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Loretta Lynn thought news of Patsy Cline’s death was ‘baloney’
Country-music great Patsy Cline died in a plane crash on this date in 1963. Watch her final TV performance of “I Fall to Pieces,” recorded a week before her death. https://t.co/S0giRUTcfa
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) March 5, 2021Advertisement
They were the best of friends until March 1963. And in her memoir, Lynn recalled the phone call she received when 30-year-old Cline died. “Baloney,” she told the caller. “Her and me’s going shopping.”
She hung up the phone, still not believing what she’d heard. But then news of the plane crash came over the radio, and she knew it was confirmed that Cline’s plane went down. “I’d lost the best friend I’d ever had,” Lynn wrote.
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