some time, I'll figure it out! 8^0 later . . . Bender Tucson AZ USA
P.S. The CD is very solid. Unfortunately it's only about 29 minutes long, but no complaints here!

From Darrianne:

As a transplanted southerner (Georgia gal living in Ohio), it is often nice when something comes along to remind me of home or the south... and a special treat when something comes along to remind me of Patsy Cline. Anyhoo, we were eating at Red Lobster the other night and our waitress wore a button with, you guessed it! A picture of Patsy! We got into a conversation about her that lasted most of our meal....she kept coming back and we would pick up where we left off. She was 21 and a fan. Did my heart good, I tell you.

From Vanessa:

It was my first trip to Nashville and my husband and I got lost. I was trying to tell him where to turn, though I had no idea myself. I was talking about how Patsy had lived there years ago and how great it was to be there, when I suddenly looked at a street sign and we were on Hillhurst Dr. right in front of Patsy's old house! I was soooo surprised I started to cry!!! My husband thought I was nuts and now jokes and says I must have lived in Nashville in a past life!

From Madelyn:

I don't know if this is a "Patcident" or not. . . Thanks to The Homesick Texan, I own "Wind Song," Patsy's favorite perfume. I thought that I would be reminded of Patsy when I wore it, but the opposite has happened! Even when I am not wearing it, I swear that I can sometimes smell it when a Patsy song plays on the radio, when I see a photo of Patsy, or even when the first page of "Patsified!" loads! I guess it's Pavlov and his classical conditioning at work. :D

From Joe:

Well, I just recently went to see the movie TOMB RAIDER, and before the showing of the previews, this particular theatre was playing songs from a variety of movies. Right directly after the end of Celine Dion singing "My Heart Will Go On", I heard that famous piano intro played by Floyd Cramer, and then the sunning voice of Miss Patsy Cline. The song was "Crazy." I tell you what, Patsy was the furthest thing from my mind at the time. Hell, I was ready to watch Lara Croft whup some serious butt, but I guess this was Patsy's way of staying close to my heart. Love ya, Pat.

From Melanie:

This particular event just recently happened to me just this weekend. I rarely watch MTV, even though many of my peers do, but I dislike much of the music that is broadcasted (I like CMT much better, and its even rubbing off on my family!)

Anyway, I was actually watching MTV and their special was called "So Five Minutes Ago", which deals with what's hot one minute and not the next. When the special was talking about Napster, to my utter surprise, they played a bit of "She's Got You", and this is MTV for crying out loud! The bit they played was "I've got your memory. . " and the special continued to play the song w/o Patsy singing, but its nice to listen to the tinkling of the piano and the Jordanaires ooh's and ahh's.

Maybe now MTV will play better music, but probably not. . . .

From Meade:

I was in Winchester, Va. of all places (used to live about 25 miles east of there) getting a haircut in the barbershop. I forgot what else I was doing- I think I went to visit Stonewall Jackson's Headquarters or something like that. Hard to remember, it was over four years ago. Anyway, the barber was talking and the subject somehow got on to Patsy. He said his father danced with Patsy Cline in Charles Town W. Va. He asked what I thought of her music. Just then, "I Fall To Pieces" came on the radio!! Believe you me, the hair on the back of my neck stood straight up! I told him, "Well, Sir, does that answer your question?"

From Lisa, The Homesick Texan:

I seldom get to watch TV, but one day about a year or so ago, I was exhausted and wanted to veg out. I flipped on the TV, channel-surfed a bit, and when I came to one of the country stations, Patsy's "Crazy" video was just starting. And I was thinking, what are the odds of this happening to a Patsifan who hardly ever gets to watch TV???

From Mark:

Patsy appears in my life constantly. The frequency has almost gotten to the point where sometimes I don't notice the Patcident right away. Such was the case with my strangest Patcident. It's a bit of a stretch for this forum, but at the time I thought it was really strange and spooky. While I was in Nashville in February 1999 I was cruising all the Patsy sights in town. Just as I stopped in front of her house on Nella Drive I was listening to a Patsy CD in the car and what should start playing but "Come On In." As if this weren't spooky enough a light snow began to fall. I just new that it was Patsy shaking a little star dust down from heaven. It still gives me cold chills. The day was dark and gray and cold. It's what I imagined the same spot must have been like the day Patsy died.

From Lisa, The Homesick Texan:

While en route to Colorado in the summer of 1997, we were driving through the south side of Chicago, and I was pleasantly surprised to hear "I Fall to Pieces" played on the radio. As I was thrilling to the sound of gold pouring from my radio speakers, we passed a big exit sign for "Cline Ave." Now is that weird, or WHAT???

From Darrianne:

Cherokee, NC ~ I was on vacation in the Smokey Mountains...we ate breakfast at a Big Boy's there one morning and I went to use the Ladies' Room. On the inside of my stall door - in big red letters (magic marker?) someone had written: PATSY CLINE RULES. I still can't believe I did it, but I pulled a pen out of my purse and wrote, "You got that right!" right under it.....LOL

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