“She's Got You” by Patsy Cline

Hank Cochran knew what he had. As Ellis Nassour's biography of Patsy Cline tells it, he rang her to say he'd written her next number-one hit, and she said to come by with a bottle and play it for her on guitar; her friend Dottie West happened to be visiting that afternoon. The lyric got to Cline, and she loved "She's Got You" so much she learned it that night and phoned her manager and her producer, Owen Bradley, to sing it down the line.

She cut it at her next session, in December 1961, and it came out as a single in 1962 and on Sentimentally Yours. It's a song about the things a lost love leaves behind. She and Bradley often clashed over what she should record, but this time they agreed it was a hit.

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