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"I Fall to Pieces" is a single released by Patsy Cline in 1961, and was featured on her 1961 studio album, ''Patsy Cline Showcase.'' "I Fall to Pieces" was Cline's first #1 hit on the Country charts, and her second hit single to cross over onto the Pop charts. It was the first of a string of songs that were written by Hank Cochran and Harlan Howard (not always collaborating) for Cline. "I Fall to Pieces" became one of Cline's most-recognizable hit singles. It has also been classified as a country music standard. ==Writing and recording== Hank Cochran and Harlan Howard met in California, and became songwriting partners. One night, Cochran was mulling over song ideas, when he thought of a title, "I Fall to Pieces." Cochran met up with Howard at his house the next day, where they finished writing the song. The demo version of the song was recorded at Pamper Music in Goodlettsville, Tennessee by Howard's wife, country singer Jan Howard. Harlan Howard pitched the song to Decca producer Owen Bradley, who tried to find the right artist to record it. The song was turned down numerous times, first by Brenda Lee, who found the song "too country" for her pop style. Bradley then asked rising country star Roy Drusky to record it but he turned it down stating that it's not a man's song. Patsy Cline was in the hallway and overheard his argument with Bradley and asked if she could record it instead. Bradley then accepted her offer. However when Cline began recording the song a few weeks later in November of 1960, to say she had second thoughts about it would be putting it mildly, especially after she discovered that popular Nashville background singer group, The Jordanaires would serve as the support vocalists. Cline was afraid the Jordanaires would drown out her sound, and as a result, she was not very friendly upon meeting them for the first time. Cline also felt that the Pop ballad style Bradley wanted it recorded in didn't suit her own style, but Bradley was trying to make the song appeal to the Pop market, an idea that Cline rejected wholeheartedly. In an interview with Loretta Lynn on her 1977 album ''I Remember Patsy'', Bradley recollected that, for Patsy, if she couldn't yodel or growl on a record, she wanted no part of it. As a result, she had several arguments with Bradley about the lush after-midnight style arrangement, but eventually Cline broke new ground once again, when she recorded it in the new style that Bradley wanted. But Patsy wasn't the only one having problems at the session. Composer Harlan Howard relates that On the night of the session, we absolutely did NOT want to do the standard 4:4 shuffle that had by then been done to death. We were trying all kinds of other (basic rhythm) combinations, but they all just laid there and bled all over the floor. So it had to be the shuffle then, like it or not. But the amazing thing was, once Patsy got into the groove, she just caressed those lyrics and that melody so tenderly that it was just like satin. We knew we had magic in the can when, on the fourth take, every grown man in that studio was bawling like a baby and Bradley said `That's the one'. After listening to the playback afterward however, she realized that Bradley was right about the torch songs and ended up liking the track, stating that she finally found her own identity.〔 Subsequently, the Jordanaires became fast friends and part of Patsy's inner circle. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「I Fall to Pieces」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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