This “Stand Out Single” reached number one on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in February 1974.
Dolly Parton’s single “Jolene” / “Love, You’re So Beautiful Tonight” was released on October 15, 1973, by RCA Victor, and it quickly became one of the defining records not only of her career but of modern country music. “Jolene,” written solely by Parton, was produced by Bob Ferguson and served as the title track of her 1974 album Jolene.
Mother loved Country Music and Patsy Cline was one of her favorites.
Patsy Cline, born Virginia Patterson Hensley on September 8, 1932, in Winchester, Virginia, remains one of the most revered voices in American country music history. Raised in a working-class family during the Great Depression, her early years were marked by hardship. Her father, Samuel Hensley, left the family when she was young, leaving her mother, Hilda, to support Patsy and her siblings.
