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  • ‘I Fall To Pieces’: The Patsy Cline Classic That Took Six Months To Hit No.1

    08/07/2025 5:14:23 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 13 replies
    Udiscovermusic ^ | August 7, 2025 | Paul Sexton
    The Hank Cochran and Harlan Howard composition is a country classic, but it certainly wasn’t an instant hit.No one would argue that the Patsy Cline song “I Fall To Pieces” is anything but a country classic. But an instant hit? It certainly wasn’t one of those. On August 7, 1961, the song written by the prolific writers Hank Cochran and Harlan Howard climbed to the top of the Billboard country chart — six months after it was released, and nine after it was recorded on November 16 the year before. In the 2020s, it’s not uncommon for a song...