“Walkin' After Midnight” by Patsy Cline

Alan Block and Don Hecht wrote "Walkin' After Midnight" and offered it first to pop singer Kay Starr, but her label turned it down, and it sat unused until Hecht revived it at 4 Star Records. Lynn Howard with the Accents released the first record of it in August 1956. Patsy Cline didn't much like the tune and only cut it that November, after a compromise with her label.

Then she sang it on CBS's Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts in January 1957, the viewers responded in force, and the single was rushed out on February 11. It became her first major hit, No. 2 on Billboard's country chart and No. 12 on the pop side, and sold more than a million copies, though she wouldn't have another hit until 1961. In 2020 that 1957 single entered the Grammy Hall of Fame.

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