Episode Twenty Three: Patsy Montana, Part 2

Part 2 of 3 Patsy Montana episodes this season. We take a look at Patsy's time with the Prairie Ramblers and WLS in the 30s. We also get to hear her talk about the writing of the song that put her on the map: I Wanna Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart.

Songs

Girls of the Golden West - Lonely Cowgirl

Sweet Violet Boys - Let’s all Get Good and Drunk

Prairie Ramblers - Shady Grove

Patsy Montana and the Prairie Ramblers. - Homesick for My Old Cabin

Patsy Montana and the Prairie Ramblers - Waltz of the Hills

Stuart Hamblen - Texas Plains

Patsy Montana & the Prairie Ramblers - Montana Plains

Mac and Bob - That Silver-haired Daddy of Mine

Patsy Montana and the Prairie Ramblers - I Wanna Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart 

Patsy Montana and the Prairie Ramblers - Ridin' Old Paint

Patsy Montana and the Prairie Ramblers - Old Black Mountain Trail 

Billie Maxwell - Cowboy's Wife 

Kitty Wells - It wasn't God who Made Honky-Tonk Angels

Wilf Carter - The Strawberry Roan

Patsy Montana and the Prairie Ramblers - She Buckaroo

Jimmie Davis - Nobody's Darling 

Patsy Montana and the Prairie Ramblers - Woman's Answer to Nobody's Darling 

Patsy Montana and the Prairie Ramblers - Sweetheart of the Saddle

Patsy Montana and the Prairie Ramblers - Lone star

Patsy Montana and the Prairie Ramblers - Montana

Patsy Montana and the Prairie Ramblers - Your own Sweet Darling Wife 

Patsy Montana and the Prairie Ramblers - Echoes from the Hills

Patsy Montana and the Prairie Ramblers - Leaning on the Old Top Rail

References:

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McCusker, K. M. (2008). Lonesome cowgirls and honky-tonk angels: The women of barn dance radio (Vol. 543). University of Illinois Press.

Millie Good McClusky & Bill McClusky, November 4, 1988, Frist Library and Archive of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

Montana, P., & Frost, J. (2002). Patsy Montana: the cowboy's sweetheart. McFarland.

Patsy Montana, October 22, 1967, Frist Library and Archive of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

Patsy Montana, October 16, 1974, Frist Library and Archive of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

Patsy Montana, June 9, 1984, Frist Library and Archive of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

Patsy Montana, August 30, 1985, Frist Library and Archive of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

Patsy Montana, September 2, 1985, Frist Library and Archive of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

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Stand By! https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Station-Albums/WLS/Stand%20By