What’s the connection between Patsy Cline, her nation modern Mel Tillis, and authentic rock’n’curler Carl Perkins? The reply is the ballad “So Wrong,” the penultimate hit of her lifetime.
“So Wrong” was written by Tillis, Perkins and writer-performer Danny Dill, and recorded by Cline along with her ever-present producer Owen Bradley. Decca issued it as a single on July 16, 1962, because the follow-up to “When I Get Thru With You (You’ll Love Me Too).” That music was simply peaking at No.10 on the nation chart as the subsequent 45 emerged. The B-side of “When I Get Thru…” was “Imagine That,” which charted in its personal proper, at No.21.
Star-studded nation in Florida
Cline had simply carried out, together with fellow Nashville stars reminiscent of Sonny James, the Glaser Brothers, and Dottie West. This was at a June 30 present on the Nationwide Guard Armory in De Lane, Florida, on the end result of the Present Palace, USA Folks Pageant. As Billboard reported that occasion, it additionally listed “So Wrong” and “You’re Stronger Than Me” as certainly one of its “double-play disk” alternatives, which the journal stated “represent maximum programming effectiveness.”
Certainly, that flip aspect went on to be listed as a Regional Breakout, despite the fact that it didn’t make the nation chart in its personal proper. It did, nonetheless, bubble beneath the pop Sizzling 100, reaching No.107.
“So Wrong” – featured above in a reside model from the On The Air album – entered the Sizzling C&W Sides chart at No.24 on August 25, 1962. The identical week, it figured at No.85 on the Sizzling 100. Nation-wise, it climbed to No.14 in a ten-week run. After Patsy’s tragic loss of life in March the next 12 months, it appeared on the album The Patsy Cline Story, because the posthumous legend of this nation authentic started to develop.
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