{"id":3610858,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3610858/?format=json","airdate":"2026-01-30T02:37:37-08:00","show":65790,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65790/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"I Fall To Pieces","track_id":"2d086782-a127-49cc-b5e8-0f2f67fefdec","recording_id":"fe3ace66-b0e8-4067-a9d2-3cd6852df214","artist":"Patsy Cline","artist_ids":["ad82dd72-0df3-4a09-8d7a-1af9c9e80522"],"album":"Dim Lights Thick Smoke & Hillbilly Music - Country & Western Hit Parade - 1961","release_id":"e826cb37-09e2-4265-ae70-1cdd99438526","release_group_id":"dd27fba2-0037-4928-a777-a1b3771e752c","labels":["Bear Family Records"],"label_ids":["bf19ea5d-45a8-4980-b050-1dd4f7194952"],"release_date":"2011-11-21","rotation_status":"Library","is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"Released on this day in 1961.\n\n\"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'.\" writes composer Harlan Howard about Cline's recording of I Fall to Pieces in Nov 1960.\n\nPatsy Cline released \"I Fall to Pieces\" on this day in1961 as a single in 1961 via Decca Record. It topped the country charts, crossed over onto the pop charts and became among Cline's biggest hits.\n\nAs the song ascended to the top of the country charts, Cline was injured in a near-fatal car accident. When the song reached its peak positions, she was recovering from her injuries in the hospital and was unable to perform the track for several months. \"I Fall to Pieces\" was later released on Cline's second studio album, Showcase (1961).","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}