How Loretta Lynn learned to stand up to ‘dirty old men’ — and her husband — thanks to Patsy Cline
nypost.comwho died at 90 Tuesday — had a special bond with another female country legend: Patsy Cline.The two singers — who were born just five months apart in 1932 — forged a close friendship that was cut short by Cline’s untimely death in a 1963 plane crash.
But in a short span of time, Lynn was profoundly inspired by the “Crazy” songbird both personally and professionally, even naming one of her twin daughters Patsy the year after Cline died.It all started after Lynn dedicated a radio performance of Cline’s song “I Fall to Pieces” to the stricken star when she was recovering from a near-fatal car accident in 1961.
Cline, who was the more established artist at the time, heard Lynn’s rendition and summoned her to the hospital.“That’s the first time I ever met her,” said Lynn on the 1977 tribute album “I Remember Patsy.”“Did I know meeting Patsy that day would change my life?
No. How could I?” Lynn wrote in her 2020 book “Me & Patsy Kickin’ Up Dust.” “But I knew I’d found a real friend: a great singer, a proud momma, a woman who wasn’t afraid to stand up for herself.”Cline took Lynn under her wing, helping her to deal with the difficulties of being a woman in the predominantly male country music world while also juggling a family life with a husband and kids.
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