Faded Love (album)

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Faded Love
Patsy Cline - Faded Love.jpg
Compilation album by
Released1988
RecordedAugust 17, 1961 February 7, 1963 [1]
Genre Country
Label MCA
Producer Allen Reynolds
Don Williams
Patsy Cline chronology
Songwriter's Tribute
(1986)
Faded Love
(1988)
The Last Sessions
(1988)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Faded Love is a compilation album released by American country music artist, Patsy Cline. The album was released in 1988 under MCA Records and was produced by Allen Reynolds and Don Williams. It was the second compilation MCA released in 1988.

Contents

Background

Faded Love is a ten-track collection of songs by Patsy Cline under her second record label, Decca Records. The songs varied from Country and Pop music standards such as the title track and "Anytime," as well as previously unrecorded material such as "Imagine That" and "When You Need a Laugh." The album's title track originally peaked at #7 on the Billboard Magazine Hot Country Songs chart and #96 on the Billboard Pop Chart in 1963. In addition "He Called Me Baby" peaked at #23 on the Billboard Country Chart in 1964. The album was issued on a compact disc at the time of its release. In 1995, the album was reissued on Universal Special Products. [3] Faded Love was on the first Patsy Cline MCA compilations to ever be released on a CD instead of a record. [ citation needed ]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Imagine That" Justin Tubb 2:53
2."When You Need a Laugh" Hank Cochran 2:48
3."Anytime"Herbert "Happy" Lawson1:58
4."Faded Love" Bob Wills 3:43
5."The Wayward Wind" Stanley Lebowsky, Herb Newman3:20
6."Your Cheatin' Heart" Hank Williams 2:40
7."He Called Me Baby" Harlan Howard 2:40
8."A Poor Man's Roses (Or a Rich Man's Gold)" Milton DeLugg, Bob Hillard2:35
9."Seven Lonely Days" Marshall Brown, Alden Shuman, Early Shuman2:11
10."You Belong to Me" Pee Wee King, Chilton Price, Redd Stewart3:03

Personnel

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References

  1. "Patsy Cline's Recording Sessions". Patsy Cline.info. Retrieved 2008-12-19.
  2. Allmusic review
  3. "Faded Love album". allmusic . Retrieved 2008-12-19.