Part 2 of 3 Patsy Montana episodes this season. We take a look at Patsy's time with the Prairie Ramblers and WLS in the 30s. We also get to hear her talk about the writing of the song that put her on the map: I Wanna Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart.
Songs
Girls of the Golden West - Lonely Cowgirl
Sweet Violet Boys - Let’s all Get Good and Drunk
Prairie Ramblers - Shady Grove
Patsy Montana and the Prairie Ramblers. - Homesick for My Old Cabin
Patsy Montana and the Prairie Ramblers - Waltz of the Hills
Stuart Hamblen - Texas Plains
Patsy Montana & the Prairie Ramblers - Montana Plains
Mac and Bob - That Silver-haired Daddy of Mine
Patsy Montana and the Prairie Ramblers - I Wanna Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart
Patsy Montana and the Prairie Ramblers - Ridin' Old Paint
Patsy Montana and the Prairie Ramblers - Old Black Mountain Trail
Billie Maxwell - Cowboy's Wife
Kitty Wells - It wasn't God who Made Honky-Tonk Angels
Wilf Carter - The Strawberry Roan
Patsy Montana and the Prairie Ramblers - She Buckaroo
Jimmie Davis - Nobody's Darling
Patsy Montana and the Prairie Ramblers - Woman's Answer to Nobody's Darling
Patsy Montana and the Prairie Ramblers - Sweetheart of the Saddle
Patsy Montana and the Prairie Ramblers - Lone star
Patsy Montana and the Prairie Ramblers - Montana
Patsy Montana and the Prairie Ramblers - Your own Sweet Darling Wife
Patsy Montana and the Prairie Ramblers - Echoes from the Hills
Patsy Montana and the Prairie Ramblers - Leaning on the Old Top Rail
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McCusker, K. M. (2008). Lonesome cowgirls and honky-tonk angels: The women of barn dance radio (Vol. 543). University of Illinois Press.
Millie Good McClusky & Bill McClusky, November 4, 1988, Frist Library and Archive of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Montana, P., & Frost, J. (2002). Patsy Montana: the cowboy's sweetheart. McFarland.
Patsy Montana, October 22, 1967, Frist Library and Archive of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Patsy Montana, October 16, 1974, Frist Library and Archive of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Patsy Montana, June 9, 1984, Frist Library and Archive of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Patsy Montana, August 30, 1985, Frist Library and Archive of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Patsy Montana, September 2, 1985, Frist Library and Archive of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
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Stand By!
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