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Saturday, 17 July 2004 |
Patsy Cline’s Family Opposes Use of Singer’s Hits
By Linda McCarty
The Winchester Star
He lives more than 500 miles away, but Charlie Dick’s phone and fax machine began ringing on Wednesday after people read a story in The Winchester Star.
The story announced plans to play songs by Patsy Cline — Dick’s late wife — from a bell tower honoring the country music legend.
Under the original plan, some of Cline’s hit songs were to be played through a sound system installed on the tower near her grave at Shenandoah Memorial Park on Front Royal Pike south of Winchester.
“Absolutely not,†Dick said during a telephone call to The Star from his home in the suburbs of Nashville. “The family is against singing of any sort from the tower, and Patsy will not be singing in that tower.â€
Dick, 70, went on to say that if Patsy’s music was played from the tower, he might be forced to “come up there and cut the tower down.â€
He does not want to force Cline’s music on people who may not like it, and did not feel the music would be respectful in a cemetery setting.
So the plans for the bell tower music have changed.
After Dick called the project’s planner, Winchester resident Jim Kniceley, the original idea was abandoned. And anyone interested in hearing Cline songs such as “Crazy†and “Sweet Dreams†will not be able to hear them at the cemetery.
“I told Charlie that we would put anything on the tape recording that he and the family believe is appropriate,†Kniceley said. “We agreed that it should be something soothing and pleasing to Patsy, in case she’s up there looking over us.â€
Dick said he accepted Kniceley’s offer to help select the music. “We would like a sound similar to the chimes heard in Winchester at Grace [Evangelical] Lutheran Church.â€
He also said he wanted the tape to include the melodies of two of Cline’s hymns, “Life’s Railway to Heaven†and “Just A Closer Walk With Thee.â€
“Those two songs will be included, but definitely without Patsy singing them,†Dick said.
Kniceley said the 40-foot bell tower, dedicated 17 years ago, has been dormant because it cannot be connected to a power pole beside Papermill Road, which borders the cemetery on the south.
The problem was recently solved when Frederick County resident Don Daugherty designed and built a battery-operated amplifier with a timer that turns on a tape with recorded music.
The battery will be secured in a brick podium-like arrangement near a similar structure holding the tower’s dedication plaque.
Kniceley said he formed a committee about three months ago to raise money for the tower sound system and has collected $1,000.
The original plan was to feature Cline singing one of her hit songs every day at 6 p.m.
“The tapes haven’t been recorded yet, but I can put any kind of music you want on them,†Daugherty said. “I could put ‘Jingle Bells’ on them for Christmas, but I’ll do whatever I’m told to do.â€
Kniceley said the sound system will be dedicated on Sept. 5, during the annual Patsy Cline Weekend celebration.
“We always end the celebration with a memorial service at the cemetery on Sunday [of] Labor Day weekend. Jim and I agreed that since we were going to be out there at the same time, why not have both ceremonies at the same time,†Dick said.
“I think everything is going to work out now.â€
Cline was born Virginia Patterson Hensley on Sept. 8, 1932, in Winchester. She and Dick were married in 1957 and had two children, Julie and Randy.
Dick was at home with their children in Nashville on March 5, 1963, when he received word that his wife, returning from a benefit concert in Kansas City, Mo., had died in a plane crash near Camden, Tenn.
Dick, a Frederick County-area native raised near Apple Pie Ridge, said he decided to bury his wife locally, because he thought he and the children would eventually move back home.
“But we’d made too many good friends in Nashville, and that’s where I decided we should stay. But I have two brothers who still live up there, and I come back to visit them."
http://www.winchesterstar.com/TheWinchesterStar/040715/Area_tower.asp
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