Facts:

Birthday: September 8th, 1932 - Gore, VA.
Birth Name: Virginia Patterson Hensley
Family: Mother, Hilda Patterson; Father, Samuel Hensley; Sister, Sylvia Mae;
Brother; Sam Jr. (John)
Marriages: Gerald Cline ('53) Charlie Dick ('57)
Children: Julia, aka Julie ('58) and Alan Randall, aka Randy ('61)
Residence: 815 Nella Dr, Goodlettsville, TN.
Died: March 5th, 1963 - airplane crash - Camden, TN.. 90 miles from home.

First hit: "Walkin' After Midnight," recorded on November 8th, 1956.
(Her next big hit, "I Fall to Pieces," wasn't recorded until 11/60).

Patsy's favorite soda: Dr. Pepper
Patsy's favorite beer: Schlitz
Patsy's favorite foods: Fried chicken and spaghetti
Nella Drive Phone Number: VN5-1480
Patsy's height: 5' 5 1/2"
Patsy's Weight: At age 23, she weight 135lbs, according to her first letter to Treva Miller.
Patsy's shoe size: 9
Patsy's favorite colors: Red and white
Patsy's favorite perfume: Wind Song

-Patsy often told her friends that she would "not live to see 30."

- "Leavin' on Your Mind" was number eight on the country charts at the time of the crash. "Sweet Dreams (Of You)" was released as a single on March 19, 1963... 14 days after the crash.

-Patsy loved red roses, and it was wrongly indicated in "Sweet Dreams" that she loved yellow roses. There were many other inaccuracies in the movie.

-Patsy was a huge fan of Elvis Presley, and had his picture in the back of her personal scrap book.

-Patsy collected earrings and salt & peppers shakers.

- Patsy was a camera nut who loved to take snapshots of her family, friends and fans.

- Patsy feared public speaking... she was always concerned she might say something grammatically incorrect.

- Patsy taught herself to play the piano by ear.

- Patsy didn't believe in perming her hair; she always rolled her own.

- Patsy carried a little black notebook with the keys for all of her songs written in it.

- Patsy cleared $1,000 per day in Vegas, the best money in her career!

- Patsy never had her own band.

-Patsy married Gerald Cline because allegedly, he threatened to "kill himself" if she didn't. Patsy described her marriage to Gerald as "a bad dream with no tunes in it."

Other Facts :

-Patsy spent part of her recording career with Four Star Records, where she recorded 51 songs, from 1955-1960. From 1960-1963, she recorded 51 songs under Decca Records (now MCA).

-Patsy didn't like "Walkin' After Midnight" at first. Her first reaction to it: "This song's got no balls!" She didn't like it because it was a "little ole pop song" and she wanted to sing strictly country music.

-Patsy's "big break" came when she debuted on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts on January 21, 1957 , a national television show. She was a huge success and the audience loved her.

-Patsy's only big hit out of Four Star was "Walkin' After Midnight." When she moved to Decca, she hit it big again with "Crazy," "I Fall to Pieces," "Sweet Dreams," "She's Got You," etc, under the management of her producer, Owen Bradley.

-One of her favorite songs that she recorded was "A Poor Man's Roses (or a Rich Man's Gold). Patsy chose this song to record as a B side to "Walkin' After Midnight." She re-recorded both songs in the early '60s with Decca.

-Speaking of "A Poor Man's Roses..." as soon as it was released, Patti Page, a bigger star at the time, did a cover of it... Her version became a hit. That didn't matter to Patsy, because her "Walkin' After Midnight" was a huge success. As many as eleven other artists did covers of it! (This was common back then). However, Patsy's version of "A Poor Man's Roses" was on the charts for a little while.

-Patsy was elected into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1973, ten years after her death.

-In the movie Sweet Dreams, Patsy is not singing "Bill Baily Wont You Please Come Home" or "Blue Christmas." The voice belongs to Jamey Ryan, who was Charlie Dick's wife for a little while after Patsy died.