A pioneer in country music, Patsy the yodeling cowgirl grew up in
Hope, Arkansas. In 1930 she moved to California with an older brother,
won a talent contest, and began performing on radio. She joined a group
called the Montana Cowgirls, and that group's leader, Stuart Hamblen,
renamed her Patsy. Moving on to Chicago in 1933, she joined the Prairie
Ramblers and moved with them to Manhattan in 1935. When her husband was
transferred to California, the family moved west and she went into
temporary retirement in the 1950s, returning to the tour circuit with
country-western, folk, and bluegrass concerts in the 1960s through the
1980s.
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The song "I Want to be a Cowboy's Sweetheart", which she wrote and
performed with the Prairie Ramblers in 1935, was the first million-
selling hit for a female country singer.
Incted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1996, after her death.